BBC "SAT ON CRU FILES FOR A MONTH"

BBC "SAT ON CRU FILES FOR A MONTH": "Truly astonishing things are beginning to happen at the BBC over the CRU emails. First, Andrew Neil on the Daily Politics yesterday posed some decent questions about what had gone on at CRU and about the climate change record generally. Second, a genuine climate change sceptic (Professor Fred Singer) was allowed to speak, only the second time in recent history that I've seen this happen. Thirdly, Neil worked hard to expose the vacuity of the warmist stance.

I've never seen an interview like that on the BBC, ever, and believe you me, I've searched.

Next, the fanatic warmist Harrabin actually seems to be treating the CRU hacking as a story that might matter. Perhaps it's because his chum George Monbiot has called for the resignation of CRU boss Phil Jones, but whatever the reason, I've seen correspondence that shows him to be on the case. And last night, he actually broadcast a piece on Radio 4 which, to quote the excellent Bishop Hill, was 'not a complete whitewash'. That's a miracle.

Finally, there could be even further reverberations to come. It seems that the BBC weather reporter Paul Hudson - he who last month shocked us all by becoming one of the first BBC staffers to admit that there were holes in warmist propaganda- has revealed on his blog that he had received, and had been sitting on, the hacked email files from CRU for more than a month. You couldn't make this up.

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