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The BBC has just lost £100 million on pointless new technology. I realise that this won't sound very much money if you are, say, a typical BBC programme director on upwards of £250,000 a year – but for some of us once...

The Today programme also interviewed James Hansen on climate sensitivity this morning (see link below). This was an extraordinary performance by any standards.

BBC Radio's flagship Today programme covers climate sensitivity and features, among others, yours truly. I haven't heard it yet, but this is a holding post until I can find the audio.

Ian Katz, the deputy editor of the Guardian, has been appointed the editor of BBC's flagship current affairs programme Newsnight.

From 12:50.30

Guest post by Mike Jonas From the UK’s BBC comes this news item: Trillion-euro shortfall facing EU energy sector – Lords Committee Under the obligatory photo of chimneys spewing steam, is a totally uncritical...

For what it's worth I think the BBC has no business censoring the music charts – even if it involves a song as insensitively timed and crassly-chosen as Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead! a) we should do everything we can...

When watching Matt Briggs' lecture on the use and misuse of statistics by climatologists and social scientists, I was struck by his summary of the problems with the use of p-values, namely the view within the field that since...

A few months back, cryosphere expert Mark Brandon and I had an exchange on Twitter in which he noted the long - presumably temperature related - decline in Arctic sea ice and how this trend had been exacerbated by sharper...

From the comments at Biased BBC, we discover that Culture select committee chairman John Whittingdale is talking big on reform of the BBC:

Tony Newbery has been looking at the responses given to a couple of people who contacted their MPs about 28gate and notices a certain similarity (or identity) in what MPs had to say...

Biased BBC is decidedly unimpressed with yesterday's Today Programme on BBC Radio 4, which tried to pin the blame for Ludlow Castle's tendency to collapse on climate change.

Greendadtwit is the nom-de-tweet of Jason Rose, the "Head of Media" for the Scottish Green Party in Holyrood. (Presumably he is the PR person rather than actually head of anything, but that's another story).

The Telegraph is reporting the comments of Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England at the launch of the Bank's quarterly inflation report. Environmental policies it seems are an "own-goal".

Jeremy Clarkson takes the world’s smallest car for a terrifying test drive on England’s busy A3 highway in this hilarious Top Gear episode...