BBC's 30 "experts" who decided in 2006 that balance on AGW wasn't needed

The British Broadcast Corporation is legally obliged to be impartial. However, at one point, the BBC Trust has boldly informed the public that after a seminar held on January 26th, 2006, the public news organization has decided that no balance was needed in climate reporting anymore and the organization would continue to spread the demagogy of the unhinged climate alarmists only.

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