Taking a Bite Out of BBC Credibility?

@bbc bitesize offers video and audio clips designed to help people with homework, revision and learning. The service is aimed at adults, children, parents and teachers. Bitesize's generally helpful content, is linked to the age of the target group of children. A recent posting seems, however, to have been very badly written. The BBC have been forced, by informed opinion, to remove a page (aimed at 10 year olds), citing the 'benefits' of climate change (https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jul/02/bbc-removes-bitesize-page-climate-change-benefits-backlash). The offending page suggested that climate change might lead to people adopting healthier, outdoor lifestyles. Presumably, children in the UK would be able to play outside for longer? That would not be the case in the Middle East or the Indus Valley. The page also listed increased access to oil in Alaska and Siberia as a benefit. It failed to mention the inevitable impact on 'greenhouse gas' emissions and further climate change. The clip also opined that people would be able to grow crops in Siberia. It didn't mention there would certainly be larger areas of the globe, where growing crops, became impossible. Melting ice caps were opportunities for faster shipping routes and more extensive tourism. Apparently, the increased sealevels would not be a problem for many major coastal cities. The original version of the page read like a climate change denier's manifesto. I suspect, however, that someone had been asked to brainstorm possible benefits of climate change (along the lines that Wales could become a major wine-producing region). The suggestions may have ended up being uncritically listed in the final edit. Irrespective of how it happened, the very fact the post was aimed at children, by a supposedly reliable source, made it all the more dangerous. Would we get so excited, if it had been on Fox? Perhaps such material should be sent to educators before being fast-tracked to online?