{"id":317521,"date":"2024-04-13T21:42:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T19:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=317521"},"modified":"2024-04-13T21:42:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T19:42:14","slug":"i-am-going-to-lecture-you-on-climate-change-bbc-reporter-gets-schooled-for-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=317521","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Am Going To Lecture You On Climate Change:\u201d BBC Reporter Gets Schooled for Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" data-attachment-id=\"317523\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=317523\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0I-Am-Going-To-Lecture-You-On-Climate-Change-BBC.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,675\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;xr:d:DAGB8bl8jJE:2,j:1343622937941451979,t:24040917&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;xr:d:DAGB8bl8jJE:2,j:1343622937941451979,t:24040917&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"xr:d:DAGB8bl8jJE:2,j:1343622937941451979,t:24040917\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;xr:d:DAGB8bl8jJE:2,j:1343622937941451979,t:24040917&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0I-Am-Going-To-Lecture-You-On-Climate-Change-BBC.jpg?fit=723%2C407&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0I-Am-Going-To-Lecture-You-On-Climate-Change-BBC.jpg?resize=723%2C407&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-317523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0I-Am-Going-To-Lecture-You-On-Climate-Change-BBC.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0I-Am-Going-To-Lecture-You-On-Climate-Change-BBC.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0I-Am-Going-To-Lecture-You-On-Climate-Change-BBC.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0I-Am-Going-To-Lecture-You-On-Climate-Change-BBC.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">xr:d:DAGB8bl8jJE:2,j:1343622937941451979,t:24040917<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2024\/04\/10\/i-am-going-to-lecture-you-on-climate-change-bbc-reporter-gets-schooled-for-hypocrisy\/\">Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/authors\/tilak_k_doshi\/\">Tilak K. Doshi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">April 08, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On March 28, President Mohamed Irfaan Ali of the South American country of Guyana became an instant hero to many as he refused to take lectures on climate change from a BBC reporter during an interview. In a two-minute&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/watch-guyana-president-scolds-bbc-172744141.html\">video clip<\/a>&nbsp;that went viral on X (formerly Twitter) and other social media, President Ali turned the tables on the BBC\u2019s Stephen Sackur when the reporter accused Guyana of worsening the \u201cclimate crisis\u201d by allowing the exploitation of its newly found oil and gas reserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOver the next decade or two, it\u2019s expected that there will be $150 billion worth of oil and gas extracted off your coast,\u201d Sackur told the president. \u201cIt\u2019s an extraordinary figure. But think of it in practical terms. That means \u2013 according to many experts \u2013 two billion tons of carbon emissions will come from your seabed from those reserves and released into the atmosphere.\u201d Guyana\u2019s head of state quickly rebutted: \u201cLet me stop you right there. Did you know that Guyana has a forest that is the size of England and Scotland combined, a forest that stores 19.5 gigatons of carbon, a forest that we have kept alive?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the reporter asked President Ali whether the rainforest gave him the \u201cright\u201d to release the carbon, the Guyanese leader retorted: \u201cDoes that give you the right to lecture us on climate change? I\u2019m going to lecture you on climate change.\u201d Being lectured by the BBC on climate change is not a new development; it\u2019s what the state-supported media service often does, and in hectoring tones. But is the BBC correct in its proclamations about what the \u201cclimate science\u201d says?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Climate Alarmists and Their Detractors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The BBC seems&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.netzerowatch.com\/all-papers\/bbc-accused-of-institutional-alarmism-as-new-report-reveals-long-list-of-climate-misinformation?rq=bbc\">institutionally committed<\/a>&nbsp;to an alarmist position in its coverage of climate change issues. Many BBC programs seem driven to inject the \u201cclimate catastrophe\u201d narrative into every energy-related news item. Stephen Sakur\u2019s pointed remarks to Guyana\u2019s president on the country\u2019s rapid emergence as an oil and gas exporter were unexceptional in this regard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The response on social media to the viral clip is telling. Here is a short selection from X on March 29 and 30:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/aaron_renn\/status\/1773859626842284397?s=20\">Chris Rose<\/a>&nbsp;(over 130,000 followers): \u201cThis is magnificent to watch. The President of Guyana truly put the BBC in its place. When sanctimony and pomposity meets [sic] sense and modesty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/simonateba\/status\/1774032008097751421?s=20\">Simon Ateba<\/a>&nbsp;(over 670,000 followers): \u201cEXPLOSIVE: President Mohamed&nbsp; Irfaan Ali (@presidentaligy) of Guyana obliterates @BBC journalist Stephen Sackur (@stephensackur) over climate change hypocrisy. \u2018No, no, I\u2019m not done yet!\u2019 WATCH.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DillyHussain88\/status\/1774025569132298434?s=20\">Dilly Hussain<\/a>&nbsp; (over 110,000 followers): \u201cLET ME STOP YOU RIGHT THERE!\u201d An absolute masterclass shutdown by President Mohamed Irfaan Ali of Guyana when probed by @BBCHARDtalk\u2019s Stephen Sackur on his country\u2019s new found oil and gas fields and the West\u2019s concerns about \u201ccarbon emissions\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/visegrad24\/status\/1773836736189305024?s=20\">Visegr\u00e1d 24<\/a>&nbsp;(over 970,000 followers): \u201cI am going to lecture you on climate change,\u201d says Guyana President @presidentaligy to BBC journalist Stephen Sackur, as he pushes back against the journalist attempting to lecture the Caribbean leader about oil being bad for the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The headlines of leading newspapers on March 30 reflected these social media messages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2024\/03\/30\/guyana-irfaan-ali-bbc-stephen-sackur-climate-change\/\"><em>The Telegraph<\/em><\/a>: \u201cWatch: Guyana\u2019s president scolds BBC presenter for climate change \u2018lecture.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/rest-of-world\/are-you-in-their-pockets-guyanese-president-slams-journalist-for-climate-change-hypocrisy\/articleshow\/108895473.cms#:~:text='Are%20you%20in%20their%20pockets%3F'%3A%20Guyanese%20President,out%20reporter%20for%20'western%20hypocrisy'&amp;text=NEW%20DELHI%3A%20In%20a%20viral,focussing%20on%20Guyana's%20carbon%20emissions.\"><em>Times of India<\/em><\/a>: \u201c\u2018Are you in their pockets?\u2019: Guyanese President calls out reporter for Western hypocrisy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/video-guyanas-president-snapping-back-bbc-reporters-climate-quiz-goes-viral-let-me-stop-you\">Fox News<\/a>: \u201cVideo of Guyana\u2019s president snapping back at BBC reporter\u2019s climate quiz goes viral: \u2018Let me stop you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hypocrisy As the Default Option in Climate Change Narratives<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is of interest here is the inherently hypocritical nature of the interactions between representatives of developed countries and those of developing ones concerning energy and climate policies. Some of the most apparent of such interactions occur during the UN\u2019s annual COP (\u201cConference of Parties\u201d) climate summits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, never one to shy from hyperbolic pronouncements,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2021\/08\/1097362\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">warns<\/a>&nbsp;of a \u201ccode red for humanity. The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable.\u201d Indeed, based on dubious \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/climate.news\/2019-08-26-climate-change-hoax-collapses-as-michael-mann-bogus-hockey-stick-graph.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hockey-stick<\/a>\u201d global-warming models formulated in the West, the secretary-general proclaims the approach of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2023\/07\/1139162\">era of global boiling<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At COP26, held in 2021 in Glasgow, Western leaders addressed those making up 80% of humanity in speeches that reeked of carbon imperialism (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/speeches\/pm-address-at-cop26-world-leaders-summit-opening-ceremony\">here<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/statement_21_6023\">here<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/publications\/first-ministers-speech-scotlands-priorities-cop26\/\">here<\/a>). Their message can be fairly summarized as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>We pledge climate finance to help you. There are promising new energy technologies to achieve our goals of net zero by 2050. The outlook for new jobs and economic growth are limitless with solar and wind power, electric vehicles, green hydrogen and carbon capture and sequestration. However, we must stop all new fossil fuel investments now! You must give up fossil fuels or else the planet is doomed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Faced with the increasingly untenable hypocrisy of the Western elites discouraging fossil fuel use in the developing world, the pushback by leaders such as Guyana\u2019s President Ali is no surprise. In 2015, the Indian government\u2019s then-chief economic adviser Arvind Subramaniam spoke in no uncertain terms of a new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/opinion\/column-resisting-wests-carbon-imperialism\/172079\/\">carbon imperialism<\/a>: \u201cThe rich world\u2019s move against fossil fuels is a disaster for India, and other poorer countries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the lead-up to COP27 held in Sharm Al Sheikh, Egypt in 2022, Africa\u2019s top energy official,&nbsp;<a><\/a>Amani Abou-Zeid, the African Union Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/african-countries-push-common-energy-position-cop27-2022-10-04\/\">said<\/a>&nbsp;that African countries will push for \u201ca common energy position that sees fossil fuels as necessary to expanding economies and electricity access.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the COP28 climate summit held in Dubai, UAE, Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, president of the summit and CEO of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/12\/03\/climate\/cop28-al-jaber-fossil-fuel-phase-out\/index.html\">rebutted questions<\/a>&nbsp;from Mary Robinson, a former UN special envoy for climate change: \u201cThere is no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says that the phase-out of fossil fuel is what\u2019s going to achieve 1.5 C [maximum global temperature increase].\u201d In an interview, he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/dec\/03\/back-into-caves-cop28-president-dismisses-phase-out-of-fossil-fuels\">said<\/a>&nbsp;that \u201cYou\u2019re asking for a phase-out of fossil fuels . . . Please, help me, show me the roadmap for a phase-out of fossil fuel that will allow for sustainable socio-economic development, unless you want to take the world back into caves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">URL:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cartoonsbyjosh.co.uk\/\">Cartoons by Josh<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>That\u2019s Enough Already!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Germany, the world leader in green energy ambitions, provides the best lesson of untenable hypocrisy when faced with the real-world constraints of physics and economics. In 2022, the country faced the prospect of entering winter without adequate energy supplies. It had shut down its nuclear power plants and lost access to piped Russian natural gas by imposing sanctions against Moscow (which was then followed by the sabotage of the Nordstream pipeline). In this context, Germany quickly retreated to coal power generation, and it now plans&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/section\/energy\/news\/germany-to-almost-double-gas-firing-capacity\/\">to double its gas-fired power-generating capacity<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DoombergT\/status\/1665335534091206656\">Doomberg<\/a>, an energy and finance consultancy, Germany moved back to coal \u201cwith the speed and efficiency of the British evacuation of Dunkirk.\u201d The IEA, the institution most responsible for the West\u2019s clarion calls to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/tilakdoshi\/2021\/06\/18\/ieas-net-zero-by-2050-report-credible-roadmap-or-unhinged-advocacy\/\">stop fossil fuel investments<\/a>, noted that Germany\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/2022-set-a-global-record-for-coal-generation\/\">significant reversal<\/a>\u201d drove European coal consumption up 9% in 2022. Energy security and the need to heat homes and keep lights on and factories humming trumped virtue-signaling climate goals \u2013 and Germany\u2019s abject hypocrisy is obvious to many leaders in the developing world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guyana\u2019s President Irfaan Ali has little to explain, much less apologize for, as his country rapidly emerges as an important South American exporter of hydrocarbons. Let the BBC\u2019s reporters peddle their&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/tilakdoshi\/2023\/04\/15\/luxury-beliefs-and-energy-policy-the-fatal-conceit\/\">luxury beliefs<\/a>&nbsp;to those who think they can afford them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Dr. Tilak K. Doshi is an energy economist, independent consultant, and a Forbes contributor based in London.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This article was originally published by RealClearEnergy and made available via RealClearWire.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 28, President Mohamed Irfaan Ali of the South American country of Guyana became an instant hero to many as he refused to take lectures on climate change from a BBC reporter during an interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":317523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"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":[691818389,691818056,691819097,691828117,691818154,691828116],"class_list":{"0":"post-317521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-climate-change","10":"tag-climate-hypocrisy","11":"tag-guyana","12":"tag-net-zero","13":"tag-stephen-sackur","15":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0I-Am-Going-To-Lecture-You-On-Climate-Change-BBC.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1kBj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":325465,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=325465","url_meta":{"origin":317521,"position":0},"title":"Developing Nations Reject Western Carbon Colonialism","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"02\/05\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Guyana President Irfaan Ali is the latest leader of a developing nation to publicly note the hypocrisy of those pressuring countries like his to forego wealth in pursuit of a \u201cgreen\u201d agenda.","rel":"","context":"In \"Climate change\"","block_context":{"text":"Climate change","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-change"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0kaieteur-falls-guyana-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C704&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0kaieteur-falls-guyana-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C704&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0kaieteur-falls-guyana-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C704&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0kaieteur-falls-guyana-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C704&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0kaieteur-falls-guyana-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C704&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":210083,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=210083","url_meta":{"origin":317521,"position":1},"title":"Guyana, Suriname Oil Bonanza to Boost Economies, Help Meet Global Demand","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"25\/07\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"By Vijay Jayaraj\u00a0 \u201cEquatorial Guyana and Suriname have combined oil reserves estimated to be 17 billion barrels of oil equivalent. 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