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Great information from Paul Homewood that people need to know to avoid being deceived by the stinking lying scoundrels at the British Bullshitting Service. This headline would be more accurate if it read ‘Sinking land threatens 1500 islands’
By Paul Homewood
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-26337723
From the BBC:
As many as 1,500 of Indonesia’s islands could be under water by 2050 because of rising sea levels, it’s been reported.
In the capital city, Jakarta, the main international Soekarno-Hatta Airport could be below sea level as soon as 2030, with outlying districts turned into lakes, says Singapore’s Straits Times, quoting a report from Maplecroft’s Climate Change Vulnerability Index.
“This archipelago’s biggest threat is rising sea levels, where 42 million people living 3km from the coast are vulnerable,” Ancha Srinivasan of the Asian Development Bank says.
Twenty-four islands have already disappeared off the coast of Aceh, North Sumatra, Papua and Riau, according to official research, and experts are worried this trend could accelerate. Indonesia comprises around 17,500 islands, of which approximately 6,000 are permanently inhabited.
Would it surprise you to find that the BBC have not been telling you the whole story?…
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This one allows comments: http://www.straitstimes.com/the-big-story/asia-report/indonesia/story/indonesia-risks-losing-1500-islands-2050-20140225
Even without the excellent work by Paul Homewood to show up the usual lies by the BBC, normal common sense would ask how come the sea levels rise so much around Indonesia that islands there sink – and never mind their location on the active rim of fire, that’s only ‘Nature’ – but nowhere else, either in that vicinity or globally?
The very first thing to do is to stop funding the BBC’s lies by paying the licence fee. The next thing is to expose their lies as widely as possible, as Paul Homewood is doing here. Next complain to the BBC or Ofcom about broadcast content, probably with limited effectiveness. At least do one of these things. So many people just let the BBC get away with these blatant, agenda-driven misleading broadcasts. Worse still, many people still believe what they see on TV, uncritically digesting every factoid spat out of the box in the corner of their room (actually, no, that’s old hat now isn’t it – 50 inch movie screen that takes up half their living room wall).
As I said on Paul’s original post, do they tell the whole truth about anything anymore?
The problem for us is that using the weasel word “could” allows the BBC to wriggle off the hook if they are accused of outright lying.
It’s like running a story with the headline “BBC Director General could get hit by a bus tomorrow.” Theoretically possible, but so highly improbable that it has zero value as a news item. Not an outright lie, though.
Sorry, but I’ve been through the BBC article several times and can’t find a single lie in it. Witness:
“As many as 1,500 of Indonesia’s islands could be under water by 2050 because of rising sea levels, it’s been reported.”
This has indeed been reported by the Singapore Straits Times.
“In the capital city, Jakarta, the main international Soekarno-Hatta Airport could be below sea level as soon as 2030, with outlying districts turned into lakes, says Singapore’s Straits Times”
Yup, that’s what the Times said.
“Twenty-four islands have already disappeared off the coast of Aceh, North Sumatra, Papua and Riau, according to official research”
The Beeb got that from the Times too.
“This archipelago’s biggest threat is rising sea levels, where 42 million people living 3km from the coast are vulnerable,” Ancha Srinivasan of the Asian Development Bank says.
I haven’t checked but I’m sure that Mr. Srinivasan is being quoted correctly here.
And nowhere does the article claim that the rising sea levels are being caused by climate change. It’s just crafted in such a way as to make readers automatically assume that climate change is the cause, and it’s obviously succeeded in doing that.
The problem with the article isn’t that it tells outright lies but that it presents a lot of what Tallbloke delicately describes as bullshit as if it were fact. Yes, there probably are some islands in Indonesia that are threatened by rising sea levels, but because they are subsiding tectonically, not because of climate change, and probably not that many of them (recent GPS measurements show that most of Indonesia is now undergoing uplift). The only potential disaster scenario is Jakarta, which is sinking rapidly below the waves because of subsidence caused by excessive groundwater pumping. There doesn’t seem to be much that can be done about this, so we can expect that at some point in the not-too-distant future Jakarta will become the first big-city victim of rising sea levels caused by man-made global warming. Read all about it on BBC News when it happens.
Ah yes, we have the BBC caught in the act of willfully failing to communicate the truth in order to promote the perception of an untruth. Bit of a mouthful for me so I’ll just call it a lie.
This kind of reporting is very popular. On the west coast of North America there appears to be a change in ocean currents in progress. The herring have gone, oysters have died off, scallops have died and a starfish bloom has also ended. The death of scallops is blamed on a rise in CO2.
See: http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Acidic+water+blamed+West+Coast+scallop+caused/9550861/story.html
There is a mention that the deep ocean water is welling up with regard to the oysters but the impression is left that CO2 emissions is the culprit killing scallops because a UBC ecologist says so.
NZ Herald had this story of the rebirth of a Pacific atoll devastated by a typhoon over a century ago
Yes, the committment to ‘sea level rise due to global warming’ is there, as the authors say “By better understanding the complicated and dynamic nature of island formation, scientists would better under stand their response to sea level rise as the globe warmed” But the pictures say it all, islands are dynamic systems.
Pacific atoll’s rebirth following devastating typhoon
By Jamie Morton
6:45 PM Thursday Feb 20, 2014
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11206600
Susan F: Thanks! I’ve blogged that one.
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