The organization would insist that the decision was made by a few dozens of top invited scientific experts and it would use every trick to hide the identity of these "experts". Indeed, last Friday, a judge decided that the BBC wasn't obliged to reveal the identity of its "experts" so blogger Tony Newbery, the plaintiff, lost.
However, climate blogger Maurizio Morabito legally made the bizarre legal decision irrelevant. He found out a web copy of the list of participants on the Web.Archive.ORG internet archive time machine.
And it is a very powerful stuff. See comments at The Register (plus page 2).
I would like to invite the TRF readers to some simple research – and find out some fair description of all the "experts" in the list and something about their scientific credentials and impartiality. To me, the list looks like a collection of NGO activists, lobbyists, and representatives financially motivated green industry groups.
If you present some evidence and links in the comments and an alternative description of the "specialists", I will update this article. I have already chaotically changed the ordering of the list so that the "more scientific" beginning doesn't make a wrong impression. But building on similar lists of "experts" when decisions about trillions of dollars are being made is rather extraordinary, isn't it?
January 26th 2006, BBC Television Centre, London
Specialists: (30)
- Blake Lee-Harwood, Head of Campaigns, Greenpeace
- Li Moxuan, Climate campaigner, Greenpeace China
- Colin Challen MP, Chair, All Party Group on Climate Change
- Jos Wheatley, Global Environment Assets Team, DFID
- Ashok Sinha, Stop Climate Chaos
- Tessa Tennant, Chair, AsRia (transforming Asia to sustainable development)
- Tadesse Dadi, Tearfund (campaigning for justice) Ethiopia
- Andy Atkins, Advocacy Director, Tearfund
- Eleni Andreadis, undergraduate student majoring in brainwashing at the Kennedy School of Government and filmmaker, Harvard University, and hot director of 7-12 years old Planet Agents, Greece
- Iain Wright, CO2 Project Manager, BP International
- Andrew Dlugolecki, Insurance industry consultant
- Trevor Evans, US Embassy
- Anuradha Vittachi, Director, Oneworld.net representing 1,600 NGOs fighting poverty
- Andrew Simms, Policy Director, New Economics Foundation fighting to replace economics by "ecological stability"
- Claire Foster, Church of England
- Saleemul Huq, International Institute for Environment and Development
- 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
- Poshendra Satyal Pravat, Open University
- Mark Galloway, Director, International Broadcasting Trust
- Anita Neville, E3G Change Agents for Sustainable Development
- Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Ice and Climate, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen
- Michael Bravo, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
- Robert May, Oxford University and Imperial College London
- Mike Hulme, Director, Tyndall Centre, UEA
BBC employee attendees: (28)
- 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
- 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
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