Jeremy Clarkson has blasted the BBC and David Attenborough for stuffing the latest Planet Earth series with climate change propaganda, saying he “hates” the show and urging a change in direction. The Mail has more.
The Grand Tour host admitted that while he’s been captivated by the new BBC series, he found the script “insane”.
Clarkson wrote in his column with the Sun: “Oh the photography is brilliant. Spellbinding even. But the words are driving me insane.”
The outspoken broadcaster then pointed out that despite once admiring Attenborough’s in-depth knowledge of animals, he now feels his mission to educate viewers on the impact of global warming has become a bit repetitive.
He wrote: “Now all we ever get is, ‘Here’s a see-through fish with an orange stomach, and it’s future is threatened by climate change’, and then it’s: ‘Here’s something with pointy teeth and soon it will be wiped out by global warming.’
“We know already. So please, in future, tell us about the animals, not the bloody weather.”
Worth reading in full.
It’s not the first time the petrolhead has criticised Attenborough’s climate change obsession. Last year he made similar points about Frozen Planet II, calling it a “joke” and saying he’d turned it into a drinking game: “Every time climate change crops up, I have a beer. It’s the only way to make this half-arsed twaddle tolerable.”
Today, Sir Attenborough is too old to appear in the films and I’m afraid he doesn’t even write the script any more. He just reads out words that have been written by a team of vegan communists who have only one thing on their minds. Climate change.
I’ve been watching Frozen Planet II and it’s a joke, because we learn nothing at all. We see some dramatic footage of a polar bear and before we are told anything at all, we are warned that because of human activity and capitalism and Donald Trump, the poor bear’s habitat is disappearing. …
When I first began to notice this stuck-record commentary, I decided to get my own back. Every time they mentioned global warming, I’d turn my central heating up a notch.
But that’s too expensive, really.
So I’ve turned it into a drinking game. Every time climate change crops up, I have a beer.
It’s the only way to make this half-arsed twaddle tolerable.
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Polar bears climate extinction never happened
leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
Nice one Mr Clarkson and thank goodness a man with his public profile has had the guts to call Attenborough out because the old eugenecist is a threat to the existence of millions. Why on earth are taxpayers still funding the old t**t?
This will probably kick up a stink, well hopefully it will. One thing for sure Clarkson’s legions of petrol head fans will definitely be right behind him. Actually, thinking about it the likelihood is that the matter will be downplayed – mustn’t upset the narrative.
Thanks for the review Jeremy, not that I had any intention of watching the programme but it’s good to see some unbiased criticism for a change.
It would be nice if Clarkson had added “and we all know it is just tosh anyway…”
! always seem to get here after you lot have all had your comments done ages ago. Maybe I should get up at 3 in the morning to pass comment. I could also do the laundry and help save the planet, except that isn’t any good really because I refuse to have a smart meter and they won’t know what time I am using my electricity so they can charge me more at peak times. ——–But Huxley, you already know what I think of this eco socialist pretend to save the plant garbage masquerading as science. I notice on Mailonline they are back on that old scare story of vector borne diseases from mosquitoes going to get worse because of “Climate Change”. Except Malaria etc is NOT a disease of climate. It is a disease of poverty. There used to be Malaria in Britain, Holland and the USA. ——–What stopped Malaria is WEALTH. One of the worst outbreaks of Malaria that killed about 600,000 people actually occurred within the arctic circle. ——Attenborough has long been just a global warming lackey, but ofcourse if he wasn’t one he wouldn’t be making programs on the British Brainwashing Corporation
“I always seem to get here after you lot have all had your comments done ages ago.”
Me too! I can never seem to get here ‘late’, no matter how early I think I am.
Better late than never Varmint and I always appreciate your responses.
I won’t watch any Attenborough programmes – except very old ones – I just can’t stand the constant climate doom.
Many documentaries are similar. If not banging the climate drum, it’s slavery and colonialism which now is linked with just about everything.
Plus, inane presenters who treat their audience like 7 year olds.
And why must the first 5 minutes be a summary of what they are going to say, what they will show, what questions they will be asking? It drives me nuts. Just get on with it!
Many moons ago, I was an instructor at No6 Flying Training School. A maxim we used regularly, so as not to lose sight of the lesson objectives was: Tell ’em what you’re gonna tell ’em. Tell ’em. Tell ’em what you’ve told ’em. It worked too.
That explains it! They think they’re teaching a lesson,
We used an acronym to lay the lesson/presentation groundwork. INTROSH.
Introduction. Need (why listen). Title. Revision of previous work if applicable. Objectives of the talk/lesson. Scope of what’s to be covered. Handout yes/no.
The format is flexible and I used a modified version of it 20 years later when giving presentations at (inter alia) The Savoy and The Liberal Club.
“Tell ’em what you’re gonna tell ’em. Tell ’em. Tell ’em what you’ve told ’em.”
Standard procedure for news and news type programmes nowadays.
Personally I am a big believer in “Just get on with it!” As per JXB.
You’ve obviously never tried teaching Italian exchange officers how to navigate a Dominie aircraft at 35,000ft and 360 knots Hux. “Just get on with it” doesn’t begin to cut it.
I must confess I have never had the pleasure of navigating a Dominie aircraft at 35,000ft and 360 knots and to be honest it is not something I feel I have missed. My comment “Just get on with it” was specifically related to news type programmes. I would certainly not seek to undermine or denigrate the work of an RAF navigator / trainer.
Respect sir.
Or that new Italian tank. 4 gears all reverse.
Different from the medical method, then: “See one, do one, teach one.”
Big difference in that Doctors are already qualified. Ab initio navigation students have zero experience Jon. Incidentally, a few suffer from ‘brain fog’ when seven miles up and doing six miles a minute.
Similar strategy though. ‘Walk’ through the sortie and its objectives in the classroom in slow time to iron out potential problems.. Repeat in ‘real time’. Go into the simulator and ‘fly’ the mission in real time. Get airborne with an instructor and fly the mission for real.
Perfectly reasonable if you are teaching (indoctrinating) something important, but for a load of psuedo-scientific nonsense with a hard left bias, it is completely out of place. From the BBC point of view (not mine!) it is indoctrination of the masses. Bring back Marx, is the mantra.
Another reason aside from 10navigator’s comment below is the slow slide to emulating our cousins across the pond who’s TV programs seem to recap everything that was previously said after every (frequent) commercial break.
Regarding a 5 minute summary of what is going to be shown. Commercial tv it seems is more guilty of this annoying type of documentary program making than the BBC. Increasingly, a 2 minute recap is now being shown after a five minute commercial break! Cui bono? Well, not the viewer of course. But it will certainly cut down on the expense of a more detailed documentary. My suspicion is that this is yet another profit driven, dumbing down, commercial tv practice from across the pond.
Maybe Attenborough has died and AI is doing the voice-overs.
Glad that I don’t have a TV licence, finally had enough of the BBC during Covid.
Planet Earth is played in Uk schools frequently!
Either as background on the screen or evidence to trust!
So it is a concern that it is used as educational gospel truth.
The Incredible filming of our wonderful earth is welcome but I cringe at Attenborough speaking, his hint at less humans needed mantra stands out.
The programme was put on by me last night because I like the filming and there was a valid point made about poaching elephants; who can’t love an elephant, but as always serious concerns surfaced as real red flags get conflated and mixed up with human causing global warming? Not.
As Clarkson describes difficult to listen so put on silent.
Top globalist Sir David Attenborough is a eugenicist, who described humans as a ‘plague on earth’.
He has gone on record in calling for nations to stop sending food aid to starving nations in order to reduce the population of the world.
It’s no wonder he supports the climate change nonsense.
By demanding the poor leave their fossil fuels in the ground and fobbing them off with some money for turbines and the odd school here and there we are condemning the third world to eternal poverty. One billion still do not have electricity in this world and telling them not to use coal and gas is really telling them they will ever have it.
https://www.technocracy.news/sustainable-development-is-technocracy/
This is a far more instructive article than the current crop of lame, diversionary news stories we are being fed.
“Technocracy itself is doomed to fail, but it will take the whole world with it. James Corbett wrote in Technocracy is Insane, Anti-Human and it WILL Fail:
But what will the world look like on the other side of that failure? Will it be a world full of people who are still looking to some group of would-be, self-appointed leaders to tell them what to do and how to do it? Or will it be a world of free, independent human beings casting off the shackles of the parasite class and working together to achieve their goals?
That is the central question of our times, and it is the key to understanding what the Global War for Independence is really about.”
Clarkson flip flops. Having started out as a climate sceptic, he proclaimed himself convinced of ‘The Truth’ when filming in the Far East, blaming the low and reducing level of the river on climate change. It turned out that China had stopped the discharge of water into its upper reaches and diverted it over their side of the border. Now, having got bored with Attenborough, he seems to be back on side. Never trust a celebrity!
I agree, he hasn’t actually said man made climate change is b*****ks just that he’s fed up listening to the repetition – bit of a difference, but perhaps I’m just being a pedant.
No, you have it wrong, he doesn’t write the commentary, he just reads it. That is broadcasting, the way it works. If he doesn’t say it to the script, he has to do it again and again until it is correct. That is what makes him so angry!
As a kid at school in the early seventies, I, with the rest of my class, watched Attenborough’s Life On Earth religiously, during every lesson, for however long the series lasted. It must’ve been a dream for our biology teacher. Over the next few years I watched the whole series at least twice more. I loved it. Like most people I’ve always been fascinated by the natural world. It’s a fascinating thing! On leaving university with a degree in modern languages but no clue of what do to with it, I pathetically wrote to Attenborough, wondering if I could be of service, somehow, to my spiritual master. He wrote a very pleasant but understandably negative reply, which I had framed and hung on a wall for years. Over the decades, I recorded many many natural history programmes; I had an 8-shelf book case, holding about 25 vhs cassettes, each containing between 4 and 6 natural history programmes, of course including anything involving Saint David of Attenborough. I continue to think him a remarkable man and am deeply grateful for the education he gave me – which in many ways has been vastly more useful than anything else I learnt at school. But for the last 10 or 20 years it’s been mostly downhill. CDs then streaming rendered my wonderful cassette collection redundant, and one day I took them all to the dump. More tragically, however, Sir David has become, knowingly or not, a tool of the climate alarmism priesthood, from whose sacred high altar the likes of Chris Packham now hurl abuse and outrage at Jeremy Clarkson, who, in comparison with his usual fare, hasn’t said anything particularly virulent. He’s bored hearing about climate armageddon. So? So am I. Sadly I find almost all nat-hist progs impossible to watch nowadays – either because of the mannered, sentimentalised, affected narration (while Sir D’s was if anything understated and naturally spoken by comparison – surely one of the great speakers of the language -), or the constant, quasi-religious recitation of messages of eco-doom. I now occasionally take my binos with me to stare at LBJs (‘little brown jobs’) when I walk the dog – other than that, little contact with the subject that had me enchanted for so many years. Chris Packham is just the pits.
A fallen idol to me very very sad and I think you’re flattering Packham.
I know Clive such a disappointment, but you realised like a lot of adults have .. except schools.
But at least you used your local ‘recycle centre’ to do the dump him ceremony, very apt, because the recycle rubbish centre is treated like a sacred place on school visits !! lest we forget we must to double down on the climate mantra. Chapter and verse Attenborough dumped.
Hope you find an alternative voiced wonderful earth programme!let us all know if you do please.
“If it wisnae fur yer wellies where wud ye be”—Billy Connely. ——-And if it wisnae fur propaganda where wud global warming be?
Think I should clarify slightly: I don’t think Packham is always the pits; in many ways he is of course a ‘good person’. But in this matter of J Clarkson, and in one or two other matters, he definitely is. He’s not worst out there, but he’s one of the green priesthood and can be a tremedous pain ITA. Yes of course we need to get the plastic out of the sea; yes of course we need to keep the rivers clean; yes of course the rain forests need to be protected from the predations of irresponsible corporations etc etc. Most of the rest is just a lot taurine feculence.
Packham is a thoroughly nasty, opinionated but ignorant individual who qualifies effortlessly as an oxygen thief.
Well I suppose we could go on and on. I find these creatures problematic; “thoroughly nasty”? I don’t think so; if you collapsed in the street in front of him, he’d help you, for instance. But that corporate BBC part of him – perhaps only a small part of his makeup, though I might be wrong – disproportionately influences the consequences of his thoughts and actions, and provides support for all manner of foolishness. It’s as if he has a highly infectious disease of which he’s unaware.
Is that just a lot of verbiage? Maybe. Easier just to call an oxygen thief and deal with him accordingly? Perhaps, yes. As a proponent and disseminator of bad ideas, he and his ilk can’t expect much mercy, I guess.
His documentaries require an enormous team to fly all over the globe spewing out vast amounts of carbon dioxide in the process. He has probably created even more unnecessary eco-destructive travel by those who can afford to emulate his international exploration than any other person I can think of.
I cannot abide the man’s sickly propaganda personally and can’t bear watch the clearly fabulous footage.
Obviously none of us poor plebs will in future be allowed to travel beyond our 15 minute ghettos but no doubt the “very self-important people” will still engage in their ecotourism and equally obviously only in support of eco research and spreading the eco message!
It is just about the presenters, front and centre on the screen blocking out the countryside, garden, bird or animal that you had hoped to view.
Then the presenters join forces to compete in the jungle, in the kitchen, on ice etc to waste even more broadcasting time.
As you say just reach for the off button.
Co2 is plant food and not a threat to the planet.
Alternatively, don’t watch …. and don’t fund the BBC.
I find muting the sound and just enjoying the amazing photography works for me!