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Complaint to Ofcom Regarding “The Great Global Warming Swindle”

2. Complete Transcript and Rebuttal

[Dr Roy Spencer, Weather Satellite Team Leader, NASA]

Climate scientists need there to be a problem in order to get funding.

[Comment 26: Dr Spencer’s 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.19, page 143.]

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

[Prof John Christy]	We have a vested interest in creating panic because then money will flow to climate science.
[Prof Richard Lindzen]	There’s one thing you shouldn’t say, and that is, this might not be a problem.
[Narrator]	It is the story of how a political campaign turned into a bureaucratic bandwagon.
[Professor Patrick Michaels, Dept of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia]	Fact of the matter is that tens of thousands of jobs depend on global warming right now. It’s a big business.

[Comment 27: Although Professor Michaels is a climatologist, his billing as a “leading scientist” and part of “an impressive roll-call of experts” (see Appendix C.1.2, page 126) is questionable; and the serious criticisms of his recent climate work were not mentioned. Furthermore, his links to fossil-fuel industry–funded lobby groups that campaign against greenhouse gas emissions reductions should have been mentioned and were not; and the extensive direct funding he has received from the fossil fuel industry (not just the coal industry) was not mentioned. For full details, see Appendix C.11, page 136.]

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

[Dr Philip Stott]	It’s become a great industry in itself; and if the whole global warming farrago collapsed there’ d be an awful lot of people out of jobs and looking for work.
[Narrator]	This is a story of censorship and intimidation.

[Comment 28: The narrator is again expressing highly contentious opinions as if they were facts.]

(In breach of the 2003 Communications Act Section 265, Ofcom 5.4, 5.5, 5.7, 5.11, 5.12)

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