I recently sent another complaint to the BBC, which they have now replied to. Their reply fails to address my main point, which is that all available scientific evidence shows extreme weather events have not increased in frequency or intensity since records began. Their utterly lame justification is that NGO’s and aid agencies say they have, so it must be true:
Dear Mr Tattersall
Reference [redacted]
Thanks for contacting us regarding ‘Breakfast’ broadcast on the 17 November.
We understand you were unhappy with the interview with Oxfam’s Max Lawson as you felt that Max wasn’t challenged sufficiently.
We make no editorial comment or judgement on the views expressed by contributors to our programmes, and our aim is simply to provide enough information for viewers to make up their own minds.
This may include hearing opinions which some people may personally disagree with but which individuals may be fully entitled to hold in the context of legitimate debate.
The BBC is committed to impartial and balanced coverage when it comes to this issue.
There is broad scientific agreement on the issue of climate change and we reflect this accordingly;however, we do aim to ensure that we also offer time to the dissenting voices.
Flagship BBC programmes such as Newsnight, Today and our network news bulletins on BBC One have all included contributions from those who challenge the general scientific consensus recently and we will continue to offer time to such views on occasion.
You might be interested in the views of former Newsnight editor, Peter Barron, who explored this issue in an online posting at our Editors’ Blog and explained some of the editorial issues it throws up:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/02/how_green_should_we_be.html
You may wish to read our online report on this subject of Aid agencies saying that the typhoon shows need for action on climate change:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24975106
We’d like to assure you that we’ve registered your complaint on our audience log. This is an internal report of audience feedback which we compile daily and is available for viewing by all our staff. This includes all programme makers and presenters, along with our senior management. It ensures that your points, along with all other comments we receive, are circulated and considered across the BBC.
Thanks again for contacting us.
Kind Regards
Gemma McAleer
BBC Complaints
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints
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Dear Gemma,
‘Breakfast’ is part of the BBC’s 24 hour rolling news ‘service’. What do you mean:
We make no editorial comment or judgement on the views expressed by contributors to our programmes,
You challenge politician’s assertions, why not Oxfam’s? Are NGO’s embued with papal infallibility?. You continue:
our aim is simply to provide enough information for viewers to make up their own minds. This may include hearing opinions which some people may personally disagree with but which individuals may be fully entitled to hold in the context of legitimate debate.
What debate? No-one elses view was presented, you simply provided a propaganda platform for a blatant liar unchallenged by any debate.
we do aim to ensure that we also offer time to the dissenting voices.
No you don’t. Twenty eight ‘climate experts’ (who turned out to be NGO lobbyists) helped your organisation justify the exclusion of dissenting voices in 2006. Google ’28gate’
I have stopped paying the BBC license fee and will advise others to do the same until your organisation starts paying more than lip service to its charter.
Good day.
Tallbloke
Tallbloke's Talkshop 
It is not only the people they have on their programmes that outright lie
“The BBC is committed to impartial and balanced coverage when it comes to this issue.”
ROFL.
‘we will continue to offer time to such views on occasion’
…and the other 99% of the time we will churn out the warmist party line, all paid for by licence fees.
Auntie knows best.
I have found that challenging the green posts on relatively uncensored blogs to be most enjoyable. They hate it when you can quote their favoured organisations like IPCC to rubbish their arguments. It isn’t even that hard. Here was one example:
http://www.pundit.co.nz/content/facing-up-to-climate-reality-lessons-from-haiyan-yeb-sano
Where at the end, I even had the Oxfam boss having to totally change his story (without ever conceding defeat though)
Beeb’s de facto response to all such complaints and comments: “Can’t make me!”
Chris M: Good work!
O/T but Anthony Watts has posted about Marcia Wyatt and Judy Curry’s ‘stadium wave’ paper. This could turn into an interesting thread with a bit of goodwill and careful comment
This one is still stuck in moderation, probably because I used Anthony’s name in the comment:
TB,
You have to understand that government subsidies and advertising is a huge part of their income…
At any point the government can SLAP their fingers through funding cuts.
A circular file, perhaps?
Yes, circular.
Might I suggest that moving the BBC would require enough people writing that staffers have a memory of one when the next one shows up, such that it drags their mind along in a slow spin?
Comet Ison destroyed by Global warming…..
On Thursday, Comet ISON was approaching the perihelion, the closest point to the Sun on its trajectory. Centuries ago, before the climate began to change, such a moment in the life of a comet would be an important event for the religious societies. However Comet ISON was largely destroyed. The experts are not quite sure about the cause but most of the researchers mention the global warming. The Solar System is being catastrophically heated up by the man-made emissions of CO2, especially by those produced by the corporations in countries with GDP per capita exceeding $20,000, particularly those countries which tolerate a larger number of the climate change deniers, heretics, and other contrarians.
H/T Lubos Motl
Print this in the “Guardian” and it will be repeated as Gospel by the brain-dead numpties in the BBC and Parliament.
You can either have a free press or a government funded press. Pick one.