Tom Barr writes: The BBC is up to its old tricks, using any old snap to support its warmist position.
Apparently desperate to support the Marrakech Alarmist Junket still reeling from the election of Trump; in its “news” (using the term loosely) piece “2016 ‘very likely’ to be world’s warmest year” it originally illustrated its assertion “2016 has seen high temperatures lead to devastating droughts in many parts” with a photograph of numerous dead cattle:
Archived here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20161114131317/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37949877
The trouble is that this picture is Getty Images # 57127741 which was, in reality, was taken over a decade ago on March 16, 2006.
See it at: http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/license/57127741
Perhaps somebody at the BBC has done something for their £4bn a year and pointed out that misleading the public like this, and not giving a fig for the facts, is lazy journalism and is bound to get spotted, for free: The picture and its caption have now magically changed to a Massai lady with a water drum balanced on her head along with the incisive claim “High temperatures can lead to devastating droughts”. Genius reporting.
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The picture they should put up —
http://jonova.s3.amazonaws.com/artwork/logo-fun/bbc-greenpeace-med.gif
+100
And a call to wrong way R. Harridan or something too.
Griff is in the UK, apparently. He worries about sea level rise. I would say go visit Portsmouth, Gosport, Exeter even Emsworth places that have been there at sea level, to see how much the sea is higher now than it was ~300 years ago. I will wager it won’t be, significantly, measurable on any tide gauge.
Griff is more likely on another planet !!
He certainly has no idea what is going on, on this one !!
I do like Emsworth…
If I remember rightly it was settled after changes in sea level in the early Medieval period.
I wouldn’t buy a house there now though (even could I afford it)
Moron! No idea!
do check this out
http://emsworthonline.co.uk/Portchester_Castle_to_Emsworth.pdf
The south and south east of England is sinking (One reason for the London tide barrier) and has been since the ice age. If your claim that sea levels are rising is true then places I mention would be inundated by sea. They are not and there is no noticeable change in any tide gauge in the places I mention. The point I was making which you ignored. Well done Griff showing your lack of knowledge again.
TH shows that the COOLING in the 8 months since the peak of the El Nino has been the FASTEST and DEEPEST 8 moth period of cooling in the whole satellite record..
And almost certainly further to go. (I’m used my graphing to match the style for RSS and UAH)
We should also remember where MOST of the warm anomaly was for the first part of the year.
In a big COLD blob (just not as cold as usual) over northern Europe in the MIDDLE OF WINTER !!
It has not been a “warm” year… it has been a “less cold” year, mainly in one specific region of the planet.
Nothing “Global” about it, at all.
and a big, exceptionally warm for the time of year, warm area over the arctic….
Not here…
well there’s a nice map of the high temps/temp anomaly here:
http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674climate_watchers_detect_arctic_sea_ice_extent_slump_above_norm_temps/
It is currently 10-20 deg C below normal over northern Eurasia from Kamchatka to the Black Sea. A huge area of incredible cold with temps as low as -41 deg C…..in mid November. The arctic is warm because of the anomalously weak polar vortex and -ve AO pattern. The cold is just displaced and one could argue how it is that such extreme cold caused by radiative cooling could occur in an enhanced GHG environment?
http://weatherobs.com/
Remember, Griffie: Those that live by polar amplification of warming, die by polar amplification of cooling. The next few years will tell us; guessing the future is just that.
Is it true? Or did you hear it on the BBC?
“war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength”
Yours truly
Beebe C.
BBC has one hell of a quality problem…very poor unless they are swinging a Hi Def camera around wildlife somewhere. Thats the quality of the camera rather than the fleshware related to its output. The BBC needs a piece of this:
“Black Trump Supporter Smacks Down CNN Reporter for Race Baiting”
Media have long been inferring connections between ‘hottest year ever’ and provocative images like a field of dead cows or a dried-up river bed. Subliminal messaging. Works well, too, which is why they use it.
The BBC is run by a load of arts graduates who are proud of the fact that they know nothing about science and even less about maths. The BBC long ago got rid of impartial independently minded scientists who exhibited a sceptical view on global warming. Many popular science presenters who questioned the veracity of agw dogma were fired. So there is no-one in the organisation to counter the steady flow of warmist propaganda and an absolute zero probability of anyone there prepared to say that it is a complete crock of shit.
“Many popular science presenters who questioned the veracity of agw dogma were fired.”
I don’t think any such were fired. Can you name any?
David Bellamy for one – his BBC career hit an abrupt stop when he called agw as BS. After that everyone knew to keep schtum while every new presenter (eg Prof Brian Cox) are sold hook line and sinker on agw.
David Bellamy for one – his BBC career hit an abrupt stop when he called agw as BS. John Ball for another – he ran an inspired show for younger viewers and was fired for agw heresy. After that everyone knew to keep schtum while every new presenter (eg Prof Brian Cox) are sold hook line and sinker on agw.
Have a read;
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/david-bellamy-i-was-shunned-they-didnt-want-to-hear-8449307.html
The British Bullshit Corporation (BBC) also put out a Radio 4 interview with a certain Trenberth on Monday; all in aid of “hottest year evah” nonsense.
At the time of listening it would have been impolite to VOMIT.
WL