BBC Climate Editor has made false claims about global warming – Mail – Are you satisfied with that?
From Not many people know that
May 10, 2022
By Paul Homewood
It’s nice to see that Thu has absorbed Rowlatt’s story.
I contacted them last week with tip.
I collect it is also in the Times.
One BBC An internal investigation by the broadcaster uncovered a panoramic documentary on global warming that made several false claims.
The Wild Weather show, presented by climate editor Justin Rowlatt, says the worldwide death toll is rising due to extreme weather climate change – while the opposite is true.
It also claims Madagascar is on the verge of its first famine caused by climate change – despite other factors involved.
The show was broadcast last November to coincide with COP26 climate conference, sparked two complaints investigated by the BBC’s Editorial Complaints Unit (ECU).
Last year, Rowlatt’s sister, Cordelia, was among British Environmental Protection Agency activists arrested for organizing a protest at the M25 junction.
Ms Rowlatt, who has appeared on TV to advise her brother on how to be more environmentally friendly, pleaded guilty by mail at Crawley Magistrates Court. She was fined £300 with £85 in court fees and £34 in surcharges for causing a public nuisance on the motorway.
Wild Weather’s intro says ‘the death toll is rising worldwide and it’s forecast to get worse’. This risks giving the impression that the death rate from extreme weather events is increasing, the ECU said.
In fact, as a recent World Meteorological Organization report notes, while the number of weather-related disasters – such as floods, storms and droughts – has increased in the past 50 years. Over the past year, the number of deaths from them has decreased because of improvements in early warning and disaster management.
BBC News said ‘they accepted wording in the program was not as clear as it should have been and a public admission was made on the BBC’s Corrections and Clarifications website prior to the complaint to the ECU’.
The ECU said this was appropriate but ‘a scrutiny meant that the show remained available on BBC iPlayer with no link or reference to the published fix, and for that reason the complaint was unchanged’.
The ECU also looks at the language used in the drought program. They agree on evidence that southern Madagascar has experienced below-average seasonal rainfall in recent years and climate change is one of the contributing factors to hunger in the country.
It also notes that the reporter’s language is reflected by the language used by the United Nations’ World Food Program.
But the ECU added: ‘The claim that Madagascar is on the brink of the world’s first climate-induced famine was made without qualifying, while other evidence was available prior to the broadcast for There are additional factors that contribute significantly to food shortages.
Therefore, the complaint was upheld. ‘
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