Tuesday, November 24, 2009

This has gone far enough! It's time for a Public Inquiry into the CBC...

I just did a search of the CBC's website looking for any information at all regarding what ultimately could turn out to be THE scandal of the 21st century. The key word I used was "Hadley", as it is virtually impossible to report this story without mentioning at least once the "Hadley Climate Research Unit".

Sorted by date, this is what came up.

Not one single mention. Nothing. Nada. Zilch.

Additionally, I have been scanning their website for days looking for coverage of this breaking story, and have found absolutely nothing.

If I did miss anything, it would have to be so inconsequential as to be irrelevant in any event.

This simply is, to say the very least, incomprehensible and beyond belief.

The taxpayers of Canada fork out no less than $1,000,000,000 each and every year to fund the CBC. We do this, we are told ad infinitum (and it's worth noting, primarily by the left wing) that we (Canadians) absolutely require a national broadcaster that is dedicated to preserving our Canadian identity by way of providing unbiased and complete informational news service in the national interest, as well as entertainment reflecting our unique culture.

From the very beginning of the debate...and I use this term in the very loosest sense of the word, because balanced debate has been literally non-existent from the onset...over global warming/climate change, the CBC has been front and center in presenting every sordid and shrill proclamation of doom, and a plethora of authoritative "experts" to assure every Canadian that this is just simply so.

However...

Last Friday, albeit it by questionable means, inside information acquired from the computer files of the Hadley Climate Research Unit, a group of scientists central to the proposition of a global climate crisis, was released for public consumption. Since that moment a literal storm of controversy has been raging worldwide, primarily via the Internet, but reported as well by major news services such as Fox, UK Telegraph, The Australian, The National Post, etc.

Commentary by journalists, bloggists, and including most notably climate scientists/experts, has used descriptors such as "collusion", "manipulation", "cover-up", and even "conspiracy", with regard to the revelations contained within these exposed files. In the very least, the actual credibility of the science, its peer review process, and its dissemination into the public realm...most notably through the IPCC...has been called into serious question.

To date quite literally tens of billions of dollars, much of it publicly funded worldwide, has been spent in one form or another in addressing this so-called climate crisis, predicated upon the premise that carbon dioxide is the culprit which they...climate scientists...assert is source of the problem.

Several weeks from now an international conference will convene in Copenhagen, Denmark, where the further allocation of anywhere from $100,000,000,000 to as much as $250,000,000,000 is the subject of redistribution of wealth from western developed nations to the rest of the world.

The implications, long and short term, and costs imposed by global public policy of the so-called "consensus" of scientific opinion are so astronomical in scope as to be virtually inconceivable to the average citizen...and that is probably understating the reality.

And for all of this...

The CBC remains completely silent on the matter of the leaked files. Not a single bloody word.

I want to know, and I believe every single Canadian has a right to know, especially considering that we foot the bill for the CBC's mandate, just exactly who within the corporation made the decision to effectively censor this ever so critically relevant and important subject from their news broadcasting? And I want to know exactly why!

And, God damn it, I want heads to roll!

PERIOD!!!

12 comments:

rightful said...

shameful, absolutely shameful - any attempt to further block the REAL news from emerging, should be met with a complete de-funding of the CBC - where once was a valued service , we now have a politicized nightmare

Powell lucas said...

The CBC has too much capital, in the way of their journalistic integrity, invested in the global warming scam to ever present anything that disputes their propaganda line. Once this hoax is put to rest, it is definitely time to take a long hard look at government funding for this politicized, left-wing entity.

Brian said...

What do you expect , as they were airing an interview with Suzuki and Gore on CBC radio today or tomorrow , and heaven forbid , they couldn't offend or negatively impact these "towers" of scientific knowledge , now could they !!!

All of the MSM have so much capital invested in the scare tactics of global warming , which if now they must admit they are total fools , will significantly impact their already dwindling audience.

Personally , I think they now know , or most of the MSM knows this is all BS , but they don;t know what to do !

Springer said...

Is there any doubt that most of the MSM have pretty much been shills for the AGW crowd? Not much.

BUT...

We, the taxpayers of Canada, pay royally for the CBC, whose mandate is precisely that of providing complete and unbiased information...i.e., "news"...to serve the public interest and the nation as a whole.

That is in the first place their very raison d'etre.

What a farce!

Bec said...

The CBC, suffers no consequences for their actions, never.
Viewers can turn them off or petition their advertisers but that accomplishes nothing in affecting their bottom line. We are their bottom line in way of, bottomless pit,tax payer resources.

They are regularly last to every party and yet continue to enjoy the best of the drink and food because there is always a horde of last to leave guests, that hang on their every word and hypnotic kool-aid type propaganda.

For many Canadians, this is simply all there is and until that problem is addressed, CBC will continue to be an untruthful and inconvenient, gluttoness nuisance that manages to still suck in the naive.

Fred said...

so I'm thinking the CBC is having a hard time reaching Davis Suzuki, Lizzie May and Al Gore to ask for their permission to say anything about ClimateGate

fusna said...

Never mind the inquiry, just privatize it. It's the 21st century, for Pete's sake, well past time to throw off our shackles to the CBC.

Springer said...

I don't doubt that operating assumption at the CBC is that the moment the government complains about their performance, the corp can scream bloody blue murder about state interference in the media.

And, IMHO, they push this premise to the limit as though it were virtual carte blanche to do whatever the hell they feel like.

Frankly, they can sell the whole damn thing for a dollar to Fox News tomorrow, and you wouldn't be able to get the smile off my face for weeks!

Anonymous said...

Pretty pathetic. They could even run a story and spin it in favour of the wamists if they wanted picking up on real climate points, for example -- but to say nothing at all is eggregious.

Martin said...

Meanwhile they offer 6 straight days of coverage of Afghan prisoner
exchange.
I suggest a flood of complaints should be directed to:
ombudsman@cbc.ca
He is required to assess each complaint. Simply ask where is the news coverage.
Also a flood of complaints to their web site CBC.ca would not hurt. There is a form at the bottom for complaints.
I think on issues like climate change, gun control, the producers are beyond caring what Canadians think. They air whatever they think, no matter how removed from public opimion.

Anonymous said...

Climaquiddick

Jen said...

CBC is, for, had been and always will be voice of the liberals, work for the liberals and only for the liberals.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to tell you this, you smell corruption you heard and continue to hear(from other sources newspapers) about corruption within the LPOC; you have a gut feeling that you are being lied and manipulated too by not only CBC but by CTV and other medias and still you can't get any answers. Well, you are not suppose to know. this 'type' of behaviour from these NATIONAL MEDIA(CBC CTV....) are found also in Russia, now in Venezuela since Chavez shut the people's national media) to be replaced by his own.

CBC feel comfortable at what they do. and why not.
There is no other brand of NATIONAL MEDIA that would take CBC CTV.....to task. to reveal what they(cbc etc) deliberately and purposely fail to tell you.
Until such a 'NEW' media evolves, CBC CTV..... will continue with their schemes.