Post by Teddy Bear on Nov 30, 2012 21:10:28 GMT
Not only is the BBC disgusting for avoiding real scientific debate on this contentious issue, but to bring somebody in who is supposed to represent the Church on their daily programme at 05:45 'Prayer for the Day', and used it to further the BBC agenda on the subject, pushes it beyond parody.
The woman, who is an Elder from the Church of Scotland is named Alison Twaddle.
Twaddle?
twaddle [ˈtwɒdəl]
n - silly, trivial, or pretentious talk or writing; nonsense
vb - to talk or write (something) in a silly or pretentious way
[C16 twattle, variant of twittle or tittle; see tittle-tattle]
Says it all really!
You can hear this 2 minute programme again for the next 4 days here
The Commentator has more on this and similar BBC output on that day.
The woman, who is an Elder from the Church of Scotland is named Alison Twaddle.
Twaddle?
twaddle [ˈtwɒdəl]
n - silly, trivial, or pretentious talk or writing; nonsense
vb - to talk or write (something) in a silly or pretentious way
[C16 twattle, variant of twittle or tittle; see tittle-tattle]
Says it all really!
You can hear this 2 minute programme again for the next 4 days here
The Commentator has more on this and similar BBC output on that day.
The BBC in overdrive for global warming theory and the EU
The BBC just cannot help itself when it comes to issues like global warming and the EU...
by John Redwood MP
They just cannot leave it alone. On Wednesday morning’s Radio 4 early religious slot, Alison Twaddle did an uncritical advert for global warming theory, with of course no balance or questions allowed. She told us that the latest US great storm was the kind of event you could expect to be more frequent in an age of high CO2 output, and asked us to thank God for the climate change scientists who have revealed this truth. The link to religion was tenuous and attenuated.
This was followed by a patsy interview on Farming Today with a representative of the famous East Anglia University climate change department. There was no mention of errant emails or past controversies.
The lady was able to tell us that periods of high rainfall as we have just experienced would become much more common in the years ahead, as would dry hot summers. She stressed she had no idea what the weather might be like for the next few years, but was categoric that the average experience would be both wetter in winter and hotter and drier in summer if you took the long term perspective, looking ahead 30-50 years.
She was not asked to produce any evidence, not asked how she could predict the average but not the individual years that make it up, not asked why they have not forecast recent years’ weather with any success, and not asked to explain why CO2 – rather than water vapour, sun variation, wind, and cloud patterns – is seen as the crucial sole variable.
Then the Today programme sought to push the EU agenda. All this week they have promised to investigate Germany more. They started with a very unrepresentative German who likes “England” which he muddles up with the UK. His job was to reassure us all that Germany agrees with us over the EU budget and wants the UK (or England) to stay in the EU to make it all lovely.
He was not asked why, for example, the UK should want to help pay the bills for Euro failure, why we should wish to continue with the CAP which is bad for taxpayers and food buyers, or why some think Germany would stop selling us her cars if we were no longer in the EU.
We were also treated to a sudden flurry of “news” on efforts by the EU to promote trade agreements around the world, after years of failing to do so. Clearly the message was the EU is heeding the UK at last. The BBC did seek to inject a little criticism into this piece, by exposing the ICT visa issue, but the main thrust was clearly to buttress the EU and show it is “going the UK’s way”, as we are so often told.
It was another very bad morning for the BBC, with sloppy journalism riding favourite hobby horses in a very uncritical way. I am writing to Lord Patten about it.
The BBC just cannot help itself when it comes to issues like global warming and the EU...
by John Redwood MP
They just cannot leave it alone. On Wednesday morning’s Radio 4 early religious slot, Alison Twaddle did an uncritical advert for global warming theory, with of course no balance or questions allowed. She told us that the latest US great storm was the kind of event you could expect to be more frequent in an age of high CO2 output, and asked us to thank God for the climate change scientists who have revealed this truth. The link to religion was tenuous and attenuated.
This was followed by a patsy interview on Farming Today with a representative of the famous East Anglia University climate change department. There was no mention of errant emails or past controversies.
The lady was able to tell us that periods of high rainfall as we have just experienced would become much more common in the years ahead, as would dry hot summers. She stressed she had no idea what the weather might be like for the next few years, but was categoric that the average experience would be both wetter in winter and hotter and drier in summer if you took the long term perspective, looking ahead 30-50 years.
She was not asked to produce any evidence, not asked how she could predict the average but not the individual years that make it up, not asked why they have not forecast recent years’ weather with any success, and not asked to explain why CO2 – rather than water vapour, sun variation, wind, and cloud patterns – is seen as the crucial sole variable.
Then the Today programme sought to push the EU agenda. All this week they have promised to investigate Germany more. They started with a very unrepresentative German who likes “England” which he muddles up with the UK. His job was to reassure us all that Germany agrees with us over the EU budget and wants the UK (or England) to stay in the EU to make it all lovely.
He was not asked why, for example, the UK should want to help pay the bills for Euro failure, why we should wish to continue with the CAP which is bad for taxpayers and food buyers, or why some think Germany would stop selling us her cars if we were no longer in the EU.
We were also treated to a sudden flurry of “news” on efforts by the EU to promote trade agreements around the world, after years of failing to do so. Clearly the message was the EU is heeding the UK at last. The BBC did seek to inject a little criticism into this piece, by exposing the ICT visa issue, but the main thrust was clearly to buttress the EU and show it is “going the UK’s way”, as we are so often told.
It was another very bad morning for the BBC, with sloppy journalism riding favourite hobby horses in a very uncritical way. I am writing to Lord Patten about it.
