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The BBC's amazing U-turn on climate change
Telegraph ^ | 10-11-09 | Damian Thompson

Posted on 10/11/2009 9:00:08 AM PDT by kingattax

I think the BBC wanted to slip this one out quietly, but a Matt Drudge link put paid to that. The climate change correspondent of BBC News has admitted that global warming stopped in 1998 – and he reports that leading scientists believe that the earth’s cooling-off may last for decades.

“Whatever happened to global warming?” is the title of an article by Paul Hudson that represents a clear departure from the BBC’s fanatical espousal of climate change orthodoxy. The climate change campaigners will go nuts, particularly in the run-up to Copenhagen. So, I suspect, will devout believers inside the BBC. Hudson’s story was not placed very prominently by his colleagues – but a link right at the top of Drudge will have delivered at least a million page views, possibly many more.

Hudson’s piece is a U-turn – not because he has joined the ranks of sceptics who reject the theory of man-made global warming, but because at last he has written a story about the well-established fact that the earth’s temperature has not risen since 1998, and reports seriously the theories of climatologists (themselves not sceptics) who believe that we are in for 30 years of cooling caused by the falling temperatures of the oceans.

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bbc; globalwarming
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1 posted on 10/11/2009 9:00:08 AM PDT by kingattax
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Where is the someone that can bring a lawsuit against the global warming fraud perpetrated by Gore. Cap & Tax is coming and many on Wall Street stand to make untold fortunes.


2 posted on 10/11/2009 9:03:27 AM PDT by samsmom
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A ray of sunshine peeks through........


3 posted on 10/11/2009 9:03:28 AM PDT by Dem Guard
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If three or four major publications merely took up the idea of journalistic ethics...and stood their grounds on facts...most of this entire debate would dissolve within twelve months. Even Hanson from NASA would start to stumble and be limited as to where he spoke.


4 posted on 10/11/2009 9:04:52 AM PDT by pepsionice
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Great! Now all they need to do is to start exhibiting some concern for the ‘youth’ problem [read - Islamic youth]. Small steps toward enslavement require massive leaps back to reality.


5 posted on 10/11/2009 9:07:37 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: samsmom
Where is the someone that can bring a lawsuit against the global warming fraud perpetrated by Gore. Cap & Tax

We the people?
6 posted on 10/11/2009 9:07:45 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: kingattax; Desdemona; rdl6989; Little Bill; IrishCatholic; Normandy; ...
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

7 posted on 10/11/2009 9:09:37 AM PDT by steelyourfaith (Limit all U.S. politicians to two terms: One in office and one in prison!)
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To: samsmom
"Where is the someone that can bring a lawsuit against the global warming fraud perpetrated by Gore"

I would support that - ENTHUSIASTICALLY!

8 posted on 10/11/2009 9:09:52 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: pepsionice

NASA has been getting a considerable percentage of it’s budget from the AGW fraud. That’s in jeopardy as reality starts to sink in.


9 posted on 10/11/2009 9:11:05 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Without the second, the rest are just politicians BS.)
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To: kingattax
Seeing some pushback on the AGW hoax is like a breath of fresh air. If BBC can get skeptical, maybe a US medium will follow.
10 posted on 10/11/2009 9:13:50 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Truth--The liberal's Kryptonite)
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Wow! The Earth’s temperature has been falling for the past 11 years and these Einsteins are now figuring out that the Earth is cooling! Weeee - doggie, ya gotta get up pretty early in the morning to trick those fellas!


11 posted on 10/11/2009 9:14:20 AM PDT by avacado
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When the glaciers are threatening to engulf Minneapolis, the GW crowd will still ignore the evidence.


12 posted on 10/11/2009 9:15:47 AM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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Yea, the BBC is our friend these days. Most true news is coming from the UK. Someone in the UK is pissed with Onama, and it is showing.


13 posted on 10/11/2009 9:17:31 AM PDT by devane617
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OK...so now the idiot “scientists” (who can never be wrong because it is “science”) will probably be telling us we are doomed because of the new coming ice age. Crazies all, lead by none other than Al “Chicken Little has Nothing on Me” Gore.


14 posted on 10/11/2009 9:25:36 AM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable, and unambiguous clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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No wonder the global socialists changed the name of their scam from “global warming” to “climate change”.
Now they’ve got everything covered.


15 posted on 10/11/2009 9:27:43 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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This is a fraud perpetrated on a global scale, we’d actually have to roll tanks in a few places to capture these criminals.


16 posted on 10/11/2009 9:28:51 AM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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...so now the idiot “scientists” (who can never be wrong because it is “science”) will probably be telling us we are doomed because of the new coming ice age

I don't know how old you are, but I am old enough to remember that the global socialists (and their fellow-travelling / well-paid "scientists") already cycled through that scam, back in the '70s. I was just out of college at the time and remember it well.


17 posted on 10/11/2009 9:32:21 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: kingattax
If the level of CO2 drops because of a drop in the outgassing from the Earth's oceans due to global cooling its going to make life really difficult for the AGW global warming climate change cult followers.
18 posted on 10/11/2009 9:37:01 AM PDT by Timocrat
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I said on yesterday’s BBC thread that this would be an important article, perhaps even a turning point, because the BBC is one of the principal villains in the Global Warming scam. They have done their utmost to propagate this fraud, and they are extremely influential.

I also mentioned that it was linked on Drudge. Just a simple headline at the top of the page. No picture, even. But as Damian Thompson points out, that made all the difference. The BBC gives it credibility, coming from an extreme politically correct leftist source not easily dismissed, and Drudge gives it widespread and unexpected publicity.


19 posted on 10/11/2009 9:41:32 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Well, people might possibly get mad if they learn that Obama’s insane climate czar had spent trillions to bury CO2 in the oceans, and then it turns out that we are entering a little ice age, and trees and food crops are dying, because of a government-made shortage of CO2.

Unless, of course, the media manages to spin it. Which they would certainly be ready and willing to do.


20 posted on 10/11/2009 9:44:40 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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