Your comment on Ruth Lea is interesting in that one person phoned in on Any Answers to support her, and others did so on the ring issue.
I know I would have supported her on both issues, and it is interesting that the "flat earth politico's" implied committment was not happening in the USA on climate change.
Yesterday I saw on YOU TUBE a superb 1/2 hour programme on the lessons to be learnt from how the Cubans coped with their lack of oil from the early 90's, and also increased the health of the nation.
Yes you heard right - USA learning from Cuba - the programme even went into the difference in cultures and the changes that the USA must make.
Ruth Lea quite rightly stated that the USA (and Germany) have made a strategic decision in reducing reliance on foreign oil, and that it is this that is the guiding principle behind their "global warming" efforts.
In the USA the programme Peak Oil is everywhere, and is an effort to wean the USA from its high oil usage. Most of it is a bit doomsday but also funny.
The 3 politico's on Any Questions underpinned the recent BBC programme on the dire low skill base of our current politicians - education does not automatically give you wisdom - which is what they seem to believe; but what we expect from them.
There was an interview with the deputy D-G of the BBC in the Times last week in which he implied that there were certain subjects on which the BBC would not commission documentaries - eg anything in favour of capital punishement.
Oops - I omitted the link
The Bishop has picked up on something I missed. BOM no longer blogs about scchh...you know what, but the BBC's wildly slanted position is totally untenable.
Casandrina- any link to the YouTube vid by any chance?
Sounds well worth a look
Wat, There was a nice example of the BBC's institutional bias in last week's In Business report on Radio 4. It irritated me so much, I've done a much-too-full write-up of the many aspects of its bias at pickinglosers. Combining, as it does, BBC bias with bad economics, I thought it might be up your street.
@Wat Tyler
The Cuba Oil vid sounds like it might be, 'Learning from Cuba's Response to Peak Oil'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f...h?
v=f7i6roVB5MI
Had access to broadband this weekend. The Cuba documentary seems to be The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, currently available on Google Video.
A combination of the collapse of the USSR and increased economic santions has forced Cuba into a 'Dig for Victory' experience.
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