Paul Homewood has written a cracking piece in TCW: Defending Freedom about why the BBC’s multi-million pound new fact-checking unit should start by investigating the deluge of misinformation about the ‘climate emergency’ pumped out by the… BBC.
THE BBC has set up a new ‘disinformation unit’, BBC Verify. Marianna Spring, the BBC’s Disinformation Correspondent, says she is currently studying “the U.K.’s conspiracy theory movement” which she claims has “evolved and intensified” since the Chinese coronavirus outbreak. Spring identified “alternative media” as a source of so-called conspiracy theories.
“I’m looking at the way alternative media is funded, I’m looking at its impact on local communities, I’m looking at its connections with far-right figures and also its foreign links,” she said.
The millennial journalist’s reference to ‘far right’ rather gives the game away. Evidently disinformation from the left wing or globalists is OK then! And what she means by far right is not neo-Nazi, but ordinary conservative, Christian views, once regarded as mainstream and still held by most of the British public.
The whole thing is laughable anyway, because the BBC itself is one of the biggest sources of disinformation, certainly where climate change is concerned. So I suggest BBC Verify begin by looking into the BBC’s own coverage.
Here a few examples of the factual errors, omission of relevant information and sheer bias which have featured in BBC climate reporting just in the last year or so:
- The BBC reported that the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season was “the third most active on record”. It was not; there have been 32 years with a higher count.
- The BBC claimed last summer that “hurricanes are among the most violent storms on Earth and there’s evidence they’re getting more powerful”. But according to the hurricane experts at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, there has been no increase in the frequency or intensity of Atlantic hurricanes since the late 1800s.
- A claim that “punishing weather conditions linked to climate change have eroded so much of the coast at Happisburgh, Norfolk”. The BBC have been unable to provide evidence for this, and the British Geological Society say that the coastline has been eroding at the same rate as now for the past 5,000 years.
- In October 2021, the BBC claimed that heat pumps are much cheaper to run than gas boilers. The opposite is the case, as the BBC eventually admitted.
- In October 2022, the BBC reported that the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard had warmed by 4°C in the last 50 years. They failed to report that temperatures there plunged by almost as much between 1950 and 1970.
- The BBC reported at the time of last summer’s Pakistan floods that one third of the country had been submerged. The real figure, as evidenced by NASA satellites, was less than 10%.
- Last year Sri Lanka experienced a catastrophic collapse in farming output, following a ban on imported fertiliser, which was designed purely to reduce GHG emissions. The BBC has been extremely reluctant to publicise the real reason, instead first blaming the food shortages on Putin, and then claiming that the ban was an attempt to “protect dwindling foreign currency reserves”.
- A classic example of BBC deception appeared in a recent report on solar power, when it published a graph showing solar power now accounted for more than 10% of the world’s generating capacity. They omitted the fact that, because solar power is so intermittent, it only accounts for 3% of the world’s actual electricity.
- The BBC often regurgitates propaganda from official bodies without any attempt to challenge or fact check. Last year they uncritically reported the World Meteorological Organisation’s claims that “extreme weather events are the new normal”. There is no evidence that extreme weather is getting worse, something which even the IPCC has been forced to admit.
- According to the BBC, a sighting of European bee-eaters in England last year was “a worrying sign of how our climate is changing”. British bird books are full of details of past sightings as far back as the 18th Century.
- One particularly silly study found willing support from the BBC last year, claiming that British trees are at risk from “drier weather under climate change”, even though the country has been getting wetter!
- In July 2022, the BBC reported that England had its driest start to the year since 1976. In fact it had only been the driest since 2010.
- It was very hot in Delhi last May. The BBC was quick to blame it on climate change, with claims of a new record high temperature in Delhi. In fact, none of the long-running weather stations showed a record, with data at the Indian Meteorological Dept’s base station in Delhi proving that it was more than a degree hotter in May 1944.
- It was dry in February this year, but the BBC’s claims of water shortages were simply not credible. So they included in their report a photo of a near-empty reservoir, which was quickly proved to have been taken two summers previously.
- The BBC was eager to report that the U.K. heatwave last July had killed more than 3,000 people. However, the Office for National Statistics analysis, on which the BBC’s claims were based, actually said no such thing. It also pointed out that excess deaths had been running at high levels throughout the spring, summer and autumn of last year.
- The BBC’s green bias is on display all the time, exemplified by its choice of interviewees and experts. In March 2022, Radio 4 broadcast a half-hour programme considering whether Shell should develop the massive Cambo oil field off the Shetland Islands. All three interviewees were ardent lobbyists for renewable energy, so unsurprisingly they argued against Cambo, something for which the BBC was forced to apologise for.
- Only two weeks ago, the wretched BBC claimed that the recent tragic floods in Italy were due to climate change, even though such floods have been only too common in the past.
Worth reading in full.
To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.
Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.
….. they won’t.
The BBC is like a woodworm, hollowing out British culture on bite at a time.
‘BBC’ and ‘verify’ shouldn’t be in the same sentence.
An oxymoron , with the emphasis on the moron.
Meanwhile, the Conservatives make much of cancelling the licence fee but Unaparty loyalty with deep state makes this a non starter.
Great compilation of BBC climate BS. I would love to see someone from the BBC debate these points, but they won’t, they know they are lying. They prefer to name call from a distance.
The BBC don’t debate climate. It is conveniently, according to them “all settled”, which means they can say anything they want and no one can ever come on their Channels and question any of it. ————–It is a Climate Coup. The BBC have created a Climate Dictatorship. Oh and by the way SKY NEWS are just as bad with their phony “Climate Show” with their little mock up Digital thermometer of the “Global Temperature” ticking up slowly but relentlessly to scare the gas central heating out of everyone’s house and fob them off with a silly heat pump.
Clearly the BBC wants to target alternative media with a view to closing it down. They want to look at its funding and foreign links. Instead of that they should be looking into links the BBC and the rest of MSM have with their foreign donors like Bill Gates.
What the BBC does not get is that it is their bias and disinformation that is the reason alternative media exists. If they want to prevent the rise of alternative media then try telling the truth in an unbiased way.
More background information on Ms Spring:-
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/06/01/bbc-specialist-disinformation/
Interesting article. Thanks for posting.
I watched an unedited interview with her and it was almost unwatchable.
She was challenged on pandemic measures and the answer was either:
’the evidence shows’ or
’I am not a health correspondent, I only deal with social media disinformation’ and whenever the interview became uncomfortable she changed the subject.
Once you realised her tactics it became quite difficult to watch.
Not forgetting their misinformation on Covid or Trump. I complained about Joke O’Burn on The Daily Politics saying that Trump said that Boris would be a better PM than Theresa a few seconds after playing a clip in which he actually said that Boris would make a great PM. BBC Complaints response was verbal diarrhoea, I cancelled my licence soon after.
BBC Verify should not exist
The BBC in its current form should not exist. The state has no business owning a running a major global media empire
Ofcom in its current form should not exist – the state has no business regulating broadcast content
There is no point in attempts at reform – you could clean it up and it would just revert to politicised propaganda
Posted this ‘below the line’ a couple of days ago…
a great take on BBC Verify by Doctor Dr Mchonk Honk….brilliant…
https://www.bitchute.com/video/OlE4sKNwJHqH/
Presumably they were inspired by the Government’s own spying units, as revealed in the Telegraph this evening. The BBC was in attendance at the meetings and complicit.
After the Telegraph’s report, BBC Verify (henceforth to be known as BBC Terrify) should be scrapped immediately.
Oh dear. Dr Simon Goddek calling out Reiner Fuellmich as a fraud here. I’ll reserve judgment until I’ve seen a response from him to this post of Simon’s. I did wonder why we were getting radio silence on the much anticipated law suit he always promised us.
”From the outset, I have criticized Reiner Fuellmich’s reporting. His requests for donations and lack of financial transparency were major red flags for me.
Reiner kept talking about lawsuits and class actions. “Wait two more weeks” were his standard holding tactics throughout 2.5 years. Eventually, he raised several million dollars in donations. It never came to a class action lawsuit. Recently, it was made public by his Corona Committee partners that RFK’s ‘class action lawsuit buddy’, Reiner, personally enriched himself from those very donations by embezzling the funds. Surprise, surprise – who could have possibly seen it coming!?
After doing some research, I discovered that “Stiftung Corona Ausschuss” wasn’t a Stiftung (Stiftung means foundation) but a private corporation without any custodians. The name was consequently misleading. The donations would directly go to a personal account, so I refrained from donating money to Reiner.”
https://twitter.com/goddeketal/status/1664660225348055041?cxt=HHwWgsC9uffph5ouAAAA
Yes, Reiner was a big disappointment. After all his English language videos were removed from YouTube, be pretty much vanished!!
I am at the Better Way Conference in Bath.
Organised by the World Council for Health.
Interestingly, Fuellmich spoke about his lawsuits as he is finding it difficult to find a court that will touch it. He now has found that the Māori people in New Zealand have an independent court system and proceedings are imminent. He did not ask for donations.
Simon Goddek will be speaking at this conference later (not sure if it is in person or via video link).
Honestly, I do not know who or what to believe.
This is terrible news if true…I learned a lot from the different people who talked to Fuellmich during the ‘scam’..
One thing we all know though is how persistent the PTB..particularly the Pharma companies, can be if they want to crush someone….
I suppose we can only wait and see….
Wonder if Ms Spring would like to verify this; the mystery of how 100+ countries saw flu ”disappear” at the same time. Uncanny. There’s that word ”lockstep” again. These mini vids chime with the Prof Fenton et al article I shared this morning;
https://twitter.com/I_Am_JohnCullen/status/1664661728628551681
Moreover, we were told in advance that flu and COVID-19 stats were going to be merged in advance, so we knew the figures would be inflated by all the winter flu cases getting diagnosed as COVID-19. It was gobsmacking to sit there and watch this insanity happening. Oh well, Little Miss Dimples will hopefully be out of a job if this Telegraph story has legs. I can’t see BBC Verify happening with the CDU story showing up BBC involvement.
Spring might also look into the BBC’s sources of finance, e.g. the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
and …
The BBC attack on Bridgen: even more evidence of appalling bias – Supportive comment from Dr. Joseph Fraiman, the first named author of a study Andrew Bridgen referred to in his speech and the BBC tried to rubbish by interviewing Fraiman for its Antisocial program and condensing a 1-hour conversation into a 3-second paraphrase that ignored everything that was relevant.
The BBC’s Health Editor’s uncritical acceptance of the WHO investigation into the origins of the covid virus.
Its failure to report mass protests in London. E.g. 29/05/21, 26/06/21, not to mention elsewhere, e.g. the march in Melbourne 16/11/21.
Its repeating the Sunday Times’ report that 90% of intensive care beds were being filled by the unvaccinated, when the real figure was 48% (see interview with Anna Brees).
The problem with the BBC’s reporting of excess deaths (as told by a BBC insider in The Spectator 15/01/23).
The BBC being sued by RF Kennedy in Texas court for suppressing “wholly accurate and legitimate reporting” to further their economic interests via the Trusted News Initiative.
Fenton and Neil’s review of the BBC’s atrociously biased ‘Unvaccinated’ program.
How the BBC lost its way on Covid (19/12/21). A BBC journalist expresses his revulsion.
BBC hosts Big Pharma’s drive to get Africa hooked on Covid vaccine.
BBC reports on ‘exhausted and distressed’ doctors at University Hospital of North Tees. Dr Catherine Monaghan, respiratory consultant, claimed: “We are planning for war and praying for peace.” Turned out there had been no Covid deaths there for 76 days.
The BBC‘s Jeremy Vine saying the Yellow Card system is not a valid record of vaccine-related deaths.
BBC boast that it got Vaccine Injured Support Group with 250,000 members removed from Facebook.
The BBC “saving syria’s children” documentary: staged events, fake video footage
See UK Column for more material!
It’s bad enough having propaganda shoved down your throat. To willingly pay for it is laughable.
Call me cynical, but 27 year old ladies with a very limited knowledge of the world at large are usually gifted jobs well above their level of competence because of their abilities between the master and the mattress
Marianna ‘BrokenBed’ Spring?
Nudgewatch.
That might be a BBC programme I would tune in for.
What we have with the phony “Climate Crisis”, which emanates entirely from computer models full of assumptions, speculations and guesses is a smidgeon of the truth elevated into a planetary emergency for which no observational evidence exists. ——–Goebbels was a rank amateur compared to the Climate Industrial Complex that is there for one reason only. To provide the excuse for “Sustainable Development”, which is the world’s economy, wealth and resources controlled by the technocrats of the Great Reset. They get away with this fraud because most people cannot comprehend a lie so big that is drummed into them every minute of every day, and they are reluctant to challenge or question anything they think is “Science”. ———Except climate models are NOT “science”. They are “Official Science”. When everything you claim is due to your theory and it cannot be falsified, so that you can say whatever you like and there is no way to disprove it then that is NOT SCIENCE.
Sadly, it’s not only the BBC that pump out such garbage as highlighted by the excellent Paul Homewood. The prize idiot Mark Dolan on his GB news slot last night, in his craven bid to be even handed on an item regarding climate change, stressed, “of course we all know that the science is settled that climate change is real and that’s endorsed by over 90% of scientists.”
Such wrong headedness should merit the sting of the lash across his pitiful shoulders. I almost spilt my gin rickey in disgust.
Can’t imagine Mark Steyn trying such a cowardly, pathetic attempt to curry favour.
MS was the only one who told it like it was. All the others (inc. Dan Wootton) hedge their bets, presumably ar$e-covering. Doing so diminishes their credibility. Dolan’s stock is rock bottom in any event. Just look at the state of him.
That’s disappointing. He struck me as someone that would understand that scientific knowledge is not arrived at using a voting system like Eurovision.
Mark Dolan is a fraud and has been since Day One.
BBC Verify = Ministry of Truth
How many at the BBC would have read 1984 and if they did read it and they are the ‘brightest and best’ did they not understand the significance of this book?
Tony Heller takes apart the kind of misinformation that the BBC specialises in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umyTlvkPHxk
The BBC should come with a mental health warning. Not that anybody here still watches it, I suspect.
BBC – don’t let facts get in the way of a good story.
Oh what a tangled web we weave……