The evolution of BBC journalist Richard Black

I think it's very significant that more climate realism seems to be creeping into the writing of Richard Black. Note (below) that Black has a history of writing some pretty alarmist stuff.

From a climate realist point of view, this is exactly what winning looks like. The people who went "all in" on the climate scam (Gore, Hansen, etc etc) are extremely unlikely to admit reality, but less committed alarmists will slowly back away, while others will start to go silent, or even openly join the climate realists.

Feb '09: A questioning climate: Richard Black now expresses some climate realism

In earlier years of reporting climate change, news media were regularly accused of attributing any unusual or extreme weather events to climate change - and often the accusations were justified.
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Yes, some scientists have on occasion gone beyond the data in arguing that climate change will bring global catastrophe; not least in the US, where there was a feeling in some quarters that only extremely graphic projections of future doom could shake the Bush administration into curbing greenhouse emissions.

Yes, news organisations are prone to reporting studies that paint a more extreme picture - and not just in climate change...
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But equally you can find reasons for suggesting the situation is less calamitous than the IPCC painted.

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Some past stories from Richard Black:

Sept '08 | Warming boosts strongest storms

The strongest tropical storms are becoming even stronger as the world's oceans warm, scientists have confirmed.

July '08 | Climate documentary 'broke rules'

A controversial Channel 4 film on global warming broke Ofcom rules, the media regulator says.

The Great Global Warming Swindle attracted various complaints, including claims that it misled contributors.

April '08 | 'No Sun link' to climate change

Scientists have produced further compelling evidence showing that modern-day climate change is not caused by changes in the Sun's activity.

Nov '07 | Unravelling the sceptics

The IPCC and many of the world's climate scientists would, of course, profoundly disagree with the conclusions evidenced by this small group, and I have linked to some articles which detail some of the science behind their disagreement.

April '07 | Stark picture of a warming world

Considering the fact they had been working intensively all through the night, the leaders of the UN panel on climate change were extraordinarily debonair and alert as they presented their conclusions to ranks of impatient journalists in the bright Brussels morning.

The chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group II, Rajendra Pachauri, apologised for not having shaved - a light touch from the unflappable Indian, who sports a fine beard.

Dec '06 | New crops needed to avoid famines

The global network of agricultural research centres warns that famines lie ahead unless new crop strains adapted to a warmer future are developed.

Sept '06 | Humans 'causing stronger storms'

Increases in hurricane intensity are down to humanity's greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new analysis.

Sept '06 | 'Drastic' shrinkage in Arctic ice

A Nasa satellite has documented startling changes in Arctic sea ice cover between 2004 and 2005.

May '06 | Global warming risk 'much higher'

Global temperatures will rise further in the future than previous studies have indicated, according to new research from two scientific teams.

Nov '04 | Climate change sceptics 'wrong'

A major argument used by sceptics of global warming is flawed, a UK Met Office study in Nature magazine says.

Dec. 1997 | Kyoto 'will not stop the rising tide'

The questions now are "by how much?" and "why?" The answer to the first one seems to be by about one degree Celcius per hundred years. That might not sound a lot, but it has the potential to wreak havoc in some parts of the world.