Lord Lawson, en tidligere redaktør på "The Spectator" har fået mundkurv på af BBC, som ellers har forpligtet sig til balanceret debat.
Lord Lawson is, of course, not a scientist. But a great many people speak on the BBC on subjects in which they do not have any formal qualifications: Al Gore, for example. Or Rajendra Pachauri, a railway engineer by training, who now runs the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). Neither does the BBC seem to be worried about non-scientists addressing scientific issues when it comes to such things as fracking or GM crops, on which any green activists are welcome to speak, however bizarre their scaremongering theories.
Man kan vel også spørge om BBC selv har nok viden om koncensus videnskab til at fremkomme med følgende udtalelser:
Nevertheless, the BBC politburo warned, listeners should have been warned that Lord Lawson is in a minority and, therefore, his words ‘should not be regarded as carrying equal weight to those of experts such as Sir Brian Hoskins’.
Især når Lord Lawsons udtalelser var, videnskabligt set korrekt:
It bizarrely claimed that his views are ‘not supported by the evidence’ — though he had pointed out, correctly, that the planet has not been warming for the past 17 years.
