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What with those climate scientists over in East Anglia getting into a spot of hot water (man-made!) over their dodgy e-mails, it was interesting - and heartening - to hear a sceptical voice on yesterday's The World At One with Brian Hanrahan. The sceptical voice belonged to Dr Benny Peiser of Lord Lawson's Global Warming Policy Foundation. Of course, this is the BBC so he was teamed up for the interview with Saleemul Huq from the green think-tank The International Institute for Environment and Development. This is as it should be, of course.
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However, I note that, unlike Dr Peiser, Saleemul Huq was introduced by Brian Hanrahan with these words of commendation: "He's an authority on the threat of climate change to developing nations". A classic sign of bias that, to promote the expertise of someone of whose view you approve (ah, assonance!) but not to promote the expertise of someone of whose views you don't approve.
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Moreover, before we reached this discussion we had already heard two other full-length interviews, - and both were with other strong proponents of the theory of Man-Made Global Warming: Professor John Agard of the University of the West Indies (who wants 'binding targets across the board') and Bob Brown, leader of Australia's Green Party.
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Oh well. Rome wasn't built in a day.
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Please see the Biased BBC website at http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/ and Not a Sheep at http://notasheepmaybeagoat.blogspot.com/ for lots more on this gripping story - and how the BBC has been handling it.