{"id":1472715,"date":"2024-06-22T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1472715"},"modified":"2024-06-22T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T18:30:00","slug":"bbc-climate-disinformation-reporter-attacks-kenyan-farmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/bbc-climate-disinformation-reporter-attacks-kenyan-farmer\/1472715\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Climate Disinformation Reporter Attacks Kenyan Farmer"},"content":{"rendered":"

BBC Climate Disinformation Reporter Attacks Kenyan Farmer<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Thi Thuy Van Dinh via The Brownstone Institute<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

On 15th June 2024, the BBC Climate disinformation reporter Marco Silva published a\u00a0hit piece<\/a>\u00a0on the Kenyan farmer Jusper Machogu, entitled \u201cHow a Kenyan farmer became a champion of climate change denial.\u201d<\/strong> The reporter claims that Mr Machogu, a 29-year-old farmer with many thousands of followers on X for his campaign \u201cFossil Fuels for Africa,\u201d holds dangerous views denying climate change.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t personally know Mr Machogu, and I am certain that he doesn\u2019t need defense. I grew up without electricity and I\u00a0recently explained<\/a>\u00a0how I questioned the official climate narrative. I do find it extremely disgusting that a senior journalist sitting in Greater London, using daily modern technologies powered by fossil fuels, in a country that became rich thanks to fossil fuels (and loot from Kenya), should write such a disdainful piece on one of the biggest media outlets on earth about a young man who appears to have knowledge, hard work, and passion to serve his community and people. I also find this piece below the\u00a0BBC\u2019s editorial standards<\/a>\u00a0which include values such as truth, fairness, accuracy, and impartiality.<\/em><\/p>\n

The reporter chose to make\u00a0ad hominem<\/em>\u00a0attacks on Mr Machogu throughout the piece. <\/strong>It is stupid for a journalist of a global broadcasting company based in one of the richest places on earth to write statements like these:<\/p>\n

\u201cOn social media, he (Mr Machogu) has become known as flag bearer for fossil fuels in Africa, but there is more to his campaign that meets the eye,\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cMr Machogu\u2019s new-found popularity,\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

and \u201cMr Machogu began tweeting false and misleading claims about climate change in late 2021, after carrying out his \u201cown research\u201d into the topic.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Clearly, the reporter doesn\u2019t seem to think that Mr Machogu has the right to carry out his own research and make tweets about that.<\/strong> I don\u2019t understand why a BBC journalist can have freedom of expression but a Kenyan farmer cannot.<\/p>\n

What is wrong with Mr Machogu\u2019s posting about \u201cfarmer content\u201d like \u201cweeding his land, planting garlic or picking avocados\u201d in rural Kisii (southwest Kenya)? Aren\u2019t we in the era of social media influencers, of those many who make videos about their lives, their workouts, their gardening, their pets, or their exotic vacations and conferences?\u00a0<\/p>\n

What is wrong with using \u201cthe hashtag #ClimateScam\u201d hundreds of times? Does the BBC believe that they should approve hashtags?<\/strong> What is wrong with posts on \u201cThere is no climate crisis?\u201d Had the reporter applied a little bit more impartiality, he could have led his audiences to the global\u00a0Declaration<\/a>\u00a0on \u201cThere is no climate emergency\u201d signed by almost 2,000\u00a0scientists and professionals<\/a>\u00a0(myself also), including two Nobel laureates (John F. Clauser, Ivar Giaever) and top-notch scholars (Guus Berkhout, Richard Lindzen, Patrick Moore, Ian Plimer, etc.).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The reporter could even have acknowledged that Mr Machogu\u2019s clear aim is to reduce poverty in his chronically energy-starved country,<\/strong> as was seen in the excellent film\u00a0Climate: The Movie (The Cold Truth)<\/em><\/a>, made by the UK director Martin Durkin and available in 30 languages thanks to volunteers. Instead, he did not provide the link to the film and described it as \u201ca film crew from the UK travelled to Kisii to interview him (Mr Machogu) for a new documentary that described climate change as an \u201ceccentric environmental scare.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Besides the quotes issued from Mr Machogu\u2019s tweets, it was reported that Mr Machogu did not have a problem with raising some money to improve his conditions and help some people around him. The donations seem to be voluntary, like the way we do regularly to charities, groups, and churches, modest (more than $9,000) and well spent. Perhaps a comparison to the earnings of a climate disinformation reporter would have provided useful context.<\/p>\n

It is very strange that the BBC is concerned about a small amount allegedly from \u201cindividuals with links to the fossil fuel industry and to groups known for promoting climate change denial.\u201d Should the BBC be transparent about the huge amounts it has received outside the UK, for example from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, run by a person with major investments in technologies that benefit from climate alarmism?\u00a0A quick search<\/a>\u00a0on the Gates Foundation website shows millions over the last decade.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Do you know why these individuals are the problem? <\/strong><\/p>\n

We learn in the piece that Mr Machogu interacts online with those who \u201cpromote conspiracy theories online \u2013 not just about climate change, but also about vaccines, Covid-19, or the war in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n

All things, apparently, where disagreement with an official British government line is to be shunned and suppressed, however false those positions are found to be.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

By judging \u201cwrong\u201d Mr Machogu\u2019s tweet \u201cClimate change is mostly natural. A warmer climate is good for life,\u201d the reporter shows that he is the one who confuses science with dogma. Climate is influenced by a whole range of natural and anthropogenic factors. By characterizing Mr Machogu\u2019s social media content as \u201cdenial of man-made climate change,\u201d the climate disinformation reporter is directly spreading disinformation because Mr Machogu doesn\u2019t deny anthropogenic causes of climate change.<\/p>\n

The BBC certainly can do better than this. Instead, it chose to promote and practice advocacy journalism (i.e. propaganda), showing disrespect to its audiences. This BBC reporter should re-study its editorial guidelines, or do something else more useful.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To Mr Machogu, bravo for your intelligence and courage! <\/strong>Well, you have missed the opportunity of making a career with the climate cult, for example as a\u00a0United Nations Youth Climate Adviser<\/a>. The BBC hit piece just showed you how pitiful that path is. May the wealth of your people begin to approach the wealth that their colonizers achieved by digging, drilling, and burning coal and oil in Britain!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSat, 06\/22\/2024 – 10:30<\/span><\/p>\n

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