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.
Claire Foster is national policy adviser on environmental issues for the Church of England. It pains me that the Church of England seems to be hi-jacked by every fashionable eco-cause, it pains me more that someone is paid to hold this position.
Tearfund is another christian relief organisation. The Evangelical Alliance Relief Fund is a more full description. CAGW is a wonderful guilt-making reason to take donations for third world projects.
Mike Hulme FUNDED CMEP (HArrabin, Smith) to keep sceptics OFF the BBC airwave
(see below – earlier at Watts Up)
Seminar attende Mike Hulme(tyndall Centre):
“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)
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/11/27/climategate-2-impartiality-at-the-bbc/
The new emails reveal that not only was the CMEP being sponsored by the Tyndall Centre (UEA) to promote its agenda in the media, but at the same Roger Harrabin was on the Advisory board of the Tyndall Centre! (from 2002 until at least the end of 2005)
“1. We invite three more members to our AB:
Roger Harrabin (media; Radio BBC) – reserve Paul Brown (The Guardian) Bill Hare (NGO; Greenpeace) – reserves Mike Harley (English Nature)” (email 1038 – Hulme)
Tyndall archived webpages courtesy of the wayback machine are here: Advisory board 2002, and here Oct 2005. The Tyndall website changed after this date and no longer shows a link to membership of it’s Advisory Board. The release of the second batch of climategate emails – (2496), gives one reason why the Tyndall Centre funded the Harrabin/Smith seminars – the Real World seminars of the Cambridge Media and Environment Programme
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)
Mike Hulme clearly did not like this program and clearly sponsors CMEP to use its influence with it BBC seminars to change reporting at the BBC, with an apparent intent to suppress any sceptical voices. A commentator at the Bishop Hill blog tracked down the ‘woeful’ program, where Prof Philip Stott and the IPCC’s Sir John Houghton debate the “uncertainties” of climate change”, it is mentioned in a 25 Feb 2002 article by Alex Kirby, BBC online environment correspondent, there is an audio link in the article to the radio program (probably UK only, well worth a listen)
Alex Kirby in the article quotes Stott as saying:
“The problem with a chaotic coupled non-linear system as complex as climate is that you can no more predict successfully the outcome of doing something as of not doing something. Kyoto will not halt climate change. Full stop.” – BBC
So the list reveals that it was not 28 Scientists but only 3 Pro-AGW ones and a load of advocates/lobbyists which advised on BBC ‘neutrality’!
No wonder the list needed to stay ‘secret’.
Off tangent here but looks like Lord McAlpine is going to be suing the socks of the BBC and others. George Monbot, the BBCs favourite poodle is in his sites. Now George is always chastising others on sloppy journalism. Perhaps the Guardian should sack him, they won’t, they have their own problems, a going down the drain newspaper, propped up by a car magazine.
People should take image captures now. Thank God for the Internet.
Christopher Booker should have a field-day next Sunday !!!!
The 28th Mile would be better.
As a license fee payer why the hell am I paying for all this, all on the say so a few activists? I’m getting really pissed off now.
28 Scientists sounds like a potentially well balanced scenario.
3 Pro-AGW Scientists, 25 Pro-AGW AGW Advocates/Lobbyists is most definitely not.
It wasn’t WHO that needed to be hidden, its was how few and from which single viewpoint.
Can we call it the BooBoosomething? E.g., The BooBooFlee, The BooBooFee, . . .
How about Delingpole or Booker or the blog “Spiked” getting together and calling for massive civil disobedience, in the form of refusal to pay the BBC’s fee, to concentrate the BBC’s minds? The leaders should be prepared to defend themselves in court with chapter and verse of the BooBooTwee’s many sins and blunders.
Sorry, I just could not resist this.
Here is Richard Black, former BBC climate commissar, crowing about the success of the EU airline carbon tax.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18070789
Wonder why he quit?
Scientist, expert and now specialist, the list of co-opted epithets grows.
Believe nothing that you read or hear without verifying it yourself unless Weltanschauung congruent. Good people ought to be armed as they will, with wits and Guns and the Truth.
Indeed, where are the climate scientists? Yet they were swayed to go onto the CAGW bandwagon. With the weather not cooperating no wonder they fought so hard to keep the names secret. Shame on you all.
Sunnuva gun! Aren’t these the same 28 people that wrote AR4?
Helen Boaden, Director of News
Peter Rippon, Duty Editor, World at One/PM/The World this Weekend
George Entwistle, Head of TV Current Affairs
My my their careers just rocketed after this. Perhaps more will follow their path!
Perhaps the most appropriate attendee was Jon Plowman, Head of Comedy!
OK – sanity check. I can’t count. I think it is a 6-22 split.
Specialists – 28
Scientists – 6
Robert May, Oxford University and Imperial College London
Mike Hulme, Director, Tyndall Centre, UEA
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen
Michael Bravo, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
Steve Widdicombe, Plymouth Marine Labs
Eleni Andreadis, Harvard University
Lobbiyists/Advocates – 22
Blake Lee-Harwood, Head of Campaigns, Greenpeace
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
Joe Smith, The Open University
Mark Galloway, Director, IBT
Anita Neville, E3G
Jos Wheatley, Global Environment Assets Team, DFID
Tessa Tennant, Chair, AsRia
Question for the BBC:
The Met Office and the Hadley Centre were NOT at ANY of the seminars.
which makes the BBC’s claim of top level experts totally untenable
Just sent this to Radio 4’s Points of View:
Dear Sirs,
I admire the way in which the BBC reports on its own affairs as if by a third party – John Humpreys being a case in point.
A brewing scandal over the 26 Jan 2006 secret meeting of a cabal of eco-activists, gravy-train politicians and BBC executives must be reported in the same impartial way.
Climate Change sceptics have today managed to “out” the attendees. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/11/12/breaking-the-secret-list-of-the-bbc-28-is-now-public/#more-74210
We sceptics, who are likened to holocaust-deniers by the perpetrators of the Great Global Warming Hoax, are not spoilers nor anti-science wackos. We are a worldwide group of concerned citizens questioning the scientific basis of this Doomsday Cult. The policy actions aimed at combatting a nonexistent threat are, we submit, causing the despoiling of our beauty spots with windmills; energy poverty for the vulnerable; energy insecurity for the nation and a climate of fear among the young subjected to this apocalypse propaganda at home and at school.
The BBC must investigate this conspiracy and put rational journalists to work on opposing the Harrabin-Black faction.
With the BBC reeling from other less significant scandals such as the decades long cover up of sex abuse by paedophile employees a full expose of this major crime against humanity concealed behind a simple abandonment of its Charter obligations should bring the whole nest of corruption crashing down.
Quite few investors, insurance companies, BP, RWE, CBI, et strangest thingies like this “ArSia”, sitting between “sustainable” activism and investments, with a strong wiff of conflict of interest. In my eyes, not a pretty picture at all.
Oliver Cromwell’s dismissal of the ‘Rump BBC’ :
“It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place,
which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled
by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to
all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would
like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas
betray your God for a few pieces of money.
“Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you?
“Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my
horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter’d your
conscience for bribes?
“Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the
Commonwealth?
“Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defil’d this sacred place, and
turn’d the Lord’s temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral
principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to
the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get
grievances redress’d, are yourselves gone!
So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the
name of God, go!”
[actually his dismissal of the Rump Parliament 1653]
Such an important decision had the likes of the following objective “specialists”. It’s worse than we thought. Wow!
Blake Lee-Harwood, Head of Campaigns, Greenpeace
Andrew Dlugolecki, Insurance industry consultant
Trevor Evans, US Embassy
Anuradha Vittachi, Director, Oneworld.net
Claire Foster, Church of England
Li Moxuan, Climate campaigner, Greenpeace China
Iain Wright, CO2 Project Manager, BP International
Kevin McCullough, Director, Npower Renewables
Jos Wheatley, Global Environment Assets Team, DFID
And some important BBC attendees:
Jon Plowman, Head of Comedy
Dominic Vallely, Executive Editor, Entertainment
Eleanor Moran, Development Executive, Drama Commissioning
Sue Inglish, Head Of Political Programmes
The BBC is doomed.
Whoops, dropped a major clanger, wrong post, should be in the EU Tax report.
Interesting BP was there. Where Exxon invested in safer wells, BP invested in politics all over the world. Where Exxon was written up something like six times for safety violations, BP was written up over a hundred, if not hundreds. When BP’s well blew in the Gulf of Mexico, BP should have faced the music, but not Exxon. However when BP is buddy-buddy with politicians, it gets results.
@tallbloke says:
November 12, 2012 at 5:35 pm
Jackpot.
http://web.missouri.edu/~segerti/capstone/mediaclimatechange.pdf
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Jackpot indeed, tallbloke. Thanks!