THE ICE SPREADS AGAIN

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Radio 4's coverage of the Copenhagen conference this week has frozen out the global warming sceptics again. The slight thaw felt before the conference has vanished, and ice again covers all dissent.
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On Monday's The World At One Martha Kearney talked to Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aping, Sudanese chief negotiator for the G77 countries. He's been quite a presence across the BBC in recent days. Has anybody heard anyone at the Beeb ask why the representative of an indicted war criminal, President al-Bashir of Sudan, should be allowed to assume the moral highground on anything? Martha certainly didn't. ("Thank you very much for explaining that to us", she said to him at the end of the interview - and she wasn't talking about genocide).
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Mr Di-Aping was back on The World Tonight last night, talking to Felicity Evans. She let the matter pass too. Also featured was Jeremy Leggett, a Greenpeace campaigner turned solar panel producer (though his Greenpeace connections were not mentioned). Others to appear on the programme so far this week have been Yvo de Boer, head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (14/12) and Bill Hare, who's "at Copenhagen to negotiate on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States", or so the programme told us (neglecting to mention that he's also a Greenpeace campaigner) (15/12).
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PM has wheeled on Newsnight's Susan Watts, & she's talked to Mithika Mwenda, a sloganising activist for the Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance (16/12); Changhua Wu, of China's Climate Group; and Ed Markey, a liberal Democrat congressman (17/12).
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Back though to The World at One, & as well as the disturbing Mr Di-Aping we've heard from that gaggle of greenies and lefties I outlined yesterday (Sergio Serra, Ed Miliband and Bianca Jagger ) and today from the King of Climate Change himself Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - more about whom can be found via here: http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/2009/12/cru-falsified-russia-records.html#comments
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Protestors from the left/green side of the argument have also been heard from in droves.
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