Wednesday, April 13, 2011

BBC Science Coverage: It’s Worse The We Thought « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE
BBC News’s “Science & Environment” pages have seldom been a paradigm of in-depth, unbiased, trustworthy coverage. Yet, they’re now sinking to new, sensationalistic lows. And it’s not just climate change.

Latest offerings: Richard Black on absurdist claims that million-year-long processes are changing right now; Black again telling the world that coal is now good (and reporting the energy policy ideas of a Professor of Ecology & Environmental Biology); Mark Kinver crying that penguins are “suffering” (whilst whales and seals are thriving, as reported well hidden in the same article);
The Ugly Picture Of Arctic Amplification | Real Science
Temperatures in much the Arctic are running 10-15C below normal, due to all that trapped heat in the pipeline.

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