Complaint to Ofcom Regarding “The Great Global Warming Swindle”

[Comment 12: Nigel Lawson’s credentials with respect to the subjects he discussed in the programme were exaggerated. For full details, see Appendix C.2, page 130, and Comment 34, page 27.]

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

[Comment 13: In the above string of statements by the narrator and interviewees, combined with film clips, the narration is trying to give the viewer an inaccurate impression of the media coverage that actually exists: news reports about climate change are not all or even mostly “fantastically apocalyptic” – see Comment 11, page 16.

The brief excerpt from the BBC One Documentary Climate Change: Britain Under Threat gave an entirely false impression of the material within the programme. In the original BBC film, short illustrative passages were used to suggest impacts of storms combining with sea level rise decades in the future. The film itself was careful to nest these within a carefully considered script, which was exhaustively peer reviewed by an interdisciplinary panel of climate change academics from the Open University.

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