Roger Harrabin’s Alarmist Bubble
December 15, 2019
By Paul Homewood
I called out Roger Harrabin a few days ago for blatantly breaking BBC political impartiality rules on his twitter feed.
So I thought I would take a closer look at his twitter. What is immediately apparent is the little alarmist bubble which he inhabits there.
Apart from one reaction from GWPF, every other comment on his twitter page in the last week or so comes from his alarmist chums, who naturally confirm and reinforce each others views and opinions.
For instance:
- James Murray – Editor of Business Green
- Bob Ward – Enough said!
- Richard Black – Harrabin’s predecessor at the BBC, and now head of the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, the climate propaganda outfit
- “The Bureau” – The far left, self described “unbiased” reporting website
- Leo Hickman – Director of Carbon Brief, formerly of the Guardian
- ECIU – The aforesaid Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, funded by a range of progressive foundations
- George Smeeton – Head of Communications at the ECIU
- Richard Betts of the Met Office
- Kevin Anderson of the Tyndall Centre
- Leo Murray – Anti-motorist, climate crank
- David Shukman – BBC Science editor
- Craig Bennett – CEO for Friends of the Earth in England
- Henry Mance – reporter for the EU fanatical Financial Times
- Geoffrey Lean – long time Environmental Correspondent
- Joss Garman – UK Director of the European Climate Foundation, the largest funder of European climate activism, itself mainly funded by US progressive foundations
- Rebecca Willis – Professor of Climate & Energy Policy & Politics
Perhaps Mr Harrabin would be better informed if he actually went outside his little bubble, and talked to people who do not share his world view.
27 Comments
Comments are closed.
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Reblogged this on Wolsten and commented:
Is it just me or does Roger Harrabin and his acolytes come off as simply condescending and nasty?
Afraid not, Wolsten.
Harribin isn’t just “simply condescending and nasty”
He is also venal and mendacious.
And I doubt if his IQ score is higher than his hat size.
Do they make hats that small??
Oct 8, 2019 Australians ‘are not silly’ and won’t buy into climate change ‘hysteria’
NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham says the majority of Australians are “not silly” and will not be fooled by the rhetoric pushed by climate activists.
This is Sky Australia He calls out politicians and ABC for promoting this climate rubbish
But he dose not call out Sky UK where I have just watched a Sky uncritical interview with a climate alarmist telling us we only have 50 percent chance of survival with the present 2050 zero carbon targets. Earlier in the week there was some one telling us we need to stop using the oceans. Apparently the Oceans are tired and need time to recuperate. No one was laughing though it was all being taken seriously.
I have seen some crazy fads in my time. This Climate alarmist rubbish is the craziest since the piercing fad. Where people competed with each other on how many bits of metal they could stick into there faces and other parts of them selves.
Fran Unsworth on £340,000 a year is his boss at the Biased Broadcasting Company. She has decided that climate change is settled, and deniers will not be given any airtime, I just hope Boris gets around to sacking the lot of them. (after he screws the EU)
Reblogged this on Climate- Science.press.
David Shukman is perhaps the most guiltily – either because he is not a scientist and dies not understand or is following selected dogma for whatever reason
>
I just listened to Tony Heller this morning. He claims Twitter and google are blocking his feed some how. The alarmists show no shame.Could be the same with this guy you are talking about.Comments are being filtered
I’m spotting “deboosting”
Twitter somehow decides to class someone as “low quality”
So when they reply to your friend, you don’t see the reply, even when you click on on “Show more replies” you have to click the next button “show more replies including offensive”
Or even their replies don’t show up at all.
I spotted that, when someone’s reply is in my notifications box, but didn’t show up at all in the main thread
I emailed Roger via the link in one if your posts, suggesting that he should read your comments. He replied quite quickly with the two words “I have”. Very forthcoming.
I expect Roger either considers this too small fry to bother with, or he’s commissioned a smear piece on ‘dangerous ignorant denial fake news’ endorsed by a cabal of prominent alarmists that will appear in due course.
According to the UN bloke on the BBC news, millions of people all over the world are suffering from climate change right now (used to known as ordinary random weather and NATURAL disasters). He said climate denial is akin a crime against humanity. It’s odd that the people most confused about weather and climate are the very alarmists that tell skeptics “that’s weather stupid” all the time.
It’s as dumb to suggest that people that voted Boris endorse radical climate action and believe that there is a climate emergency as it is to suggest everyone that voted SNP wants an independent Scotland.
All voters have to compromise and prioritize. No individual/party is going to 100% reflect your views. If people were really worried about the (fake) climate emergency, more than a tiny minority of eco-loons would have voted Green instead.
In Scotland it was probably primarily an anti-Brexit vote. In the rest of the Union it was probably primarily a Brexit and a stop-the-Brexit-paralysis vote.
“In Scotland it was probably primarily an anti-Brexit vote”
And they only got 45% with that.
The MoS tends to be a little more sensible than the DM these days. This article appeared today. Although not mentioned, climate change is obviously one of ‘those’ views.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-7793275/DOUGLAS-MURRAY-Britains-divide-ugly-intolerant-Left-rest-us.html
Read Andrew Montford “The Propaganda Bureau” which exposes Harrabin’s conspiracy to deny ‘deniers’ a voice. 2009 I think. The attendance by BBC high-ups and greeny activists was a guarded secret with thousands of licence payers money spent on barristers fending off FOI enquiries. A disgraceful story. My recent exchanges with him were uninteresting in that his position is that it is ‘settled’ and that humankind is exposed to a great risk. No response to my ‘sceptic’ points.
Roger and his gang are in mourning, there idea of green utopia lies shattered.
Meanwhile in the real world we become less and less vulnerable to extreme weather, it is not the other way round, so Roger and his idiot pals ought to get out and about a bit.
https://ourworldindata.org/natural-disasters#number-of-deaths-from-natural-disasters
They just believe their own propaganda, and its really not pleasant to watch.
Isn’t that the way you can recognise a cult? Completely shuting themselves off from the world reinforceing each others belief in their gods and using mechanisms of punishing apostates and unbelievers in their sphere.
AKA groupthink.
You mean like the Labour Party? I think the accusation could be made against the other main parties, though, if not as strongly
Further to my post above about interactions with Roger Harrabin which were necessarily brief, I formed the impression that his knowledge of climate science was rather sketchy. For example – take sea-edge glacier calving which thunderously accompanies any TV propaganda about sea level rise produced by him or the awful Shukman. Calving is GOOD NEWS for heavens sake ! No calving, no glacier movement, no glacier. So either he and Shukperson are ignorant or liars. Which?
Are the Harrabins of the world going to be rubbishing biomass any time soon, following their beloved Guardian’s lead?
Converting coal plants to biomass could fuel climate crisis, scientists warn
xperts horrified at large-scale forest removal to meet wood pellet demand
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/16/converting-coal-plants-to-biomass-could-fuel-climate-crisis-scientists-warn
Oh dear 😆
There’s nothing in the Guardian article that hasn’t been said to our politicians (with no response, naturally) from the beginning. They need the 5% or so contribution from Drax to boost their generation-from-renewables credentials.
It’s a shame that they can’t use all the underbrush that fuels Californian and Australian bush fires instead.
Meanwhile wind will save us all… It’s had a good run in the UK recently but it’s already (20:46) nearly down to half of what our ancient nuclear is giving us with a third of them out of service at the mo. Nearly less than biomass too. Already less than what we’re getting from the interconnects, we’re burning coal and we were running the OCGTs today. Demand is dropping, will we get to less from wind than coal today? (oh, and the sun went down hours ago) Wait for it…
Good job we’ve got all those gas powered CCGTs
Harrabin appears to be in complete denial about the failure of COP 25. He has adopted a Corbynesque posture of pretending that the UK should double down in climate extremism. Underneath he must be bitterly disappointed that climate alarmism has no international traction where it matters most – the big emitting economies like China and India.
As I have already pointed out, the most convincing argument that climate alarm is an issue (see his tweet about Benny Peiser above) would be if China adopted a zero carbon by 2050 policy for itself, rather than for others.
Paul, do you have a twitter account? I haven’t seen anything from you.
No, I decided not to do twitter, as it really needs rapid resonse, which I cannot always give