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BBC folds, then folds again

Marc Sheppard
American Thinker
Monday, April 7, 2008

The BBC appears to have serially caved-in to global warmist activism. There was much online discussion this weekend about a Friday BBC global warming / La Nina related article suddenly changing its wording and with it -- its apparent balance. Today, news that an eco-activist has smugly taken credit for coercing the change has joined the conversation. And I'm now adding my discovery of a second amending in which a neutrality-vital sentence that survived the first update has now completely vanished.

The original piece by BBC News environment analyst Roger Harrabin opened with the words "Global temperatures this year will be lower than in 2007." But by day's end the lede's start was changed to "Global temperatures will drop slightly this year."

Both versions included as a third line:

"This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory."

But while the original followed that with:

"But experts have also forecast a record high temperature within five years, probably associated with another episode of El Nino."

The updated version read:

"But experts say we are still clearly in a long-term warming trend -- and they forecast a new record high temperature within five years."

And then added:

"The WMO points out that the decade from 1998 to 2007 was the warmest on record. Since the beginning of the 20th Century, the global average surface temperature has risen by 0.74C.

"While Nasa [sic], the US space agency, cites 2005 as the warmest year, the UK's Hadley Centre lists it as second to 1998.

"Researchers say the uncertainty in the observed value for any particular year is larger than these small temperature differences. What matters, they say, is the long-term upward trend."

What prompted the discussion-altering edit, which -- by the way -- neglected to update the post's timestamp?

This morning, Jennifer Marohasy of Australia's Institute of Public Affairs, revealed an exchange between the author and climate alarmist Jo Abbess she found on the Campaign Against Climate Change message board. It seems that the CACC board was where Abbess posted a transcript of her email debate in order to impress her fellow greenies.

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