Dead as a dodo? - Biased BBC

Dead as a dodo?: "Greenies, supported tirelessly by the BBC, never give up in their efforts to persuade us that we are all going to hell in a handcart. The UN, of course is the revered cheerleader, and today - as their 'climate change' fascism seems to have stalled a tad after Copenhagen - this corrupt Hydra has turned its attention to the need for 'biodiversity'. There's a special year devoted to it. So seriously does the BBC take this threat that it has sent Richard Black on a jolly to Berlin to watch the revered secretary-general deliver his hellfire sermon that we must stop our wicked ways. To him, there is no doubt what's wrong:

The expansion of human cities, farming and infrastructure is (sic) the main reason. Dignitaries including UN chief Ban Ki-moon...will speak at the launch in Berlin. Mr Ban is due to say that human expansion is wiping out species at about 1,000 times the 'natural' or 'background' rate, and that 'business as usual is not an option'.

As usual, Mr Black - in pursuit of his greenie zealotry - obviously thinks the science is totally settled and the words of Mr Ban are the Holy Writ. It's the Wicked West to blame, as always. Shame that he could not do a little journalism and look for alternative views - this, for example from the Watt's Up With That? blog. It points out that despite all the hot air about extinction:

Very few continental birds or mammals are recorded as having gone extinct, and none have gone extinct from habitat reduction alone. No continental forest bird or mammal is recorded as having gone extinct from any cause. Since the species-area relationship predicts that there should have been a very large number of recorded bird and mammal extinctions from habitat reduction over the last half millennium, I show that the species-area relationship gives erroneous answers to the question of extinction rates.

Complex stuff, but it shows just how deeply, deeply one-sided the BBC always is in its science coverage.

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