Shutting Down BBC Science Coverage That Doesn't Show Consensus
Aims to silence global warming skeptics
1 Aug 11 - "BBC has fired the head of the Science news department, and will no longer print research that does not agree with global warming theory," says reader Winona Campbell. "This has the backing of Paul Nurse of the Royal Society, Sir Mark Walport of Welcome Trust, and Alison Hastings of BBC Trust.
"You have many readers from all over the world who need to know this. "This should be on iceagenow.com."
* * * Winona is absolutely correct: The world should know about this censorship. The BBC announcement was published under the rather innocuous title "BBC praised for science coverage," so that you wouldn't notice that it intends to limit dissenting opinions on global warming. An independent review has found that BBC science coverage is of "high quality and significant quantity," the article gloats. "But the report, by genetics professor Steve Jones, said the BBC 'must make a distinction between well-established fact and opinion'. "Attempts at balance were giving 'free publicity to marginal opinions', the BBC Trust-published report said. "It found that, where there was consensus on scientific matters, providing an opposite view without consideration of 'due weight' could lead to a 'false balance'. Prof Jones went on to say that the BBC "still gives space" to global warming sceptics "to make statements that are not supported by the facts". For years, said Jones, "the climate change deniers have been marginal to the scientific debate but somehow they continued to find a place on the airwaves". "Equality of voice calls for a match of scientists, not with politicians or activists, but with those qualified to take a knowledgeable, albeit perhaps divergent view of research," he said. In a rational world, this would be called censorship. Or propaganda. Or both.
How about intimidation? If your predecessor just got fired for not toeing the party line, what would that do to your objectivity? Allowing only the "consensus" view would leave us still believing that the world is flat and that the sun revolves around the earth. Is the BBC not aware that almost all major gains in science have been made by those who broke with the consensus of the day? See entire article:
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29 Jul 11 - The scientist who claimed polar bears were drowning because of melting ice caps has been placed on administrative leave as officials investigate scientific misconduct allegations. Although it is unclear what the allegations are, a US government watchdog group representing Monnett says investigators are focused on observations of bears he and researcher Jeffrey Gleason made in 2004. Just five years ago, Dr Charles Monnett, a federal wildlife biologist working in Alaska, stunned the world after spotting four polar bear bodies floating in the sea miles from shore. Monnett and Gleason detailed their observations in an article published two years later in the journal Polar Biology, suggesting the increased incidence of storms caused by global warming, and the loss of ice for polar bears to walk on, could lead to more deaths in the future. The article helped galvanize the global warming movement.. Yesterday it emerged Dr Monnett – who works for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) in charge of a £30million project researching the Arctic's wildlife – is being investigated for 'integrity issues' apparently linked to the polar bear report. A BOEMRE spokeswoman declined to comment on an “ongoing internal investigation.” Monnett's suspension has infuriated conservationists who say the Obama administration is 'persecuting' the Anchorage-based scientist. The group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility filed a complaint on Dr Monnett's behalf yesterday with BOEMRE. Jeff Ruch, executive director of the watchdog group, said the investigator had not yet told Dr Monnett of the specific charges or questions related to the scientific integrity of his work, and that the bureau had barred Dr Monnett from speaking to journalists. Dr Monnett's bear sighting in 2004 was cited by Al Gore in his documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Monnett's paper helped make the polar bear a 'poster child' for the global warming movement, and in 2008, the U.S. classified the polar bear as a threatened species, with its survival at risk due to global warming. Related: See New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism Myron Ebell, of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said the case reinforces the group's position that people should be more skeptical about the work of climate change scientists. "What we're being asked to do is turn our economy around and spend trillions and trillions of dollars on the basis of" climate change claims, he said. Last year scientists working for the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change came under fire for exaggerating the threat of global warming. The body falsely claimed Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035 after lifting claims from an unsubstantiated report written by the green charity WWF. See entire article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2019953/Scientist-claimed-polar-bears- drowning-investigated-scientific-misconduct.html
