BBC and Climate change

thought this post on a youtube video was worth reposting, video btw was on Doggerland...


I'm giving this video a thumbs down for how misleading it is. BBC is deliberately leading people to think Oh! That Climate Change stuff is really scary! Here's evidence that it drowned an area the size of England. I better do as the environmentalists say.

They're deliberately not pointing out that compared to past climate changes, the current predictions are so puny it's completely laughable. Even under the very worst case scenarios published by the IPCC, the ocean might rise by nearly a meter (98 cm) by 2100. That's a far cry from the hundreds of meters that the oceans rose due to the completely natural wild climate fluctuations associated with the end of the last ice age and the Younger Dryas. To complain about an additional meter per century now makes us look like sniveling little babies incapable of wiping our own noses. We should instead be thankful for having had a recent history of 10,000 years of relatively stable climate in which to grow a technologically advanced civilization. If we can't adapt to 1 meter per century rise after all our ancestors have been through our civilization deserves to die.

98 cm is a ridiculously inaccurate prediction, by the way. Best estimate is that they are off by an order of magnitude and actual measured rise by 2100 is likely to be more like 9.8 cm. That's less than 4 inches. Even the Maldives will survive a rise of 4 inches!

The BBC is pulling a verbal sleight of hand trick by calling the past events Climate Change, like the IPCC-predicted CAGW event that in actuality is nothing at all similar. First of all, there's no allegation being made that past events were caused by ancient man running around burning fossil fuels in overly large 9 passenger SUVs for the transport of a man, his wife, their statistical .54th of a child, and possibly a miniature poodle or Yorkie or two. In fact, the BBC is conspicuously incurious about what natural forces or events may have led to the end the last ice age, or indeed any of the often extremely abrupt natural climate changing events of the past. It's all deliberately lumped in and confused with the IPCC predictions of an imminent Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming so that they can use past events to scare you about CAGW. Secondly, the scale of the events is so vastly different between the two types of events that CAGW, even in the worst case scenario, is nothing like the enormous naturally-caused events. It pales to insignificance in comparison, yet BBC is remiss in noticing this, leaving the thought deliberately planted in the viewers mind that all of England could be awash in seawater in the very near future when this is decidedly not the case at all.

BBC ought to be ashamed of themselves for this propaganda piece.