Complaint
A viewer complained that a report on weather conditions in the US had incorrectly “asserted record cold weather now being experienced by North America is an effect of Global Warming”. The ECU considered the complaint in the light of the BBC’s editorial standards of accuracy.
Outcome
Neither the report in question nor the newsreader’s introduction to it included such an assertion, and the complaint did not identify any breach of the BBC’s standards of accuracy.
Not upheld