The BBC caught out again

An article "Why saving Earth is not the BBC's job, by Newsnight boss" appeared in yesterday's Mail, you can read it here. In the article, the Newsnight producer, Peter Barron attacked the BBC's attitude to climate change. "He said the BBC was going beyond its remit by planning an entire day of programmes dedicated to highlighting environmental worries. In remarks that will embarrass his bosses, Mr Barron said: "If the BBC is thinking about campaigning on climate change, then that is wrong and not our job. "People are understandably interested in this, but it is absolutely not the BBC's job to save the planet. There are a lot of people who think that, but it must be stopped.""

The article continues "The proposed day of programmes will be called Planet Relief and feature stars including Ricky Gervais and Jonathan Ross helping to "raise consciousness" of the issue. It is likely to be broadcast next year."
Is there any need to "raise consciousness" of climate change, can there be a sentient human in the UK unaware of climate change? Worryingly there probably are such people and even more worryingly they have the vote.

"Despite claims by BBC chiefs that the day will not be about campaigning, news executives are already criticising the moves. Peter Horrocks, head of television news, warned that the corporation should not be influencing people. He said: "We should be giving people information, not leading them.""
Will the BBC listen to their own people on this issue? Of course not, the BBC are by definition in the right on all matters and will continue to promote their world view until their funding is cut.

"During a discussion of the issue at the Edinburgh TV Festival, the corporation was accused by a filmmaker of being biased in its coverage of climate change. Martin Durkin, who produced Channel 4's controversial The Great Climate Change Swindle, called the BBC "soft Left" and "soft green" and said it no longer adequately reports challenges to the consensus... Mr Durkin said: "The thing tha disturbs me most is that the BBC has such a leviathan position in Britain. If it decides that it is going to adopt climate change as a moral purpose, I have got a lot of trouble with that. "I don't think it is the role of the BBC to spend my money on a moral purpose. "If a certain idea becomes taboo it is a really unhealthy state of affairs." He added: "The BBC is run by people who are soft Left and soft green.""
The BBC are the consensus anyone to the "right" of their position is at best sadly misinformed and more likely stupid and will be portrayed as such.

"Hamish Mykura, the Channel 4 executive who commissioned Mr Durkin's programme, said he was astonished at the suggestion that the BBC was impartial."
As are we all Hamish, mind you you might also look at Channel 4 news, which is at least as bad as the BBC.

"But Mr Horrocks denied that the BBC refused airtime to sceptics. He said: "We have heard sceptics' voices very regularly on our programmes, but I think having this range of voices has made people think there is more doubt about climate change than there actually is." "We still need to have the voices of sceptics, but in terms of what matters to the viewers most, now a scientific consensus has emerged the policy choices that will affect people's taxes are more relevant to their concerns.""
Is there really as much of a consensus as the BBC make out? Here is a list of over 17,000 US scientists who have signed up to this "There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth."

What sceptics do the BBC allow on their airwaves? How seriously will they be taken once on air? The BBC have a "position" on Man Made Climate Change and push that view whilst attacking heretical sceptics.

"Only two months ago, the corporation was criticised for promoting single-issue campaigns in an internal report. It said that while there was no conscious bias, individuals sometimes exercise a largely unconscious self-censorship out of a misguided attempt to be "correct" in their thinking. The BBC said last night the aim of Planet Relief is to debate the issue and not campaign on a single view."
This is what people like me have been saying for ages, now parts of the BBC accept it might be true BUT the BBC will not listen, they are just so sure they are right on everything...