More Straw from BBC
26/01/10 11:58 Filed in: Personal
I’ve just read an interesting little article written by BBC’s top environmental analyst Roger Harrabin.
Now you could ask what makes Mr Harrabin so special as to be the BBC’s top expert in the field. But then you’d also have to ask what expertise he can bring to bare on this subject with an English degree and no science background.
Lets be fair, it’s just a long list of public servants who have positions of importance in scientific areas with no actual science background. Lets take Ed Milliband, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford. So that must be coming in handy while looking at the figures put out by the CRU.
To get back on subject, the article offers a bleak forecast of climate science stating from an (unknown, undocumented and probably non-existent) Oxbridge Professor of Natural Science that; “What’s happening - how is science losing support of the public?”
As is the trend with such argument Harrabin’s answer is simple. It’s the right wing press! Polluting the minds of the populous. Yes, that’s right Mr Harribin has evoked the “you must be a fascist” argument. What’s that law called? It was mentioned on QI a few weeks back. It was the theory that in any heated argument on the internet, the longer it laster, the probability of somebody mentioning Hitler or the Nazi’s approached 1.
(I’ve seen this personally, I was in a heated debate AGAINST Eugenics and the pro-guy actually stated “You know who believed in supporting the poor, Hitler. That’s who!” At which point the BB fell apart laughing.)
Well, I don’t agree with Harrabin. I think he’s 100% wrong. It’s not that the public are easily led; it’s the opposite. I think that we’ve passed the point in society where we are going to blindly believe that Radium tonic is good for us. The fact is that we are all sick to death of having the “climate” cause rammed down our throats. Only to then discover how poor the science actually is.
What’s worse is the hypocrisy within the “green” movement. Remember Gordon Brown instructing us to live greener lives before jumping on a plane to Copenhagen to bore them all the bloody death instead. Then we have Prince Charles who once attended a climate change conference in Germany by driving his 4 tonne armoured Bentley from London to Berlin (say) at 4mpg. Only to then fly back and have his car driven back empty.
Some things to take note in Mr Harrabin’s post are the facts he’s had to include;
Now you could ask what makes Mr Harrabin so special as to be the BBC’s top expert in the field. But then you’d also have to ask what expertise he can bring to bare on this subject with an English degree and no science background.
Lets be fair, it’s just a long list of public servants who have positions of importance in scientific areas with no actual science background. Lets take Ed Milliband, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford. So that must be coming in handy while looking at the figures put out by the CRU.
To get back on subject, the article offers a bleak forecast of climate science stating from an (unknown, undocumented and probably non-existent) Oxbridge Professor of Natural Science that; “What’s happening - how is science losing support of the public?”
As is the trend with such argument Harrabin’s answer is simple. It’s the right wing press! Polluting the minds of the populous. Yes, that’s right Mr Harribin has evoked the “you must be a fascist” argument. What’s that law called? It was mentioned on QI a few weeks back. It was the theory that in any heated argument on the internet, the longer it laster, the probability of somebody mentioning Hitler or the Nazi’s approached 1.
(I’ve seen this personally, I was in a heated debate AGAINST Eugenics and the pro-guy actually stated “You know who believed in supporting the poor, Hitler. That’s who!” At which point the BB fell apart laughing.)
Well, I don’t agree with Harrabin. I think he’s 100% wrong. It’s not that the public are easily led; it’s the opposite. I think that we’ve passed the point in society where we are going to blindly believe that Radium tonic is good for us. The fact is that we are all sick to death of having the “climate” cause rammed down our throats. Only to then discover how poor the science actually is.
What’s worse is the hypocrisy within the “green” movement. Remember Gordon Brown instructing us to live greener lives before jumping on a plane to Copenhagen to bore them all the bloody death instead. Then we have Prince Charles who once attended a climate change conference in Germany by driving his 4 tonne armoured Bentley from London to Berlin (say) at 4mpg. Only to then fly back and have his car driven back empty.
Some things to take note in Mr Harrabin’s post are the facts he’s had to include;
- That the IPCC is made up of hundreds of, and not thousands of scientists - The later being a claim often sited on the BBC website as proof of climate change. As we’ve learned from history, collective belief is not evidence of fact.
- The man-made climate change is only “widely accepted” by climate scientists and isn’t either “wholly accepted” or a “a know fact” as it often stated as the case.
