Same Old Story, The ABC’s Climate Team
The new All-Star National Climate Team
Posted on 12 Sep 24
by Tony Thomas
The ABC’s global warming hype isn’t lurid enough, so the national broadcaster’s bosses have turned up the dial to 11. Step forward the ABC’s new “National Climate Team”. Creating this battalion of bedwetters was the brain snap of retiring managing director David Anderson. Based on the precedent of Alan Joyce‘s departure from Qantas, it’s my view that he should be docked at least $1 million of his $1.16 million parting salary.
The National Climate Team’s parameters remain under wraps, but random details trickle out. For example, the Team includes weather specialist Tyne Logan. On ABCTV’s 7pm flagship news of August 31 she did a piece about Sydney University medicos broiling volunteers in a heat chamber, cheered on by climate scientists, to estimate what level of global warming would kill them. “It’s been set to 54 degrees Celsius, with 26 per cent humidity — a combination believed to be lethal after six hours,” Ms Logan remarks in the script, which mercifully omits the broadcast’s spooky music. Baking those poor test participants reminded me of the roast chook gondola at Woollies in Moonee Ponds. Owing to pesky ethics guidance, the boffins bring their humans out before rather than after they’re killed. I’ll elaborate on Ms Logan’s account later.
The ABC’s one-eyed climate coverage has prompted controversies and inquiries dating back 15 years. The real excitements were from 2004-17, involving Prime Minister Howard’s pick of stockbroker Maurice Newman to chair the ABC from 2007-12. Newman’s successor was ex-judge Jim Spigelman (2012-17), who also took some interest in the charter’s impartiality requirement. Current chair Kim Williams has also addressed the matter of bias but has yet to show any hint he is prepared to do something about it. Here’s a timeline of the ABC’s green-eyed misreporting and its refusal to change its ways.
2007: The ABC’s top science staffer, Robyn Williams, suggests we are in for a 100-metre sea level rise this century.[1] Insights like this have earned him seven universities’ honorary doctorates and an Australian Academy of Science fellowship.
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