“Frozen Planet” is the latest big-budget series from the BBC’s Natural History Unit; its seventh and last episode deals with global warming. Except apparently climate change isn’t that big of a deal, because the BBC has dropped that episode from its international line-up to help sell the series outside of Britain.

The episode, entitled “On Thin Ice,” features Sir David Attenborough, the driving force behind the series, talking at length about the melting of polar ice while playing footage of starving polar bears. The BBC’s response to (understandable) criticism from environmentalists seems to be that, because David Attenborough isn’t famous enough outside of Britian,

Only those countries that accept David as a presenter could be expected to take episode seven as it stands.

So the part of the series about the planet that talks explicitly about global warming as if it wasn’t just some crackpot theory invented by hippies and/or communists has been relegated by the BBC to an optional extra, along with a behind-the-scenes “making of” documentary, effectively keeping any discussion of global warming out of the mainstream.

Bravo.

[Source: Telegraph]