BBC removes website touting 'benefits' of global warming after backlash

Ben Reilly wrote:The BBC has removed an educational page laying out the “benefits” of climate change after a furious online reaction.

BBC Bitesize, its website for schoolchildren, claimed warmer temperatures “could lead to healthier outdoor lifestyles” and that a benefit of climate change could mean easier access to oil in Alaska and Siberia.

Other apparent benefits highlighted by the BBC included the ability to one day grow more crops in Siberia, new shipping routes created by melting ice, and more tourist destinations.

- The Guardian

How pathetic, to teach kids that climate change might be a good thing!

Ben Reilly wrote:It's not going to help anyone, if you take everything into consideration. Such as:

* all warm regions becoming uninhabitable
* millions of climate refugees crowding the places that remain habitable
* the extinction of the oceans
* the collapse of the global food chain
* the spread of tropical diseases throughout the world

All of that is going to make the odd warm day feel like someone complimenting your looks, then shooting you in the stomach.

Ben Reilly wrote:It's not going to help anyone, if you take everything into consideration. Such as:

* all warm regions becoming uninhabitable
* millions of climate refugees crowding the places that remain habitable
* the extinction of the oceans
* the collapse of the global food chain
* the spread of tropical diseases throughout the world

All of that is going to make the odd warm day feel like someone complimenting your looks, then shooting you in the stomach.

Ben Reilly wrote:Yeah, so let's have a story about how hypothermia makes you feel warm for a while, without also saying in the same story that it'll kill you.

Ben Reilly wrote:Ideally, any website aimed at teaching a topic to children would be well-rounded. To just have a page talking up the supposed benefits of global warming is ridiculous and frankly reeks of propaganda.

eddie wrote:I don’t care what the topic is, if it’s a website aimed at children it should be unbiased and also give both sides of an opinion otherwise it is a useless teaching aid.