BBC's Carbon Footprint

[Teddy Bear]

brianboru said:

In the period Jan- Dec 2004 (The most recent for which data is available) BBC staff and other individuals on BBC business took a total of 51,570 flights with an aggregate mileage of 181,706,000 miles. Or 1000 flights a week.
This is equivalent to 36,543,000 kgs of carbon emissions.

I am trying to get this up to date -but there is resistance.

[Teddy Bear]

Welcome Brian, and an important observation you make.

(You will have noticed that I have moved your original post here with its own topic.)

Re your point, no doubt the BBC would dismiss their use of all these air miles as essential for the survival of the planet, justifying any negative global warming issues they might be responsible for.

There was also a matter of an exhorbitant use of taxis used by staff, even between buidings in the same complex.

[indikit]

And don't forget the BBCs aim is to indoctrinate, not inform. Therefore their attitude is:

Do as we say, not what we do.

[steevo]

A pertinent post Brian... and welcome

Not surprisingly there's been contradiction in their reporting on the subject too. Its not my intent to go into a GW debate, just to describe what appears to be more bias by them.

There's been significant discussion about Sunspot solar activity and its relationship to the Earth's climate change over this past 1000 years. An interesting analysis on the Beeb's reporting about this can be found here.

Briefly:

July 6, 2004, BBC.com published an article news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3869753.stm entitled “Sunspots Reaching 1000-year High”

"A new analysis shows that the Sun is more active now than it has been at anytime in the previous 1,000 years.

"Scientists based at the Institute for Astronomy in Zurich used ice cores from Greenland to construct a picture of our star's activity in the past.

"They say that over the last century the number of sunspots rose at the same time that the Earth's climate became steadily warmer. "

In fact, this report included the following:

"Over the past 20 years, however, the number of sunspots has remained roughly constant, yet the average temperature of the Earth has continued to increase."

Hmmm. Yet, three years later [early July, 07], the BBC reported news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6290228.stm this:

"A new scientific study concludes that changes in the Sun's output cannot be causing modern-day climate change.

"It shows that for the last 20 years, the Sun's output has declined, yet temperatures on Earth have risen."

Fascinating, wouldn’t you agree?

Newsbusters also reports:

The author of the 2004 piece, former BBC science correspondent David Whitehouse, wrote an article published in the British Telegraph which slammed the BBC for its “enthusiastically one-sided, sloppy and confused” report on this subject.

This can be an interesting Scientific discussion but clearly the BBC like most major leftist media have sided, and for beneficial ideological reasons, with the GW crowd even tho its worth noting above how serious they really take it when their own lifestyle comes into play. Just like seemingly most Americans in the vanguard of the movement.

[Teddy Bear]

Steevo - Excellent work on finding this
It's so important I think I'll open a separate category for GW bias and move this topic there.

Great Stuff!