Our national broadcaster, the one we trusted for thorough investigation and impartial coverage, has bottled it.
Having promised honesty courses for its staff following the Blue Peter fiasco, the BBC has now caved in to pressure to drop Planet Relief, a programme with more potential than any before, to honestly highlight the disaster that is climate change.
If the BBC won’t do it, who will? There can be few, if any, broadcasters with better informed journalists. And there are none, other than the BBC, required to be a public service. The evidence for climate change is indisputable, and informing viewers about climate change is one of the most important public services there can be.
The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, made up of the world’s top scientists, says that climate change is underway and is being caused by human activity.
Even President Bush has acknowledged climate change and the role of fossil fuels in causing it.
Such is the status of the BBC that it’s decision on Planet Relief questions the IPCC’s conclusions and elevates the views of crackpot scientists still disputing climate change.
The BBC has thrown away the opportunity to produce one of the most responsible and significant programmes in its history.
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