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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (336392)11/30/2009 9:00:01 AM
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Ah, just what you would expect from the BBC

BBC weatherman 'ignored' leaked climate row emails

By Mail On Sunday Reporter
Last updated at 10:00 PM on 28th November 2009

The BBC has become tangled in the row over the alleged manipulation of scientific data on global warming.

One of its reporters has revealed he was sent some of the leaked emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia more than a month ago – but did nothing about them.

Despite the explosive nature of some of the messages – which revealed apparent attempts by the CRU's head, Professor Phil Jones, to destroy global temperature data rather than give it to scientists with opposing views – Paul Hudson failed to report the story.

This has led to suspicions that the scandal was ignored because it ran counter to what critics say is the BBC's unquestioning acceptance in many of its programmes that man-made climate change is destroying the planet.

Dr Benny Peiser, director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, said: 'We need to know more about the BBC's role in this affair. Was Mr Hudson told by the BBC not to use the story?'

It was only after the same emails were published on a blog called Air Vent that Look North climate correspondent Mr Hudson owned up in his own blog to the fact he had also had the material.

In a bizarre twist, he claimed the leak had been triggered by an article he had written that questioned global warming.

Mr Hudson, 38, last night declined to comment. A BBC spokesman said: 'Paul has nothing to add to what he has already said in his blog.'

BBC weatherman ¿ignored¿ leaked climate row emails | Mail Online (30 November 2009)
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