Tag: BBC

London to Edinburgh: Four days by electric car, two days by stagecoach

Perhaps this winter’s massive snow storms have convinced Al Gore to change his mind about global warming and word just hasn’t reach us yet.

Perhaps this winter’s massive snow storms have convinced Al Gore to change his mind about global warming and word just hasn’t reach us yet.

Telegraph UK has the story:

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Progress: The 2011 electric car is half as fast as the 1830 stage coach

In its obsessive desire to promote the virtues of electric cars, the BBC proudly showed us last week how its reporter Brian Milligan was able to drive an electric Mini from London to Edinburgh in a mere four days — with nine stops of up to 10 hours to recharge the batteries (with electricity from fossil fuels).

What the BBC omitted to tell us was that in the 1830s, a stagecoach was able to make the same journey in half the time, with two days and nights of continuous driving. This did require 50 stops to change horses, but each of these took only two minutes, giving a total stopping time of just over an hour and a half.

Al Gore just called to say that he’s very concerned about the stage coach’s carbon hoofprint.

Source: Telegraph UK

BBC to show movie made by chimpanzees. Can MSNBC be far behind?

The once much-revered British Broadcasting Corporation has not only gone to the dogs, it’s now gone ape.

The once much-revered British Broadcasting Corporation has not only gone to the dogs, it’s now gone ape.

The world’s first film shot entirely by chimpanzees is to be broadcast by the BBC as part of a natural history documentary.

The apes created the movie using a specially designed chimp-proof camera given to them by primatologists.

The film-making exercise is part of a scientific study into how chimpanzees perceive the world and each other.

It will be screened within the Natural World programme “Chimpcam” shown on BBC Two at 2000GMT on Wednesday 27 January.

Making the movie was the brainchild of primatologist Ms Betsy Herrelko, who is studying for a PhD in primate behaviour at the University of Stirling, UK.

Ratings-challenged MSNBC is reportedly in negotiations to give the chimps their own nightly primetime show, although industry experts say the primates may be too intelligent to fit in with the rest of the network’s programming.

Source: BBC

British government’s global warming guru makes more money than nation’s prime minister

In this interview, BBC host Andrew Neal absolutely puts global warming proponent and Met Office chief John Hirst on the hot seat for his office’s abysmal weather forecasting record and outrageous salaries.

Back during the Depression, a newspaper reporter asked Babe Ruth how he could justify making more money than the president of the United States. Ruth responded, “I had a better year than he did.”

Unfortunately, that explanation won’t work for top British government climate guru John Hirst. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has had an awful year, but it shines in comparison to Hirst’s.

In this interview, BBC host Andrew Neal absolutely puts the global warming guru on the hot seat for his office’s abysmal weather forecasting record and outrageous salaries.

It’s almost laugh-out-loud-funny to watch Hirst squirm while trying to answer questions such as, “Since you can’t the summer or the winter right in your forecasts, why should we give any credence to your forecast to what the temperature will be in the 2050 or 2020, which is what you do.”

Thanks for our friends over at ClimateGate.com for finding this gem.

Source: ClimateGate.com

Officially debunking the myth of British TV programming superiority

Saturday morning at 9 a.m. BBC America aired a program titled, “You Are What You Eat. It was described as the story of “a businsessman whose diet of meat, chocolate and milk has lead to 130 extra pounds and a flatulence problem.“

Saturday morning at 9 a.m. BBC America aired a program titled, “You Are What You Eat. It was described as the story of “a businsessman whose diet of meat, chocolate and milk has lead to 130 extra pounds and a flatulence problem.“

Please consider the myth of British superiority officially debunked.

UK Member of Parliament says he may kill Miss California, kills career instead

Alan Duncan is a Member of Parliament in Great Britain. He wants to be Home Secretary, but after last night he may find himself unemployed instead.

The boneheaded MP was discussing Miss California, Carrie Prejean, on the BBC comedy show “Have I Got News For You” when he called Prejean a “silly bitch.” If would have been bad enough had he stopped there, but he didn’t.

“If you read that Miss California is murdered,” he said, “you will know it was me.”

At least we think that’s what he said. It was difficult to tell with his foot buried so deeply in his mouth.

Viewers complaints began flooding into the BBC and Britain’s Broadcasting Standards Authority almost immediately.

“Mr. Duncan has crossed the line,” said the Reverend George Hargreaves. “A senior politician suggesting, even as a joke, that it is OK that Ms. Prejean should be murdered for her Evangelical Christian views is totally unacceptable.”

“If you read that my career is dead,” Duncan shold have said, “you will know it was me.”

Source: Gateway Pundit

Iraq’s making progress everywhere except the American media

photo credit: James Gordon
photo credit: James Gordon

The results of a new poll conducted by ABC News, the BBC and Japan’s NHK must make editors and reporters around the nation take a big gulp and say, “Didn’t see that comin’.”

It shows big progress everywhere they looked. But you probably won’t read about it anywhere except an editorial in Monday’s Investor’s Business Daily.

Check out these numbers:

85% of Iraqis said their neighborhood security was “good,” up from 62% a year ago and 43% in August of 2007.

Those who support democracy jumped to 64% from just 43% in 2007.

58% feel “very good” or “quite good” about the state of affairs in Iraq. That’s up from just 22% in 2007.

When asked what their main concerns are, war, security and terrorism took a backseat to jobs and prices.

“In short, it sounds like we not only won the war, but the peace as well,” IBD concluded. “And for those who cast a skeptical eye on the idea that any Islamic country could ever be democratized, it turns out the former President Bush is winning that debate too.”

Some results IBD didn’t mention:

96% of Iraqis think John Kerry is a pompous liar. 98% think Harry Reid is a pathetic liar. And 100% of Iraqis think John Murtha is a big, fat liar.

Source: Investor’s Business Daily

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