Time for the BBC to Chill Out

This morning I awoke to a truly hilarious (if inadvertent) moment on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme [‘Listen Again’ from 07.17 am onwards]. There was good old Roger Harrabin sounding like some doleful Eeyore braying on about how terrible it was that Italy, Poland, France, and all the rest were likely to scupper the EU’s efforts to save us all from “dangerous climate change”, only to be followed by an item from a poor soul who was stuck up North somewhere because of heavy and unseasonal snow. The cognitive dissonance was deafening, yet none of the presenters flinched, nor had the wit to make a comment, such is the BBC’s increasing deafness on the subject of climate change.

Here is what the ‘Today’ programme website says about Roger’s item: “Environment analyst Roger Harrabin reports on the threat [my emphasis] from Italy, Poland and other East European nations to veto the climate package because, they say, it would cost too much.” The choice of the word “threat” speaks volumes; it never crosses the mind of the BBC that Italy, Poland, and the rest may actually be correct. I for one believe that they are, and so do millions of other people.
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The BBC really does need to chill out over its coverage of ‘global warming’, and quickly.

Regrettably, however, I suspect that the ‘global warming’ corpse will still be twitching in the UK when the stake has gone through its heart in pretty well every other country.