"Climate Activist Got BBC to Change 'Global Temperatures Decrease' Article
By Noel Sheppard | April 7, 2008 - 09:59 ET
NewsBusters has just learned that a British "climate activist" was responsible for getting the BBC to radically alter its "Global Temperatures 'To Decrease'" article last Friday."
more at newsbusters.org.
Further to Friday's controversial claims by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors about long payback time for home energy efficiency measures, a commenter to The Times' coverage has uncovered:
Spreadsheet of calculations: http://www.rics.org/NR/rdonlyres/80F3366F-13A9-4B72-B20A-257830F8C642/0/...
Press release: http://www.rics.org/Property/Residentialproperty/Acquisitionanddisposalo...
The item below was found at
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070425/climate_fil...
UK scientists want changes to climate documentary
Updated Wed. Apr. 25 2007 3:53 PM ET
Associated Press
LONDON -- A group of British climate scientists is demanding changes to a skeptical documentary about global warming, saying there are grave errors in the program billed as a response to Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth."
So, today we read that, on the one hand, some people think that giving Climate Skeptics/Deniers/Contrarians a platform just keeps the "debate" running on needlessly. And on the other, some Climate Skeptics/Deniers/Contrarians are complaining they don't get heard...
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Too much balance : Too much over-compensation :-
http://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=readnews&itemid=3560&lan...
This message from Operation Noah (the Churches' campaign on Climate Change).
It seems that local newspapers are being targetted with letters about The Great Global Warming Swindle.
It seems that they are coming from an extreme right-wing group...
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Subject : [celink] That ch 4 documentary
Look out for letters in your local paper criticising Al Gore's film and praising the Channel 4 Global Warming Swindle.
The letter promotes the offer by the Hampden Trust of a free copy of the Ch 4 programme to show in schools.
As EDM 2711 noted, two opinion polls last year indicated that the public viewed reducing flying and raising aviation tax favourably. They can be read at http://www.ipsos-mori.com/polls/2006/aet.shtml and www.communicateresearch.com/poll.php?id=85. The latter found that 63% of Britons would be prepared to sacrifice one foreign holiday by air travel annually to help save the planet.
Now we have the Mail on Sunday claiming "Cameron's green tax on air travel a massive vote loser". It begins "David Cameron's green tax on air travel risks becoming a massive vote loser for the Tory leader, according to a new poll". The article actually notes that, according to an opinion poll by BPIX, his voting preference ratings were holding up well and he was viewed slightly better for policies on climate change than Labour.
Joss Garman from Plane Stupid was interviewed on Newsnight last night versus a spokesman from the budget airlines federation.
Watch again until tonight's edition: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/default.stm
A George Monbiot film on Exxon-sponsored denial is to feature on Newsnight tonight. In between broadcasts the most recent edition of Newsnight is normally streamable from BBC website if you don't mind the jarred images.
Read George Monbiot's accompanying article in today's Guardian.
This also gives details of how to order "Heat: How To Stop The Planet Burning", though I wouldn't hold out for a signed copy by this route.
PS. They didn't h
Health warning - this programme not good for your blood pressure.
If you missed it first time around (june 4th)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/5005994.stm
Climate chaos: Bush's climate of fear
A US government whistleblower tells Panorama how scientific reports about global warming have been systematically changed and suppressed. The Bush administration has resisted calls to engage in Kyoto, and has been accused of a systematic campaign of disinformation and harassment against the scientific community - gagging scientists, re-writing major reports, and allowing the oil and coal industries to drive policy.
"Carbon Dioxide... We Call It Life," US TV Ads Say
WASHINGTON - A little girl blows away dandelion fluff as an announcer says, "Carbon dioxide: they call it pollution; we call it life," in an advertisement targeting global warming "alarmists," especially Al Gore.
