BBC Backs Down on Climate Change: Forced to Delete David Attenborough’s ‘Alarmist’ Warming Claims from Final Show of Africa Series!

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• BBC backs down on climate change: Forced to delete David Attenborough’s  ‘alarmist’ warming claims from final show of Africa series!! 
  by Mark Prigg, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ 
  – Broadcaster removed  assertions that ‘some parts of the continent have become 3.5C hotter in the past  20 years’ in repeat shown last night
  – Figures show that  since 1850 global temperatures have risen by 0.76C, causing widespread concern  among viewers.
  – Claim ignited major row  on Twitter – but BBC initially stood by the figure
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  The BBC has been forced into an embarrassing  climbdown over climate change claims made in Sir David Attenborough’s  groundbreaking Africa series. In the last episode of the series, entitled  ‘Future’, Sir David discussed the challenges facing the  region. Speaking over footage of Mount Kilimanjaro,  Sir David made the  assertion that ‘some parts of the continent have become 3.5C  hotter in  the past 20 years’.
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  However, figures from the Intergovernmental  Panel on Climate Change show that since 1850 global temperatures have risen by  0.76C, causing widespread concern among viewers. The comment, first broadcast in the final  episode of the Africa series last Wednesday, was removed from Sunday night’s  repeat of the show.
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  A BBC spokesman said: ‘There is  widespread  acknowledgement within the scientific community that the  climate of Africa has  been changing as stated in the programme. ‘We accept the evidence for 3.5 degrees  increase is disputable and the commentary should have reflected  that. ‘Therefore that line has been removed from  Sunday’s repeat and the iPlayer version replaced.’
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  Many took to Twitter to dispute the fact,  asking where the data came from. The BBC initially defended the claim, saying  it was taken from a report by Oxfam and the New Economics  Foundation, but in  turn this report suggested the figure had come from a report by Christian  Aid.
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  This report however, says the data  came from  a ‘conversation with authors; February 2006,’ and the report’s authors have not  responded to question over its validity.
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  Experts have also questioned the figure,  with Dr Tim Osborn of the University of  East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit telling the  Guardian:  So I would say that our data do not support the claim of 3.5 degC warming in the  last 20 years in some regions of Africa.’
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