Complaint to Ofcom Regarding “The Great Global Warming Swindle”

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1. Complaint Summary 1
  1.1 Overview 1
  1.2 This Complaint is Not an Attack on Free Speech 2
  1.3 Contributors and Peer Reviewers of this Complaint 2
  1.4 Structure of this Complaint 3
  1.5 Relevant Clauses in Ofcom’s Penalty Guidelines 3
  1.6 Categories of Serious Individual Breaches 3
  1.7 Groups of Breaches in which Multiple Interviewee and Narrator Statements, Taken Together, Constitute a Highly Misleading Narrative 6
  1.8 Grouping of Breaches which, Considered Individually, May be “Minor” but which, when Considered as a Group, are Serious Breaches 9
  1.9 Total Number of Serious Breaches 11
  1.10 There was no “Series of Programmes” 11
  1.11 Failure to Disclose the Personal Interests of the Producer 12
  1.12 Full Disclosure 12
  1.13 Acknowledgments 12
2. Complete Transcript and Rebuttal 13
  2.1 Programme Introduction 13
  2.2 Palaeoclimatic Temperature Reconstructions of the Past 17
  2.3 Twentieth Century Cooling 33
  2.4 Troposphere “Cooling” 41
  2.5 Ice Core Data 44
  2.6 “Humans Don’t Produce Much Carbon Dioxide” 47
  2.7 It’s the Sun, Stupid! 50
  2.8 Greenhouse Effect Conspiracy Theory 61
  2.9 “Climate Models are Inaccurate” 74
  2.10 “The Ice is Not Melting” 81
  2.11 Conspiracy Theory About Media Coverage 87
  2.12 Conspiracy Theory About the IPCC 89
  2.13 Conspiracy Theory About Research Funding 97
  2.14 Conspiracy Theory About Kyoto and the Third World 101
Appendix A: Complaint Category Analysis 116
  A.1 Categories of Serious Individual Breaches of the Codes 116
  A.2 Groups of Breaches in which Multiple Interviewee and Narrator Statements, Taken Together, Constitute a Highly Misleading Narrative 118
  A.3 Categories of Breach in which, Considered Individually, the Breach May be “Minor” but which, when Considered as a Group, are Serious Breaches 121
  A.4 Total Number of Serious Breaches Reported in this Complaint 122
Appendix B: Background to the Film Maker, Martin Durkin 123
  B.1 The Reasons for Including this Section 123

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