Complaint to Ofcom Regarding “The Great Global Warming Swindle”

[Comment 83: Richard Lindzen’s implied suggestion that it is in climate scientists’ interest in terms of preserving their jobs to hype up man-made global warming has been fully rebutted by one of his own colleagues, at http://tinyurl.com/pb9fx.

Regarding Lindzen’s highly inaccurate and misleading statement about funding, see Comment 116, page 97.

Finally there is no evidence that there are any climatologists whose only interest in climatology is global warming, and it is not credible that scientists would enter a highly complex and extremely intellectually demanding profession unless they have a passionate and genuine curiosity about the science that they are studying. As a scientist himself, Lindzen must be fully aware of this, and his assertion to the contrary was again a clear attempt to deceive those members of the public who aren’t aware of how science actually works.]

(In breach of Ofcom 5.12, 7.11)

[Comment 84: In addition, at this point, given that funding is being discussed, it should have been made clear by the narrator that Richard Lindzen works for five organisations that are funded by ExxonMobile – see also Appendix C.17, page 141.]

(In breach of Ofcom 5.8)

[Comment 85: Again, given that funding is being discussed, it should have been made clear at this point that Frederick Singer has worked for fourteen ExxonMobile-funded lobby groups – see Appendix C.10, page 135.]

(In breach of Ofcom 5.8)