{"id":71369,"date":"2013-05-21T08:26:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T08:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=71369"},"modified":"2013-05-24T08:29:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T08:29:25","slug":"bbc-admits-no-global-warming-for-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=71369","title":{"rendered":"BBC Admits: No Global Warming For 15 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal<\/w:View> <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser \/> <\/w:WordDocument> <\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">News Commentary &#8212; May 20, 2013<\/h1>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<h5 class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<div id=\"attachment_39684\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Snow-covered-feilds-in-County-Durham.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39684\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39684\" title=\"Snow covered fields in County Durham, December 16, 2011. Click to enlarge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Snow-covered-feilds-in-County-Durham-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Snow-covered-feilds-in-County-Durham-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Snow-covered-feilds-in-County-Durham.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snow covered fields in County Durham, December 16, 2011<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So this is what the BBC&#8217;s audience gets in return for the corporation&#8217;s extortionate and mandatory licence fees. After nearly 15 years, a belated admission that global warming isn&#8217;t quite the looming threat that they had warned about.<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"MsoNormal\">Although, of course, the BBC isn&#8217;t quite so open in acknowledging its error. If indeed it was an error and not deliberate disinformation.<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"MsoNormal\">Instead, the BBC claims that &#8220;Since 1998, there has been an unexplained &#8216;standstill&#8217; in the heating of the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere.&#8221;<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"MsoNormal\">In other words there has been no significant global warming. Despite relentless BBC attempts to persuade us otherwise and its quibbling admission that &#8220;there has been an unexplained &#8216;standstill'&#8221; in the process.<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"MsoNormal\">All of which is a disingenuous way of saying that &#8220;global warming&#8221; maybe something of a non-event. Like Saddam&#8217;s Weapons of Mass Destruction, another impending threat that the BBC had relentlessly reported on and which ultimately turned out to be entirely non-existent.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"MsoNormal\">This is hardly news though. Only the fact that the Corporations has acknowledged an &#8220;unexplained standstill&#8221; is noteworthy. After all, recent winters have been some of the harshest in decades so this &#8220;standstill&#8221; in global warming has been self-evident.<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"MsoNormal\">Or at least it should be to anyone who don&#8217;t accept all they&#8217;re told by the corporate media without question.<\/h5>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Climate slowdown means extreme rates of warming &#8216;not as likely&#8217;<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Matt McGrath &#8212; BBC Online May 19, 2013<\/h3>\n<p class=\"introduction\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_71373\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/The-impacts-of-rising-temperatures-are-being-felt-particularly-in-the-polar-regions-says-the-BBC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71373\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-71373\" title=\"The impacts of rising temperatures are being felt particularly in the polar regions, says the BBC\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/The-impacts-of-rising-temperatures-are-being-felt-particularly-in-the-polar-regions-says-the-BBC-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-71373\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The impacts of rising temperatures are being felt particularly in the polar regions, says the BBC caption.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Scientists say the recent downturn in the rate of global warming will lead to lower temperature rises in the short-term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Since 1998, there has been an unexplained &#8220;standstill&#8221; in the heating of the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/ngeo1836\">Writing in Nature Geoscience<\/a>, the researchers say this will reduce predicted warming in the coming decades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But long-term, the expected temperature rises will not alter significantly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The slowdown in the expected rate of global warming has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2011\/06\/27\/1102467108.abstract\">been studied<\/a> for several years now. Earlier this year, the UK Met Office <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/research\/climate\/seasonal-to-decadal\/long-range\/decadal-fc\">lowered<\/a> their five-year temperature forecast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But this new paper gives the clearest picture yet of how any slowdown is likely to affect temperatures in both the short-term and long-term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">An international team of researchers looked at how the last decade would impact long-term, equilibrium climate sensitivity and the shorter term climate response.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"cross-head\">Transient nature<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"cross-head\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"cross-head\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &amp;amp;amp; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;amp; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-22567023\">Continues &#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After banging on about &#8220;global warming&#8221; for years, the BBC finally acknowledges that &#8220;Since 1998, there has been an unexplained &#8220;standstill&#8221; in the heating of the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[72,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ClimateGate","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71369"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71586,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71369\/revisions\/71586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}