The BBC’s Environment Department has long been little more than the broadcasting arm of Greenpeace.
Two years ago Justin Rowlatt was added to the bloated team as ‘Chief Environment Correspondent’.
He joined Roger Harrabin, ‘Energy and Environment Analyst’, the absurd Matt McGrath, ‘Environment Correspondent’, and 11 other ‘journalists’. Quite why the BBC needs such an army of highly paid staff is a mystery.
Rowlatt quickly adapted to the job. In June this year, for instance, he made the patently false claim that the UK’s offshore wind industry is now ‘virtually subsidy-free.’
He conveniently ignored the fact that over £4 billion in subsidies was paid to offshore wind farms last year, with similar amounts guaranteed every year in the future, until well after he has retired with a nice fat pension, no doubt.
Roger Harrabin would have been proud.
At the beginning of COP26 last week, Rowlatt interviewed Boris Johnson about the proposed new coal mine in Cumbria.
I use the term ‘interview’ loosely, as Rowlatt ranted and gesticulated wildly, calling the PM ‘weaselly’, simply because of his own hostility to all things coal.
The fact that the mine would supply UK steelmakers with coking coal, which currently has to be shipped halfway around the world, never seemed to cross his mind.
Last week, Rowlatt presented a full-length Panorama on BBC 1, called ‘Wild Weather: Our World Under Threat’. As you may have guessed from the title, it was a load of rubbish from start to finish.
Rowlatt began with this claim: ‘The world is getting warmer and our weather is getting ever more unpredictable and dangerous. The death toll is rising around the world.’
In fact, the opposite is true. The official data shows that the number of deaths from natural disasters, such as drought, extreme weather, floods, storms, and wildfire, has declined in leaps and bounds since 1900 and now stands at historically low levels.
But when did the BBC ever care about facts?
The program looked back on five cherry-picked weather disasters this year, claiming without any evidence that these were all made worse or somehow induced by climate change.
In reality, none of the events were unprecedented, and the data does not support the claim that such freak events are getting more common.
This of course is standard BBC fare, the thinly disguised climate propaganda to which we have long been accustomed.
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BB and CNN the only differences between them is the miles across the Atlantic
I treasure Shukman’s multilayered lying when Trump dumped the failed Paris Agreement. Pacific islands drowning, Miami streets flooded, failed to say that Trump’s USA was the only country reducing CO2 emissions, got up a little Maldivian who wanted money to save them from having to pay for four new airports- sorry I meant sea level rise.
The BBC is obviously running a propaganda campaign. With no facts supporting the climate change fraud, they have to rely on lies.
The BBC are particularly pathetic when it comes to this subject. They just try to distort an data to suit the AGW agenda. Every time they show a graph, check out the start and/or the end dates. They are usually significant and are where there case breaks down.
The whole climate non debate is just a left wing political agenda to destroy capitalism and redistribute wealth to poorer countries and green industrialists of course.
Most of the news we get from the M.S. Media is Fake