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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/02/how_green_should_we_be.html


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Mark Roberts

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The BBC replying - how uncharacterisric, even though they don't actually make any attempt to answer any of the criticisms made. That deserves a reply
 
Thank you for your email confirming that the BBC's decision to produce 10s of thousands of hours devoted to catastrophic warming alarmism, including deliberate lies, and not a single one to putting the opposite case to support an alleged "scientific consensus" for catastrophic warming represents the very highest standard of honesty to which the BBC and I therefore assume, any member thereof, ever aspires.

I note that if that does not constitute "due balance" then the BBC never can and thus will never claim to be compliant with its Charter.

I have asked a 10s of thousands of alarmists this question without a factual response - Can you name 2 scientists, worldwide, not paid by government or alarmist lobbyists, who support the claim that we are experiencing catastrophic warming.

As you will know, though the BBC censor reporting of it, more than 31,000 scientists have stated the opposite. Thus if the "consensus" claim is truthful you should be able to name at least 310,000 scientists who claim it and if it is genuine it is a statistical certainty that at least 150,000 will be independent.

2 will be easy if the BBC is even attempting to get within hailing distance of remotely honest..

Neil Craig

PS Perhaps you could remind your colleague Damien Whyte who assured me that the BBC would not censor massacres and racial genocide and promised he would respond to any evidence to the contrary I produced that he has still to make the promised response to the evidence of masacres and genocide, specifically the Dragodan massacre where British police murdered at leasr 210 unarmed civilians , a massacre comparable to My Lai or Lidice, which the BBC have censored, daily, for 10 1/2 years. I think I am due an apology for his suggestion that in saying that the BBC censor genocide in the Nazi cause I had been less than totally honest.