I find it bizarre that there’s been even so much as muffled or murmured comment, even by the BBC itself, on the findings of the most recent BBC World Service poll. Apparently, after questioning 22,000 people across 21 countries, they’ve found that most people accept the anthropogenic climate change theory, and that most people believe that the government should take drastic interventionist action to prevent climate change.

As bizarre as it is, I find it entirely believable that they did so. This is the BBC, after all, and they’ll make a big deal of anything that supports their political beliefs and objectives: that evil humanity is responsible for past and potential climate change, and that only the white knight of government can save us all from drowning under water levels raised by our own materialistic greed.

And they sell it so well, too. The press release of the poll is titled “All Countries Need to Take Major Steps on Climate Change: Global Poll“. By doing this, not only do they attribute expert status to off-the-cuff public opinion - which is a fallacy regularly committed of worshippers of the twin Gods That Failed - but they only attribute this as an after-thought: as if it doesn’t matter that it’s only a poll, so long as it agrees with the BBC editorial line.

Furthermore, their website describes the ‘news’ as “Humans ‘causing climate change’“. As above, this is a pathetic journalistic trick committed to pass op-ed as fact. As an ex-reporter for the Sun, I know enough about dressing sewage up as something more appetising. I could just as easily title this post “BBC makes big deal out of ‘insignificant snivelling little’ poll that is statistically and political ‘irrelevant’“. Bad example, I know.  After all, what’s more truthful than that?

Whatever one’s opinion on climate change, it can hardly be seen to be just for the government to use its propaganda-broadcasting arm to lower journalistic standards by presenting its own editorial stance, on its own poll, as a newsworthy item of factual content. That is does so indicates how unfree discussion of this issue has been, and how most Western governments have decided to close this debate before it even opened.