Global Warming Nonsense

[sasguru]

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Mailman

Sorry my mistake, I didn't realise the CUK village idiots were having a day out.

[Diver]

Sorry my mistake, I didn't realise the CUK village idiots were having a day out.

[dang65]

Oh man, how much damage did that programme ("The Great Global Warming Swindle") do? People still quote it every day as gospel, even though they repeatedly get told the actual truth in other documentaries and scientifically accurate newspaper articles.

The bizarre thing is that greater criticism has not been aimed at Channel 4 because "the link between human activity and global warming... became settled before March 2007". So, they think that the link was completely established and therefore anything the programme said was irrelevant? That doesn't seem to tally at all with the actual effect it had.

But the main portion of the film, on climate science, did not breach these rules.

Ofcom's logic is that "the link between human activity and global warming... became settled before March 2007".

This being so, it says, climate science was not "controversial" at the time of broadcast, so Channel 4 did not break regulations by broadcasting something that challenged the link.

"That's a very big inconsistency," said Sir John Houghton. "They said it's completely settled, so why worry - so they can just broadcast any old rubbish."

While some of the 265 complaints received by Ofcom were short and straightforward, one group assembled a 176-page document alleging 137 breaches of the Broadcasting Code.

Channel 4 will have to broadcast a summary of the Ofcom ruling, but it brings no sanctions.