The BBC’s TV ‘flagship’ program, Africa, presented by the venerable David Attenborough, has been forced to issue a retraction regarding the program’s claim that climate change in the continent of Africa had produced a temperature increase of 3.5 degrees Celsius over the preceeding 20 years.
The BBC now admit that this was untrue, speculative and entirely without supporting evidence and the quote has been withdrawn.
One speculatively wonders how many of the other claims regarding climate change made by the BBC are equally spurious.
By: Lincoln 7 - 1st April 2013 at 14:51
I tend to look out of the window when I want to know what the weather’s doing.
Finally, after 10yrs, you have had them cleaned, 😀
Jim.
Lincoln .7
By: charliehunt - 1st April 2013 at 11:12
That reminded me of this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj1W1r1V9TQ at 0.40′ in.:D
By: John Green - 1st April 2013 at 11:07
It’s really quite simple. Listen to the BBC forecast – they always get it right. Not only that, they also, with great kindness, remind us and advise us to ‘wrap up warmly’.
That’s much appreciated.
By: Grey Area - 1st April 2013 at 10:13
I tend to look out of the window when I want to know what the weather’s doing.
By: Lincoln 7 - 31st March 2013 at 10:14
I have a weather Station on my house, Wind direction, speed, humidity etc, etc, it is linked to my Comp, so I can print out the trends way back if needed.
Some yrs ago now, I pulled a rather large Pine Cone from a tree, I have found, it to be more accurate in forcasting rain/good weather long before the weather it’s predicted arrives.
Just think how much money would be saved if they dumped the weather forcasters and boffins, and gave them all a Pine Cone instead.;)
Yer canna beat Mother Nature. Have YOU got a way other than the TV/radio, to tell what the weather may be?.
Jim.
Lincoln .7
By: charliehunt - 31st March 2013 at 07:23
I presume that suggestion was made with your tongue firmly in your cheek!! That’s about the last item you’d see on any BBC programme….:rolleyes:
By: steven_wh - 30th March 2013 at 21:45
Snowdon will be a thing of the past….or not….
BBC News, December 2004
The data collected by experts from the university [of Bangor] suggests that a white Christmas on Snowdon – the tallest mountain in England and Wales – may one day become no more than a memory.
The figures indicated that this winter Snowdon is on track to have less snow than any of the last 10 years.
The results appear to back the growing body of evidence to support climate change.BBC News, March 2013
Snowdon Mountain Railway will be shut over the Easter weekend after it was hit by 30ft (9.1m) snow drifts.
Workers using two excavators tried but failed to clear the 4.7 mile(7.5km) track.
The railway resumed operations from Llanberis last week after the winter break but they were suspended within days after heavy snow on the mountain.
This contrast would make a good article for Newsnight, on why BBC could be wrong on AGW. I look forward to it, when they are not on strike.
Steven
By: charliehunt - 26th March 2013 at 13:07
Now why does that last reference to Mr Blobby pull me back to the question of man made global warming…??:diablo::dev2:
By: Bmused55 - 26th March 2013 at 13:03
Dr Who
You silly man. Of course it’s not Dr. Who.
It’s Mr Blobby!
By: trumper - 24th March 2013 at 18:22
Dr Who
By: Lincoln 7 - 24th March 2013 at 15:44
And you get the prize, anyway, for remembering posts further back than anyone else!!:rolleyes::diablo:
Some say he was at the birth of Jesus,!!!
Others say he remembers the “Big Bangs” originality.
All I know is, he is called…………………………………
(A prize for the best answer:D)
Jim.
Lincoln .7
By: charliehunt - 24th March 2013 at 13:47
Yup – that’s the decider, Linc – bad luck!!:diablo:
By: Grey Area - 24th March 2013 at 12:45
No I wasn’t. :p
Were, too. So there.
Jings! No comebacks. :p
By: charliehunt - 24th March 2013 at 11:05
And you get the prize, anyway, for remembering posts further back than anyone else!!:rolleyes::diablo:
By: Lincoln 7 - 24th March 2013 at 10:47
You were right and Jim was wrong, by the way. 😀
No I wasn’t. :p
Jim.
Lincoln .7
By: charliehunt - 24th March 2013 at 10:14
This sums it up for me, although I appreciate that many of the CO2 AGW persuasion still inhabit this forum:
It’s payback time for our insane energy policy
An obsession with CO2 has left us dangerously short of power as coal-powered stations are forced to close
So we are doomed to see Britain’s lights going out, all because the feather-headed lunatics in charge of our energy policy still believe that they’ve got to do something to save the planet from that CO2-induced global warming which this weekend has been covering much of the country up to a foot deep in snow. Meanwhile, the Indians are planning to build 455 new coal-fired power stations which will add more CO2 to the atmosphere of the planet every week than Britain emits in a year.
Thank you, David Cameron, leader of “the greenest government ever”. Thank you, Ed Miliband, father of the Climate Change Act, the most expensive suicide note in history. Between you, you seem determined to switch off our lights, lock the door and throw away the key. We owe you more than we can say.
By: MSphere - 19th March 2013 at 09:51
Where I live there has been one of the harshest winters in decades. When global warming occurs, it should better speed up a bit because I ain’t seein anything thus far.
By: charliehunt - 19th March 2013 at 09:40
And so the debate continues……
By: steven_wh - 18th March 2013 at 20:04
I think it’s fair to say that the Daily Telegraph seldom dodges a chance to have a dig at the BBC, and there is a clear and long-standing editorial slant on issues like climate change.
As a newspaper it is their duty to report on the many failures and contradictions of BBC.
The DT environmental correspondents, Geoffrey Lean and Louise Grey, are notoriously pro-AGW. Other contributors take a different view.
Steven
By: Grey Area - 18th March 2013 at 17:38
You were right and Jim was wrong, by the way. 😀
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