On Oct 19, 1:23 pm, Dawlish wrote:
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".

No not really at all. The difference is this: the media in those times
hadn't the slightest interest in climate change so that story was one
of a real tangible anxiety this was underlined by the fact the left
never had the slightest interest in climate as they still
parasitically lived of the great beast that was the trade Union
movement. You also have to consider that it wasn't felt that humans
had any bearing on the climate whatsoever.

Now of course the TUC which was once a household term -everyone knew
what and who they were has now become virtually meaningless.

AS the great old dog died the flea like middle class left deserted and
found other hosts ie the media BBC in particular, local government in
fact in all levels of health, education, local government etc etc.
note though never in proper business only in parasitic state funded
enterprises.

Now you add into the mix undeniable warming that seems to be linked to
capitalistic western greed and 'Wahey the lads' a new rational ,
tangible religion has emerged that all Marxists middle classes can
feel comfortable with.

Now as I've said I'm not denying any warming , the original point of
my thread was why hasn't the BBC who pounce on any snippet of evidence
that reinforces AGW , never report facts/news to the contrary i.e the
regrowth of the Arctic ice?

Can you tell me why they haven't touched this story and why they
ignore the cooling and near record sea ice of Antarctica?

You see the BBC in particular believes we're are at the edge of the
abyss peering down into the terrible darkness, so you'd think any news
that delays impending disaster would be welcomed-yet its not. Odd
that.