The BBC Seminar & Andrew Simms

From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

One of the “scientific experts” who attended the BBC seminar in 2006 was Andrew Simms, who wrote this for the Guardian in 2008:

If you shout “fire” in a crowded theatre, when there is none, you understand that you might be arrested for irresponsible behaviour and breach of the peace. But from today, I smell smoke, I see flames and I think it is time to shout. I don’t want you to panic, but I do think it would be a good idea to form an orderly queue to leave the building.

Because in just 100 months’ time, if we are lucky, and based on a quite conservative estimate, we could reach a tipping point for the beginnings of runaway climate change.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/aug/01/climatechange.carbonemissions

It’s the same sort of tired, unscientific drivel we’ve read times many in the past.

Simms, of course, is entitled to his views, no matter how wrong they may be.

But it says everything about the BBC’s approach to climate change that they would rather listen to his views instead of the many sceptical scientists they could have invited.