BBC ‘Hypocrisy’ Row as Reporter Racks up Air Miles to Criticise Global Emissions
The BBC is facing criticism for hypocrisy as a Panorama reporter, Richard Bilton, traveled 20,000 air miles to investigate climate change. The Telegraph has more.
The BBC has been accused of “rank hypocrisy” after a reporter racked up an estimated 20,000 air miles to ask why “despite all the green promises, we’re using more fossil fuels than ever before”.
London-based Richard Bilton travelled to Europe, the Middle East and the United States for an episode of BBC One’s Panorama in which he claimed “the world is saying one thing and doing another” on climate change.
Analysis by the Telegraph suggests that he could have racked up around 20,000 air miles, taking flights to Dubai, Alaska, California and Berlin for the programme, which was aired on November 13th.
At the most conservative estimate, this would have produced around 5.4 tonnes of CO₂ – more than the average person produces in a year and the equivalent to driving an average car for 18 months.
The air miles estimates are based on one scenario, which involved Mr. Bilton taking return flights from Berlin and Dubai back to London, and going from the U.K. to California and then onto Alaska before returning across the Atlantic. …
The BBC, which has pledged to reduce its operational greenhouse gas emissions by 46% by 2030, said all the flights were in economy class and were “required” for “on-the-ground reporting”.
But critics have pointed out that the corporation has local teams of reporters in each location, meaning the “one-man jolly” was “rank hypocrisy”. …
Dame Andrea Jenkyns, the Conservative MP for Morley and Outwood, said: “If the BBC feels it necessary to lecture the public about fossil fuels, they should practise what they preach first.
“BBC Panorama ought to do an episode on itself, namely how its reporter is globe-trotting on flights at the licence-fee-payers’ expense.”
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This is simply par for the course for el Beeb and entirely to be expected. The “elite” broadcaster confirming via its rank hypocrisy its rightful place among the elites – do as they do – and at the same time lecturing the plebs. Spot on.
Most BBC people will only know or want to know what is drummed into them in their training. ——-Many probably think this issue is really all about emissions of CO2 causing dangerous warming and western governments must come over the hill like the cavalry and save us all with planet saving climate policies “before it is too late”. ——-They won’t realise it has nothing to do with that and is entirely about wealth. —The wealthiest people emit the most CO2 for the obvious reason that they live in bigger houses, have more appliances and gadgets, and use much more energy. They also fly much more in planes. The poor emit the least as they mostly have very little of that and sometimes none of it, eg one billion of the worlds poorest people don’t even have any electricity.— I will now let Edenhoffer of the IPCC explain why it isn’t really about the climate. —“One has to free oneself from the illusion that climate policies are environmental policies anymore. We redistribute the worlds wealth de facto by climate policy” Ottmar Edenhoffer IPCC ——–It isn’t about the climate. The climate is just the excuse for the Eco Socialism. Putting a price… Read more »
Great exposition.
Taking money from the wealthy and giving it to the less wealthy is redistributive, so socialist.
Doing it without a mandate is fascist.
There is no mandate for nut zero.
The BBC is the socialist fascist mouthpiece of a socialist fascist government.
We can choose what words we want to describe this racket. But it all emanates though from the UN though where 3 quarters of the countries in it have Kings, Colonels, Tyrannts and Dictators in charge. This is the same UN that has the likes of Saudi Arabia making decisions on “human rights”. ———-ha ha ha jeez.
All the way back to the Club of Rome 1972.
Yep. ———-Funny how we never hear about that on the BBC. Mind you how would I know, since I never tune into the British Brainwashing Corporation?.
Knowing what the enemy is doing is key…
If it was really about so called wealth distribution, there would be no meaningful “cut” taken by any “right thinking” Government? For those wealthier people are these so called “Eco Socialist” policies inhibiting their lifestyle – if that is measured by the airmails of those who decide such, let me say “it ain’t working”. It smacks of the porkers with their snouts even deeper in the troughs; these morally upright WEF graduates are becoming more and more “equal” than the “others”. CO2 = increased poverty for those who cannot afford their fuel or food bills? How is that redistribution – inverted for sure and that means daylight robbery… I am not in favour of this for many other reasons; making travel more expensive is not going to inhibit the better off but it will do so for the less well off – how is that redistributive? Net Zero will massively impact the less well off versus those better off. Energy prices that have hiked as a consequence of horrendous policies ushered in by clueless greens, and adopted H, L & S by those who do not have the balls to state the blindingly bleeding obvious, stuff the less well off… Read more »
As OPEC has agreed to produce 20% more fossil fuels by 2050, one might ask a fairly obvious question of these stunted thinkers. ‘What do you think is going to replace it.?’.
“Let’s have everything louder than everything else” – Ian Gillan….with slight amendment, how true…
I may be mistaken but it seems there is a constant recycling of virtually the same stories. Some of them are like identikits where you can swap some of the basic issues around and apply them to different perpetrators. Then again, I find myself recycling my own outrage and disbelief again and again and again. It’s probably why I don’t comment much these days – I’m all out of outrage! I was outraged a year ago but now I just want to ridicule.
It is tiring being angry. Ridicule can work, but it’s not reaching the same audience unfortunately.
If I may say so, it is all about “keeping going”; TPTB are, I am sure, relying on the “antis” running out of steam. I am fortunate because my ( and by extension, my family ) whole existence – health and finances – were threatened by a combination of corrupt GP, Doctors outside the UK, Doctors and so called Health professional in the UK who colluded to destroy me, a corrupt GMC and the criminal practices ( as adjudicated by Judges in courts of law ) of a multi national operating in the UK, grossly unprofessional GP and Solicitor who resorted to lying, other GMC medics working for ATOS and the DWP. It took 3 years of ….very hard effort at a time I was least disposed to cope, a massive understatement. In the end beat the lot of them ( with some good help, in and ex UK ) but at significant personal “cost”. Cannot describe it as winning because all these medics/GPs and Solicitors ( and the UK subsidiary of the US multi national ) still exist. What I know demonstrates that the ramifications of these events go far far beyond me and my family – and recent… Read more »
We exhale CO². Let’s all hold our breath. A few weeks should do it.
But plants inhale CO², so more plants should do it.
Crazy logic
I suppose Richard Bilton has a lovely house and family somewhere near London and doesn’t really give a shit about anything he says, because he’s being paid to say it!
How many cars you got Richard? I’ll wager the ones you rely on aren’t electric! Prove me wrong!
If so, what’s your thoughts on child labour?
The things ‘some’ people will do for an easy living!
Top man the more CO2 the better I say; the food of life. More green, more plants, more food what’s not to like?🤷😉
The same applies to Charles Windsor and most of the Eco Nutters in the Establishment …. rank hypocrisy.
If everyone posting on here has’nt cancelled their licence, then THEY are the problem.