Bands of environmental protesters put BBC’s London headquarters on lockdown Friday, demanding the world’s largest news broadcaster make global warming its “top editorial issue.”
BBC, the world’s oldest national news broadcaster, aired specials on global warming and environmental issues before, but that’s not enough for activists with the group Extinction Rebellion.
Hundreds of activists stormed eight BBC locations across the U.K. and Berlin, Germany, according to Extinction Rebellion.
The group sent a list of demands to BBC on Sunday, including a meeting with BBC director general Tony Hall “to discuss how the BBC can tell the full truth on the climate and ecological emergency.”
The group’s list of demands also included treating global warming “at the level of urgency placed on informing the public about the second world war.” The letter demands BBC “[declare] a climate and ecological emergency.”
https://twitter.com/morss_alex/status/1076081687195537409
Extinction Rebellion made headlines recently after dozens of its members were arrested for blocking five London bridges over global warming. The group plans on escalating its “direct action” campaigns across Europe.
“[W]e’re facing a potentially existential threat to both our nation and our species, but the BBC’s coverage is nowhere close to reflecting this,” Serena Schellenberg of Extinction Rebellion said in a statement.
BBC headquarters in London was locked down Friday afternoon, The Guardian reported. BBC staff were unable to enter or leave the building as protesters carried signs warning of a “climate crisis.”
Went with my 2yo daughter to #ExtinctionRebellion London #ReclaimtheBBC protest. Please BBC, for all our sakes, give #ClimateBreakdown the extensive coverage it deserves and don’t give a platform to deniers. #Tellthetruth pic.twitter.com/1vmH0FY8TB
— Anna Orridge 📕 (@orridge_anna) December 21, 2018
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Environmentalists targeted BBC in recent years for allowing global warming skeptics on air. Increasingly, activists and left-wing pundits are calling on news outlets to exclude those who disagree with them on climate change from coverage.
The BBC defended its record on covering global warming and environmental issues.
“The BBC has a proud record of leading the way in sustainability in the media industry and we’ve set out further action including cutting energy use further, eradicating single-use plastic and minimizing the impact of necessary travel,” a BBC spokesperson told The Guardian.
“In the last charter period, we reduced our carbon footprint by a third. People can also see the clear impact programmes like Blue Planet II and Dynasties have had on public debate about the impact of humankind on the planet,” the spokesperson said.
Indeed, BBC angered skeptics and those who disagree with the political left on global warming by directing its reporters in September to not include them in news coverage.
Extinction Rebellion’s BBC protests come after unidentified persons used drones to halt air traffic at one of Europe’s busiest airports — London’s Gatwick airport. Environmental activists are among the list of suspects police say could have been behind the drone blockade.
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It’s not the 9 o’clock news that Great Britain has more lunatics per square inch than any country on Earth.
Just look at the jerk with his mouth wide open how munch Hot Air is this idiot producing with his pie Hole open like that?
In the spirit of lunatics running the asylum, I’ll post this here. Canada is blessed with abundant resources, clear blue skies and fresh water flowing to three oceans, democracy , peaceful citizens, all the ingredients for prosperity.
Somehow, someway, Canada has become dependent on exporting fossil fuels in order to support our socialism. The Canadian dollar is a Petro – currency. We are not self sufficient. We are not competitive.
The current government, under Justin Trudeau, is sabotaging all that is left, after decades of incompetence and socialist rot. We have only one goose laying golden eggs and Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s progeny is going to fulfill his father’s unfinished business . Ottawa and myriads of NGO’s are willing to strangle Alberta. Anarchy!
The BBC has form:
On January 6th 2006, the BBC held a meeting of ‘leading scientists’ to decide on its future policy on reporting Climate Change.
Present were:
28 BBC employees
17 Environmentalists
10 Others (politicians, civil servants, aid workers, etc)
3 Scientists Mike Hulme, climatologist
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Danish ice climatologist
Robert McCredie, physicist, zoology
The meeting decided that since there was a worldwide ‘consensus’ that Climate Change is largely man-made and dangerous, the BBC should no longer provide any airtime to people with dissenting views.
The founder of the BBC, Lord Reith must be spinning in his grave.
The BBC is just like CNN its mot news its all Liberal Leftists Propeganda and the useful idiots in the pictures after they have finished with their little rant with return home and turn up their Thermistats because their little toes are freezing
If they want WW2, can we treat them like the 1st Infantry Division treated SS Nazis?
“Environmentalists targeted BBC in recent years for allowing global warming skeptics on air. Increasingly, activists and left-wing pundits are calling on news outlets to exclude those who disagree with them on climate change from coverage.”
Suppressing truth, Ignoring history guarantees a return to evil. History repeats.
The Nazi book burnings were a campaign conducted by the German Student Union (the “DSt”) to ceremonially burn books in Nazi Germany and Austria in the 1930s. The books targeted for burning were those viewed as being subversive or as representing ideologies opposed to Nazism.
Extinction Rebellion…. is not about climate change or science. Extinction Rebellion is but one of many ONE WORLD (the “others”) financed groups of “activists”.
https://rebellion.earth/who-we-are/
Their “AIM”? The “others” aim to “SUPPORT and ENCOURAGE a citizens uprising involving low level and higher risk acts of civil disobedience by gullible and/or paid rioters.
When chaos reigns, the “others” will come forward to create a participatory, democratic process that discusses and improves a draft manifesto for change and a new constitution. The “others” will then create a genuine democracy, alongside an economy to maximise well being and minimise harm.
Voilà! THE BIRTH of a NEW WORLD ORDER
The media is complicit. Activism was once respected, but has become radicalized, subversive and insane. The only thing that keeps us on the rails is regularly scheduled elections.
As noted by Gerry, blocking the views of climate realists is just like the Nazi’s burning books. The motivations are the same. They know that their ideas, climate change or Nazism, can not stand up to free exchange of information. The climate change movement has known this from the beginning and has a long record of trying to silence those who disagree with them.
Blocking debate is contrary to the very essence of science. I will again post what my entomology professor did, who was a real scientist. He believed what was then the “settled science” that DDT was harmful to some wild life. Yet he brought in a fellow professor who lectured us for an hour on how DDT was not harmful and the harmful consequences of not using it. True science wants to hear all viable points of view in order to come to the strongest conclusion.