Complaint to Ofcom Regarding The Great Global Warming Swindle

2. Complete Transcript and Rebuttal

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[Nigel Calder, science journalist]

Were just being told lies, thats what it comes down to.

[Comment 5: Nigel Calders credentials with respect to the subjects he discussed in the programme were greatly exaggerated – for full details, see Appendix C.6, page 132.]

(In breach of the 2003 Communications Act Section 265, Ofcom 5.7, 5.8)

[Professor Ian Clark, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa]

We cant say that CO2 will drive climate. It certainly never did in the past.

[Comment 6: There are many factors that influence the climate (see Comment 55, page 50): climate from the distant past can be inferred only indirectly, and the mechanisms of past climate change are still the subject of active research and debate. It is simply impossible to state with certainty (as Clark here did) that CO2 never drove climate change in the past. Moreover, science can never provide such absolute certainty on any matter, and as a scientist, Clark should have been aware of this. Therefore, this appears to have been a deliberate attempt to mislead the public.]

(In breach of Ofcom 5.7)

[Comment 7: Ian Clarks credentials with respect to the subjects he discussed in the programme were exaggerated; and his links to fossil-fuel industry–funded lobby groups that campaign against greenhouse gas emissions reductions should have been mentioned and were not. For full details, see Appendix C.16, page 140.]

(In breach of the 2003 Communications Act Section 265, Ofcom 5.7, 5.8)

[Dr Tim Ball, retired former Professor in the Dept. of Geography, University of Winnipeg]

If the CO2 increases in the atmosphere as a greenhouse gas, then the temperature will go up. But the ice core record shows exactly the opposite. So the fundamental assumption, the most fundamental assumption of the whole theory of climate change due to humans, is shown to be wrong.

[Comment 8: This statement, repeated later in the documentary (see Comment 50, page 45), is incorrect. Rises in temperature may precede CO2 increases at the end of Ice Age glacial periods, but the changes are still highly and positively correlated, and the record does not show that CO2 cannot drive temperature changes (see Comment 50 for more details).]

(In breach of Ofcom 5.7)


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