Climate Change: BBC Didn't Hide The Story?

I could fault the BBC on climate change reporting forever, but given a growing blog meme suggesting that the BCC had the story and withheld it, that doesn't seem validated by the facts. h/t Instapundit.

The individual in question, Paul Hudson, is a BBC blogger and actually did a post questioning global warming. Now see his latest. It at least appears that what he is actually saying is, he was copied on some of the emails as a matter of correspondence. That doesn't mean he saw the whole data pile.

As you may know, some of the e-mails that were released last week directly involved me and one of my previous blogs, 'Whatever happened to global warming ?' These took the form of complaints about its content, and I was copied in to them at the time. Complaints and criticisms of output are an every day part of life, and as such were nothing out of the ordinary. However I felt that seeing there was an ongoing debate as to the authenticity of the hacked e-mails, I was duty bound to point out that as I had read the original e-mails, then at least these were authentic, although of course I cannot vouch for the authenticity of the others.

Comments

[Lala]

Revolt in Australia

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100018003/climategate-five-aussie-mps-lead-the-way-by-resigning-in-disgust-over-carbon-tax/

[Captain Joe]

Makes you wonder when the American lamestream media will suddenly find this story. A day late and a dollar short, no doubt.

[Paul A'Barge]

Here's the point: The idea that the BBC would hide the story about the hiding of the decline is a meme. And it's such and accurate one that when incidents like Paul Hudson only serve to perpetuate the meme.

The BBC is guilty of media malpractice. They are guilty of this every day. If they want the benefit of the doubt they're going to have a very long climb back up a very slippery slope. And until they get to the top, Paul Hudson can walk the plank for all I care.

[Vinny Vidivici]

Paul:

I share your destain for the abusive, politically-compromised gate-keepers the media have become. While I agree the BBC starts with a nearly insurmountable credibility deficit, I don't think you're advocating we take a 'fake-but-true' approach to Hudson's particular situation.

By the way, agree or not, I've always enjoyed your comment-section posts as I stumble across them in various precincts of the blogosphere.

[Jeff]

Its only a coverup if the emails the BBC blogger was CC'd on show any of the nefarious behavior ... they may not ... my question would be Why is an employee of BBC so inside the loop that he was on any of the emails at all ? Were these emails about stories he was working on ? Were they simply responses back to him ?

[JM Hanes]

Thanks for advising some caution/restraint here! Turning on the very guy who wrote the "unprecedented" BBC article pointing out the missing warmth seems as counterproductive as it seems likely to be unfair. My own first reaction was to wonder whether Hudson was talking about having seen the full packet. Even the bulk of the emails, alone, would not be nearly as compelling without the data/computational analysis been done on the web as we speak -- something it would take even a sympathetic reporter a whole lot more time to suss out, not to mention potential difficulties in finding reliable sources to consult in the process.

Your limited exposure proposition makes far more sense. Precipitously tarring one of the few available messengers in the international press is foolish, at the very least.

[John Moore]

He could not have been given the whole data dump, because some of the messages in the archive were from just a few days ago.

[Lightwave]

He may have not had the entire pile of data, but there was a story here and it wasn't covered on purpose.

The whole "climate change" house of cards is falling.

[Lala]

Here's some more

Greenpeace leader admits Arctic ice exaggeration

http://eclipptv.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=6933&title=Greenpeace_Leader_Admits_Arctic_Ice_Exaggeration

[lucklucky]

I think it came from this:

"In his BBC blog three days ago, Hudson said: 'I was forwarded the chain of emails on the 12th October, which are comments from some of the world's leading climate scientists written as a direct result of my article "Whatever Happened To Global Warming".'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1230943/Climate-change-scandal-BBC-expert-sent-cover-emails-month-public.html

[windansea]

Give Hudson a break

he wrote an article which attracted the attention of the global warming cabal, as it was posted in a previously friendly media (BBC)

it apears to me he only received emails regarding his article/blog from the CRU mole or hacker, whomever that may be

Hudson should clear this up, as I doubt he would have sat on the story of the whole package of email and data

[Sean]

I understood Hudson to mean "There is an email in here from October 12th, in which I was involved in the back and forth. I can vouch for the fact that this email, which is part of the leaked emails, is genuine". When I read his blog, I did not think he he meant "I got this whole zip file on October 12th".

[Mary]

Obama/SEIU/ACORN/Soros are all locked together in one big criminal organization that is out to steal the wealth of the USA and redistribute it to their Union and big corporate cronies here and around the world. They are using Health Care Reform, Cap and Trade, Deficit Spending and the take over of every private industry they can get their hands on as a means of getting a hold of their ill gotten loot. The only way to stop them is No 1. Stop the passage of the Health Care Reform and Cap and Trade Bills by calling your Senators day and night, No. 2. Speaking out to your neighbors and friends to turn public sentiment and No. 3. Do everything you can to take the House and Senate back from the Democrats in 2010 so the GOP can start an investigation of Obama and his crooked ilk. If you think a 3rd party alternative is the answer, you might as well vote for a Democrat and just let them take over the US.

[Mens Health]

I remember the seventies, when the earth was entering another ice age. Then the great catastrophe of the eighties was to be nuclear war. In the early nineties, we were to be devastated by vicious viruses. In the late nineties, everybody’s computer was going to stop working. And now we’re in the naughties, the earth is getting terribly hot, even though it isn’t.

Sorry, all you Warmists (and no doubt you’ll say I’m being terribly irresponsible), but in my 42 years, I’ve seen too many little boys crying wolf to take global warming seriously. But I’ll make this prediction about global warming: in five years’ time, the public will be bored, bored, bored, the human race won’t have ceased to exist in a cataclism of doom and disaster, and the politicians will be terrifying us all with something completely different.