I've just submitted the following complaint to the BBC, @BBCPolitics and @bbclaurak. On Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg on 21st April 2024, Chris Packham, a BBC personality (ex-presenter of Springwatch, presenter of forthcoming Inside Our Minds), said the following when challenged by Luke Johnson about what evidence he had that extreme weather events are caused by carbon emissions: “It doesn’t come from Toby Young’s Daily Septic [sic], which is basically put together by a bunch of professionals with close affiliations to the fossil fuel industry. It comes from something called science.” This is both false and defamatory. I am the editor-in-chief of the Daily Sceptic, a news publishing site, and neither I nor any of the other people who put it together have any affiliations to the fossil fuel industry, close or otherwise. I have never been paid money by any fossil fuel companies, nor has the editor, Dr Will Jones, and we’ve never run an ad on the site from any fossil fuel companies. Chris Packham was not challenged by anyone on the programme about this false allegation, even though it's extremely serious and damaging, effectively claiming the people who put together the Daily Sceptic are corrupt, i.e., paid to publish climate contrarian articles by the fossil fuel industry. On the contrary, a clip of Chris Packham making this false and defamatory allegation was posted by BBC Politics on X and then retweeted by Laura Kuenssberg and as of the time of writing (11.15am on 25th April 2024) had been viewed over 850,000 times. The tweet hasn’t been deleted even though I pointed out on X that it was false on 21st April, quoting the original tweet.
If anyone else would like to complain to the BBC about this (I've been told that the more complaints about a programme it gets, the more likely it is to respond), you can do so here: bbc.co.uk/contact/compla…
@toadmeister @VeritasVoyages @BBCPolitics @bbclaurak The moment you mention the BBC, Laura Kuenssberg and Chris Packham, you just know that what they will broadcast is straight out of the doctrine of right think and not based on anything remotely related to science or fact.
@toadmeister @BBCPolitics @bbclaurak You’re a mouthpiece of the Tory government, who are clearly in bed with FF industry Moreover, googling many of your so called journos reveals them to be cranks with records of misinformation
@toadmeister @BBCPolitics @bbclaurak Thanks for confirming you're just a crank and not spreading misinformation for money.
@toadmeister @BBCPolitics @bbclaurak Good luck with the defamation lawsuit!
@toadmeister @BBCPolitics @bbclaurak IMHO, Chris @ChrisGPackham is one of the good guys Toby & he cares about the environment, all sentient beings and the planet as a whole. We have a pretty good idea what you are Toby Young & you have proved yourself on a number of occasions. #ClimateCrisis x.com/mr_stephen_mos…
@toadmeister @BBCPolitics @bbclaurak IMHO, Chris @ChrisGPackham is one of the good guys Toby & he cares about the environment, all sentient beings and the planet as a whole. We have a pretty good idea what you are Toby Young & you have proved yourself on a number of occasions. #ClimateCrisis x.com/mr_stephen_mos…
@toadmeister @BBCPolitics @bbclaurak Daily Sceptic surely he meant to say Daily Fail or Daily Heil?
@toadmeister @BBCPolitics @bbclaurak Just a taste of what the climate alarmists get up to unfortunately. They quote scientists and we know what happened when we followed the science in 2020 with COVID. No chance of balance in the debates with the ‘Climate Alarm Cult’.
@toadmeister @afneil @BBCPolitics @bbclaurak If @ChrisGPackham is wrong, why not sue him for slander?