Global warming. BBC policy
Dear British Broadcasting Corporation,
Given that numerous programmes on the BBC present man-made global warming as a proved fact.i.e a scientifically won and proven argument ( when of course it is not) can you please direct me to the relevant internal bbc guidlines that states bbc policy in this area i.e Any policy or guideline that states implicitly or suggestively that it is correct for BBC presenters/ programme makers to state/suggest/hint on air that man made global warming is a fact rather than an unproved opinion.
Yours faithfully,
Bob Willis
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Dear FOI Enquiries,
You state ""The BBC has held a high-level seminar with some of the best scientific experts."
Please give details of the date and location of this seminar, and a full list of persons who attended together with any recorded notes or any later transcribed notes made by any BBC employee from this seminar.
Yours sincerely,
Bob Willis
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<<RFI20100857 - final response.pdf>>
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Trevor Allport left an annotation ()
In other words, you will believe what we tell you to believe.
Sadly, their ill conceived house of cards will collapse around them.
Peter Danby left an annotation ()
Climate change is a hoax created to take more taxes of us, it has been proven to be a hoax. The BBC have no credibility left in telling the truth..." Please look at the YouTube link below from David Bellamy who lost his job working for the BBC for not going along with what they said.
http://youtu.be/EcOgAqxVpb4
Watchkeeper left an annotation ()
James Delingpole wrote an article about this seminar:
http://tinyurl.com/ycgczel
He says:
"It was attended by ‘30 key BBC staff and 30 invited guests who are specialists in the area of climate change’. The event was called ‘Climate Change - the Challenge to Broadcasting’ and it was hosted by Jana Bennett (then Director of Television, now Director of Vision) and Helen Boaden (Director of News BBC). The ‘key speaker’ was Lord May of Oxford. Among the aims of the seminar were ‘to offer a summary of the state of knowledge on the issue’ and ‘to consider the BBC’s role in the public debate’.The chairman was Fergal Keane".
He also quotes Richard D North as saying:
"I found the seminar frankly shocking. The BBC crew (senior executives from every branch of the corporation) were matched by an equal number of specialists, almost all (and maybe all) of whom could be said to have come from the 'we must support Kyoto' school of climate change activists.
So far as I can recall I was alone in being a climate change sceptic (nothing like a denier, by the way) on both the science and policy response.
I was frankly appalled by the level of ignorance of the issue which the BBC people showed ..."
North's comments can be found here:
http://tinyurl.com/cedjht2
Others have tried to elicit information about this seminar from the BBC and have likewise been stonewalled. "TonyN" referred the matter to the Information Commissioner's Office, again to no effect. His comment was:
"I suppose that, even now, I could try complaining to the BBC about their failure to answer a letter from the ICO that has been outstanding for over a year, but what kind of situation exists if I have to plead with the BBC to respond to a statutory authority that is supposed to be a watchdog?"
http://tinyurl.com/bvceafd
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John Booth left an annotation ()
Why did they not "Take the 5th" once again on this one, possibly because they have a good answer yet many other questions they refuse point blank to answer, even though it is borderline weather it does come under the journalism part of the act (even on expenditure) which is NOT journalism, facts very easily found and we should have a right to know about.