Michael,
Just for confirmation I saw it too, thought back to your and other material
which has passed on the CF site, and was indeed, similarly confounded by the
sheer inanity of Shukman's narrative, almost all of which 3 minute primetime
TV seemed to be taken up in disinformation/ avoidance, of the issue!
With the lack of anything else on offer by way of explanation, your analysis
would seem to be (alas) all too correct,
mark
(Crisis Forum)
on 21/12/10 1:01 am, Michael Northcott at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> I just watched a BBC 'science' correspondent do 3 minutes in prime
> time news on the present extreme weather with no reference to climate
> science and the clear links made in a number of peer reviewed papers
> published since 2009 - I sent a link to this lust of one of these two
> weeks ago - between reduced Arctic sea ice, warming in Arctic and
> subarctic latitudes including dramatic warming in Greenland and the
> pressure changes that have caused the last two strong winters in
> Northern Europe and Northeast US. I begin to detect a weird conspiracy
> of silence in this blatant refusal to connect weather and climate so
> permitting the pointy eared climate sceptics to ramp up their anti-
> scientific nonsense. The BBC even interviewed a guy from the Met
> Office who simply acted dumb and said no we can't predict weather/
> climate beyond a few months. Is this the UEA effect or simply the BBC
> gradually morphing into Fox News, as apparently its overpaid DG Mark
> Thompson would like?
>
>
> Professor Michael Northcott
> New College
> Edinburgh
> EH1 2LX
> UK
|