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On youtube there is aNOTHER dreadful interview on the Politics
Show with Bob Watson and Fred Singer. The whole preamble and Andrew Neil’s
handling is from a sceptic perspective
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF2hley0SGA
So I have a few questions. One is why Bob Watson keeps agreeing
to go on this show? I realise that he wants to represent the science, but, to
be honest, he does not do so well enough and seems to be poorly prepared and
briefed to go against these people. In any case, by appearing he is accepting
and condoning the phoney debate.
It does make me wonder whether there are grounds for a specific approach
to The Politics Show but (as we’ve discussed Bob). Certainly I am all in favour
of people ringing them up and complaining. Overall though, I think it is better
to have an overall strategy for dealing with this than launch into a single
skirmish – but don’t want to discourage Jo or anyone who is seeing red
George
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Sent: 20 October 2010 12:04
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I think this was broadcast on The Daily Politics yesterday and was
followed by a “balanced” discussion, chaired by Andrew Neil,
between Bob Watson and Nigel Lawson – it is worse than the introductory
report: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11576013
While I have high regard for the BBC’s coverage of climate
change, The Daily Politics frequently exercises double standards by
uncritically promoting the views of ‘sceptics’ while being fiercely
critical of mainstream researchers. This approach appears to reflects Andrew
Neil’s own views on the subject, as can be seen through his blog (eg http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/dailypolitics/andrewneil/2010/01/the_dam_is_cracking.html).
I think it is worth drawing attention to the coverage of climate
change by The Daily Politics for Professor Steve Jones’s review of the
impartiality of the BBC’s science coverage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/news/press_releases/march/science_impartiality.shtml
Bob Ward
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Sent: 19 October 2010 20:36
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Subject: The BBC Gets It Completely Wrong Once Again
Dear
Crisis Forum,
This
is a really appalling re-write of recent history from the BBC :-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11574503
"Doubts
over scientists' climate change debate claims"
I
counted at least 10 inaccuracies in a piece of film shorter than an ad break.
Surely
some of you have some energy left to complain ?
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ON WEB PAGE
19
October 2010
Last
updated at 13:48
Press
coverage has cast further doubt on climate scientists' claims that man-made
global warming is real and adversely affecting the planet.
Polls
show that the public are becoming increasingly confused about the issue. Adam
Fleming reports.
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TRANSCRIPT
OF AUDIO IN FILM PRESENTATION
It's
the year that "uncertainty" became the buzzword in the climate change
debate, even for scientists who are convinced that human activity is warming
the planet.
Last
year saw the publication of private e-mails written in these buildings, the
Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. Experts spoke of
doing "tricks" with numbers. They hinted at the deletion of data that
didn't fit their theories.
This
summer, an inquiry, the last of three, left the scientists' reputation intact,
but told them that they had to be more honest about how they reach their
conclusions.
Then
came "Glaciergate". In 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change, the group of international scientists that inform global environmental
policy, had written a report saying that most of the glaciers in the Himalyas
could melt by 2035, but that was proved to be wildly inaccurate.
The
head of the IPCC, the Indian academic Rajendra Pachauri came under pressure to
quit. In future [the] chairman will serve just one term, and again the
academics were told to be more honest about the question marks in their
research.
Back
at home, David Cameron has pledged the "greenest Government ever",
but there are limits This week the Coalition announced it wouldn't fund tidal
power in the Severn Estuary because the bill was too high.
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Furiously
punching at the keyboard,
jo.
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