Comments on: Why is the BBC Biased Against Climate Change Sceptics?

By: Charles Sifers

Charles Sifers — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:18:37 +0000

I just read another bogus report by Mr. Black, ” Natural lab shows sea’s acid path”.

In this “article” Mr. Black states that the ocean’s pH is naturally 8.1, and around some of the vents bubbling CO2, it is as low as 7.4.

Maybe Mr. Black needs to retyurn to his Highschool Chemistry class for a refresher. Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of chemistry should be aware that neutral pH is 7.0, so even around these vents, we see water that is base and not at all acidic.

It is also important to note that as the sea warms, it is expelling CO2, which will raise the pH even higher.

I suppose that when you have an agenda, the facts are simply a nuisance.

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Troubled BBC « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:54:42 +0000

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By: Stew Green

Stew Green — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:48:51 +0000

yes I have just scanned the report
it’s a hatchett job on skeptism. They have made a false dichotomy in their world there are IPCC believers and cranky skeptics, nothing else.
So The BBC has been only supporting the IPCC line for a while now. So they are getting some stick for it.

Richard Black’s answer seems to be to do a shallow and as you say generalising piece ,saying “skeptics.. there aren’t nmany of them they’ll all nuts, so see we are right to just report IPCC line”

No mention of the Dr Vincent Gray the IPCC scientists and his vehrment critism of the IPCC

nor the bad info we get like the BBC reporting this week the NW Passage opening for the first time , when it has the same headline in 2000

In quoting Lovelock and Lindzen he failed to show any awareness of Lovelocks recent work “Reducing emissions could speed global warming” as reported in the Telegraph

As I said BBC can say “yeh, we’ve dealt with skeptics” now back to churning out the scare stories