BBC and Met Office Caught in Ponzi Scam over Winter Forecast Fiasco
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January 30 2011
Disclosed documents implicate two major British institutions in a scam over ‘secret’ forecast of ‘cold’ British winter. Was a senior BBC journalist also framed?
With a winter death toll in the hundreds newly released evidence from the Palace of Westminster under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) proves that the BBC and Met Office are implicated in a conspiracy of global warming lies about a ‘secret’ winter forecast. The original story was covered by Autonomous Minds blog and titled, ‘BBC spins that Met Office got winter right, just kept it secret from public.’
A report by a top BBC environment journalist, Roger Harrabin, implied that the UK's Coalition government might have blocked the so-called ‘secret cold winter’ forecast. But is there more to this story than meets the eye and have dark forces in high places conspired to frame the veteran journalist?
Circumstantial Evidence Points to Top Level Conspiracy
The FOIA disclosures released by the Cabinet Office provide circumstantial evidence of a conspiracy to mislead the public but do not explicitly show that the senior BBC journalist instigated the deception. Speculation in the blogosphere is that senior figures behind the scenes were motivated by financial gain to go along with Harrabin’s alleged shenanigans.
It is now widely recognized that both agencies had a strong financial motive to conspire to spin such a monumental lie and mislead the public. Long-range Met Office forecasts based on data from discredited global warming computer models have become a running joke. Meanwhile pension funds of the taxpayer-funded agencies are heavily invested in schemes reliant on belief in the man-made global warming theory. But with three record-breaking cold winters in a row public support for climate legislation has waned.
Nonetheless, Harrabin is now the 'fall guy' with his reputation in shreds. It appears from the new evidence that Harrabin had twisted the Met Office statement that there was a “70 per cent chance of near average or colder conditions” and spun that into the lie that they had secretly forecast an “exceptionally cold early winter.” But is there more here than meets the eye?
Was Roger Harrabin Framed by his Bosses?
The BBC man is portrayed as being the author of his own downfall when he filed a freedom of information act request againt the Cabinet Office to substantiate his claim that the 2010/11 would be:
“…..extremely cold……. The truth is it [The Met Office] did suspect we were in for an exceptionally cold early winter, and told the Cabinet Office so in October.”
It sure does appear as if Harrabin, the BBC and the Met Office had together knowingly allowed innuendo to portray the Met Office as victims and the Cabinet Office as sinners for 'suppressing' the 'secret cold winter' forecast Harrabin first trumpeted.
However, a twist in the tail seems to come from prominent climate analyst, Steve McIntyre who rushed to defend the BBC man saying, “I’ve met Roger Harrabin and am completely confident that he behaved with total integrity in this matter. I am sure that he was misled by his sources.”
McIntyre’s may have a point. It was, after all, Harrabin who first filed the FOIA request. So what is Harrabin’s motive in trying to catch himself in his own ‘lie’?
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