Archive for the ‘BBC’ Category
“Climate change shrinking sheep”
Posted at 6:34 pm | Filed Under BBC, Politics, Religion, climate science
Yes, just when you thought the whole climate change panic couldn’t get any sillier, the BBC comes along to push back the boundaries of scientific journalism (or is it down?)
Climate change is causing a breed of wild sheep in Scotland to shrink, according to research.
Scientists say milder winters help smaller sheep to survive, resulting in [...]
Fusion Power, Climate Change and Pascal’s Wager
Posted at 9:42 pm | Filed Under BBC, Religion, Skepticism, Uncategorized, Viewpoint, WeatherAction, Webcomics, climate science, environmentalism
This post may seem a little schizophrenic, but bear with me.
The BBC website, also known as the media arm of Environmental Panic Inc., produced a fascinating article on the struggle to fund the next experimental setup to produce fusion power.
An international plan to build a nuclear fusion reactor is being threatened by rising costs, delays [...]
Richard Branson and BBC Science Cluelessness
Posted at 1:31 am | Filed Under BBC, Science, climate science, environmentalism
This comes from the BBC’s description of the flights of SpaceShipTwo to take people to the edge of space, and then come back to a nice safe landing (hopefully). And all for a mere $200,000 – the world’s most expensive rollercoaster.
Of course, Richard Branson is a man who is extremely adept at being on both [...]
Photojournalism and fauxtography
Posted at 12:22 pm | Filed Under BBC, Viewpoint
…something which should be subtitled “The corruption of photojournalism by terrorists and the culpability of Western media organizations”
The event which initiated the fauxtography blogstorm was an Israeli airstrike on a building in the southern Lebanese village of Qana on July 30, 2006, a couple weeks after the start of active hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel. [...]
What is the point of the BBC Trust?
Posted at 8:29 am | Filed Under BBC, Viewpoint
For those of us outside of the UK, the BBC News website has advertising on it. I inadvertantly clicked on one by mistake (because the Beeboids haven’t mastered html yet as rendered by Firefox), and got this link: www.loveearth.com/uk/tracking
As you can see, its a lovely website dealing with the cuddliest animals threatened by Human-caused Climate [...]
Tax revenues well used to fund groundbreaking science
Posted at 1:29 pm | Filed Under BBC, Science
GBP 200,000 worth of great science.
I’m not the only one
Posted at 10:16 am | Filed Under BBC
Following on from yesterday’s discussion, here are some of the feedback responses that the BBC did allow through the censorship:
Ah, but you are missing a vital part of the puzzle of ‘historical’ films. The problem now is that people take them as fact. They do not research, study and examine the evidence of the perios, [...]
Distorting history for entertainment
Posted at 4:52 pm | Filed Under BBC, Viewpoint
I’ve just read this on the BBC website. I ought not to be shocked, but then I’m only so far in my BBC desensitization course:
The preamble:
It doesn’t matter if films play fast and loose with historical facts. What matters is to convey the spirit of the age – and its players.
No of course not. Especially [...]
A question for Richard Black
Posted at 8:25 pm | Filed Under BBC, Science
I’ve just sent this in, but the chances of a reply are frankly minimal:
“Nature’s refusal to publish a re-analysis by Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick of the famous (or infamous, depending on your point of view) “hockey stick” graph has been so well documented elsewhere, not least in hearings instigated by US congressmen, that there [...]
BBC Black Propaganda #2
Posted at 4:50 pm | Filed Under BBC, Skepticism, Viewpoint
 Following on from yesterday’s trash piece from Richard Black comes yet another tissue of misrepresentation. Here is my reply, kept safe because I know that the BBC doesn’t ever allow criticism of itself on its own website.
Once again another piece of Black Propaganda:
“Of all the accusations made by the vociferous community of climate sceptics, surely [...]