{"id":333295,"date":"2024-06-20T08:26:41","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T06:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=333295"},"modified":"2024-06-20T08:26:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T06:26:44","slug":"bbc-worried-about-kenyan-farmers-climate-scepticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=333295","title":{"rendered":"BBC Worried About Kenyan Farmer\u2019s Climate\u00a0Scepticism"},"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

h\/t Ray Sanders<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is hard to describe just how low the BBC has sunk.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Climate change deniers have found a new champion in Kenyan farmer Jusper Machogu. On social media, he has become known as a flagbearer for fossil fuels in Africa, but there is more to his campaign than meets the eye.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first glance, the 29-year-old Mr Machogu is just a young farmer with a knack for social media.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On X, formerly Twitter, he regularly posts videos of himself weeding his land, planting garlic, or picking avocados \u2013 offering viewers a window into life in rural Kisii, south-west Kenya.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While farming content may get him clicks, likes, and retweets, it is Mr Machogu\u2019s denial of man-made climate change that has helped supercharge his online profile.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since he began posting debunked theories about climate change, he has received thousands of dollars in donations \u2013 some of which came from individuals in Western countries linked to fossil-fuel interests.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Machogu insists this has not influenced his views, saying they are genuinely held.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scientists have proven<\/em><\/a> that the Earth is heating up because of greenhouse gases that are emitted into the atmosphere when we burn fossil fuels \u2013 like oil, gas, or coal.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Mr Machogu disagrees.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cClimate change is mostly natural. A warmer climate is good for life,\u201d Mr Machogu wrongly claimed in a tweet posted in February, along with the hashtag #ClimateScam (which he has used hundreds of times).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c133r4gyx1no<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The BBC\u2019s disinformation expert then goes on to write an extremely long \u201chit-piece\u201d, itself full of BBC disinformation. I would not even bother reading it \u2013 it\u2019s the sort of juvenile rubbish a Sixth Former would write. In particular it investigates the tiny amount of money Mr Machogu has managed to raise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The whole point of the article is of course to condemn any Africans who have the temerity to want to use fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Machogu has responded forcefully with a series of Twitter posts:<\/p>\n\n\n

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But what I find most sickening is why the BBC should even want to take this man down. Is he such a threat to their world view?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The BBC\u2019s attitude is one of eco-colonialism \u2013 Africa must do what we tell them to, whether they want to or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So here are three charts which back up pretty much everything Machogu is campaigning for, and which show just how disgusting the BBC article is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Quite why Africans should be denied just a few of the benefits we in the West do is something only the BBC can answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Climate change deniers have found a new champion in Kenyan farmer Jusper Machogu. On social media, he has become known as a flagbearer for fossil fuels in Africa, but there is more to his campaign than meets the eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":333305,"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":[691818389,691818056,691824675,691829282],"class_list":{"0":"post-333295","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-scepticism","11":"tag-disinformation-expert","13":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/00GQCSjWmWkAAbeUb.jpeg?fit=1052%2C592&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1oHJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":411993,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=411993","url_meta":{"origin":333295,"position":0},"title":"The BBC\u2019s Top 50 Pieces of Climate Misinformation \u2013 Part 2","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"07\/11\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"In\u00a0Part 1\u00a0we looked at 25 examples in the last couple of years or so of how the BBC is misinforming the public about climate change and climate-related policies. 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