On Oct 19, 11:51*am, wrote:
On Oct 19, 10:49 am, Graham P Davis wrote:





wrote:
Anyhow my thread was about the BBC failing in their birch leaf
thrashing angst to report *on any climate news that contradict the
doomsaying AGW bandwagon. This is no mistake, it is because the BBC
and I 'll through in UKMO here; are incresasingly being lead by
ideology.

They are being led by science, not ideology.

Now does anyone on this group have an explantion other than that; or
do you feel the BBC's coverge on climate is fair an impartial.?

I think the BBC's coverage is generally fair and impartial, sometimes I
wonder if it's not being too fair towards misguided minorities such as
during the MMR scare.

My main problem with the recent BBC2 "Climate War" series was that it
perpetuated the myth that during the seventies, after a period of slight
global cooling, scientists forecast a new ice age and then a decade later,
after the scorching seventies UK summers, forecast global warming.

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. *E-mail: newsman not newsboy

Well Graham all I know is that during the seventies the Daily
Telegraph Sunday supplement ran a rather large feature on the coming
ice age, as did the tabloid Sunday Mirror (Pictorial in the
seventies). In fact the Pictorial devoted the front page and
subsequent pages to the headlines *"New Ice Age on its way" or
something like that. *So something was definitely catching the
Newspapers imagination at that time. Of course as there was no
internet then it
would have been even a lower profile story but it wasn't ;so something
was definitively afoot at the time. Didn't the ex editor of the New
Scientist Nigel Calder write a book called the Weather Machine (I
still have it)
which was a response to serious concern about the planet cooling and
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Some newspapers have recently run stories about Global Warming having
stopped. That hasn't captured the scientists' or the public's
imagination and it isn't true, but they still run the stories.

It's odd that you are now choosing to back your argument with old
newspaper stories, when the thrust of what you have been saying in
this thread is "don't trust the media".