A Little More On Man Made Global Warming,

or how the BBC lied about the facts,

a few more e-mails have come to light about how the BBC had their scripts vetted by the the University of East Anglia, it sheds light for the first time on an incestuous web of interlocking relationships between BBC journalists and the university’s scientists, which goes back more than a decade, the public must not hear the truth is basically what staff at the BBC decided, the e-mails show that show that University staff vetted BBC scripts, used their contacts at the Corporation to stop sceptics being interviewed and were consulted about how the broadcaster should alter its programme output,


BBC insiders say the close links between the Corporation and the UEA’s two climate science departments, the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Research, have had a significant impact on its coverage, ‘following their lead has meant the whole thrust and tone of BBC reporting has been that the science is settled, and that there is no need for debate,’ one journalist said. ‘if you disagree, you’re branded a loony,’ well that settles it I am officially a loonie, but to be fair the BBC did not have to tell me, I already knew that!


professor Phil Jones, the head of the CRU, admitted there was no evidence that the snows of Kilimanjaro were melting because of climate change, and he and his colleagues agreed there were serious problems with the famous ‘hockey stick’ graph – the depiction of global temperatures that suggests they were broadly level for 1,000 years until they started to rise with industrialisation,


as an aside in On December 7, 2004, the BBC’s then-environment correspondent Alex Kirby wrote to Prof Jones, 'we are constantly being savaged by the loonies for not giving them any coverage at all... and being the objective impartial (ho ho) BBC that we are, there is an expectation in some quarters that we will every now and then let them say something, I hope though that the weight of our coverage makes it clear that we think they are talking through their hats,’ I guess that just about sums it up.