BBC’s Roger Harrabin Promotes More Lies About Greenland

Written by Climate Change Dispatch on December 2, 2021. Posted in Current News

You may have noticed that the BBC’s barrage of climate propaganda continued after the gavel came down at COP26. Most of it had, of course, been rehashed anyway.

Roger Harrabin, the corporation’s Environment Analyst, was forced to console himself with his alarmist chums, who he laughingly refers to as ‘experts’.

First up was the utterly discredited Sir David King, one-time Chief Scientific Adviser to Tony Blair. King told our Roger that ‘heating is already at a dangerous level, with Greenland sitting in blue sea for three months, losing ice.’

For some reason, Harrabin failed to point out that this is what Greenland does every year – it is called SUMMER. In WINTER, it snows and the ice is replaced again.

King would of course like you to believe that Greenland summers are now wall-to-wall heatwaves.

However, summer temperatures in Greenland now are no higher than they were a century ago.

Average Daily Maximum Temperatures in Summer in Greenland: Ilulissat (West Coast) and Tasiilaq (East Coast)

King’s track record on climate is hardly one to write home about.

It was he who famously forecast back in 2004 that Antarctica was likely to be the world’s only habitable continent by the end of this century if global warming remained unchecked.

He also grossly misled a Parliamentary select committee in the same year, when he claimed that the South Pole ice cap was 40 percent as thick as it used to be. (Most estimates suggest that the ice there is actually getting thicker).

He also told the same committee that the Greenland ice cap might disappear within 50 to 200 years. At the current rate of melt, it would take 25,000 years!

If that was not bad enough, he also gave false evidence to the Energy Select Committee in 2014, claiming that Hurricane Sandy was the first to hit so far north in America.

In fact, since 1950 alone there have been nine hurricanes that made landfall further north than Sandy.

Put simply, the man is a clown.

Harrabin then turned to Piers Forster, an IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) lead author. He claimed that ‘people are already dying with current temperatures’.

This is another grossly misleading statement. Many more people die from the cold every year than die from extreme heat. This is even the case in countries such as India.

Meanwhile, the official data shows that deaths caused by all kinds of extreme weather, such as floods, storms, extreme temperatures, and drought, are now at record lows:

However, one of Harrabin’s chums, Julian Allwood, Professor of Engineering and the Environment at the University of Cambridge, rather gave the game away when he inconveniently pointed out that the solutions being discussed in Glasgow depend on unrealistic amounts of clean electricity, carbon capture and biomass.

He said:

‘If you compare the amount with what’s available today and any plausible growth rate, there’s no possibility we will have enough of those. We therefore need a different set of policies, such as using half the amount of electricity. We must cut levels of flying, shipping, cement, and ruminants because there’s no way of dealing with them.’

This is of course the real agenda. We must all drastically cut our standards of living, radically change our lifestyles and stop eating meat.

Yet strangely, neither Harrabin nor his cronies mentioned the herd of elephants in the room – China, India, and the rest of the developing world.

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