Comments on: BBC Climate Model http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2006/04/22/bbc-climate-model no soup, no clouds Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:31:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: C Thomas Edwards http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2006/04/22/bbc-climate-model/comment-page-1#comment-19 C Thomas Edwards Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://1543432533#comment-19 The BBC also has a The BBC also has a responsibility to educate though and get people involved in the issues around them. This seems to me to just be one of those occasions.

]]> By: David http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2006/04/22/bbc-climate-model/comment-page-1#comment-20 David Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://1543432533#comment-20 That’s true. But this is – That’s true. But this is – as the BBC itself reports – the world’s biggest online climate prediction project. And I’d never heard of it before the error made a front page. Had you?

So much for the responsibility to educate, then. I didn’t know, I’m guessing perhaps wrongly you didn’t know, that the BBC was involved.

As communicators, why couldn’t the BBC have simply informed rather than getting involved in direct funding of research?

And then there’s the question being begged. If the Beeb is charged with educating us then why this particular issue at this particular time in this particular way? God knows, the BBC’s science coverage is generally poor save for some spectacular shots of snow leopards recently – and even then the camera work was the marvellous thing.

There’s so much science education, and education generally, the BBC could have a part in. I’m sceptical of their motives in this instance.

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