Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Angry “Extinction Rebellion” protestors shut down the BBC headquarters, while demanding the BBC start covering climate change as if it was a major war.
BBC’s London HQ put on lockdown over climate change protest
Extinction Rebellion group calls for environment to be made ‘top editorial issue’
The BBC’s central London headquarters has been put on lockdown due to a protest by climate change campaigners who are demanding it uses its status as national broadcaster to declare a “climate and ecological emergency”.
Extinction Rebellion, a direct action group that has recently shut down key London roads, has demand the BBC makes the environment its “top editorial issue”.
Broadcasting House was locked down early on Friday afternoon, with BBCstaff and guests unable to enter or leave the building while security kept the peaceful but noisy protesters away from the entrance.
Extinction Rebellion activists, who are demanding a meeting with the BBC director general, Tony Hall, said the corporation had a duty to broadcast about climate change with “the level of urgency placed on informing the public about the second world war”.
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Imagine if the protestors had noticed that the BBC is ignoring the green divestment message, and has slid back into investing their pension pot into big oil (26% £26.6 million investment in BP), though to be fair their investment in Tesla is slightly larger.
Correction (EW): h/t Robert Pollock – the BBC investment in BP is £26.6 million, not 26%.
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For fanatics such has these belief is not enough , 100% unquestioning belief and purity in the dogma is the ‘minim’ and still they will find ‘errors’ that require punishment.
Knr
We can go a step farther and suggest that “acceptance” is enough, without having to rise to the level of “belief”.
Fanatics are content with others accepting their stance even if it is not believed or believable. It is about power, after all, and if someone is willing to hand over their power to you, you can accept it on the condition of non-interference.
Most people are too lazy or distracted to do the work needed to rise to the level of “belief”.
A lot of truth there but don’t forget, knr, that these protest groups with their big signs have funding sources. The worst part is that it is not all Soroslike funding but sadly re-channeled government money (read taxpayers) funding these protests.
As the BBC is Government run, it is not a stretch here to suggest that this is government protesting itself under the guise of saving the planet for the express purpose of getting the average taxpayers to hand them more control over everyone’s lifestyle choices.
For the organizers and sign makers this is a full time job. For many of the sign holding acolytes this is a part time gig for weekend beer money while they get their brains washed in the college classrooms.
Bill –
Government loves signs.
Our school district for years had rejected levy after levy to build 2 high school. They finally passed a levy to add on to the existing school. After the levy passed each school was adorned with 5’X10’ canvas signs that read “Thank you residents.”
The real question is what will these numbskulls be like when they hit their 60s? Or will they even be alive that long?
Anyone I see now who says he was a protester in the 1960s also says reality struck hard when he needed a job to pay the bills and put food on the table. I guess Gaia had her ears stuffed with cotton balls.
If these nitwits are getting paid to do this now, how long would it last if they didn’t get paid another cent? If this isn’t a waste of funds, what is it?
Sara, the organizers and sign makers will turn into bureaucrats, College Prof…indoctrinators, and TV celebrities like Bill “Nye on stupid” the not so sciency guy and Neil “deGrass fire” Tyson. The majority of the brainwashed acolytes will, as you suggest, be forced to get real jobs to get married and have families.
Lets just hope this latter group teach their children well. Something tells me this propaganda hoax will only die if and when a new generation of doubting college students take over the classrooms and host sit ins for truth in the Deans Office because they can’t afford beer money due to the outrageous cost of fossil fuel.
Alex Epstein founder of the Center for Industrial Progress a pro fossil fuels think tank based in Wash, DC, likes to say “Nature doesn’t give mankind a safe climate that we make dangerous. Nature gives us a dangerous climate that we must make safe.” Mortality rates due to climate and weather have declined dramatically over the past century. Mankind has achieved this by improvements in scientific knowledge, technology, reliable, affordable and abundant energy, and understanding and appropriately pricing risk.
As I watch the expression on my Millennials, I notice their reaction is about the same as a devote individual hearing his/her beliefs challenged. Not an easy nut to crack.
Yes.
They’re mad.
Just like communists in the West in seventies. The USSR ‘was’ morally superior and technologically advanced, no unemployment, minimal criminal problems, only troublesome thing was fascist propaganda and sabotage, which would be dealt with by shooting anyone trying to sneak out under the iron curtain.
The communists in the West tried and sometimes succeeded to get refugees sent back. Now they don’t want to send back even the worst perpetrators. Such is life, ideas change but gullibility is for ever.
They’re all wearing Winter Coats—so much for the CAGW, er Climate Change, er Climate Disruption, er Apocalypses, er (sarc).
A question for y’all. The protesters in the photo have a banner that reads “REBEL FOR LIFE”. Is rebel a verb or noun?
HAPPY HOLIDAYS,
Bob
Bob. Always noticing the hidden relevant!
And of course the banner is PLASTIC!
Friday prime time Radio 2, the Jeremy Vine show had half a dozen of these morons in his studio bleating on about their kids and grandkids being subjected to “catastrophic” temperature rise.
Most notably, none of them could recite any scientific data, it was all just hysterics and whining.
However Jeremy Vine was lapping it all up, in his usual sycophantic manner.
The BBC even produced a whole radio programme about the founder of “Extinction Rebellion”. A typical eco-nut
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001lvz
Yes I heard it and it made me feel sick, I had the feeling that it was a pre-arranged stunt by the BBC.
Rent a crowd
“… their investment in Tesla is slightly larger.”
Are they really invested in TSLA? How many shares or how much money? (I follow the stock closely. Its prospects in 2019 are poor.)
Yes it is one of their top investments , at £ 27.3M , (march 2018) , just above BP Plc
1 Amazon.com Inc £48.8M
2 Alphabet Inc £43.7M
3 Tencent Holdings Ltd £40.1M
4 Illumina Inc £38.0M
5 Facebook Inc £34.7M
6 Alibaba Group Holding Ltd £32.0M
7 Tesla Motors Inc £27.3M
8 BP Plc £ 26.6M
Actually if they invested early enough they may have made a good profit- which they need because the scheme is in deficit by about £ 1B , but should be fully funded by 2028 , if all goes well.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/mypension/en/summary_report_2018.pdf
It’s good to see that the top seven investments of the BRITISH Broadcasting Corporation either either American or Chinese. /sarc
No need for the sarc. UK is a major overseas investor. BBC is of course anti-British but that does not affect their investment decisions, unlike their green lunacy.
“the scheme is in deficit by about £ 1B , but should be fully funded by 2028 , if all goes well.”
Well, TSLA is down 15% from Friday last, to $320. Upcoming events look mostly negative for it. See this amusing list of 20 negatives: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4229289-tesla-long-time-bullish-analyst-flashes-warning-signs#comment-80525003
There was me thinking the ‘second world war’ finished in 1945!!!
The local BBC Radio station usually has at least one item regarding the green blob on most hourly news.
It’s always wrong to mention ze war. You action will be considered as comedy.
Do you think you got away with it?
Slightly off topic but all part of the same lunacy, I see the Gatwick drone idiots might be eco-warriors apparently?
whats the betting they or a group like Plane Stupid were behind teh recent drone shutdown of Gatwick?
Is “teh” a new trend? I observed an alarmist loonie using it as (apparently) snark. [Teh Donald.]
This is what happens when weak minded middle class people are subjected to relentless scare stories.
Hansen and Mann must be real proud of themselves.
My favorite meme, by me, The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.
Weak minds exist in every socioeconomic class. Some classes are just larger than others.
The BBC is reaping what it sowed.
For a many years now it has been broadcasting the most alarming stories about climate change and CAGW in almost every news item or documentary that it can and this is the result: a generation of brain washed children and young adults and older people who seem to have abandoned rational thought in the face of the most improbable propaganda.
And improbable much of it is. Over at Paul Homewood’s site (https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/) there are regular articles about BBC misinformation , which is reported back to the BBC , only to be fobbed off with more misinformation.
One of the most disturbing aspects is the apparent disinterest shown by the police at these disruptive events. In one of the photos taken outside the Bristol studios a young baby is shown wedged against the iron railings by its mother – yet none of the police or security people in attendance (and studiously avoiding looking at the vulnerable infant) are doing anything to protect the child.
It seems that where Green activities are concerned the authorities have abandoned any attempt at public order or the protection of the vulnerable. We know that no charges will be brought against these people no matter what disruption or injury they cause.
That cannot be good for the future of public order in Britain.
MikeWaite,
That horse has long since bolted.
From what I hear, there is rumor of Roaming Gangs of Foreign perverts and their Offspring conducting themselves in a alleged criminal sexual manner with young women in the North of England.
Although I am equally informed that mentioning this is against the PC rules, as is identify the culprits, and as is reporting on the outcomes of any related legal action.
As Mr Tommy Robinson has found out, to his great detriment. More than once.
Then there is the current Tourist problem in inner London, or the lack thereof, where the current Muslim Mayor denies that there is a problem.
However, we are informed that contrary to daily eyewitness reports, the religion of peace is as peaceful as ever.
Although Police Constable Keith Palmer might have an opinion to the contrary. However, sadly he isn’t here now to have one.
Pity he wasn’t armed with the standard Service issue of the Local Australian or American Police officer
Although the Coward in Chief, Sir Craig Mackey still reassures us, to this day, that this was a lone and disturbed individual who butchered one of his Constables, in front of him, for no discernible reason.
Unfortunately, as has been recorded, Sir Craig Mackey was restrained in his vehicle at the time and was unable to render assistance, immediate or otherwise.
Then we have Khalid Masood, who was clearly no more than a disaffected Protestant youth, or possibly one of those violent Catholics, or some radical Conservative of a similar cult, and who clearly was having just a bad day.
As for Salih Khater, he was no more than a radical student dropout with an attitude problem, so nothing to see here.
Sadly, MikeWaite, my friend, the downhill run has already started. The backlash, however, has yet to begin.
As Mr Tommy Robinson has already found out, to his great detriment, it’s not going to end well, or peacefully.
But as history has shown, it never has, and never will, once those trusted to Administrator the affairs of the realm betray it’s citizens.
Regardless whether the cause is through incompetence, corruption, or misplaced ideology, or all of these things.
Sadly, if history is also any guide, it’s going to get quite bad over the next thousand years.
Although over the next few decades, if history is also any guide, it’s going to make both the Inquisition and the French Revolution look like a Sunday afternoon picnic.
moderator.. please purge this hate from WUWT.
Edb,
It is not hate. It is truth.
why?
its the truth
its the silencing of the subject that allowed the rape gangs to keep doing what they were for so damned long!!!!!!
The subject may have been hushed up in the past but it’s all over the mainstream media now. What that idiot who calls himself Tommy Robinson was doing was acting in a way that risked compromising a trial in progress. Sex abusers exist in all cultures.
Tommy Robinson was trying to get the paedophiles acquitted by a mistrial. The law is clear. All media are blacked out during the trial to ensure that the jury are swayed only by the court proceedings. That’s for all trials in English Law.
He was not trying to help the victims.
Actually, Ed, this is what you get with government-run media. There are no other effective news outlets and you get the pot boiling over.
Mackay is actually correct about the Westminster attacker. The liberal elite like the idea of an islamic terror network as it gives them an excuse to spend taxpayer cash and force rules on the people. But as Peter Hitchens has shown repeatedly, the perpetrators are disturbed people using drugs – legal or otherwise. The same with most massacres. And that causes a problem for the pro-drug liberal elite and big pharma selling anti-depressants and steroids.
Climate change is taking place so slowly that it takes networks of very sophisticated sensors, decades to even detect it. One must not mix up true climate change with weather cycles that are part of the current climate. The reality is that the climate change we are experiencing today is caused by the sun and the oceans over which mankind has no control. So on a day by day bases there is virtually nothing to report that has not already been reported.
The BBC’s problem is that they did not lie enough . As a young boy saying “I lied, but I did not lie enough, and I got a spanking”.
In all honesty, it would be difficult for the BBC to increase its coverage of climate change, plastic pollution & other similar eco-fear topics. Their bias in favour of all the hysteria is a joke for a national broadcaster especially when these people’s inflated salaries are paid for by the public they are meant to keep objectively informed. The BBC looks more and more like a cross between the Grauniad & Some racy magazine for women , these days! No news…..just innuendo and catastrophe!
One of the demand was that no ‘deniers’ should be allowed to speak. Do they not know where that approach leads?
No they know nothing of history because it was before there generation, imagine the shock of what the ultra right would have done to them.
Well, there’s EdB above demanding censorship. The lesson is learned.
If all the ‘greenies’ in the world purchased a solar powerd deep freezer and they left the lid open. How much colder would the global temperature be?
DuH!
Where do you think the freezer pumps the heat?
Into the deep ocean it’s obvious 🙂
If all the greenies in the world purchase a solar powerd deep freezer and they left the lid open. How much colder would the global temperature be?
A new line of work for the “the end is nigh” sandwich board deranged who used to march up and down Oxford Street?
The end is still nigh. Same shit, different century, new delusionals.
Are the politicians and social engineers who dreamed up the global warming scare astonished at the mind-numbing success of their psychological trickery? Or did they expect there’d be countless gullible prats protesting in the streets.
Please stop calling them ‘ greenies ‘.
This gives the impression they are naughty children.
Call them ‘ green ‘ or ‘ green blob ‘ etc.
Watermelons, sickly green outside with Pinko inside.
Greenies are what my dog eats to keep her teeth clean and her breath less that awful, seems appropriate to me
Greenies are what I use to clean a stubbornly caked cooking pan. Both examples suggest that Greenies are something useful, so perhaps we do need a different perforation label.
Green Gang
Gang Green
This is the modus operandi of governments and the organisations they fund. When they want to do something that they know will be disliked by the majority of the people who put them in power, first they get a supportive group who claim to represent the public to campaign for it. Then they say that, ‘since the public are demanding it, they must accede to their wishes’. Job done.
I thought the BBC was already waging a climate war. So what are these protestors on about?
Clearly they want 24 hour coverage with appropriate brainwashing propaganda.
They won’t be satisfied until it’s at least 25 hour a day coverage.
They obviously don’t understand that the more the BBC bleats, the more the people will see the disconnect from climate reality. No change in at least 100 years!
How many demonstrators were there? I see only about 10.
Dear angry protestors,
The night before your rally, how did you communicate with your fellow protestors? — mobile phones?, computers? — all enabled by fossil fuels.
How did you arrive at the protest site? — motor cars? … buses? … heck, even bikes? — in one way or another, all enabled by fossil fuels.
What did you eat for breakfast? — whatever it might have been, modern agriculture, manufacture, and distribution to get it to you was enabled by fossil fuel.
And let’s not forget those comfy cloths and comfy heated dwellings you require to keep you fit enough to bite the hands that feed you.
Now what are you protesting again? And why are you so damn angry again?
Please wake up and get a real life.
Yours truly,
A former contributor to all environmental causes, who himself finally woke up to the big CO2 scam, thanks to smart people who put him (me) onto some REAL facts.
From the article: “Angry “Extinction Rebellion” protestors shut down the BBC headquarters, while demanding the BBC start covering climate change as if it was a major war.”
These people would be demonstrating in China and India if they were really serious.
They want to claim we are in a crisis but don’t want to acknowledge the cause of the problem: China and India; and don’t want to acknowledge that there is a simple solution to reduce CO2: nuclear powerplants.
I predict they won’t make much progress on their war. They don’t know which target to attack and they don’t have a solution for the problem (No, windmills and solar are *not* a solution).
@Tom Abbott:
“I predict they won’t make much progress on their war…..”
Tom, I keep getting the impression that the protesters do not REALLY understand that they are fighting their “war” against an “enemy” which we all depend on to maintain our standard of living and way of life. The “Extinction Rebellion” protesters have as their enemy the very same fossil fuels (and the companies that produce them) that the rest of us do, and they are probably just as dependent on them as the rest of us.
Trying to fight a war against an “enemy” that you and everyone around you are dependent on reflects an I.Q. level for which there is a lot of room for improvement. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
As I have said here many times before, the only way fossil fuels will ever go away someday is with the energy generating technological alternatives that are commercially viable and scale up successfully against them. Nuclear and hydro are currently the only ones. Wind and solar energy currently don’t cut it and neither will a climate alarmist narrative that can be poked full of enough holes scientifically to make it look like a block of Swiss cheese.
Wisdom comes with age, and these protesters obviously have a lot of maturing to do. It may be a very long time yet before they develop the wisdom to understand they are fighting a pointless “war.”
Equating a “possible” tenth or two of temperature change per decade, which may or may not be related to the use of fossil fuels, to bombs falling out of the sky, and devastating your community, is NOT a rational position.
There is a difference between a little mixed up, about complex issues, and completely detached from reality.
The BBC has been promoting “detached from reality” for decades. And it finally showed up on their doorstep, complete with winter jackets appropriate for “unprecedented warming”, 0.8*C above what someone thinks the average should be.
Complaining about impending “extinction events”.
The accurate term for this behavior is “Paranoid schizophrenia”, but that might hurt someones feelings. Best to humor them. They will get tired and go back to the shelter of a peaceful world, where war is what happens when mommy forgot to get your favorite pudding.
There seems to be a paucity of Demonstrations, for global warming.
The sceptics spout that its not a problem.
But where are the demonstrations for global warming?
Obviously that warmer is better and that colder kills.
I did have a number plate with that on but some how it was disappeared.
WARM better COLD kills.
People need to know.
Just Conflating.
“But where are the demonstrations for global warming?”
There once was a group called Minnesotans for Global Warming.
Peta meets Greenpeace Girl – The Reprise
(As armed black security guard looks on)
Everything Is Never Enough
Psst, don’t tell Sarah.
From the article: “he BBC’s central London headquarters has been put on lockdown due to a protest by climate change campaigners who are demanding it uses its status as national broadcaster to declare a “climate and ecological emergency”.”
I thought that was what the BBC *was* doing. You mean to say you don’t think they have been extreme enough in their rhetoric about CO2?
What the protestors are really complaining about is a lack of progress on doing away with fossil fuels (from their point of view).
It seems to me like the BBC has been pushing its share of CAGW propaganda and lies. What more can they do?
The Alarmists are losing this battle, it seems to me, and they are feeling it, which is why they are out in the streets (bolstered of course, by the latest IPCC scaremongering).
CO2 is increasing. The temperatures are not. That’s the reality that is going to blow up their fantasy world where CO2 destroys the world. It will just take a while.