On Aug 24, 2:01*pm, Tudor Hughes wrote:
On Aug 24, 10:33*am, "Martin Rowley"



wrote:
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Their latest newsletter contains a link to their response to the
HardTalk interview. It is he
Greenpeace admits: BBC got it wrong about arctic sea ice melting
http://weblog.greenpeace.org/makingw...08/greenpeace_....

... I found follow-up comment interesting:

" Also, big business is behind the BBC, so no wonder stories are
twisted and lies told. "

... according to the Daily Mail, the BBC is run by Polly Toynbee and
Guardian readers! The statement might have been true in 1922 mind you
....

I don't think that the company executives had much say on the BBC even
in 1922 with John, later to become Lord, Reith in charge!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Re...st_Baron_Reith

* * I suspect Stephen Sackur, like most journalists, is an arts
graduate and was invoking poetic licence and probably quite sincerely
does not see the error he has made, or thinks it unimportant. *On the
other hand he could have been acting as a journalist and saw a story
that could be exploited.

Stephen Sackur studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and Harvard
University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.So he does not sound
like an intelligent scientist to me.

OTOH, Nature Geoscience In a recent News & Views, Figure 1:
http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v...ngeo511-f1.jpg
incorrectly shows an Antarctic iceberg rather than Arctic sea-ice as
stated in the caption.
http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v...l/ngeo561.html

Anyway it you would like something more optimistic watch this
HardTalk with |Jame Lovelock!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/pr...lock_18aug.ram

Cheers, Alastair.