I'm becoming more and more irritated by the BBC's coverage of this subject, particularly on the news.
o Last week they did a feature on the North Sea storm surge of 1953 on BBC1 TV's Breakfast news show. This was one of the worst natural disasters ever to occur in the UK killing several hundred people in East Anglia. It was the result of a freak combination of high spring tide and a severe storm adjacent to low-lying land. The BBC's point ? That such disasters will become more commonplace in Britain in the future because of climate change. This disaster happened in the period prior to so called 'man made climate change' so can't have been due to that. To date, nothing like it has happened since... in spite of the fact that we're undergoing man made climate change now. There is no evidence whatsoever that it will or will not happen again.
o This week, BBC 10 O'Clock news did a report on the storm and flood in the Philippines that has resulted in significant loss of life and destruction of property. The BBC's point ?
Having opened the report by stating that in no way could Typhoon Ketsana or its aftermath be linked to 'climate change', they then went on to to state that such scenario would be more commonplace in the future because of 'climate change'.
Man made climate change is a belief just like any other religion. We need to respect those people who foster that belief but we should not be scared by them, terrorized by them or punatively treated by them. Public broadcast newsmakers' responsibility is to report facts and not prophesies. If there are theories or beliefs, they should present them as theories or beliefs and also present any counter argument. They should never present them as fact and this is what they are doing now.
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Global warming again by 'Gillard77' (30 Sep 2009 @ 7:59)
