I received this email this morning from Roger Harribin, the BBC’s environmental analyst. It’s interesting because I received an email from the Guardian yesterday asking if I’d like to write a 200 word guest piece. Unfortunately it somehow ended up in my spam filter (which I found this morning) so I missed the 3 PM GMT deadline today.
Here’s what Mr. Harrabin wrote. I hope WUWT readers will come to aid, especially since skeptics are now apparently getting a voice in UK MSM.
From: Roger Harrabin – Internet
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 6:10 AM
To: [Anthony]
Subject: BBC query
Dear Mr Watts,
I am trying to talk to UK scientists in current academic posts who are sceptical about AGW.
I’m struggling to find anyone – but there may of course be a number of reasons for this. Please could you post my request on your website – and ask people to email roger.harrabin@bbc.co.uk.
We are looking for scientists, of course – not insults.
It strikes me that it might be useful to meet sometime to discuss a project I am planning on the weather.
I enclose my latest column
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8491154.stm
which touches on the difficulties of reporting climate change FYI.
I look forward to hearing from you
Yours
Roger Harrabin
If you know of a skeptical scientist in the UK that may be interested, please advise them of this. Thanks to all for your consideration. – Anthony
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I am suspicious of you Roger. Why ask?:
“I am trying to talk to UK scientists in current academic posts who are sceptical about AGW.”
instead of
“I am trying to talk to UK scientists who are sceptical about AGW.”
or
“I am trying to talk to UK Earth scientists who are sceptical about AGW.”
Sorry, forgot the link to the Guardian article.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/05/rajendra-pachauri-hacked-climate-science-emails
And by the way Roger, I used to work at TVC at White City (Research Centre).
A little late but, is this not the Roger Harrabin that had a run in with Jo Abbess who made the threat that, if he (and Roger Black?) did not change an article on cooling, she would blackball them? I am sure Anthony had something on WUWT.
I also seem to remember Harrabin on the BBC blog tried to wriggle out of it but our good old Internet showed that her emails destroyed his excuses.
I wouldnt count your chickens, in my opinion the BBC have a habit of bringing in the opposition to their favoured view so they can ‘expose’ them. Unfortunately, AGW is their favoured view partly because of a perceived left wing bias, (though it is not a left wing/right wing issue)-most BBC staff vote to the left and partly because that is the official view.
There are reasonable people on both side of the GW issue unfortunately it seems the sceptics side has been kept out of things both subtley and clandestinely.
£8BN BBC ECO-BIAS
STRIKING parallels between the BBC’s coverage of the global warming debate and the activities of its pension fund can be revealed today.
Sunday Express, by Geraint Jones, on Sunday Feb 7th,2010
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/156703
So far itr is only the claims that are not based on peer review that have been shown to be fraudulent. We still have to discover what the climnategate Emails have revealed, that most of the Peer Reviewed literature on climate science is corrupt, distorted and even fabricated. How many people know that the model assumptions are ridiculous, that the claimed results of models are exclusively from those paid to produce them. Who realises that the only surface temperatues ever measureed are one daily reading of the maximum and the minimum, necer any sort of average. And what about the elaborate experiments that show that the sea level in twelve Pacific Islands has not changed since 2000?
They will probably only notice these after a few more snowstorms in Washington DC.,
UK Sceptics:
Sonja A. Boehmer-Christiansen, PhD, Reader Emeritus, Dept. of Geography, Hull University, Editor – Energy&Environment, Multi-Science (www.multi-science.co.uk), Hull, United Kingdom
Piers Corbyn, MSc (Physics (Imperial College London)), ARCS, FRAS, FRMetS, astrophysicist (Queen Mary College, London), consultant, founder WeatherAction long range forecasters, London, United Kingdom
Richard S. Courtney, PhD, energy and environmental consultant, IPCC expert reviewer, Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom
John Shade, BS (Physics), MS (Atmospheric Physics), MS (Applied Statistics), Industrial Statistics Consultant, GDP, Dunfermline, Scotland, United Kingdom
Arnold H. W. Woodruff, C.Phys., M.Inst.P., M.Sc., Consultant Geophysicist, Formerly Atmospheric Physicist then Glaciologist with The British Antarctic Survey, village of Ellington, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
The above signed the Copenhagen Climate Challenge: http://www.copenhagenclimatechallenge.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64
Oh and these two:
Derek Anthony Smith, MSc (Lond), PhD, CChem, CEng, Professor, Engineering Faculty, QMC London Univ; Consultant in Alternative Energy, London, United Kingdom
Phillip Hutchinson, BSc, PhD (Physics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne), CEng, CPhys, F.Inst.Phys, FREng (Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering), Emeritus Professor, Royal Military College of Science, former Head of the School Engineering at Cranfield University, Chairman of the European Research Community in Flow, Turbulence and Combustion (ERCOFTAC), 1994 – 2000, Chairman of the International Energy Agency Executive Committee on Emissions Reduction and Improved Efficiency in Combustion and continues as co Chairman of the Strategy sub committee, London, United Kingdom
From here:
http://www.copenhagenclimatechallenge.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=65