Copner and John Hewitt, Strangely enough. I got exactly the same response from the BBC too!

Serious questions have been raised about the quality, accuracy and political motivation driving the Australian temperature records. Recent research as reported in several new articles show that the bulk if not all of the recently recorded temperature data being used by policymakers and being supplied to the media could contain serious flaws and bias.

A team of skeptical scientists, citizens, and an Australian Senator have now lodged a formal request with the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) to have the BOM and CSIRO audited.

(The NZ equivalent to the Australian BOM is already currently under official review.)

http://joannenova.com.au/2011/02/announcing-a-formal-request-for-the-auditor-general-to-audit-the-australian-bom/#more-13221

I remember that from Eric Steig. The faithful were going on and about the paper, but things calmed down a bit after Spencer Weart and Steig shot the PNAS paper down.

Copner

The response I got from the BBC was identical to yours. I guess we have made our point and have to take the response at face value. Credit to the BBC for doing it quickly - that might reflect the volume of complaint.

I've just discovered The Survival of Civilization. Published in 1982, it collects together the papers of one John D. Hamaker. And it's a sparkling diamond in the jewel-encrusted crown of alarmist insanity. Chapter 4, for example, is called The Role of CO2 in the Process of Glaciation and explains how increasing CO2 is leading to a new ice age. Chapter 3 is called Worldwide Starvation by 1990. Chapter 7 proposes amendments to the US constitution that, inter alia, would nationalise land and (largely) confiscate wealth at death. Also worth a glance are the prefatory section, Quotes From Readers of The Survival of Civilization, which contains book jacket puffs from various luminaries including Buckminster Fuller, and the message from the editor of the 2001 edition, Don Weaver, who seems to think that "Hamaker may have been correct in his general analysis of human, ecological and climatic degeneration, even if his chronological predictions have proven somewhat inexact .. the evidence powerfully supports his general analysis, and .. his chronological predictions are proving to be not so very far off."

[This is Haunting the Library's territory but there have been no posts there for a fortnight.]

BSE is dead (well in cows anyway, humans have to wait another 50 years) note the bit about Pirons existance being frowned upon.

The whole idea, however, still challenged a central orthodoxy about the nature of the disease. Because of this, and the slender evidence base, a perception hardened that Prusiner’s big idea was closer to insanity than genius. “The personal attacks of the naysayers at times became very vicious,” he would later remark.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/8323784/The-end-of-BSE.html

Response to BBC Complaint:

Thanks for contacting us regarding ‘The Moral Maze’ broadcast on the 9 February.

We’re sorry if you were offended by Michael Buerk’s opening statement:

“Not long ago to question multiculturalism, the precepts or the policies of successive governments, risked being branded racist and pushed into the loathsome corner with paedophiles and climate change deniers.”

Michael was certainly not comparing climate change deniers with paedophiles. He was simply saying that paedophiles and climate change deniers are two such examples of groups of people who are generally viewed as being in a ‘loathsome corner’ albeit that they are completely disconnected in every other way.

Michael was making the wider point that from time to time there are ideas in society, like multiculturalism and climate change, that become orthodoxy and to challenge those ideas is to be seen to be beyond the pale.

However, we’re sorry if this didn’t come across as clearly as was hoped for.

We would like to assure you that we’ve registered your comments on our audience log. This is the internal report of audience feedback which we compile daily for all programme makers and commissioning executives within the BBC, and also their senior management. It ensures that your points, and all other comments we receive, are circulated and considered across the BBC.

Thanks again for contacting us.

Regards

BBC Audience Services

This site is getting nearly unusable. Severn or Eight attempts to do a simple post get web timeouts or simply no response from the buttons. I succeded with persistence but something is seriously broken.

ZedsDeadBed

Thank you for the reply. Most appreciated.

That last post was for Truro Zed.

If Eric Steig thinks its bad then it is rubbish.