BBC blames el Nino instead of global warming!

Yes honestly, they did! On the news channel! A long item about
temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere being unseasonally high. They
wheeled a bloke on who said it was all due to El Nino. He didn't mention
global warming once and not did the voice over the bits of video they
showed. I can't believe it!

I wonder if someone will be sent for re-education, as happened after the
'What's the Point of...?' programme in which Quintin Letts was seriously
off-message and expressed scepticism about global warming. You can't
listen to the programme because the BBC have banned it. They don't like
free speech.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06418l5

Bill

On Friday, 25 December 2015 22:15:04 UTC, wrote:
Yes honestly, they did! On the news channel! A long item about
temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere being unseasonally high. They
wheeled a bloke on who said it was all due to El Nino. He didn't mention
global warming once and not did the voice over the bits of video they
showed. I can't believe it!

I wonder if someone will be sent for re-education, as happened after the
'What's the Point of...?' programme in which Quintin Letts was seriously
off-message and expressed scepticism about global warming. You can't
listen to the programme because the BBC have banned it. They don't like
free speech.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06418l5

Bill

El Nino occurs once every six to seven years and has a large temporary effect over a large area, but especially in the Americas. Google up!

Global warming gives every appearance of being a well established fact. There is some debate about its cause (after all [only] a few thousand years ago much of England and all of Scotland were under over 1,000m of ice), however rising CO2 due to fossil fuel consumption would seem a strong candidate.

The effects of global warming are similar to El Nino (more extreme weather), but arise more gradually.

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Clayton wrote:
On Friday, 25 December 2015 22:15:04 UTC, wrote:
Yes honestly, they did! On the news channel! A long item about
temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere being unseasonally high. They
wheeled a bloke on who said it was all due to El Nino. He didn't
mention global warming once and not did the voice over the bits of
video they showed. I can't believe it!

I wonder if someone will be sent for re-education, as happened after
the 'What's the Point of...?' programme in which Quintin Letts was
seriously off-message and expressed scepticism about global warming.
You can't listen to the programme because the BBC have banned it. They
don't like free speech.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06418l5

Bill

El Nino occurs once every six to seven years and has a large temporary
effect over a large area, but especially in the Americas. Google up!

Global warming gives every appearance of being a well established fact.
There is some debate about its cause (after all [only] a few thousand
years ago much of England and all of Scotland were under over 1,000m of
ice), however rising CO2 due to fossil fuel consumption would seem a
strong candidate.

Fossil fuel use didn't remove that ice.

The effects of global warming are similar to El Nino (more extreme
weather), but arise more gradually.

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On 25/12/2015 22:15, Bill Wright wrote:
Yes honestly, they did!

Oh no they didn't! It was the Met Office.


On the news channel! A long item about
temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere being unseasonally high. They
wheeled a bloke on who said it was all due to El Nino. He didn't mention
global warming once and not did the voice over the bits of video they
showed. I can't believe it!


http://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2015/12...a-media-storm/

On Monday, in a blog, we were very clear not to link the record-breaking
rainfall with climate change. This is what Professor Dame Julia Slingo,
Met Office Chief Scientist has said: “It’s too early to say definitively
whether climate change has made a contribution to the exceptional
rainfall. We anticipated a wet, stormy start to winter in our
three-month outlooks, associated with the strong El Niño and other factors.

I wonder if someone will be sent for re-education, as happened after the
'What's the Point of...?' programme in which Quintin Letts was seriously
off-message and expressed scepticism about global warming. You can't
listen to the programme because the BBC have banned it. They don't like
free speech.


Free speech as in saying the Met were alarmist, promoting climate change
and lobbying governments.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35009533


We expect that from the Daily Mail, not the BBC.

"presented by Daily Mail sketch writer Quentin Letts"

What a surprise...

On 27/12/2015 08:18, Dex wrote:

On Monday, in a blog, we were very clear not to link the record-breaking
rainfall with climate change. This is what Professor Dame Julia Slingo,
Met Office Chief Scientist has said: “It’s too early to say definitively
whether climate change has made a contribution to the exceptional
rainfall. We anticipated a wet, stormy start to winter in our
three-month outlooks, associated with the strong El Niño and other factors.

Yes well she made a total fool of herself last time didn't she? She was
contradicted by every one of her underlings.

Free speech as in saying the Met were alarmist, promoting climate change
and lobbying governments.

Yes, exactly. Free speech even means the freedom to say heretical things
like that. Or are you so blinkered and brainwashed you are prepared to
abandon free speech when it goes against the BBC line?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35009533


We expect that from the Daily Mail, not the BBC.

But you see, therein lies the point. The BBC, as a public service
broadcaster paid for by compulsory subscription, should allow everyone
to express their view. By saying you don't expect a certain viewpoint to
be heard on the BBC you are making my point for me.

Bill

On 27/12/2015 19:32, Bill Wright wrote:
On 27/12/2015 08:18, Dex wrote:

On Monday, in a blog, we were very clear not to link the record-breaking
rainfall with climate change. This is what Professor Dame Julia Slingo,
Met Office Chief Scientist has said: “It’s too early to say definitively
whether climate change has made a contribution to the exceptional
rainfall. We anticipated a wet, stormy start to winter in our
three-month outlooks, associated with the strong El Niño and other
factors.

Yes well she made a total fool of herself last time didn't she? She was
contradicted by every one of her underlings.


When was that then?


Free speech as in saying the Met were alarmist, promoting climate change
and lobbying governments.

Yes, exactly. Free speech even means the freedom to say heretical things
like that.

And he didn't give them the free speech to refute the allegations.

Or are you so blinkered and brainwashed you are prepared to
abandon free speech when it goes against the BBC line?

Not free speech when all you do is attack someone. Remember what
happened to Jon Gaunt?

And it wasn't the BBC that removed it, it was a ruling by the BBC Trust,
independent of the BBC. Learn the difference.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35009533


We expect that from the Daily Mail, not the BBC.

But you see, therein lies the point.

What point? All you did was spout lies like 'BBC blames el Nino' when it
was the opposite.

The BBC, as a public service
broadcaster paid for by compulsory subscription, should allow everyone
to express their view.

One thing to have a view, another to just attack your opponent and don't
let them answer back.

MPs are fair game, but not organisations. It's why consumer programs
like Watchdog let the directors of companies they feature answer the
complaints if they wish to.