BBC Peddle Fake Claims About India Monsoon

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

h/t Malcolm Bell

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0938tj7/victoria-derbyshire-01092017

Just when you thought the BBC could not get any worse.

Standing in for Victoria Derbyshire on her current affairs programme yesterday morning, Matthew Price ran a report on the heavy floods this summer in Nepal and Bangladesh.

After telling us this had been one of the heaviest monsoons on record, he went on to interview Mark Pierce, Save the Children’s Director in Bangladesh, and Francis Markus of the International Red Cross in Nepal. (About 32 minutes in).

It did not take long for him to blame climate change for the floods.

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Pen Hadow Hurrying South

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

http://www.arcticmission.com/follow-arctic-mission/

Strange goings on onboard Pen Hadow’s little expedition.

You may recall what he said when he announced on Aug 30th they were turning back south:

A meeting of the four skippers was held led by Erik de Jong, with Pen Hadow present, and it was agreed further northward progress would increase considerably the risks to the expedition, with very limited scientific reward. The decision to head south, back to an area of less concentrated sea ice in the vicinity of 79 degrees 30 minutes North, was made at 18.30 (Alaskan time).

http://www.arcticmission.com/arctic-mission-reaches-furthest-north/

But since they turned around, they have been travelling at a rate of knots well south of their intended stopping point, and are now at 78 degrees 05 minutes and still running at 5 knots.

Throughout the expedition, Hadow has stressed that the scientific aspects of the trip were just as important as…

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