After some false starts, I have access in the USA now. Keep trying.
Click this link for the radio broadcast, 28 minutes. If anybody has a transcript, please leave a link in comments.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nl8gm
UPDATE: Alternate link if having trouble with BBC audio (thanks to Dave Ward):
http://soundcloud.com/dave-ward-10/bbc-radio-4-climategate
Climategate was the term quickly applied in 2009 to the mysterious appearance on the internet of large numbers of emails and documents belonging to some of the world’s leading climate scientists.
This happened just a month before the Copenhagen climate change conference, which failed to meet the expectations of many for agreement on international action. The timing may not be coincidental.
For some climate change sceptics, the emails were a disturbing revelation of the real thoughts and manoeuvrings of scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Centre and their international colleagues. The scientists argue that while some of the phrasing may have been unfortunate, there is nothing in the documents to undermine the validity of mainstream climate science.
Climategate certainly inflamed the debate over climate change, in the UK, the US and elsewhere.
In 2012 the Norfolk Police announced they were abandoning their investigation into who hacked into the university’s computer and then distributed what they found.
But what have been the longer-term consequences of this incident, for public opinion, media reporting and international policy-making on climate change? Chris Vallance investigates, asking if this was it a political crime, and, if so, how effective has it been?
Producers: Martin Rosenbaum & Catherine Donegan.
UPDATE: Transcript here http://pastebin.com/nF395WBK
thanks to FergalR
The Link is not working for me, in Canada, Alberta
And Canada too. I guess a national embarrassment is too much to reveal.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/b01nl8gm?rpSt=CLIMATE&rpSrp=3.0
Doesn’t work for me :(. “The playlist contains invalid data. After filtering out invalid data, there are no objects in the playlist.’
Not working in Australia!
The link works here in the UK, unfortunately. 🙁
I can get it in Canada. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nl8gm
Not working in Australia, Oh well.
Try SecurityKiss VPN. Free service includes a UK service.
Go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/programmes/a-z/by/c/all?page=11 and sign in or
go to: https://ssl.bbc.co.uk/id/register?ptrt=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2F and register
I did that, checked for the confirmation e-mail, sent a response, clicked on the recommended link, had no success, pasted the recommended long URL into my browser, and had not success with that link either.
All of that took a fair bit of time, and I will not try anymore.
Steve, .. any way you can transfer it to somewhere so others can get it too ?
As Amr says.. not working in Australia
Thanks..
Of and MANY, MANY thanks for keeping track of all the statistical shenanigans of the climate hypochondriacs. 🙂
There exist many ways to avoid geographic restrictions. Thry this: http://www.theninjaproxy.org/tv/how-to-use-a-bbc-iplayer-proxy/
If that does not work, google for ‘bbc’ and ‘proxy’. Something else must work.
I’ve listened to it and I think it sounded better than we thought it would. It sounded mellow. It was low on propaganda and among all the people interviewed Steve McIntyre and Andrew Montford were given the most weight (as well as time), although everything they were heard saying also sounded peaceful and not terribly significant, in my opinion. I think it was intentially made boring.
I have SteveM’s link but it is stuck on “loading”….
On this Halloween, perhaps it might just be another:
Mike’s Nature TRICK or perhaps his upcoming legal defeat TREAT?
I just accessed it from Sydney, Australia with no problems.
Remarkably balanced.
I’m listening to it now at home in Thailand – no problem.
Thanks. The new link works.
Two random thoughts not really on topic. Would it be possible, without invading personal privacy, to compare and contrast several CAGW skeptics vs advocates incomes, funding sources, carbon footprints? And, in light of Mann’s suit, would it be possible to initiate a class action suit against the vitriolic and fraudulent attacks on skeptics? The last not against one individual.
I’ll answer the lawsuit question myself. Not worth it, and would inflame an already overheated situation.
The link works in Chicago 🙂
Niff’s link works in the USA and so does http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/b01nl8gm which uses a BBC player.
Reasonably well done and balanced. Much was more or less as I remember it.
BBC site didn’t work for me in US, but this did: http://tunein.com/topic/?TopicId=42274310
It’s Halloween so here’s a thought … if you were the secret service and wanted a simple way to check every sceptics computer for evidence of the “hacker” … how would you do it? How would you get everyone to download an app which would trawl your computer for half an hour?
I nominate the climategate perp for a Nobel Prize. He/she saved humanity from certain destruction by the enviro crazies like Greenpeace & WWF.
I have now listened to half of the program. No problem so far in Helsinki, Finland.
ranchorelaxo61 said I nominate the climategate perp for a Nobel Prize. He/she saved humanity from certain destruction by the enviro crazies like Greenpeace & WWF.
WWF? What do pro wrestlers have to do with it? 😉