The fake news about Donald Trump and the manipulated coverage of one of his speeches are just the tip of the iceberg. After also being accused of spreading pro-Hamas propaganda, the British broadcaster now finds its climate reporting under intense scrutiny. The BBC faces a serious credibility crisis, while climate campaigners have sparked yet another scandal.

As is known, a major scandal erupted last week after it emerged that a BBC programme broadcast one week before last year’s US presidential election had misleadingly spliced together different parts of a speech by Donald Trump from January 2021, making it sound as though the president had explicitly urged his supporters to and “fight like hell” and storm the Capitol complex in Washington. The fallout led to the resignation of Tim Davie, the BBC’s Director-General, and Deborah Turness, head of BBC News, the corporation’s news division.

The BBC faces a serious credibility crisis (Photo: AFP)

According to The Telegraph, the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee has now decided to launch a “thematic review” into its reporting, including coverage concerning “UK energy policy and climate change”, after concerns had previously been raised about the corporation’s approach to the subject.

In 2020, the publicly funded broadcaster removed the article and documentary Meat: A Threat to Our Planet? after the National Farmers’ Union’s complaint was upheld, which argued that the BBC film gave the false impression that British farming practices were similar to those in Brazil or the United States.

Commenting on the alleged move to review climate reporting, Tice, the deputy leader of Reform UK, said:

„The BBC must investigate its appalling climate change bias. However, given recent BBC bias scandals, I have no confidence that it will present the true findings. The only solution is to have a totally independent review of the BBC’s climate scaremongering.”

Claire Coutinho, shadow energy secretary, added: “The consensus on how to address climate change is breaking. If we stick to the current path we will be poorer and weaker. It’s vital the BBC is able to report news about climate change impartially and make sure all views are represented.”

Climate activists in retreat — literally cutting off the branch they’re sitting on

The BBC’s exaggerated and biased climate-change coverage has long fitted into the broader narrative that has dominated the globalist mainstream outlook on the issue in recent years. Yet the forced green policies have backfired across the Western world — people have become poorer, excessive measures have jeopardised growth, and less money has remained for other vital concerns.

In recent days, Bill Gates — once one of the most prominent advocates of fighting climate change — has also stepped back from his earlier alarmist statements, admitting that the supposed climate crisis poses no existential threat to humanity and that scarce resources should be spent more wisely elsewhere. “It’s a kind of pragmatic view from someone trying to maximise the money and innovation aimed at helping poor countries,” Gates said last month.

Meanwhile, another astonishing story has come to light. This year’s UN climate summit (COP30) is to be held in Belem, Brazil, after President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva insisted that the conference take place in the Amazon rainforest — the world’s largest tropical forest, which plays a key role in the fight against global warming. However, Belem’s limited infrastructure poses a major challenge in accommodating the roughly fifty thousand attendees expected for the event.

So much so that, in order to ensure access to the summit, Brazil reportedly chopped down tens of thousands of acres of trees, harming local Brazillians, to make way for a new four-lane highway through the Amazon rainforest,

– according to the Gateway Pundit news site.

The news also prompted a reaction from Donald Trump, who shared a segment from Fox News on his social-media platform. The clip featured Mark Morano, editor-in-chief of the Climate Depot website, which specialises in exposing falsehoods spread by climate-change alarmists.

The Brazilian environmental minister actually bragged, the reason they had to clear cut tens of thousands of acres for this four-lane highway for this UN Climate Summit was so they could cram as many people here as possible to showcase how Brazil has been saving the rain forest. So, this has been an amazing thing, because this highway went through the rainforest that they’ve been trying decades— “We’ve got to save the rainforest! We need climate trees!” And here they just cut it down, so you could have all the limousines, and SUVs, and all the private jets come in, and people can move freely at this summit, which is turning into a disaster here for them,

– Mr. Morano stated. President Trump commented on the discussion:

They ripped the hell out of the Rainforest of Brazil to build a four lane highway for Environmentalists to travel. It’s become a big scandal!