Have Ossie BOM found UHI just in time for the "peer review" of the new NZ temp set?

Hot Cities
http://www.bom.gov.au/announcements/media_releases/ho/20101013.shtml

@ Dreadnought

Thanks for the link, that was pretty revolting to be honest! Absolutely pathetic. The BBC should be ashamed (but I don't believe they have any shame left to be honest).

Just been listening to Costing the Earth on Radio 4. The subject was climate change litigation. No attempt at balance.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00v72r3

A BBC update on the IPCC situation. Fails to mention why these changes were needed really. Impartial?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11541056

O M G

http://www.joabbess.com/2010/10/13/the-messiah-with-us/#comments

To her credit, she does ALLOW all comments.. (some interesting ones on this one)

I hadn't realised she was an ecological christian...

"If the latest recording purporting to be from Osama bin Laden is genuine, it is clear his concern is turning towards Climate Change, asking the global Muslim community to save the people of Pakistan from the dreadful catastrophe of inundation aggravated by Global Warming trends.

Osama bin Laden is not a saint, but his heart is turned towards the suffering of others, so he too has been touched by the spiritual Messiah, the ever-present Holy One of God.

How to do the work of the Lord, who has power in gentleness and patience, and who is mighty, yet only touches the Earth with warming sunlight ? How to be the eyes, hands and feet of the Spirit of Life ?"

The demise of the IPCC, I hear a nail being hammered into a coffin lid.

http://theresilientearth.com/?q=content/estimated-co2-warming-cut-65

Are these new guidelines pre-empting the report of the BBC Trust enquiry? Can't find any section referring to the subject of [C]AGW....but there is this, under the heading Consensus:

"4.4.19
There are some issues which may seem to be without controversy, appearing to be backed by a broad or even unanimous consensus of opinion. Nevertheless, they may present a significant risk to the BBC's impartiality. In such cases, we should continue to report where the consensus lies and give it due weight. However, even if it may be neither necessary nor appropriate to seek out voices of opposition, our reporting should resist the temptation to use language and tone which appear to accept consensus or received wisdom as fact or self-evident.
(See Section 4 Impartiality: 4.4.29)
We must challenge our own assumptions and experiences and also those which may be commonly held by parts of our audience. BBC output should avoid reinforcing generalisations which lack relevant evidence, especially when applying them to specific circumstances. This might occur in the fields of politics, race, charity, science, technology, medicine or elsewhere. These can present some of the most difficult challenges to asserting that the BBC does not hold its own opinion. Care should be taken to treat areas of apparent consensus with proper rigour. Where necessary, consult Editorial Policy."

Another video in the Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/oct/11/climate-activism-film-just-do-it

"Emily James on climate direct action film Just Do ItThe 'wilfully optimistic' film-maker Emily James talks about the frustrations of filming direct action and how she hopes to harness the power of the crowd to fund the project"

'Direct action'

Just Do It......

A few connections to Franny and Age of Stupid (10:10)

"When you're filming environmental activists who make dawn raids on airports and attempt to invade power stations, you can't really write up a filming schedule. That was one of the first things film-maker Emily James had to learn in the making of Just Do It, an upcoming documentary about the climate direct action movement in the UK which she is currently in the painful process of raising money to finish.

James says: "I'd get a call, giving me a time and a meet point, and the issue – like, it's a coal action. Sometimes you'd have no idea what time you'd be home again, and with some actions we'd meet the day before and then, for security reasons, nobody would be able to leave again till the action had taken place."

The project came into being after a friend involved in anti-aviation expansion group Plane Stupid asked James, a National Film and Television School-trained film-maker who had been the executive producer on the Age of Stupid climate movie, to come along and film the group blockading part of Stansted airport. James explains Just Do It's genesis: "

I even got a comment in!!!!!!! (see bbcbias)

Here is a link worth remembering..

New BBC editorial guidelines, on impartiality and controversial subjects!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/editorialguidelines/page/guidelines-impartiality-controversial-subjects/

I wish people such as Climate Rush wouldn't link suffragettes to their own kind of undemocratic direct action - suffragettes surely acted as they did because they had NO ACCESS TO THE BALLOT BOX (apologies for the capitals).