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The Telegraph
December 30, 2019
1) BBC ‘Preaches’ On Climate Change, Says Today Programme Guest Editor Charles Moore
The Daily Telegraph, 28 December 2019
The BBC’s Today programme “preaches” to its listeners, its guest editor and Telegraph columnist Charles Moore has said as he described how he had to battle to get a climate change skeptic onto the Radio 4 show.
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Mr Moore, who edited Saturday’s edition of the flagship show, accused the BBC of being “biased” on climate change and promoting “alarmism” about its consequences.
The former editor of the Telegraph said he also faced “obstacles” from within the corporation to getting science writer Lord Matthew Ridley onto the show.
The Conservative peer has argued that the risks of climate change are “greatly exaggerated” and that the BBC regularly gives airtime to “doomsday cultists” who make dire predictions about imminent catastrophe.
The accusations were made ahead of the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg taking the Today programme’s guest editor chair on Monday.
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