{"id":281551,"date":"2023-10-02T13:09:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T11:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=281551"},"modified":"2023-10-02T13:09:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T11:09:25","slug":"the-bbc-seminar-andrew-simms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=281551","title":{"rendered":"The BBC Seminar & Andrew\u00a0Simms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the \u201cscientific experts\u201d who attended the BBC seminar in 2006 was Andrew Simms, who wrote this for the Guardian in 2008:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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\u2019t want you to panic, but I do think it would be a good idea to form an orderly queue to leave the building.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because in just 100 months\u2019 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.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2008\/aug\/01\/climatechange.carbonemissions<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s the same sort of tired, unscientific drivel we\u2019ve read times many in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simms, of course, is entitled to his views, no matter how wrong they may be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it says everything about the BBC\u2019s approach to climate change that they would rather listen to his views instead of the many sceptical scientists they could have invited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT By Paul Homewood One of the \u201cscientific experts\u201d 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":281555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"It\u2019s the same sort of tired, unscientific drivel we\u2019ve read times many in the past.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691823221,691823220,691818056,691818076,691819825],"class_list":["post-281551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-andrew-simms","tag-bbc-seminar","tag-climate-change","tag-co2","tag-guardian","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/00Planet-earthClouds-nature-planets-earth-low-resolution-wallpaper-1920x1440-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1bf9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":281589,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=281589","url_meta":{"origin":281551,"position":0},"title":"The BBC Seminar That Banned Discussion Of Climate\u00a0Change","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"10\/03\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT By Paul Homewood h\/t Ralfellis Hardly a week goes by without yet another glaring example of BBC bias, misinformation or just outright lies on climate issues. 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