Atlantic hurricanes are not getting worse. They are not becoming more frequent, nor are they are getting stronger.
It is not me saying that – it is what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has repeatedly said. NOAA is the US Federal Agency that deals with all matters surrounding weather and climate.
But the BBC, it seems, knows better than those experts. Every time there is a big hurricane, it wheels out one of its weather presenters to claim that climate change is making hurricanes more powerful.
It was no exception when Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica in October. Weathergirl Sarah Keith-Lucas baldly proclaimed:
The frequency of very intense hurricanes such as Melissa is increasing.
NOAA has data on US landfalling hurricanes back to 1851. It reckons these records are robust as far back as the 1890s, by which time most of the Atlantic coast had been populated. According to the agency, the data show that US hurricanes are not more frequent than in the past, nor are major hurricanes – the stronger Category 3 and over ones the BBC refers to.
Until the satellite era, which only really began in the 1980s, many mid-Atlantic hurricanes were not spotted at all. But after allowing for these missing hurricanes, NOAA is absolutely clear that there are no long-term trends in Atlantic basin hurricanes either:
There is no strong evidence of century-scale increasing trends in US landfalling hurricanes or major hurricanes. Similarly for Atlantic basin-wide hurricane frequency (after adjusting
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if everybody stopped paying the license fee, the whole issue goes away.
To every intelligent individual on here . Please dump your licence it’s easy to do.
Does this mean that the complaint can now be taken to Ofcom as the BBC in house ‘pat itself on the back’ process has been exhausted?
Not many years ago I was told by someone in a position to know that the BBC complaints team used a strategy to delay.
Any response written before the deadline was archived and released just before it was overdue. As a result many complainants gave up while persistent ones ran out of time.
Agenda driven news all in support of the UN Political Agenda called Sustainable Development. There is no verification involved in the so called science. It is all about mitigation and adapting to something that is simply assumed to be true. So worst case scenario’s, and output from computer models is claimed to be evidence, and from that evidence government policy is formed.
There is this climate Industrial Complex now made up of Governments, and bureaucrats and their “scientists” (modellers) non governmental bodies, and mainstream media that presents amplification over accuracy and consensus over fact and reason.
Since most ordinary people tend not to read scientific reports it is mostly left to the media to indoctrinate the public, and that is what they have been doing now for several decades. The public om 24 hour news have been saturated with global warming scare stories that climate change was not only real but was caused by them. They were now to accept all manner of restrictions to their lifestyle and lowering of their standard of living. —–Or as the UN put it “The lifestyles of the affluent middle classes with central heating, air conditioning, travel in private cars and high meat intake… Read more »
What about Spain last year having “the worst forest fires since records began”. These records began in 2006 – so Spain has no records of forest fires before then? Really? Or the terrible recent floods in Pakistan, where there has been a 500% population increase since the 60s with forests cut down and flood plains built on – but the problem is “climate change”.
Don’t just defund the BBC but sell it off. BBC2 may not be any less biased but the new owners will be more sensitive to complaints about accuracy.
Once you know that the BBC is simply the propaganda arm of the state – the equivalent of Orwell’s Ministry of Truth – you can smile and wave. Zero point in showing that Marxist organisation anything other than utter disdain.
Does anyone believe the BBC’s propaganda?
Yes! Not thee or me or readers of the Daily Sceptic, but many, if not most, people swallow it greedily like infants sucking on their mothers’ teats.
Most people are too busy with work and family life to investigate every issue. They think the media is doing that on their behalf. They still think there are Investigative Journalists and ofcourse there are, but not when it comes to highly politicized issues like climate change. Their job is then to perpetuate the belief in an untouchable narrative where morality and guilt are used as tools, and where there is guilt there can be regulation, taxation and CONTROL.
Climate Change is the socialist bureaucrats dream, it gives them almost unlimited control over every aspect of our lives and so who cares about facts, reason or evidence? ——The BBC certainly don’t.
‘The BBC’ and ‘accurate reporting’ have become mutually exclusive concepts in the 21st century.
I tried BBC Complaints in 2018 when the Daily Politics decided to change Trump’s words into something that would cause a diplomatic incident during the state visit. It wasn’t worth the trouble.
I complained to the BBC about an Australian chart of ‘largest wildfires’. I pointed out they had omitted the largest ever from the early 70’s.
They delayed responding and then claimed the months long delay in response was due to Covid – despite responding to two other complaints of mine meantime – then they finally replied claiming it was omitted because it had caused little damage and no deaths. I replied pointing out there was recorded damage and at least two people had died. They replied saying there was no confirmed evidence of the deaths. I pointed out they were well referenced on Wikipedia. The next response I got said my complaint had gone overtime and they could no longer respond.