Global warming, climate change, all these things are just a dream come true for politicians. I deal with evidence and not with frightening computer models because the seeker after truth does not put his faith in any consensus. The road to the truth is long and hard, but this is the road we must follow. People who describe the unprecedented comfort and ease of modern life as a climate disaster, in my opinion have no idea what a real problem is.
The BBC’s Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee will investigate the BBC’s reporting of climate change, following the latest scandal of their fraudulent doctoring of Trump’s speech
The BBC’s Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee will investigate the BBC’s reporting of climate change, following the latest scandal of their fraudulent doctoring of Trump’s speech:
From the Telegraph:
A catalogue of corrections: The BBC’s climate change reporting
Corporation will conduct ‘thematic review’ of coverage after internal dossier reveals claims of serious bias
The BBC has come under pressure this week over an internal dossier demonstrating serious apparent bias in the corporation’s reporting.
Michael Prescott, a former independent adviser to the BBC’s editorial guidelines and standards board, highlighted the “doctoring” of a speech by Donald Trump, bias in BBC Arabic’s reporting on Gaza and a rogue LGBT+ reporting unit censoring coverage of the trans debate.
Now, The Telegraph can reveal that the BBC will conduct a “thematic review” of its coverage of climate change and “energy policy in the UK” in the light of further claims of bias.
Here we examine the broadcaster’s questionable coverage.
It appears that the decision to review has been made by the EGSC, not Tim Davie. It remains to be seen just how independent the review will be, but experience suggests it won’t be the usual ECU whitewash.
Pleased to say that several of the examples picked by the Telegraph are from my complaints:
False claim that polar bears are in decline
Human-induced warming – the BBC claim that human-induced climate change made recent extreme heat in the US south-west, Mexico and Central America around 35 times more likely
Weather alarmism – a weather report wrongly claimed the Bologna floods in Italy had seen “half the annual rainfall” in 36 hours
2025 may mark the end for such policies as unsubsidized EV sales collapse and impatience with DEI rises
This year is shaping up as a turning point in restoring sanity to public policy. Nowhere is the change more evident than in attitudes to green energy policies, once the rallying cry for left-wing parties in North America. Support has collapsed for three pillars of green energy advocacy:
♦ building electric vehicles to eliminate our need for oil pipelines and refineries;
♦ using the financial clout of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance to force firms to eliminate carbon emissions; and
♦ legally mandating the shift from fossil fuels to green energy.
This turning away from green energy policies is reflected in how industrial policy underpinning electric vehicles(EV) has been discredited over the past year. Companies are delaying or abandoning the building of EV assembly and battery plants, mainly because EV sales are slumping following withdrawal of the artificial stimulus of government subsidies in both Canada and the U.S. Walking away from these investments leaves governments on the hook for billions of dollars they rashly pledged in support of EV projects.
In Quebec, Northvolt stopped work on a $7-billion battery plant,electric bus manufacturer Lion Electric filed for bankruptcy, and the Ultium CAM consortium paused plans to expand production of materials for batteries to be used in GM vehicles, which in turn led the giant mining company Vale to cancel plans for a nickel sulfate plant to supply these batteries. In Ontario, Honda delayed $15 billion of investments to build EV assembly plants and supply them with batteries, while Ford postponed its EV assembly plant plans after its EV division posted losses of $12 billion over the past two and a half years. Just last week, GM stopped producing electric delivery vans at its Ingersoll plant due to slack demand that had “nothing to do with tariffs or trade,” according to GM Canada’s president.
As investment in EV and battery plants collapses into full retreat, the outlook for fossil fuel demand improves. The International Energy Agency has reversed course and now projects demand will rise by 2.5 million barrels a day between 2024 and 2030. The under-investment in petroleum refining resulting from our having bought into the narrative that oil was past peak pushed the industry’s capacity utilization rate to 94.1 per cent in July, the highest of any industry in Canada that month. The prospect of demand exceeding capacity spurred the industry to boost investment to over $3 billion last year, double its average over the previous two decades.
The shift in public attitudes to fossil fuels provoked an abrupt about-face in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s stance on energy policy. In 2021 Carney spearheaded the launch of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, which proposed to use access to credit to push firms to adopt policies that eliminated greenhouse gas emissions. But last month, after the world’s largest banks left it, including Canada’s,the alliance shut down. Even as it did, Carney’s government revived the Keystone XL pipeline proposal to carry Canada’s bitumen to U.S. refineries looking to replace dwindling heavy oil shipments from Mexico and Venezuela.
The tide is also turning against climate-change activists in the legal world. Just last week, a U.S. federal court ruled against claims by a group of young peoplethat the Trump administration’s gutting of green energy initiatives violated their human rights. The court concluded such an important policy issue should be resolved at the ballot box and not in the courts, a precedent we should all hope helps Ontario courts reach the same conclusion in a similar case brought by teenagers.
The setbacks for green energy policies are reflected in disarray among left-wing parties in Canada and the U.S. In the U.S., The New York Times reports, registration of Democratic voters has fallen by two million since last year’s elections, despite high disapproval of Trump’s economic policies. While the radical left rejoices in the candidacy of self-styled Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York, more centrist Democrats, fearing his radical agenda will hurt the party in next year’s midterm elections, have been slow to endorse him. In Canada, the NDP lost official party status in this spring’s federal election as its vote share plumbed historic lows, revealing the folly of Leap manifesto leaders forcing out Thomas Mulcair as NDP leader in 2017 because they wanted more aggressive opposition to fossil fuels.
Policies such as the Green New Deal are not the left’s only vulnerability. Support for woke social movements such as DEI (“diversity, equity and inclusion”) has also become a liability. A fundamental problem associated with both the green and woke movements is that advocates are so convinced of the righteousness of their causes that they refuse to countenance debate.
Because neither developed arguments that resonated with the public, that same public is not alarmed to see these policies dismantled.
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