BBC Forced To Withdraw Fake Sea Level Claims
Posted: November 14, 2017 Filed under: Alarmism, Alarmism Debunked, Alarmism uncovered, Alarmist media, Fact Check, Fake News, Green Agenda, Sea Level Rise | Tags: Alarmism Exposed, BBC, climate activism, Climate alarmism, Fake News, Miami, Nick Bryant, sea level rise, Sea Level Rise Scam Leave a commentYET another example of why mainstream media outlets like @BBC, captured by the radical environmental movement, cannot be trusted on anything “climate change”.
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/comp-reports/ecu/theworldatone270317
Readers may recall an item on the BBC World at One back in March about rising sea levels in Florida, when their correspondent claimed that:
1) Rising seas and flooding are turning Miami Beach into a modern day Atlantis, the city being submerged by water.
2) Sea levels at Miami are rising at ten times the global rate.
I covered the story here.
I complained to the BBC at the time, and, after being fobbed off the first time, escalated the complaint to the Executive Complaints Unit, who have now published the above judgment.
Astonishingly, they regard the claims about “Atlantis” to be “soundly based”, even though they now accept that sea levels around Miami are only rising at about 8 inches a century.
Of course, they had no choice but to withdraw the ludicrous claim about “ten times the global rate”!
But why…
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