http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11...e28_named_wtf/

"A list of attendees at a climate-change seminar the BBC has spent tens of thousands of pounds trying to keep
secret has been unearthed on an internet archive. The listed names emerged after the publicly-funded
broadcaster fought off requests for the list under freedom of information (FOI) laws."

"Normally such a talking-shop would have no great significance. The 2006 seminar, however, subsequently
became very important indeed. The following year a thoughtful BBC Trust report on impartiality cited the
discussion there and said it had settled the argument - as far as the BBC was concerned - on climate change.

Filmmaker John Bridcut wrote:

The BBC has held a high-level seminar with some of the best scientific experts [our emphasis] and has come
to the view that the weight of evidence no longer justifies equal space being given to the opponents of the
consensus [on anthropogenic climate change].

The BBC is under a statutory obligation to remain impartial, so this gave the "brainstorm" a historic significance:
the BBC has not previously abandoned impartiality in peacetime."

More detail at the reference given.

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Terry Fields