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This was posted up at Reaction magazine earlier today.

This is an open thread for discussion of tonight's David Attenborough does climate thingy.

Readers take Attenborough to task for ignoring the human impact on the natural worldI strongly agree with George’s Monbiot’s comments regarding David Attenborough’s latest BBC series, Dynasties (Attenborough has betrayed...

Guest hyperbole by David Middleton Climate change: Five cheap ways to remove CO2 from the atmosphere By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent 25 October 2018 […] 5 – Biomass energy with carbon capture and storage...

There is no new science here but it could be the most simpering advertising I have seen dressed up as “reporting”. IPCC: Climate scientists consider ‘life changing’ report by Matt McGrath, Environment...

If the IPCC are wrong, the BBC will be the last place to say so Lets all bow to the IPCC — a modern God that shalt not be questioned. The Holy Sacred Climate Cow! The IPCC is an unaudited and unaccountable foreign...

Walsall’s heyday | Wind power | Elon Musk’s Hyperloop | Today programme | Worst deal ever“Walsall was never a pretty town”, according to Roy Boffy (Letters, 16 October); this may be true now but has not always been...

A couple of weeks back, the BBC's Nick Robinson was bemoaning the fact that the general public is increasingly shunning the corporation, favouring instead the multitude of alternative news sites that have sprung up in recent...

 John Ridgway “Anyone who isn’t confused really doesn’t understand the situation.” Edward R. Murrow Back in 2013 the UK’s Parliamentary Science and Technology Select Committee could be found holding an enquiry...

Al Gore creates more skeptics everyday Ross Clark, journalist, met Al Gore to interview him about his favourite topic. But Ross broke the rules; he did some research. Clark even talked to a professor about the scenes of Florida...

Energy policy | Civil partnerships | Codeword puzzles | Dramatic accents | Irritating BBC presentersDid I invent the solar panels scheme which paid a generous feed-in tariff to install panels on your roof? I think I may also...

The BBC was worried about primates this morning. Apparently loss of forest habitat means that our hairy cousins are facing the threat of extinction. Professor Jo Setchell is quoted in the piece as the woman with the answer...

Corbyn’s smile | Neoliberalism lives | Female anti-fracking activists | Sitcoms | Back alleysThe highlight of Jeremy Corbyn’s latest speech now appears to be the imperceptible “smile” he allegedly let loose during...

For a moment I thought the BBC was tackling a very important question:

… Here on the ball of magma called Earth, there’s a hot plume of rocks under Iceland that stretches right across under Greenland. Those hot rocks are melting the ice from below in a band 1,200 km long and 400...