{"id":17780,"date":"2012-11-15T10:49:36","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T15:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17780"},"modified":"2012-11-15T10:49:36","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T15:49:36","slug":"the-bbcs-28-secret-climate-change-advisors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/11\/15\/the-bbcs-28-secret-climate-change-advisors\/","title":{"rendered":"The BBC’s 28 secret climate change advisors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The BBC has been prominent among media outlets for their relentless proclamations on the dangers of climate change. Despite the BBC’s charter requiring them to provide balanced coverage, in this particular area they have been cheerleaders for one particular message: that climate change is DOOM!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2006, the BBC convened a panel of climate change experts to advise them on the topic, and the corporation took the advice of that panel to heart and has been pushing the climate change = disaster<\/em><\/strong> meme ever since. Blogger Tony Newbery submitted a FOI request to find out who had been on the panel which had swung the BBC so far away from their charter, but his request was denied. Not just denied, but fought out in court at an estimated cost of \u00a340,000 per day.<\/p>\n

The BBC won in court, but the information was released by someone else<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Sadly for the BBC, another enterprising blogger called Maurizio Morabito unearthed the details anyway and published them on Monday via the website Watts Up With That?<\/em><\/p>\n

So who were all these \u2018best scientific experts\u2019 who did so much to shape the BBC\u2019s climate policy (and by extension, one fears, government policy too\u2026)? Well, two were from Greenpeace; one was from Stop Climate Chaos; one was a CO2 reduction expert from BP; one was from Npower Renewables; one came from the left-leaning New Economics Foundation\u2026 Only five of those present could, in any way, be considered scientists with disciplines even vaguely relevant to \u2018climate change\u2019. And of these, every one had a track record of climate alarmism. No wonder the BBC tried so hard to keep the list of 28 a secret. Its claim that its policy change was based on the \u2018best scientific\u2019 expertise turns out to have been a massive lie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The BBC has been prominent among media outlets for their relentless proclamations on the dangers of climate change. Despite the BBC’s charter requiring them to provide balanced coverage, in this particular area they have been cheerleaders for one particular message: that climate change is DOOM! In 2006, the BBC convened a panel of climate change […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,65,9,28],"tags":[204,245,240,39,101],"class_list":["post-17780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-environment","category-law","category-media","tag-blogging","tag-climatechange","tag-globalwarming","tag-junkscience","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4CM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17782,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17780\/revisions\/17782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}