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BBC Investigated for Savage Attacks on Global Warming Skeptic


Leading global warming skeptic Lord Monckton, a frequent victim of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s pro-manmade global warming bias, may be vindicated, the Daily Mail reports.

The BBC is being investigated by television watchdogs after a leading climate change sceptic claimed his views were deliberately misrepresented.

Lord Monckton, a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, says he was made to look like a ‘potty peer’ on a TV programme that ‘was a one-sided polemic for the new religion of global warming’.

Earth: The Climate Wars, which was broadcast on BBC 2, was billed as a definitive guide to the history of global warming, including arguments for and against.

During the series, Dr Iain Stewart, a geologist, interviewed leading climate change sceptics, including Lord Monckton. But the peer complained to Ofcom that the broadcast had been unfairly edited.

‘I very much hope Ofcom will do something about this,’ he said yesterday. ‘The BBC very gravely misrepresented me and several others, as well as the science behind our argument. It is a breach of its code of conduct.

‘I was interviewed for 90 minutes and all my views were backed up by sound scientific data, but this was all omitted. They made it sound as if these were just my personal views, as if I was some potty peer. It was caddish of them.’  [emphasis added above]

 

Apparently, Ofcom is the Office of Communications, a governmental (or quasi-governmental?) agency which is supposed to ensure that:

# people who watch television and listen to the radio are protected from harmful or offensive material;

# people are protected from being treated unfairly in television and radio programmes, and from having their privacy invaded; and

 

As a side note, whether a government should have an agency investigate the veracity of news reports is a separate issue but since the BBC is funded by British taxpayers there is a certain logic to this otherwise strange regulatory scheme.

Matthew Vadum

The author of Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers (WND Books, 2011), Vadum, former senior vice president at CRC, writes and speaks widely…
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