From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
h/t Tim
There’s been an fascinating observe as much as this story concerning the Pakistan floods on the finish of August:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/information/world-europe-62712301
Readers will recall that the declare that one third of the nation was underneath water instantly set off my BS detector, and I did a full evaluation right here, completely debunking it.
However simply a few days after my piece, the BBC’s Extra or Much less radio programme additionally appeared on the declare, after some viewers had complained:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001brmm
They interviewed an environmental scientist who checked out what the assorted satellite tv for pc information indicated. His conclusion was that the true determine was that about 10% of the nation had been affected by floods, and far of this was quick time period.
The truth is, all of the BBC needed to do was what I did in a couple of minutes, and verify what NASA have been reporting:
It was plainly evident that nothing like a 3rd of the nation had flooded. Certainly a easy take a look at the map would have proven them that a lot of Pakistan is both mountainous or desert, which might be not possible to flood.
They may even have checked with the UN catastrophe company, OCHA, who have been publishing common experiences on the flooding.
In keeping with them, the world affected was 75000 sq km, or 9% of the nation:
The truth is, these are exactly the form of checks the BBC ought to have carried out earlier than making their absurd declare. One which anyone with an oz. of frequent sense, or integrity, would have instantly suspected was improper.
It’s doubly ironic that the BBC’s protection was that the one third declare had been broadly reported throughout the media. This exhibits simply how completely corrupt a lot of the media is these days.
