BBC censors Harrabin

Roger Harrabin is one of the less ideological reporters for the BBC and he sometimes mentions things that call global warming into question. But that does not suit the British Bias Corporation of course. In this article, Harrabin mentioned recent global cooling. But when someone senior to him saw it, they were obviously not happy. The article was changed after it initially appeared.

I have a PDF of the article produced shortly after it was posted. I also have a PDF of what was up last time I checked. Let us compare the 3rd/4th sentences in each. In V1, they say:

'This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory. But experts say we are still clearly in a long-term warming trend - and they forecast a new record high temperature within five years.'

In V2 they say:

'But this year's temperature would still be way above the average - and we would soon exceed the record year of 1998 because of global warming induced by greenhouse gases.'

How low the BBC has sunk from the grand old days of Lord Reith when it could be relied on as a source of objective and unbiased information! The Left corrupt anything they get their hands on. As Orwell pointed out, they think that truth is what they declare it to be.

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RELIAPUNDIT ADDS: Europe is in big trouble:

Austria indicts a truth-teller (see post above) and the beeb expurgates the truth from a news-item which debunks AGW.

What is it with Europe?

SIMPLE: Europe is dominated by people in the thrall of POSTMODERN LEFTISM: they are fundamentally opposed to the West.

Dhimmitude and AGW are seen bny today's left as ways which BOTH ways to hobble the West.

Coupled with their Gramscian Agenda - (which attacks traditional family) - and the EUSSR project - (which greatly diminishes representational democracy and nationalism) - and it is a wonder that Europe hasn't already caved in and this pillar of the West collapsed.

The Euro-Right had better get their acts together - and fast! And P-B16 needs to do more, too.