Complaint to Ofcom Regarding “The Great Global Warming Swindle”

[Comment 34: Contrary to this assertion by the narrator, the House of Lords enquiry was supposed to be about the economics, not the science, of climate change (see: http://tinyurl.com/j3vgy). Although the scientific evidence was considered, the enquiry was conducted by the Economic Affairs Committee, which has little or no scientific background, rather than by the more qualified Science and Technology Committee.

Furthermore, at this point it should have been made clear that Lord Lawson’s views on the House of Lords Enquiry and on the IPCC have been substantially refuted, both by the mainstream scientific community (see http://tinyurl.com/2s2xko) and in the official British Government response to the enquiry (see http://tinyurl.com/2tghdb).]

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

Palaeoclimatic Temperature Reconstructions of the Past

[Comment 35: The narrator is trying to make the public believe that previous warming and cooling periods have been overlooked by climatologists; and they are therefore mistaken in their theory of greenhouse warming. Yet the entire field of palaeoclimatology is a study of historical climates. The documentary makers actually make reference to these historical climate studies in discussing ice-core data, so they must be aware that climatologists are aware that the climate is always changing. For the narrator to try to mislead viewers in this way is a clear breach of the Broadcasting Code.]

(In breach of the 2003 Communications Act Section 265, Ofcom 5.4, 5.5, 5.7, 5.11, 5.12, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.6, 7.9, 7.14)

[Cut to temperature graph showing the Little Ice Age.]