Institutional Alarmism The BBC’s Disastrous Climate Complaints - Homewood-BBC-ClimateComplaints.pdf

Institutional Alarmism The BBC’s Disastrous Climate Complaints - Homewood-BBC-ClimateComplaints.pdf

ENVIRONMENT:SCIENCE:GLOBAL WARMING:CLIMATE CRISIS:CLIMATE CHANGE:BBC:BIAS

Introduction

The BBC has often been accused of bias in many areas of its coverage. But one sticks out more than most, and that is the topic of climate change. In 2006, it organised a secret seminar, which has shaped its coverage of global warming ever since. It fought for years,band at a cost of tens of thousands of pounds, to keep the details of the meeting secret. Eventually it emerged, in the scandal now known as 28gate, that the attendees included green activists, such as Greenpeace members, and other strong proponents of climate catastrophism. However, there were no climate sceptics present.

Since then, it has been the norm for BBC reports on climate change and energy policy to exclude or marginalise anybody who does not agree with the consensus view, while giving undue prominence to extreme green activist groups, such as Greenpeace and WWF.

BBC environmental reporters are little more than advocates themselves, and not im - partial. Its lead journalist, Roger Harrabin, has recently been accused of being a ‘prophet of doom, who belongs in a pulpit’.1 Indeed, it often appears as if all of its environmental staff has gone rogue, and no longer believes that the corporation’s rules concerning impartiality applies to them.

This evidently biased coverage has inevitably led to many complaints, some of which have been upheld. Often they are about factual errors; others concern bias and omission of alternative views.

Many articles and programmes escape without formal complaints, but are equally biased and misleading. This paper outlines a small selection of examples.

This paper has been submitted to the Government’s upcoming Mid-Term Review of the BBC.


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