Eminent BBC journalist attacts media for one-sided information on climate change
The last days of 2011 bring us one more nice present: even inside the climate-infatuated BBC things start to rumble.
The subjoint column of BBC anchorman Michael Buerk illustrates the wider movement in public opinion, resulting in ever more people getting fed up with being patronised and infantilized by the medea.
It is an honest, impressive cry of heart by a genuinely worried man.
(copied from this blog by Hans Labohm on De Dagelijke Standaard)
Verrassend betoog van BBC anchorman over de infantilisering van de burger door de alarmistische media
Het einde van 2011 brengt ons wederom een mooi cadeau: ook binnen de klimaatverdwaasde BBC begint het te rommelen. Onderstaand betoog staat voor de brede beweging in de publieke opinie van het laatste jaar, waarbij men het zo zoetjesaan zat begint te worden om door de media betutteld en infantiel behandeld te worden.
Een eerlijke, indrukwekkende en emotionele oproep van een oprecht verontrust man.
Verplicht leesvoer voor wie een begrijpelijke en persoonlijke benadering van de klimaatdiscussie zoekt.
(Overgenomen uit dit blog van Hans Labohm op Dagelijkse Standaard)

Michael Buerk is fed up with the one-sided climate policy of his own BBC
The Fifth Column – Michael Buerk (BBC) on the Climate Summit
The latest so-called Climate Summit, that’s been taking place in Durban, hasn’t made many waves. It could be because global warming seems less daunting if you can no longer afford heating bills. It could also be that we’re getting fed up with the bogus certainties and quasi-religious tone of the great climate change non-debate.
Now, I don’t know for certain that man’s activities are causing the planet to heat up. Nobody does. We simply cannot construct a theoretical model that can cope with all the variables. For what it’s worth, I think anthropogenic warming is taking place, and, anyway, it would be a good thing to stop chucking so much bad stuff into the atmosphere.
What gets up my nose is being infantilized by governments, by the BBC, by the Guardian that there is no argument, that all scientists who aren’t cranks and charlatans are agreed on all this, that the consequences are uniformly negative, the issues beyond doubt and the steps to be taken beyond dispute. You’re not necessarily a crank to point out that global temperatures change a great deal anyway. A thousand years ago we had a Mediterranean climate in this country; 200 years ago we were skating every winter on the Thames. And actually there has been no significant rise in global temperatures for more than a decade now.
We hear a lot about how the Arctic is shrinking, but scarcely anything about how the Antarctic is spreading, and the South Pole is getting colder.
Droughts aren’t increasing. There are fewer of them, and less severe, than a hundred years ago. The number of hurricanes hasn’t changed, the number of cyclones and typhoons has actually fallen over the last 30 years. And so on. Lees verder »