By Paul Homewood
I have now had the opportunity to write a more complete account of my new BBC article:
The BBC has been accused of institutional alarmism in a new report published by Net Zero Watch. It reveals the BBC’s persistent exaggeration and misinformation in its coverage of climate and weather.
Research, written by me, reveals that the BBC has been forced to correct dozens of misinformation and disinformation in climate-related articles after receiving complaints from the public in recent years.
The article shows that it is common practice for BBC reporters to publish exaggerated and often misleading stories related to weather and climate in order to enhance the potential dangers from global warming.
BBC reporters’ constant misrepresentation of climate coverage is fueling corporate institutional alarmism.
Institutional alarmism is a form of exaggerated and exaggerated news reporting that is ingrained in the BBC. It represents unbalanced, one-way coverage of climate risks habitually exaggerated and unadjusted by the BBC’s in-house fact-checkers.
In 2020, the BBC’s director general warned that the problem posed by online misinformation was growing and the BBC would need to work harder than ever to expose fake news and separate it. truth from fiction.
Since then, the company has set up a fact-checking team, a BBC-wide Misinformation Unit and a Climate Misinformation team. However, none of these fact-checking teams noticed or addressed the long list of false news stories that were only corrected by the BBC after lengthy and lengthy complaints procedures.
The profile includes the following examples of fake news:
- Last year, three complaints were filed against BBC Climate Editor Justin Rowlatt, two of which involved an episode of Panorama devoted to global warming.
- It claims that the number of floods around the world has increased 15 times since 2005.
- A BBC News report that the population of African penguins is rapidly decreasing because of climate change.
- Repeatedly stated that onshore wind is “banned” in the UK
- False claims about “record temperatures”
- A BBC Two broadcast, which falsely claims that reindeer numbers in Russia are declining because of climate change
- Repeated claims that hurricanes are becoming more frequent and stronger
- A World at One broadcast, asserting that sea levels in Miami are rising ten times the global rate
Most of the claims are so blatantly false and so ludicrous that it’s hard to tell how they made it into the BBC’s editorial process. This of course raises more questions.
Has the BBC been so pushy in its own version of climate change that it believes its own propaganda, like the Soviet Union did? Or are the editors and various layers of management simply uninterested in whatever lies are published?
The above list is just the tip of the iceberg. Many other falsehoods happen unchallenged, or complaints are simply ignored.
News items about how extreme weather is getting, Victoria Falls drying up, California drought, starving polar bears and more. A BBC News report wittily claims that the number of weather disasters has increased fivefold in the last 50 years – an astonishingly absurd claim, for which the organization responsible for the database The explanation is due to better data reporting.
One of the most egregious examples of bias appeared in Sir David Attenborough’s documentary three years ago, “Climate Change – The Truth”. In fact, the hour-long show had little to do with the event, more to do with propaganda. It makes some questionable claims, such as “hurricanes, floods, heatwaves and sea level rise are all getting worse rapidly as a result of climate change”. The documentary does not provide actual data to back up these claims. Nor does it take the views of scientific experts who disagree.
Usually BBC reporting is purely propaganda in nature, with the opinions of Greenpeace, WWF and the Green Party being noticed, but there is little coverage of alternative views. . The coverage of the Cumbria coal mine proposed last year by Roger Harrabin, BBC Environmental Analyst, is a prime example of this.
At other times, reporting is just silly. For example, last summer the BBC featured a silly report that suggested the effects of global warming were likely to lead to ‘decline’ performances at the Tokyo Olympics. . This was preceded by the fact that many of the Olympics in recent years took place in places with much hotter climates, such as Los Angeles, Atlanta and Athens.
The sheer weight of evidence presented in this paper suggests that bias is now endemic in BBC climate reporting.
All of the noted factual flaws could have been easily avoided with a little bit of basic research. Is this done and the results ignored if they disagree with the BBC agenda? Or is the consortium output just generated and printed without checking? Either way, this is journalism at its worst.
And who is editing this fake report? Why don’t they ask for the exact report? Where are the well-paid executives who let all of this go on?
The topic of climate change, Net Zero and the total transformation of society to achieve it is of vital importance for the future of the country. The public deserves all the facts, not just the misleading version given out by the BBC.
Report, “ORGANIZATIONALARMISM – BBC CLIMATE COMPLAINTS” available here.
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