Heresy at the Beeb

This is odd. The BBC has allowed someone to write an article that is not fully supportive of the catastrophic global warming thesis.

I wonder if they feel their bets need to be hedged, all of a sudden.

Comments

[James P]

It's about time! Thanks for the link - I'd more or less given up looking to the BBC website for any balance on the subject, although I have noticed the odd sceptical comment creeping into radio chat lately. Trouble is that it's easy to convince yourself that something is happening when you're wishing for it - just like AGW itself, really...

[Alex Cull]

I quite like the Blog of Bloom; ostensibly all about the various kinds of awkwardness that AGW might wreak on the world, but I often detect (or think I detect?) a note of gentle subversion. I can't help wondering, though, that the more people know about the blog, the more likely someone from the BBC climate authorities will start to ask questions and one day it will disappear.

[Jack Hughes]

Hi Bish - yes its a worry that Richard Cable (Bloom Blog) has wandered off the reservation and will be re-educated or exiled any day now.

Back in 2006 the Radio4 message boards got too lively for the beeb and they only let the teachers start new threads. On of the last user-generated threads posts was:

'I can see it now.

"How can people be forced to appreciate the benefits of multiculturalism?"

"George Bush. Evil dictator or sexual pervert?"

"Are YOU a victim of homophobia?"

"Diversity. Fantastic or amazing?"

"How can we unite to defeat the right?"'

[Jack Hughes]

Amazingly the last thread is still there:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbtoday/F2767103?thread=3663761

[Perry]

Cross referenced O/T at WUWT, in case it's taken down.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/10/mars-today-widget-now-on-wuwt/

[TonyN]

Bishop Hill:

You may be right, or is it hubris. Are they so certain that everyone who matters is convinced that they see no harm in easing up on the spin.

[Bishop Hill]

Tony

No, I don't think so. The sceptics are clearly on the up at the moment, so I don't think hubris is likely.

[Bishop Hill]

Thanks Perry

[Firebird]

I think you're clutching at straws. Not that any of it matters, when peak oil starts to bite our CO2 footprints are going shrink whatever we think about it.