Further to the previous post, nothing stops the BBC's agenda-pushing juggernaut when it's cruising at top speed:
BBC Breakfast's main story this morning concerns the Australian wildfires. After covering this they moved on to their second story, the Met Office on record temperatures over the past decade and climate change. Then five minutes into the hour came their third story, the US's killing of Gen. Qasem Soleimani, head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' elite Quds Force and overseer of Iran's proxy wars abroad. Clearly, even the killing of the effective No.2 in the Iranian regime wasn't going to stop the BBC putting a Met Office statement about climate change nearer the top of its news reporting on BBC Breakfast this morning.
Banging on about climate change causing bush fires (an untrue statement as fire causes bush fires, and lack of controlled burning allows fire to spread unchecked) doesn't help put them out.
ReplyDeleteI liked the Australian PM's response to why isn't he doing something - "I don't have a hose". The government response is to get the fires put out and the blame game will be the same as that in California... if you build houses in wooded areas without a wide fire break of at least 50 yards, you are at risk. Trees, shrubs and bushes around your house may look nice so you cannot see the neighbours but once on fire, they will cause your house to burn down and those of your neighbours.
Still the BBC reports that the Met Office says we had the 11th warmest year - as if this helps provide a solution. Solutions are needed and they are usually poor ones that don't have any real impact on the climate. Truth telling involves telling people that their lifestyles will have to change and all of us will have to be poorer if we want to use less fossil fuels... but it's so much easier to ignore that and whinge about the climate which we cannot change without making huge personal sacrifices with current technology.
Not only is every breeze in the UK now named, our winter weather charts frequently have orange 'scorchio' areas, ten degrees is now the new forty!
ReplyDelete'Second highest in the last decade'. I'm no statistician but that sounds as being within an average (or normal) range.
ReplyDeleteSorry - misread that slightly - 'Last decade second hottest in last 100 years'. That's still only one in ten probability.
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