UPDATES ARE CONTINUOUSLY BEING ADDED at the end of this story. Check below.
WUWT readers may recall this post last week:
The Secret 28 Who Made BBC ‘Green’ Will Not Be Named
The BBC pits six lawyers against one questioning blogger, Tony Newbery of Harmless Sky, who was making an FOI request for the 28 names. In the process, the judge demonstrates he has partisan views on climate change.
Now, thanks to the Wayback machine and Maurizio Morabito (omnologos) we can now read the list that the BBC fought to keep secret. [Damn those mischevious bloggers 😉 ]
This list has been obtained legally. (link to Wayback document.) My heartiest congratulations to Maurizo for his excellent sleuthing!
Maurizo writes: This is for Tony, Andrew, Benny, Barry and for all of us Harmless Davids.
The list from: January 26th 2006, BBC Television Centre, London
Specialists:
Robert May, Oxford University and Imperial College London
Mike Hulme, Director, Tyndall Centre, UEA
Blake Lee-Harwood, Head of Campaigns, Greenpeace
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen
Michael Bravo, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
Andrew Dlugolecki, Insurance industry consultant
Trevor Evans, US Embassy
Colin Challen MP, Chair, All Party Group on Climate Change
Anuradha Vittachi, Director, Oneworld.net
Andrew Simms, Policy Director, New Economics Foundation
Claire Foster, Church of England
Saleemul Huq, IIED
Poshendra Satyal Pravat, Open University
Li Moxuan, Climate campaigner, Greenpeace China
Tadesse Dadi, Tearfund Ethiopia
Iain Wright, CO2 Project Manager, BP International
Ashok Sinha, Stop Climate Chaos
Andy Atkins, Advocacy Director, Tearfund
Matthew Farrow, CBI
Rafael Hidalgo, TV/multimedia producer
Cheryl Campbell, Executive Director, Television for the Environment
Kevin McCullough, Director, Npower Renewables
Richard D North, Institute of Economic Affairs
Steve Widdicombe, Plymouth Marine Labs
Joe Smith, The Open University
Mark Galloway, Director, IBT
Anita Neville, E3G
Eleni Andreadis, Harvard University
Jos Wheatley, Global Environment Assets Team, DFID
Tessa Tennant, Chair, AsRia
BBC attendees:
Jana Bennett, Director of Television
Sacha Baveystock, Executive Producer, Science
Helen Boaden, Director of News
Andrew Lane, Manager, Weather, TV News
Anne Gilchrist, Executive Editor Indies & Events, CBBC
Dominic Vallely, Executive Editor, Entertainment
Eleanor Moran, Development Executive, Drama Commissioning
Elizabeth McKay, Project Executive, Education
Emma Swain, Commissioning Editor, Specialist Factual
Fergal Keane, (Chair), Foreign Affairs Correspondent
Fran Unsworth, Head of Newsgathering
George Entwistle, Head of TV Current Affairs
Glenwyn Benson, Controller, Factual TV
John Lynch, Creative Director, Specialist Factual
Jon Plowman, Head of Comedy
Jon Williams, TV Editor Newsgathering
Karen O’Connor, Editor, This World, Current Affairs
Catriona McKenzie, Tightrope Pictures catriona@tightropepictures.com
BBC Television Centre, London (cont)
Liz Molyneux, Editorial Executive, Factual Commissioning
Matt Morris, Head of News, Radio Five Live
Neil Nightingale, Head of Natural History Unit
Paul Brannan, Deputy Head of News Interactive
Peter Horrocks, Head of Television News
Peter Rippon, Duty Editor, World at One/PM/The World this Weekend
Phil Harding, Director, English Networks & Nations
Steve Mitchell, Head Of Radio News
Sue Inglish, Head Of Political Programmes
Frances Weil, Editor of News Special Events
For those who don’t know what this is about, read the back story here.
Here is the backup link to the original document just in case the original disappears:
Real World Brainstorm Sep 2007 background (PDF)
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UPDATE: Now this Climategate 2.0 email makes more sense, as they’ve just been carrying water for CRU and the eco-NGO’s all along. The meeting with the 28 was just a pep rally. From: this WUWT post:
BBC’s Kirby admission to Phil Jones on “impartiality”
Alex Kirby in email #4894 writing about the BBC’s “neutrality”
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date: Wed Dec 8 08:25:30 2004
from: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.xx.xx>
subject: RE: something on new online.
to: “Alex Kirby” <alex.kirby@bbc.xxx.xx>
At 17:27 07/12/2004, you wrote:
Yes, glad you stopped this — I was sent it too, and decided to
spike it without more ado as pure stream-of-consciousness rubbish. I can well understand your unhappiness at our running the other piece. But we are constantly being savaged by the loonies for not giving them any coverage at all, especially as you say with the COP in the offing, and being the objective impartial (ho ho) BBC that we are, there is an expectation in some quarters that we will every now and then let them
say something. I hope though that the weight of our coverage makes it clear that we think they are talking through their hats.
—–Original Message—–
Prof. Phil Jones
Climatic Research Unit
BBC and “impartiality”…”ho, ho” indeed.
UPDATE: ‘TwentyEightGate’ was coined by RoyFOMR in comments. I liked it enough to put in the title.
UPDATE3 – Barry Woods writes in an email to me:
Don’t forget Mike Hulme Climategate email. why he funded CMEP, to keep sceptics OFF BBC airwaves… (below)
Mike Hulme:
“Did anyone hear Stott vs. Houghton on Today, radio 4 this morning? Woeful stuff really.
This is one reason why Tyndall is sponsoring the Cambridge Media/Environment Programme to starve this type of reporting at source.” (email 2496)
let us also not forget, that Roger Harrabin BBC & CMEP – (and Greenpeace Bill Hare) were also on the Tyndall board from 2002 to at least Nov 2005.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/11/27/climategate-2-impartiality-at-the-bbc/
When did Roger Harrabin step down from Tyndall advisory board?
(and he no made no mention, when reporting Climategate, of connections)
Tyndall were funding CMEP seminars for years to persuade the BBC, so not just that seminar, but years worth of lobbying
UPDATE4: Bishop Hill makes this excerpt from correspondence the “quote of the day”:
We now know that the BBC decided to abandon balance in its coverage of climate on the advice of a small coterie of green activists, including the campaign director of Greenpeace. This shows that the “shoddy journalism” of Newsnight’s recent smear was no “lapse” of standards at all. BBC news programs have for years been poorly checked recitations of the work of activists.
UPDATE5: Maurizo has added some analysis.
Summary for those without much time to read it all: Why the List of Participants to the BBC CMEP Jan 2006 Seminar is important
http://omnologos.com/why-the-list-of-participants-to-the-bbc-cmep-jan-2006-seminar-is-important/
UPDATE 6: Maurizo asked to add this –
I have not “given” the 28Gate list any importance. In fact, not one of the bloggers and journalists and commenters has “given” the 28Gate list any importance. It has been the BBC that GAVE IMPORTANCE TO 28GATE by spending so much money on lawyers. Therefore, 28Gate is important.
The Busted Broadcasting Corporation?
What an absolute disgrace.
davidmhoffer says:
A member of the US embassy was asked to advise on the official broadcast policy of an instrument of the British government?
The BBC is independent from govt (hoho)
It’s charter forbids it from being influenced by foreign political policy.
But it takes EU money.
Do not pay the licence fee.
Trevor Evans, US Embassy
I need to sleep or fall into a coma in the attempt, so I am leaving now this tiny morsel wondering if any of you guys figure out what was the US Embassy doing at a BBC seminar.
More than 3,000 people a week are being prosecuted for not having a TV licence… The number of prosecutions has risen in part because many more are struggling to pay. In 2010, licence fee fines totalled just under £25million a year.
Being charged/taxed/licensed to pay for their Global Warming Drivel™ is one thing, being fined for refusing to pay for it is insanity.
The BBC is a national embarrassment. They are so left wing and at the same time so far up their corporate a**e they do not have a clue how the real world functions.
They take a man who, as a child lived in a children’s home and was allegedly sexually abused and name and shame the alleged abuser, this is in collaboration with George Monbiot of the “Guardian”. The alleged abuser is named as a retired, former advisor and Treasurer of the Conservative Party during Lady Thatcher’s premiership.
Of course these left wing morons could not believe their luck in having the head of such a prestigious associate of Margaret Thatcher on their plate, so they, like the cowards that they are, implicated his name in this alleged abuse. The poor man who suffered this alleged abuse, had then to go through more trauma because these collective cretins did not even have the brains to provide him with photographs to allow him to identify his alleged abuser correctly. The “abuser” was in fact totally innocent.
Welcome to the world of the leftists, who smear and insult anyone who does not have the same views as themselves. They would be very dangerous, if they were not so stupid!
Going slightly off topic now but it is instructive to see that the left who see AGW has the weapon to smash capitalism and the west over the head with -have also been traditionally-post war anyway- have always trying to abolish censorship. The deputy leader of the Labour Party Harriet Harmon many years ago when chairing the Civil Liberties Commission was actively advocating lowering the age of consent
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/jimmy-savile/9614516/Jimmy-Savile-Labour-faces-embarrassment-over-former-child-sex-claims.html
“TwentyEightGate”
RoyFOMR coined it.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/11/10/the-secret-28-who-made-bbc-green-will-not-be-named/#comment-1142256
davidmhoffer says: @ur momisugly November 12, 2012 at 4:18 pm
…Trevor Evans, US Embassy
A member of the US embassy was asked to advise on the official broadcast policy of an instrument of the British government?
_____________________________
Here is an addition to that information.
(Of course they do not care if the conversion has a payback, it is TAXPAYER money they are spending)
..Trevor Evans, is the ECON/EST Officer,U.S. Embassy, London
So there is no question that Evans was a dyed in the wool greenie and so was the US Embassy. (read starting page 12) It ends ” “Our hope is to make this the greenest old U.S.embassy in the world,”said DCM Johnson
Description of ECON (economic?) and EST
GAG, I think I am going to be sick.
Sorry but I have to say it: The BBC over the recent years has actively promoted the sexualisation of children under the guise of education and diversity, Children in Need will start this Friday night just wait and see the inappropriate content. It’s like certain elements are paid fantastic salaries to try and get the world to reflect their so called art. Any seen the story lines in rubbish like Eastenders-it’s like watching Elton John’s holiday videos.
Email address for comments to the BBC:
pov@bbc.co.uk
Contact is Mr Vine. (pov = “points of view”). Pitch in, folks.
Dr Poshendra Satyal is Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the Crichton Carbon Centre. Prior to this, he worked as a researcher and consultant with a number of organizations in the UK (The Open University, UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Bird Life International, and Forests Monitor) and Nepal (Himalayan College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Society of Environmental Journalists,
Gail:
Good find: I was searching for Evans and Obama as I can see him being in the white house loop.
andrewmharding says:
November 12, 2012 at 4:51 pm
….Welcome to the world of the leftists, who smear and insult anyone who does not have the same views as themselves. They would be very dangerous, if they were not so stupid!
____________________________
It is their handlers who are dangerous not the useful idiots.
To me, one curious name on the “specialist” list seemed to be “Rafael Hidalgo, TV/multimedia producer”. Hadn’t the BBC got enough producers of their own? What was the impressive track record of this “specialist” that the BBC top brass had to hear about?
IMDB turned up nothing very dazzling but then I found that he seems to be “Media Project Manager” and “Studio Manager” for The Open University.
Still didn’t seem that relevant, but then I noticed that he was also… for a whole 7 months in 2003…
“Business Consultant, Television Trust for the Enviroment (sic)”
OK, that must be it, his “expertise”.
Cache of his Linkedin page:
http://74.6.238.254/search/srpcache?ei=UTF-8&p=%22Rafael+Hidalgo%22+tv+producer&fr=moz35&u=http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=%22Rafael+Hidalgo%22+tv+producer&d=4574630585177680&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=1YdTW4ZlIp4gTWMtRbG5s-HfyBwWfFa3&icp=1&.intl=us&sig=Q7A9E4NsUhsC8aFztXOqrg–
I was hoping to see an ‘Ocean Elder’ or two.
whats the point in having Ocean Elders if they cant be bothered to set the Environmental policy for the BBC ?
Follow the money:
The UK’s policy lines on World Bank and IMF issues are formally decided by the Department for International Development (DFID) and the Treasury, respectively. Within DFID, the International Financial Institutions department (IFID) leads in devising the organisation’s position on these institutions (see below). In the Treasury, the International Finance department is responsible for preparing advice on the policy issues and specific country programmes brought before the Board of Directors in Washington.
The top UK representatives at the IMF and World Bank are the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon George Osbourne MP, and Secretary of State for international development, Rt Hon Justine Greening MP. They are known as UK governors to the Fund and Bank, sitting on the ministerial committees which meet in Washington twice a year to decide on overall strategic direction for the institutions. The UK is the fourth-largest shareholder in both the World Bank and the IMF, holding 4.3 percent and 4.8 percent of votes, respectively. For comparison the US is by far the largest shareholder with 16.4 percent and 16.85 percent vote shares, respectively.
Climate Frameworks and Carbon Markets
Jos Wheatley: Team Leader, j-wheatley(at)dfid.gov.uk
ferd berple says:
November 12, 2012 at 4:30 pm
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/11/12/breaking-the-secret-list-of-the-bbc-28-is-now-public/#comment-1145313
http://eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=83327
tallbloke says:
November 12, 2012 at 4:48 pm
davidmhoffer says:
“A member of the US embassy was asked to advise on the official broadcast policy of an instrument of the British government?”
“It’s charter forbids it from being influenced by foreign political policy.”
Could this be why they were so desperate to keep this list secret? Could someone sue the BBC now claiming that the US government was directly responsible for the BBC’s global warming policy?
It would be interesting if someone in the US FOIA this guy about this event and how he got invited and why he was invited.
Tonight on BBC:
“28 gates later : rise of the climate zombies”
– Iain Wright, CO2 Project Manager, BP International
Wait a minute! BP is part of Big Oil!
They are a shameless and dull lot, the BBC
Aha, we have a prime mover
Dr Joe Smith
The Open University
My research and teaching interests centre on the politics of environmental change. This is explored through three discrete strands of work:
the politics of consumption, pursued through a study of biographies of food in Poland and the Czech Republic
media representations of environmental change, centred on a programme of action research in collaboration with the BBC
experimental reframings of environmental change, pursued mainly through the Interdependence Day project
Through the course of my CRASSH fellowship I will be drawing on more than a decade of working with media and other organisations to offer an account of the cultural work demanded by our unfolding understanding of human-induced climate change. I will also take the opportunity to reflect on the distinctive roles and responsibilities of social science and humanities researchers in helping societies to make sense of and act on climate change.
I count three climate scientists with a technical education: May, Hulme, and Dahl-Jensen of the NIels Bohr Institute. Others with an academic affiliation (Bravo, Widdicombe, Smith) have liberal arts (history, geography, philosophy of science) backgrounds.
Of the three “technicals”, two are activists. However, Dr. Dahl-Jensen seems to be an actual boots-on-the-ground scientist (latest grant is for drilling through the Greenland ice aiming at bedrock to investigate possible lakes at the bottom of the glaciers). I expect whoever was responsible for vetting her prior to the conference has since paid the price.
[trivia]
Just make sure we’re not bad winners, like Richard Hammond here at time 6:10