SPOTLIGHT: Bureaucracies put their trust in other bureaucracies.
BIG PICTURE: A few weeks back, Joanne Nova perfectly captured the position of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) regarding the scandalous UN entity known as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
A recent internal document gives BBC journalists advice about how to report on climate matters. In Nova’s words, it declares that the “IPCC is God, can not be wrong.”
The document’s exact words:
What’s the BBC’s position?
- Man-made climate change exists: If the science proves it we should report it. The BBC accepts that the best science on the issue is the IPCC’s position, set out above. [italics added]
Well, here’s the problem. The IPCC does not do science. The IPCC is a bureaucracy whose purpose is to write reports.
The primary function of those reports is to pave the way for UN climate treaties. A set of facts need to be agreed upon by all parties in advance so that negotiators can start from the same page.
IPCC reports get written by government-appointed scientists, according to predetermined guidelines. Portions of IPCC reports then get re-written by politicians, bureaucrats, and diplomats (in effect, this is an unofficial round of negotiating, in advance of the official negotiations that take place later).
International treaties are political instruments. The IPCC exists to make climate treaties possible. The ‘science’ involved has therefore been selected and massaged to serve a political purpose.
Let’s ditch the naiveté. How likely is it that experts appointed by governments that have spent billions fighting climate change would conclude that man-made climate change doesn’t exist?
TOP TAKEAWAY: Journalists are part of a system of checks and balances that help keep governments and large organizations honest. The BBC is a huge bureaucracy. The geniuses running it have declared another bureaucracy – the UN’s IPCC – a font of scientific truth. How pathetic.
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One error Donna. Some journalists, the good ones like you. The present majority of MSM simply LIE.
Cheers
The IPCC is no different then the Union of Concerned Scientists(UCS)and Center of Scienists for Publics Interests (CSPI)as well as Ralph Nader Pu and Jeremy Rifkin and Al Gore Leonardo DiCaprio,David Suzuki and Laurie David all politics not science
“Government – appointed scientists” Doesn’t quite instill confidence . Just the opposite.
I read an article written by an IPCC scientist where he said the politicians went around to each scientific group and badgered them to come up with more dire predictions.
It is also note worthy that the degree of confidence of the IPCC reports are pulled out of thin air for political purposes. In real science, degree of confidence is calculated from the data.
Research often leads to dead ends. That’s accepted.
The IPCC won’t take NO for an answer . Doesn’t matter that the human race has a mere bit part in the carbon cycle, the UN publishes the Summary for Policy Makers instead.
Donna’s book[s] and articles are top notch,
She is an absolutely excellent journalist ad writer.
Thanks Donna for all your good work.
typo… “and” not “ad”
I also make mistakes. It would be nice of the author could edit the article after it has been posted.