Missing Voices: Roy Spencer

ABC gathers its information from a very  limited number of sources.  Despite a call for diversity in its charter its staff favour those with a similar viewpoint to their own regardless of the subject. On Climate Change for years this has meant the only "experts" ABC call upon for comment and opinion share the same Alarmist views on humanity's influence on the climate as the ABC's staff.

One of the voices the ABC could have have broadcast belongs to Dr Roy Spencer, a climate scientist from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Dr Spencer looks after the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA’s Aqua satellite, one of the key instruments monitoring global temperatures. A voice perhaps worth listening to. However a search of ABC's news archive could locate only one interview with Dr Spencer. Perhaps with the climate crisis becoming increasingly "Lukewarm" it's time for another.

Dr Spencer an important voice missing from your ABC.
Here's a link to his blog. http://www.drroyspencer.com

Spring Fires in past times

ABC's sister publications THE AGE and the Sydney Morning Herald  linked yesterday's Sydney bushfires with Climate change. Before Auntie follows a similar path here are a few items from times past that might help provide some perspective...

These articles of note....
State wide heat, Bushfires. Sydney homes in Danger. SMH 13/9/1946

Heat in Sydney. The West Australian 9/9/1940
Drought and Bushfires The Advertiser Friday 13 September 1895
Bush Fires, Heat And Fierce Winds The Sydney Morning Herald  Friday 21 September 1945

Some other examples (sorry no links but if you are interested search NLA...
1965...HOTTEST SEPTEMBER DAY Early bushfires widespread, The Canberra Times 27 September 1965 
1994...Early start to bushfire season The Canberra Times 21 August 1994
1964...Bushfire danger. The Canberra TimesThursday 13 August 1964
1956...BUSHFIRE RISK IS GRIM STATES OFFICIAL. The Central Queensland Herald 13 September 1956
1950...Bushfire Peril In N.S.W. And Queensland The Advertiser 25 September 1950
1918...A Terrific Bushfire ENORMOUS DAMAGE IN TAMBO DISTRICT. MITCHELL, Townsville Daily Bulletin 26 September 1918
1932...HUGE BUSHFIRE. FARMS IN DANGER. Rockhampton Menace. The Brisbane Courier 27 September 1932

Give ABC board control

ABC’s former chairmen Maurice Newman nailed the problem with the ABC: Groupthink. Groupthink on climate change, the environment, industrial relations, gender, marriage, the middle east. Name any issue and the ABC’s response can be predicted. In a multiple choice poll the ABC always promotes the response that characterises the loony left. This wouldn’t be a problem if the organisation was privately owned like the Green-Left Weekly, but it isn’t. It’s owned by the Australian people and its charter provides for the views of all Australians, not just the views of ABC’s city (ec)-centric staff.

With a new government in place it is time the ABC was placed back in the hands of the Australian people through its board. The ABC board, like the board of any organisation must be provided with the authority to run the ABC according to the ABC’s charter, not according to the whims of its groupthinking staff.

ABC ALP

Kerry O'Brien wheeled out to once again host the ALP's (sorry) ABC's election night coverage.
How long for the gaffe?

at about 0:30

Congrats to ABC's other O'Brien, Joe for keeping the ABC/ALP gaffe alive on the night.

Their ABC part 2

Simon at ACM has an interesting post....

It is galling that taxes paid by all Australians go towards funding that Lefty/Green echo-chamber, which caters for a small urban elite, staffed with inner-city Ultimo types who couldn’t run a chook raffle.

Their ABC

Comments from this week's Media Watch Dog....

The fact is that the ABC managing director does not run the ABC.  Nobody does.  Rather the ABC is controlled by a number of collectives which preside over the public broadcaster’s key television, radio and online products.  The members of these collectives are invariably on the left and they appoint one another to key positions.  This explains why the ABC remains a Conservative-Free-Zone without a conservative presenter or producer or editor for any of its main outlets.  The contemporary Liberal Party understands the problem – as is evident from the comments of the likes of Senator Eric Abetz during Senate estimates committee meetings on the ABC.  It remains to be seen what, if anything, the Coalition will do if it is elected to office on Saturday.

Missing news: 50 to 1

ABC appears to find news of crowd sourced and community funded projects worthwhile. For instance it recently spent sometime reporting on the use of crowd sourced funding to finance an investigation into the genetic health of sugar gliders (Link Here).

How long then will the ABC, who is supposed to represent the views of all Australians, take to report on a recent community sourced project that demonstrates that it is 50 times more costly to tackle climate change through taxes and emission trading schemes than to do so by adapting to change as it occurs.

To see the results of this community effort and to learn a thing or two about the economics of climate change follow the link below.

http://topher.com.au/50-to-1-video-project/

Well done to topher and the team!