BBC abandons 'impartiality' on warming

From the UK Telegraph - article by Christopher Booker
Last Updated: 6:19PM GMT 31 Jan 2009

After part sponsoring a global warming stunt with a mock up polar bear on an ice-berg in the Thames, and doctoring film of President Obama's Inaugural speech,their Newsnight's science editor, Susan Watts, was even more bizarre. It was no more than a paean of gratitude that we now at last have a president prepared to listen to the "science" on climate change, after the dark age of religious obscurantism personified by President Bush.
At last, after years when they could not speak openly on this subject, chirped Ms Watts, "scientists calculate that President Obama has just four years to save the world". She failed to explain (although she was later forced to clarify this on her blog) that the only scientist to say anything so silly was Dr James Hansen of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, whose utterances on climate change have lately become so wild and extreme that they have made him a laughing stock. (He was last week publicly disowned by his old boss Dr John Theon, who said that Hansen's unscientific claims had been an embarrassment to Nasa ever since he joined Al Gore in whipping up panic over global warming back in 1988.)"

http://talbyv.blogspot.com/2009/01/doom-4-years-left-last-chance-jim.html

In Australia, our equivalent ABC uses the same rules, recently excising Bill Kininmonth (William Kininmonth has a career in meteorological science and policy spanning more than 40 years. For more than a decade (1986-1998) he headed Australia's National Climate Centre with responsibilities for monitoring Australia's changing climate and advising the Australian government on the extent and severity of climate extremes) from a podcast and transcript of a broadcast.

Anthropogenic Global Warming: The Greatest Fraud in History?

by James Lewis From Pajamas Media, January 30, 2009 on "An Honest Climate Debate."

Some Extracts:

"But what worries me most is that the credibility of science may never recover — and perhaps it shouldn’t. Credibility has to be earned, and once it’s squandered may never be recovered. By now far too many scientists have knowingly colluded in an historic fraud.... We are seeing political larceny here on a truly planetary scale. Why should scientists who’ve gambled their own reputations on this fakery ever be trusted again? They shouldn’t."

" Like most scientists I rarely judge what others do in their fields. And yet it’s been flamingly obvious for years now that the hypothesis of human-caused global warming violates all the basic rules and safeguards that protect the integrity of normal, healthy science. That’s why AGW (anthropogenic global warming) looks like a massive fraud, the biggest fraud ever in the history of science."

"If that’s true, anybody who cares about science should be outraged. Even if you don’t care about that ask yourself if you want your next medical exam to be honest. Or the next time you drive across a traffic bridge, do you want the engineering tests to be falsified? If scientific corruption becomes endemic, we risk losing one of the great jewels of our culture.

Barnaby Joyce calls green fanatics eco-Nazis

First it was Professor William Happer (see my post Professor denies Global Warming Theory) who, when talking of scientist who believe in (anthropogenic) global warming, said: "This is  the Germans are the master race. The Jews are the scum of the earth. It's that kind of propaganda."

Now, our hero Barnaby Joyce likened the term "climate change denier" to Holocaust denier" and questioned why he was expected to fall into the "goose-stepping" parade of supporters. "The farmers, the people whose job is put on the line, the traders (like Al Gore-tb) they all have to be taken into account."

Senator Joyce said all Australians should take a breath (but don't exhale the CO2-tb) and take a serious look at the idea of an ETS.

See also my previous post Barnaby Joyce and the ETS.