This asshole -a "climate change skeptic" is pushing this propaganda documentary on

[nam78_two]

many networks right now-"The Great Global Warming Swindle" (:eyes:)....
Strangely this is airing on BBC (no doubt in an attempt to achieve the
"fairness and balance" of Faux.)


Anyway neither CNN nor Faux seem to think it worthwhile pointing out that the guy is a former "scientific advisor" to the oil industry:


http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tim_Ball

Ball
From SourceWatch
Dr. Timothy Ball is Chairman and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP). <1> Two of the three directors of the NRSP - Timothy Egan and Julio Lagos - are executives with the PR and lobbying company, the High Park Group (HPG). <2> Both HPG and Egan and Lagos work for energy industry clients and companies on energy policy. <3>

Ball is a Canadian climate change skeptic and was previously a "scientific advisor" to the oil industry-backed organization, Friends of Science. <4> Ball is a member of the Board of Research Advisors of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, a Canadian free-market think tank which is predominantly funded by foundations and corporations. <5>

Ball is also a writer for Tech Central Station. <6>


This dubious "documentary" boasts support from such well-known "skeptics" like Bjorn Lomborg (a political scientist by training and with no background in the climate sciences, whose book "The Skeptical Environmentalist" was riddled with lies and falsehoods. There are a lot of excellent websites out debunking the book) and
Richard Lindzen (who gets paid $2500/hr of consulting by the oil lobby).

[Bozita]

1. Good find. Good post.

Recommended!

[DarkTirade]

2. I wish I had no morals...

then I could get filthy rich too...

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. No, not on the BBC - on Channel 4

(There are several broadcasters in the UK, not just the BBC). Channel 4 does like 'controversy' - it's promoting this as "the most controversial documentary you'll see this year" or something like that. More worryingly, they had to put out an apology for a documentary by the same director a few years ago also on the environment - but have commissioned this. George Monbiot on this: http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2007/01/30/another-species-of-denial/

Interestingly, Monbiot himself made a documentary on global warming, shown last night on Channel 4. Channel 4 have a loose attitude towards what counts as science - they have shown several series by "Doctor" Gillian McKeith, who was recently forced to stop using "Doctor" as a title - she'd bought it from an American mail-order college.

[nam78_two]

5. Just goes to show Faux is shameless about making shit up

Hannutty said the BBC...I noticed particularly because I was so surprised that they would do that. Thanks for clarifying that.

Though that ass Limbaugh also claims on his site that BBC will be airing it soon, so I don't know whats up with that. Not that these people have much regard for the truth...

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. I suppose it's possible they meant "BBC America"

which does rebroadcast some Channel 4 programmes in the USA - though it doesn't look like they do documentaries or current affairs, from that link. If it's Limbaugh and Hannity, I don't think they deserve the benefit of the doubt, though - more likely it's ignorance or lying on their part.

[rman]

7. Channel 4 (or any network) should do a documentary on pseudo-science

If there are thousands upon thousands of scientific articles confirming global warming and human contribution to it, and merely a handful of (pseudo) scientific articles to the contrary - then is it fair and balanced to give both *equal* time?

[2008]

4. k & r (nt)

[Eugene]

8. K & R nt

[Reterr]

9. k&r.eom