BBC news article

This article on the BBC website really wound me up: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8299079.stm - I don't like my license fee being used to give credence to climate-change deniers.

See also comments here http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulhudson/2009/10/whatever-happened-to-global-wa.shtml, pointing out factual errors.

I have complained here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch/ukfs/hi/newsid_3990000/newsid_3993900/3993909.stm (text below).  It would be great if others would as well and pass this on.

Best wishes

Claire

"I would like to complain about this piece for the following reason:

Every new serious analysis of the situation tells us that changes are occurring faster than predicted by previous worst-case climate change scenarios, and there is little political will to take appropriate action to prevent the humanitarian catastrophe of irreversible climate change. 

Why then run a piece headed "What happened to global warming?", which promotes the views of climate change sceptics as of equal weight to the scientific consensus?  As evolution-deniers in the US have shown, it is not necessary to provide weighty contrary evidence to create public doubt.  It is sufficient to suggest often enough that scientific uncertainty exists, and that both sides of 'the debate' should be heard.  Most people will not read the article properly, and the headline will be what sticks in their minds, further reducing public support for the changes that need to be made."