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 following caught my eye:
Trevor Evans, US Embassy
Is there any connection between this and climategate email 3000:
“From: Hill, Michael [[4] REDACTEDREDACTED]
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 8:48 PM
To: Meardon Fiona Miss (RBS)
Subject: RE: Proposed Renewal of U.S. Department of Energy Grant No. DE-FG02-98ER62601
(Phil Jones’ Project – UEA Ref R14702)
One other thing: Do continue to require payment in advance, or would reimbursement
work? If you do need advance, do you have a bank in the United States? If so, we could
enroll you our automated payment request system.
Thanks,
Mike”
Nick says:
November 12, 2012 at 4:19 pm
Boaden is also on the list. Currently ‘suspended’ for her role in a paedophile mess at the bbc.
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Well, tickle me Elmo!
@temp ….
Trevor Evans, Officer for Environment, Science and Technology, Deputy Permanent
Representative of the United States of America to IMO, American Embassy.
IMO-International Marine Organization
Joel Shore? Lazy Teenager? RR Kampen? barry? ericgrimsrud? Monty?
Did I miss anyone?
Thank you omnologos !!! Score !!
I freaking love WUWT!!!!
Jeff Alberts not so much.
ROFL
Seriously, will this get national media attention anywhere? Drudge?
“Jolly farmer says:
November 12, 2012 at 7:59 pm”
The “TV Detector Van” was more about the fear of being caught because people believed they actually worked the way the BBC said they did. The Ads ran on BBC!!! I never saw one in all my life in the UK. Back in the 70’s the fine was 1000 ponds I think, a lot of money to many back then, so people simply coughed up the license fee. Nice way to extract your income, hold a gun to your viewers head!
Is this a Streisand effect of sorts? Who would have paid much attention that blogger dude if they had simply obliged to his request somewhere along the road, and where there had not been a court hearing with the associated media attention?
Haaaa-haaa ! 😉
Maurizio Morabito. Well done.
Your next task, should you choose to accept it, is to find Kevin Trenberth’s missing heat.
With TV sets becoming more integrated and smaller and smaller components (think: 0402 SMD parts) there is even less LO (local oscillator) leakage than normal, except ‘back’ (reverse direction) through the mixer and front end stages … newer direct conversion designs present a bit more of a challenge, but, an “LO” is still required, so, detection is still possible … since there is no such thing as a consumer device that has enough shielding to _not_ be detectable (to meet post and telecommunication or FCC RF ‘radiation’ or signal leakage specs yes; complete or 100% effective shielding: no. Even commercial RF equipment reaches a cost-effective limit at some point.)
A ‘for example’, a Sony Walkman is receivable on a nothing-special hand-held scanner programmed for 10.7 MHz *above* the station (scanner tuned to the LO frequency) being listened-to out to 50 or 60 feet easy … an improved receiver and better antenna could extend that 5x out … UHF TV “LO” freqs like used in GB are a cinch given the smaller wavelength allowing hand-held Yagi and Log-Periodic antennas …
In fact, the idea of ‘looking’ for receiver LOs (LO leakage, to determine audience listening preferences) has been patented for audience ‘survey’ purposes:
REMOTE AUDIENCE SURVEY SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREFOR
http://www.google.com/patents/EP0882338A4?cl=en
There were a couple of competing systems fielded to ‘survey’ public listeners a few year back using this technique; I’ll post again if I run across any present-day offerings by companies providing this service.
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David Ball says November 12, 2012 at 8:39 pm
Joel Shore? Lazy Teenager? RR Kampen? barry? ericgrimsrud? Monty?
Did I miss anyone?
– – – – – – – – –
R. Gates? William Connelly? Nick Stokes?
Dunno… they may prefer this mess to the other ones.
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/world/2-more-bbc-execs-withdraw-amid-crisis-661817/
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/business/ci_21984565/n-y-times-ceo-starts-amid-bbc-scandal
Sorry to be so late into the game …… but has the BBC reported on this little gem yet?
I’m so impressed by Maurizio – I repeat many of the above: Well done. I could be depressed by the BBC – but it’s really only what we expect after two decades of decline.
Fantastic stuff, omnologos! Hats off to you! Agree – Woodward and Bernstein have nothing on you.
The import and timing couldn’t be better – BBC just spent lots of money to keep this OUT of the press (because they KNEW THEY BUSTED THEIR CHARTER). – and now they will be faced with yet ANOTHER Coverup. Classic!
As to the naming skerfuffle (Tony) – whilst the 28-gate is poetic, it doesn’t communicate to those folks ‘outside baseball’ what this is all about. Perhaps a a description more in keeping in line with what this is about? “UnbalancedGate”? “ClimateBiasGate”?
It is proof of INSTITUTIONAL hijacking….
Even NYT employees aren’t happy.
‘Willfully ignorant’: NY Times journalists openly attack their new boss as child sex scandal threatens to engulf ex-BBC head
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/11/12/willfully-ignorant-ny-times-journalists-openly-attack-their-new-boss-as-child-sex-scandal-threatens-to-engulf-ex-bbc-head/
Why is anybody surprised that Trevor Evans of the US Embassy is part of the BBC’s Gang of 28?
CAGW has always been about politics–and precious little science.
(And even in the so-called “science” there’s collusion between east and west–East Anglia and Michael Mann, et al.)
Gosh, how I’d love another dose of Climategate right about now! The perfect Christmas would be opening* the rest of the trove.
*hint, hint.
Omnologos might not be getting his Big Oil check this week or at least not the BP component.
not only BP, Insurance, but also nuclear lobbyist:
Matthew Farrow has quite a bit online suggesting he’s a nuclear lobbyist:
14 Aug 2010: Telegraph: Rowena Mason and Abigail Townsend: Britain is struggling to power the nuclear revolution
About 40km south of Beijing, some of the world’s most exciting science is splitting atoms in pursuit of the nuclear physicist’s Holy Grail – the tiny, cheap reactor.
Nuclear is actually inexpensive in comparison to offshore wind farms, according to Matthew Farrow, head of energy planning at the CBI.
“In terms of power output and carbon saved, nuclear could be two to three times cheaper than offshore wind,” he says. “Because of this we think it should take its place alongside renewables and fossil fuels as part of a balanced energy mix.” …
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/7945867/Britain-is-struggling-to-power-the-nuclear-revolution.html
Nov 2010: ESA (Environment Services Assoc) appoints CBI’s Matthew Farrow as Director of Policy
http://www.esauk.org/reports_press_releases/press_releases/101126_ESA_appoints_CBIs_
i don’t think bbc wanted this list out cos it would show Big Oil & nuclear were with the Agenda. indeed Shell has been in from the early days.
the big CAGW prize has always been trading CO2:
Tessa Tennant, AsRia, is among the Specialists, in what speciality?
Tessa Tennant, Co-founder of ASrIA, Appointed to the UK Green Investment Bank Board
HONG KONG, 5 October 2012 (FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE)—Tessa Tennant, co-founder and first chairman of the Association for Sustainable & Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA), the region’s non-profit membership association for the sustainable and responsible investment industry, has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director of the UK Green Investment Bank (UK GIB).
The UK GIB is a funding scheme initiated by the UK government and is designed to accelerate private sector investment in the UK’s transition to a green economy. Offshore wind power generation, waste processing and recycling, energy from waste generation, non-domestic energy efficiency and support for the Green Deal will be the first priority sectors for the bank.
On the UK GIB Board Tennant joins Chairman Lord Smith of Kelvin and Deputy Chairman Sir Adrian Montague, along with five other Non-Executive Directors:
Professor Dame Julia King
Fred Maroudas
Tom Murley
David Nish
Isobel Sharp
Shaun Kingsbury is the Chief Executive…
Tennant remains on the ASrIA Board and is President and co-founder of The Ice Organisation, a personal carbon management and loyalty programme. The 2012 recipient of the Joan Bavaria Award for Building Sustainability into the Capital Markets, Tennant co-founded the UK’s first equity investment fund for sustainable development in 1988. She was Chair and co-founder of the UK Social Investment Forum and of the Carbon Disclosure Project, where she is now a Trustee…
http://www.asria.org/news/press/1349400121
the fact the Church of England were specialists alongside BP, makes this appointment rather amusing:
8 Nov: Financial Times: Church of England needs a pragmatist
As a former oil industry executive, Bishop Welby will bring a dash of worldliness to the post of Archbishop of Canterbury and, as such, head of the Anglican communion…
Bishop Welby will continue to straddle the material and spiritual worlds by remaining a member of the parliamentary commission on banking, which some may see as one more sign of the steady secularisation of the Anglican Church…
Bishop Welby’s rise has been meteoric, the appointment coming barely one year after receiving his bishopric at Durham. His privileged background as the Eton and Cambridge-educated descendant of former Tory deputy prime minister Rab Butler make him an establishment candidate, albeit one who brings certain risks at a time of great upheaval…
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7851c9ec-29a4-11e2-a604-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2C4RVNXPg
Bishop Welby, appointed last year to be bishop of Durham, worked for 11 years in the oil industry, rising to treasurer of Enterprise Oil, before deciding he was called to the priesthood…
Before seeking ordination, Bishop Welby worked six years for French oil company Elf Aquitaine and then as treasurer of exploration company Enterprise Oil in 1984…
http://www.news.com.au/world/justin-welby-named-next-archbishop-of-canterbury/story-fndir2ev-1226514052738
8 Nov: Telegraph: Peter Mullen: A new Archbishop but no change at Canterbury: Justin Welby is just another Left-wing establishment bureaucrat
He is of course an establishment man. I do not mean to suggest by that the old establishment based on the 16th century and the Elizabethan Settlement and supported by luminous divines such as Hooker, Law and Lancelot Andrewes. That wonderful creation was put to death decades ago. No, I mean the new establishment: a hierarchy among the bishops and in the Synod of Left-wing modernisers, devotees of all the secular fads such as diversity, social cohesion, political correctness and, of course, apostles of that sublime superstition, global warming…
The bishop does speak from the highest moral ground: “One principle that seems to me to be clear. We cannot replace what was destroyed in 2008; we can only replace it with something that is dedicated to the support of human society, the common good and solidarity.” Who are this “We” who will do the replacing, we might ask? But the point to notice about what the bishop is saying here, is his supreme confidence in the objective infallibility of his own thoughts: he begins by mentioning a “principle” but proceeds only to offer his opinion. Clearly the implication must be that he regards his own private opinions as matters of principle. This is dangerous. It has been known to lead to demagoguery…
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/petermullen/100188475/a-new-archbishop-but-no-change-at-canterbury-justin-welby-is-just-another-left-win
It’s not Specialists, its Special Interests!
“Specialist” Andrew Simms is no stranger to the sceptic sites:
Guardian: Andrew Simms
Andrew Simms is a fellow of the New Economics Foundation, and the author of Ecological Debt, Tescopoly and Eminent Corporations
122 articles, including “50 months to avoid climate disaster – and a change is in the air”, dating back to 1999.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/andrewsimms
the purpose
the purpose of the meeting was “reaching new and wider audiences” – shortly afterwards, bbc’s climate chaos series began, and david attenborough embraced CAGW:
23 May 2006: PS-Mag: David Attenborough Kicks Off Climate Chaos, 24 May 2006, 9pm, BBC One
By From bbc.co.uk web site
Are We Changing Planet Earth?
Wednesday 24 May, 9pm, BBC One
David Attenborough draws on his life-long insights into our planet and presents his personal take on climate change. Part two follows next week.
Songs of Praise
Sunday 28 May, TBC, BBC One
Sally Magnusson visits an environmental project in Oxford that has made a real difference to the local community, and meets with historian and environmentalist, Martin Palmer.
Test the Nation – Know Your Planet
Sunday 28 May, 8pm, BBC One
Are you aware of climate and environmental issues? We put the country to the test in the popular quiz show.
Can We Save Planet Earth?
Thursday 1 June, 9pm, BBC One
Part two of David Attenborough’s investigation.
Five Disasters Waiting to Happen
Tuesday 6 June, 9pm, BBC Two
We examine five global locations and scenarios: London, Shanghai, Mumbai, Paris and Tuvalu. All have been identified by experts as vulnerable to the effects of climate change.
The Money Programme
Friday 2 June, 7pm, BBC Two
The Money Programme spends a week with a family in Teesdale – the area with the UK’s highest CO2 emissions per capita.
Panorama
Date and time TBC, BBC One
The Bush administration has resisted calls to engage in Kyoto, and has been accused of a systematic campaign of disinformation and harassment against the scientific community – gagging scientists, re-writing major reports, and allowing the oil and coal industries to drive policy. Panorama investigates these claims.
Climate Change shorts
You can also watch eight short documentaries on the affects of Climate Change via the BBC Four website. For legal reasons, these are only available if you are in the UK.
http://www.psychicsahar.com/artman/publish/article_711.shtml
Panorama: Climate chaos: Bush’s climate of Fear was on BBC One on June 6 2006 (links to transcript)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/panorama/5005994.stm
a coincidence worth noting:
24 May 2006: Uni of Oxford: Oxford studies on the environment inform the Government and the BBC
Oxford University scientists were among those playing host to the new Environment Secretary, David Miliband, on Wednesday 24 May when he visited Wytham Woods to see first hand the effect of climate change on wildlife and habitat…
Another recent visitor to Wytham Wood was Sir David Attenborough, whose programme launches the BBC’s Climate Chaos season, **coincidentally on the same day as the Environment Secretary’s visit. Sir David is filmed in the wood talking about the sun’s energy in ‘Are We Changing Planet Earth?’ ( BBC One on Wednesday 24 May at 9pm)
Another programme in the Climate Chaos Season features Oxford University’s Lower Carbon Futures Team Leader, Dr Brenda Boardman. Dr Boardman is in ‘The Money Programme – The Real Cost of Going Green’, where she advises a family on how to reduce their carbon effect to save them money and help the planet too (BBC Two on Friday 2 June at 7pm).
http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2006/060524.html