Hey I love David Attenborough - transparency declaration: when I was a nine year old his son was in the same school class as me. But how on earth is it that the BBC's senior observational reporter on nature, has left it so long to come out and question climate change http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5012266.stm extract : Sir David:when we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we know that they are climbing far more steeply than can be accounted for by the natural oscillation of the weather."
Sir David, whose distinguished broadcasting career spans more than half a century, says everyone has a responsibility to act: "What people (must) do is to change their behaviour and their attitudes.
"If we do care about our grandchildren then we have to do something, and we have to demand that our governments do something.
His comments came as a UK parliamentary body, the All-Party Environment Group, issued a report labelling the government a "climate laggard" for its record on reducing emissions.
Sir David, whose natural history programmes have been watched by millions of people around the world, is the latest high-profile figure to say the world is facing a climate crisis.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams; the government's chief scientist Sir David King, and former Royal Society president Sir Robert May have all expressed public concern on the issue.
This week, former US Vice President Al Gore (all, news) has been at the Cannes Film Festival to promote a documentary on climate change.
Mr Gore told festival goers that the world was facing a "planetary emergency" due to global warming.
It is not David's fault that aftre 54 years as BBC's nature correspondent, but it is the disgrace of the BBC's system. Every journalist who could be capable of far the deepest questions of what's going on around humanity's world is muzzled by two forces:
never get into a political debate; this is the monopoly preserve of left versus right national politics. What XXXing nonsense; left versus right do not have any interest in the 10 greatest human crises impacting all peoples today; because like global warming they are worldwide and long term exponential crises where the people who are making 4 yearly left and right judgements within national bounadries are both the least rewarding and the least deep people on earth to want to hear a monopoly of answers from
the other muzzle is global business; that great externaliser of industry's deepest compound risk onto whatever community of people has least knowledge about the risk or can curry the least favours with the political powers that be
as a Scot I feel betrayed that the BBC funded by the peoples money should muzzle its deepest correspondents - the one's who can ask the biggest questions which the lives of our children most need open debates on; Tony Blair, who declares himself a media literate person, has to take the wooden spoon of shame (unless you have other nominations to post) for increasing the muzzle on the BBC - help us write to the governors and take back the BBC to be the world service for the people; and never muzzle a David again however greedy or speculative the golliaths may be
resources:
algaeworld maps
macrae-nets - launching a new colaboration community to (log and lob) question the world needs answering every month
sustainable mapco-edited by Scanadaniavia's most missionary sustainability entrepreneur
social entrepreneur olympics and changemakers world-for-all web jam contests
choose your club of city to collaboratively journalise for humanity out of
train up with Einstein's nomination of number 1 global village champion - your gandhi
Sir David, whose distinguished broadcasting career spans more than half a century, says everyone has a responsibility to act: "What people (must) do is to change their behaviour and their attitudes.
"If we do care about our grandchildren then we have to do something, and we have to demand that our governments do something.
His comments came as a UK parliamentary body, the All-Party Environment Group, issued a report labelling the government a "climate laggard" for its record on reducing emissions.
Sir David, whose natural history programmes have been watched by millions of people around the world, is the latest high-profile figure to say the world is facing a climate crisis.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams; the government's chief scientist Sir David King, and former Royal Society president Sir Robert May have all expressed public concern on the issue.
This week, former US Vice President Al Gore (all, news) has been at the Cannes Film Festival to promote a documentary on climate change.
Mr Gore told festival goers that the world was facing a "planetary emergency" due to global warming.
It is not David's fault that aftre 54 years as BBC's nature correspondent, but it is the disgrace of the BBC's system. Every journalist who could be capable of far the deepest questions of what's going on around humanity's world is muzzled by two forces:
never get into a political debate; this is the monopoly preserve of left versus right national politics. What XXXing nonsense; left versus right do not have any interest in the 10 greatest human crises impacting all peoples today; because like global warming they are worldwide and long term exponential crises where the people who are making 4 yearly left and right judgements within national bounadries are both the least rewarding and the least deep people on earth to want to hear a monopoly of answers from
the other muzzle is global business; that great externaliser of industry's deepest compound risk onto whatever community of people has least knowledge about the risk or can curry the least favours with the political powers that be
as a Scot I feel betrayed that the BBC funded by the peoples money should muzzle its deepest correspondents - the one's who can ask the biggest questions which the lives of our children most need open debates on; Tony Blair, who declares himself a media literate person, has to take the wooden spoon of shame (unless you have other nominations to post) for increasing the muzzle on the BBC - help us write to the governors and take back the BBC to be the world service for the people; and never muzzle a David again however greedy or speculative the golliaths may be
resources:
algaeworld maps
macrae-nets - launching a new colaboration community to (log and lob) question the world needs answering every month
sustainable mapco-edited by Scanadaniavia's most missionary sustainability entrepreneur
social entrepreneur olympics and changemakers world-for-all web jam contests
choose your club of city to collaboratively journalise for humanity out of
train up with Einstein's nomination of number 1 global village champion - your gandhi
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