From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
h/t Tim
There’s been an interesting follow up to this story about the Pakistan floods at the end of August:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62712301
Readers will recall that the claim that one third of the country was under water immediately set off my BS detector, and I did a full analysis here, totally debunking it.
But just a couple of days after my piece, the BBC’s More or Less radio programme also looked at the claim, after some viewers had complained:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001brmm
They interviewed an environmental scientist who checked out what the various satellite records indicated. His conclusion was that the true figure was that about 10% of the country had been affected by floods, and much of this was short term.
In fact, all the BBC had to do was what I did in a few minutes, and check what NASA were reporting:
It was plainly evident that nothing like a third of the country had flooded. Indeed a simple look at the map would have shown them that much of Pakistan is either mountainous or desert, which would be impossible to flood.
They could also have checked with the UN disaster agency, OCHA, who were publishing regular reports on the flooding.
According to them, the area affected was 75000 sq km, or 9% of the country:
In fact, these are precisely the sort of checks the BBC should have carried out before making their absurd claim. One which anybody with an ounce of common sense, or integrity, would have immediately suspected was wrong.
It is doubly ironic that the BBC’s defense was that the one third claim had been widely reported across the media. This shows just how utterly corrupt most of the media is nowadays.
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Where was the admission of error? I don’t see it. Unless you mean a different show which had a different person saying a different thing.
As usual headline grabbing by the western media, which is putting it nicely.
In reality they are ‘lying toads’ as my nanny used to say . .
We just have to contextualize these matters. With climate catastrophism it could easily be true so it’s worth reporting as true because- Noble Cause!
“so it’s worth reporting as true because- Noble Cause!”
I think there is a lot of that going on.
Noble cause equals end justifies means equals need to break eggs to make Utopian omelette etc. Fixate on noble cause and then it’s all about the struggle for lefties and what greater noble cause can there be than saving the planet and all within?
Problem is sooner or later along comes the shrewd operator who works with the useful idiots to rise to the top and become their Fearless Leader/Messiah who knows the one true light and the way. That’s what inters and slaughters millions again and again in its various forms of Groupthink socialism. One people one Gaia one globe one wokeness one omniscient leader….?
chap called Nick Davies wrote Flat Earth News, quite enlightening on many topics one of which was how the major press owners cut OS staff and also the agencies that used to have wide regional networks reporting in are now very limited and oddly? most are in India AAP Reuters etc are thin on the ground, with limited staff theres going to be more biased reportage too.
and then lazy BBC and others sure dont fact check what suits their agendas either