Bishop Hill Another day, another propaganda piece
Jun 19, 2008 Climate I do sometimes wonder if Messrs Harrabin and Black, the BBC's prime global warming propagandists, ever get bored of telling one side of the story.
Today's contribution from Mr Black is a story about declining sea ice coverage in the Arctic.
Arctic sea ice is melting even faster than last year, despite a cold winter.
Data from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) shows that the year began with ice covering a larger area than at the beginning of 2007.
But now it is down to levels seen last June, at the beginning of a summer that broke records for sea ice loss.
Why does he keep doing this? Everybody knows he's cherry picking in order to maintain the BBC's chosen narrative of "We're all going to die!". Simply checking the sea ice chart at Cryosphere Today shows that global sea ice coverage is pretty much normal - the reduction in the Arctic is offset by extra in the Antarctic.
However, the word "Antarctic" appears nowhere in Richard Black's article. This is good, plain, old-fashioned out-and-out dishonesty. Par for the course for the BBC's environment team.
Reader Comments (4)
(You forgot to mention my favourite doomster David Shukman.)
They have chosen a clever graph to accompany this story.
At first glance it shows "something going down the gurgler = bad". And most people will only glance. The graph backs up the story.
Only the curious will look closely and see that the graph really shows that ice melts, umm, every summer.
There was another story just yesterday with some patches of snow melting in Scotland in the summer. Like it does.
They also forgot to mention that the Scottish Ski season extended into May this year.