{"id":301129,"date":"2024-02-11T09:42:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T08:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=301129"},"modified":"2024-02-11T09:42:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T08:42:30","slug":"the-bbcs-latest-climate-coverage-makes-xr-look-moderate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=301129","title":{"rendered":"The BBC\u2019s latest climate coverage makes XR look moderate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There can little doubting the Today programme’s view on Labour’s decision to finally slay their proposed \u00a328 billion green elephant.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keir Starmer<\/a>\u2019s abandonment of the pledge to spend \u00a328 billion a year<\/a> on green projects is a terrible idea which will deprive Britain of the massive wealth which Joe Biden has created with his Inflation Reduction Act. It will fry us and drown us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know it must be true because I heard it this morning on the\u00a0Today\u00a0<\/em>programme.\u00a0There were no fewer than five separate items on it, by my count. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First we had Justin Rowlatt telling us we are all going to go to hell in a handcart because global temperature last year averaged 1.5 Celsius above 19th<\/sup>\u00a0century levels. The Telegraph<\/a> has the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then we had Prof Sir Bob Watson, former chair of the IPCC, telling us that the Earth\u2019s weather \u201cfar exceeds anything that is unacceptable\u201d \u2013 as if it were somehow something that is decided by world leaders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That comment says much about the mentality of people who populate these international global non-government organisations: they really do see themselves as gods. Watson went on to claim that climate change is damaging agricultural productivity when data from the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation shows the direct opposite \u2013 that yields for most of the world\u2019s most important crops are increasing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there was\u00a0Barry Gardiner<\/a>, Labour\u2019s former climate change spokesman, hauled on the show and invited by Nick Robinson to say that Starmer had got it utterly wrong, and allowed to spew out spurious guesstimates on how much climate change is costing the UK. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStorms are getting bigger,\u201d he said, again directly contradicting the evidence \u2013 the State of the Climate report published annually by the Royal Meteorological Society shows a distinct downwards trend in average and extreme wind speeds in the UK in the past 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has come to something when Dale Vince comes across as the \u2013 relative \u2013 voice of reason, suggesting that it might actually be bad thing for the Labour Party first to review public finances before it piles another \u00a328 billion a year on the massive debts that face future generations.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In vain did I wait for someone on the\u00a0Today\u00a0<\/em>programme to make the point that previous attempts by UK governments to subsidise green industries \u2013 like the infamous\u00a0Britishvolt factory<\/a>\u00a0in Northumberland \u2013 haven\u2019t exactly created wealth or jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I waited, too, for someone to argue that actually Biden\u2019s green bungs aren\u2019t the only story behind the US having faster economic growth than Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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