This list has been obtained legally.
This is for Tony, Andrew, Benny, Barry and for all of us Harmless Davids.
January 26th 2006,
BBC Television Centre, London
Specialists:
Robert May, Oxford University and Imperial College London
Mike Hulme, Director, Tyndall Centre, UEA
Blake Lee-Harwood, Head of Campaigns, Greenpeace
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen
Michael Bravo, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
Andrew Dlugolecki, Insurance industry consultant
Trevor Evans, US Embassy
Colin Challen MP, Chair, All Party Group on Climate Change
Anuradha Vittachi, Director, Oneworld.net
Andrew Simms, Policy Director, New Economics Foundation
Claire Foster, Church of England
Saleemul Huq, IIED
Poshendra Satyal Pravat, Open University
Li Moxuan, Climate campaigner, Greenpeace China
Tadesse Dadi, Tearfund Ethiopia
Iain Wright, CO2 Project Manager, BP International
Ashok Sinha, Stop Climate Chaos
Andy Atkins, Advocacy Director, Tearfund
Matthew Farrow, CBI
Rafael Hidalgo, TV/multimedia producer
Cheryl Campbell, Executive Director, Television for the Environment
Kevin McCullough, Director, Npower Renewables
Richard D North, Institute of Economic Affairs
Steve Widdicombe, Plymouth Marine Labs
Joe Smith, The Open University
Mark Galloway, Director, IBT
Anita Neville, E3G
Eleni Andreadis, Harvard University
Jos Wheatley, Global Environment Assets Team, DFID
Tessa Tennant, Chair, AsRia
BBC attendees:
Jana Bennett, Director of Television
Sacha Baveystock, Executive Producer, Science
Helen Boaden, Director of News
Andrew Lane, Manager, Weather, TV News
Anne Gilchrist, Executive Editor Indies & Events, CBBC
Dominic Vallely, Executive Editor, Entertainment
Eleanor Moran, Development Executive, Drama Commissioning
Elizabeth McKay, Project Executive, Education
Emma Swain, Commissioning Editor, Specialist Factual
Fergal Keane, (Chair), Foreign Affairs Correspondent
Fran Unsworth, Head of Newsgathering
George Entwistle, Head of TV Current Affairs
Glenwyn Benson, Controller, Factual TV
John Lynch, Creative Director, Specialist Factual
Jon Plowman, Head of Comedy
Jon Williams, TV Editor Newsgathering
Karen O’Connor, Editor, This World, Current Affairs
Catriona McKenzie, Tightrope Pictures catriona@tightropepictures.com
BBC Television Centre, London (cont)
Liz Molyneux, Editorial Executive, Factual Commissioning
Matt Morris, Head of News, Radio Five Live
Neil Nightingale, Head of Natural History Unit
Paul Brannan, Deputy Head of News Interactive
Peter Horrocks, Head of Television News
Peter Rippon, Duty Editor, World at One/PM/The World this Weekend
Phil Harding, Director, English Networks & Nations
Steve Mitchell, Head Of Radio News
Sue Inglish, Head Of Political Programmes
Frances Weil, Editor of News Special Events
[...] wrote on Sunday how it had refused FoI requests to reveal those names. But Maurizio Morabito has revealed a list which the BBC cannot describe as a bunch of dispassionate scientists: it’s a veritable [...]
Wow … well done indeed.
I’ve been disappointed many times with the wayback machine on other searches – but what a pot of gold ….
Outstanding.
The mendacity of the BBC and their claque is epic.
Fantastic job – high time for this particular sh*t to hit the fan. Couldn’t be better timed – well done!
[...] science writer Maurizio Morabito has unearthed a list – once hosted on the IBT’s website and now stored in the Wayback Machine‘s cache [...]
The BBC won it’s case against the FOI request to see who attended the 2006 CMEP seminar where the BBC formulated this policy
“The BBC has held a high-level seminar with some of the best scientific experts, and has come to the view that the weight of evidence no longer justifies equal space being given to the opponents of the consensus [on anthropogenic climate change]”
The rest is history as far as impartiality in reporting on climate change from the BBC was concerned…
The BBC had claimed the seminar was attended by the best scientific experts, but refused to let anyone know who they were… until now, despite the FOI failing, the list is out!
Surprise surprise, the attendees were far from ‘Scientific Experts’…. and not one person there that had an alternate point of view on AGW!
http://omnologos.com/full-list-of-participants-to-the-bbc-cmep-seminar-on-26-january-2006/
What were the BBC lawyers justifications in court case?
Maybe the BBC was lying to the judge if indeed said it was a scientific meeting.
Excellent job, Maurizio. And the composition is pretty incredible for a list of “experts”.
http://motls.blogspot.cz/2012/11/bbcs-30-experts-who-decided-in-2006.html?m=1
Bravo, Maurizio! Non c’era neanche bisogno della sabbia per farlo sentire ben bene alla BBC. Bel colpo.
Fantastic achievement – the whole of the UK is in your debt
[...] whilst reading the comments at Maurizio Morabito (who blogs as “Omnologos”) – the man who published the list, I was alarmed to see a reference to an “Internet Kill [...]
[...] as a result of an ongoing FOI request from Tony Newbery, some excellent detective work by Maurizio Morabito – see discussion at Bishop Hill here. Also see context from Andrew Orlowski [...]
You forget very very few people working at the Beeb will have much knowledge of science, history, sociology, journalism, media studies, yes; chemistry, physics, biology, no. So anyone with a science degree may well appear to be a leading scientist. There are some scientists present, but they appear outnumbered by the rest.
Superb and I have to say looking at the list, not surprising. Their should now be a full public inquiry into the BBC regarding impartiality and the it’s own interpretation of the Royal Charter.
[...] wrote on Sunday how it had refused FoI requests to reveal those names. But Maurizio Morabito has revealed a list which the BBC cannot describe as a bunch of dispassionate scientists: it’s a [...]
The BBC is not just an impartial disseminator of news and views; it has a strong political agenda and seeks to shape public opinion.The image it portrays of itself being a non-profit organisation attracts mainly left wing idealists to its ranks. This ‘non-profit’ position is after paying its top heavy management enormous tax dodging salaries (after all it needs to attract the right sort of high minded left wing Oxbridge activists). BBC radio 4 news output is editorially hand in glove with the Guardian newspaper – always the first reference ‘in what the papers say’- and the stomping ground of George Monbiot the warmist nut job (surprised he wasn’t at the seminar). He tweeted the name of Lord McAlpine on Twitter as the Newsnight abuser. The BBC is a seething conspiracy of the Marxist left determined to subvert public opinion to promote its own agenda.
[...] everybody will now,no doubt, be fully aware, the excellent Maurizio Morabito has unearthed the list of 28 “specialists” who attended the BBC summit in 2006. The meeting was [...]
A Green Hall of Shame.
Fantastic well done.
A good job of work. now everyone will know how balanced and impartial the BBC is.
[...] BBC Seminar. The list has now been found on the wayback machine by talkshop regular Maurizio ‘omnologos’ Morabito, who got Anthony to break the story over at WUWT. Maurizio [...]
Brilliant work – the whole UK owes you one.
No wonder they were so keen to keep this hidden – Greenpeace, Stop Climate Chaos, Tearfund – clearly the best, most authoritative , unbiased sources the BBC could find. And its on THEIR say so that climate sceptics have been ridiculed and ignored. Who selected this bunch of wallies?
Oh yes – Maurizio, you are the man!
Oliver Cromwell’s address to the ‘Rump BBC’:
It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.
Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you?
Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter’d your conscience for bribes?
Is there a man among you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?
Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defil’d this sacred place, and turn’d the Lord’s temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress’d, are yourselves gone!
So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the name of God, go!
[Cromwell's dismissal of the Rump Parliament in 1653]
HAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAH
Well done that man – and the Wayback Machine.
[...] this list, however what is believed to be the complete who’s who has now been acquired by legitimate sleuthing by Maurizio Morabito: Specialists: Robert May, Oxford University and Imperial College London Mike [...]
First class work! This is clear evidience to demonstrate that Helen Boaden Head of BBC News, LIED HER ASS OFF, & 6 lawyers & a biased ignorant judge fell for it!!! Then again, has she been the recipient of “BBC dumbing down” because she thinks that anyone who represents an organisation with CO2/Climate/GlobalWarming as a title listing is a scientist or engineer or other technologist? The Warmists can “educate” people, school children, sturdents, etc, but the one thing these arrogant elitists cannot do, is stop them from thinking!!!!! Thank God I say!
Well done mate. Couldn’t get us a copy of the Balen report could you?
Bravo. One can see why the MSM, at least that part that feels only they hold folk to account and only they ask others questions, backed by FoI exclusions if the spotlight turns, doesn’t feel the internet should be allowed to discover the actuall truth vs. the versions they run through their filters.
Brilliant work. Thank you!
Maurizio – you are a God.
Very well done Maurizio! It would be good to talk.
How you must have felt when that list popped up onto your screen! How you must feel now with all the praise! Richly deserved. Well done!
Well done. The BBC has had so many shots below the water line, it should no longer float. I hope that commenters hammer that message home wherever possible within the on-line main stream media at every opportunity.
Everyone should write to their MP, cc’ing the Dept of Culture, Media & Sport to press the point home.
Great detective work Maurizio – this is a significant public service and shows how senior BBC management was happy to have activists set editorial policy with minimal scientific input. No wonder they fought to keep the list secret.
So, off that list, I’d say that the following are “Climate Scientists”. (In its broadest sense)
Mike Hulme
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen
Michael Bravo
Saleemul Huq (Possibly?)
Steve Widdicombe
Any I’ve missed?
The rest of the “Specialists”, appear to be the usual bunch of parasites that this scam has attracted. Oh, plus “Big Oil” !
Many thanks Maurizio, for obtaining and publishing this information. Now, if you could please do the same with the Balen Report.
Congratulations on this fine bit of sleuthing. Glorious!
[...] night this site has seen the second large journalistic scoop of my life (so far): Full List of Participants to the BBC CMEP Seminar on 26 January 2006 (here’s the first one: World Exclusive: CIA 1974 Document Reveals Emptiness of AGW Scares, [...]
Great work many thanks for this !
[...] Morabito has obtained the details of the BBC climate 28. It had been published by the International Broadcasting [...]
A link to the CofE attendee Claire Foster…
http://www.chpublishing.co.uk/feature.asp?id=2396104
Well done. I wonder if BBC licence-fee payers funded all the time and expenses?
Philip, Of course they would have, they were after all on BBC ‘mind-your-own’ business.
[...] Maurizio Morabito and the Wayback Machine. As the Bishop points out, the now revealed list suggests that the Sky is Falling Brigade was the only sort [...]
Well done. That list does make the absurdity of this warmist bias at the BBC more understandable. What a crew of activists.
Brilliant! Congratulatiuons. Did the IBT put the list on-line with the BBC’s permission? And who tried to remove it and when? It makes nonsense of the claims about “Chatham House Rules”.
Maurizio,
Soon you will not be able to do this if the UN has its way.
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2012/11/12/internet-kill-switch-urgent-global-action-needed-as-internet-as-we-know-it-comes-under-very-real-threat/
My admiration and thanks, Maurizio.
You mean to say this meeting happened over six years ago? and the Beeb was still trying to hide the participants? Jeesh!
Excellent work!.
“Nation shall speak truth unto nation” ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_the_BBC )
Except for there own people of course.
Congratulations, Maurizio!
The Wayback Machine strikes again. Well done Maurizio!
I would be curious to know when that link on the ‘dialogue‘ page ceased to work. All the Wayback examples point to the same 2007 copy of the pdf.
Going by the file names what can be said is that in September 2007 it was okay to list the delegates and link to them in that pink box. By the end of July 2008 that document had been replaced with Real World Brainstorm update 30Jul08.pdf
Tony’s first FOI submission (AFAIK) was July 2007 which was responded to in August 2007 with the BBC claimed “The attendees at the seminar were made up of 30 key BBC staff and 30 invited guests who are specialists in the area of climate change.”
Funny that, Gareth
Trevor also pops up elsewhere
http://www.google.se/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CB8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sjofartsverket.se%2Fupload%2F5314%2F2-INF1.pdf&ei=NLKhULbkDYvGtAaRn4A4&usg=AFQjCNEw05BpAW9yAyp-DpLB8LB3Bwa-9Q&sig2=UfkMUtaLJPk4-5yhYd313A
“Mr. Trevor Evans, Officer for Environment, Science and Technology, Deputy Permanent
Representative of the United States of America to IMO, American Embassy”
Brilliant work, Detective Maurizio! My hat is off to you
P.S. Did you notice that your old “friend” James Painter is “convening” the latest and greatest how scientists can communicate better [see BH Deja Vu post]
Wow. Maurizio.
I am amazed at the number of times everyone forgot to look in the Wayback machine until that one person looks. Or knows where to go looking. I remember when Richard North and I and a small handful went looking up and down for the “40% of Amazon would burn away” crap from the IPCC until Gareth dragged it out of Waybackmachine.
These are the great climate experts who decided BBC’s climate coverage? All I can see is activist trash.
Activists are good. Scientists are good. Activists pretending to be scientists, or hiding behind the skirts of scientists are trash. … that is the dregs really. I mean, who the f*** is “Head of Campaigns Greenpeace” to decide what the BBC should do? And why should the BBC pass him or her off as a scientist?
There is a lot to answer for.
Shub – your comment went mysteriously into the Spam folder….
Great work Maurizio!! Thanks!
Bravo!
Well done!
Congrats and thank you for your efforts.
Well done Sir you’ve played a blinder:-)
As Elvis would say you ain’t nothing but a hound dog?
Woof!
Top man!
I thought for a moment or two that all TonyN’s efforts had now been wasted, but it isn’t so – his tribunal has demonstrated yet again, and in the very present day, the lengths (and our money) that the BBC will go to in order to conceal a deception.
It seems to get worse and worse for the Beeb at present; this list and their original assertions of “leading scientists” ought to lead to criminal charges somewhere.
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Great work sir !!!!
That darn old internet !!!
5 stars! Heartiest congratulations for finding that needle in a haystack.
We should all give our thanks to the International Broadcasting Trust for putting the list online, to Wayback Machine for keeping a copy of it and to the unnamed internet-challenged person who tried to remove the document and forgot to delete the one broken link pointing to it.
Amen.
Thanks, Maurizio Morabito! Coincidence is again the anonymous destroyer of liars.
Well done Maurizio. Great work. You’ve probably just saved Tony Newbery a bob or two as well.
Outstanding!
Bravo! Fantastico!
Excellent, excellent detective work, Maurizio! I take my hat off to you.
Oh, dear me!
I don’t really think that the BBC or the legal profession understand the saying: “Information wants to be free…”
Someone should also remind them to look up the “Streisland effect” in the wiki….
Bets now being taken as to the knee-jerk legislative reaction that will be being discussed in Whitehall….
Why would the ‘Head of Comedy’ attend?
Funny that…
Perhaps they will be able to argue it’s been just a harmless joke…
To keep him in line, of course. When did you last hear a turbine joke on radio 4?
Congratulations Maurizio! And thank you!
George Entwistle??? Crumbs! So the DG was in FULL knowledge of the recent court case, and wanted his attendance to be kept secret, and when made DG, didn’t believe it of worth to declare his position as being in direct conflict with the BBC’s legal Charter!
Fantastico, Maurizio! A scoop?
“Investigative journalism is alive and well, it’s just moved house” – Pointman.
Neat. Please send on to Chris Booker, Tony Newberry and Chris Patten (Chairman BBC Trust)
And we should all demand a refund from the BBC for our money they spent on a futile lawyering exercise.
You da man, Maurizio!
Ah, the genius of Wayback Machine. I get it now.
Brilliant work, Maurizio. Did you ask particularly nicely?