Christopher Booker, Telegraph
"One could only utter a hollow laugh at the desperation of the BBC last week,
in programme after programme, to put over its fond belief that our wettest
winter for 84 years is all due to man-made climate change.
Today wheeled on the jailbird Chris Huhne to sell the message, impartially
balanced by a chap saying much the same from the engineering firm CH2M Hill,
which Evan Davis coyly failed to explain makes a fortune from renewable
energy.
Newsnight had Prof Kevin Anderson from that hotbed of climate zealotry, the
University of East Anglia, to tell us that despite global temperatures
having remained pretty flat for 17 years, by 2100 they will somehow have
leapt up by a staggering 6C.
When Panorama, in a programme called Britain Underwater, peddled a similar
message – with the aid of such climate sages as the journalists George
Monbiot and Sir Simon Jenkins – one wearily recalled a Panorama of November
14 2000 with exactly the same title, blaming floods in Yorkshire on global
warming (on that occasion, with the aid of John Prescott).
Yet how strange that the BBC never quotes the latest report of the UN’s
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which it normally cites as
gospel, saying that “there continues to be a lack of evidence and thus low
confidence regarding the sign of trend in the magnitude and/or frequency of
floods on a global scale”.
In other words, whatever the BBC’s propagandists may try to tell us, not even
the IPCC believes it."
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