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 JB> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1063110/BBC-investig
 JB> ated-peer-says-clim
 JB> ate-change-programme-biased-sided-polemic.html

 JB> BBC investigated after peer says climate change programme
 JB> was biased 'one-sided polemic'

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

 IOW, they were honestly interpreted?

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

 I have looked the guy up. He is a potty peer. Rather one who
 makes himself look the role to exploit a right wing tendency to
 buy into anything that even looks like it backs their potty
 thinking.

 JB> A BBC spokesman said: We stand by the programme.

 JB> Lord Monckton, 56, a former journalist and Cambridge
 JB> graduate, says scientific data shows the world is cooler
 JB> today than in the Middle Ages.

 Cambridge grad in languages, not science. Isn't he the one who
 runs a consulting business, a travel agency for business
 travelers?

 JB> He appeared alongside other sceptics including
 JB> distinguished Florida-based meteorologist Professor Fred
 JB> Singer, John Christy, a climate change expert and adviser
 JB> to the U.S. government and the climatologist Dr Patrick
 JB> Michaels, of the University of Virginia.

 If the others have any scientific credentials at all they need
 to be embarrassed to be on a program with that potty peer.

 JB> All their interviews, he claims, were heavily cut so that
 JB> they appeared as personal views.

 In the case of Monckton, they are. Or he's just repeating
 someone else's views, which means he has even less
 qualification.


BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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