Net Zero Watch has issued a new document about the lies told by the BBC about climate change in 2023. It is written by Paul Homewood who had a career as an accountant in industry. He has been writing on climate and energy issues since 2011.
Here a summary of what the paper is all about:
Executive summary
Can the BBC’s coverage of climate change be trusted? Many have now concluded that it can’t. For years their treatment has been one-sided, full of misinformation and at times factual errors, along with the omission of alternative views and inconvenient facts.
We have detailed many such examples during recent years in two previous papers. This latest assessment covers the last year. It includes many examples showing how the public have been misled, but these are no doubt just the tip of the iceberg.
Far from reducing, the problem of misinformation seems to be on the rise, with an almost daily stream of what is little more than propaganda – doom laden stories of extreme weather caused by climate change. Tales of how hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, droughts, heatwaves and storms are all getting worse are never backed up by actual data, of course.
One BBC report began ‘Heat. Wildfires. Torrential rain. Typhoons and hurricanes. Much of the northern hemisphere has been battered by extreme weather this summer’. There was no evidence presented that any of this was anything other than the sort of normal weather which we get every year. Typhoons and hurricanes were not above normal for the year, while the Mediterranean wildfire season, which the BBC had been spreading alarm about all summer, turned out to be no worse than average either.
We were warned about a future without beer and bananas, and even a crocodile that bit a woman in Indonesia was, we were told, the result of climate change!
It is not only climate matters where bias and disregard for facts are evident. In the lead up to the General Election, Justin Rowlatt, the BBC’s Climate Editor, writing about the Reform Party’s energy policies, claimed that solar and wind power are cheaper than gas generation. Official government data shows that they are actually considerably greater; but that inconvenient truth does not fit in with the BBC’s renewable agenda.
Where climate change is concerned, the BBC is now little more than a lobby group. Given the enormous cost of achieving Net Zero, not to mention the wholesale changes it will mean to people’s lifestyles, the public are entitled to fully impartial reporting from the BBC.
Download the full document here.
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