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UK: ‘Global Warming Swindle’ Broke Rules

From the admittedly biased BBC News:

Climate documentary ‘broke rules’

By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website

A controversial Channel 4 film on global warming broke Ofcom rules, the media regulator says.

The Great Global Warming Swindle attracted various complaints, including claims that it misled contributors.

In a long-awaited judgement, Ofcom says Channel 4 did not fulfil obligations to be impartial and to reflect a range of views on controversial issues.

However, it judges that the film did not mislead audiences “so as to cause harm or offence”.

Channel 4 said it aired the documentary to demonstrate that “the debate” on climate change was not over.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the former UK government chief scientific adviser Sir David King were among those whose complaints were upheld.

The film’s key contention was that the increase in atmospheric temperatures observed since the 1970s was not primarily caused by emissions of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels.

First aired by Channel 4 in March 2007, the documentary has since reportedly been sold to 21 countries and distributed on DVD.

Among discussion groups of “climate sceptics”, it is sometimes cited as a counter to Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth and has been credited with infuencing public opinion on the causes of modern-day climate change.

The regulator backed Sir David’s complaint of unfair treatment, judging that his views were misrepresented and that he was not given the right to reply.

Ofcom also found in favour of Carl Wunsch, an oceanographer interviewed for the programme, who said he had been misled as to its intent.

Dr Wunsch, from the Massachussetts Institute of Technology, said he believed he was being asked to take part in a programme that would “discuss in a balanced way the complicated elements of understanding of climate change”, but “what we now have is an out-and-out propaganda piece, in which there is not even a gesture toward balance”.

The Broadcasting Code requires Channel 4 to show “due impartiality” on “matters of major political and industrial controversy and major matters relating to current public policy”.

The last segment of the programme, dealing with the politics of climate change, broke this obligation, Ofcom judged, and did not reflect a range of views, as required under the code.

However, the regulator said it did not believe, given the nature of the programme, that this led to the audience being “materially misled so as to cause harm or offence” - the standard that Ofcom says complaints have to reach.

Ofcom’s logic is that “the link between human activity and global warming… became settled before March 2007″.

This being so, it says, disputing the scientific link between human activity and climate change does not meet the Broadcasting Code’s definition of “controversial”.

While some of the 265 complaints received by Ofcom were short and straightforward, one group assembled a 176-page document alleging 137 breaches of the Broadcasting Code.

Channel 4 will have to broadcast a summary of the Ofcom findings.

And of course rule number one is that no one can speak the truth about the global warming hoax.

Ofcom’s logic is that “the link between human activity and global warming… became settled before March 2007″.

“Logic”? The word they are looking for is “dogma.”

And dogma is the enemy of real science.

Not that “global warming” has ever had anything to do with science.

Channel 4 will have to broadcast a summary of the Ofcom findings.

Big Brother? Ministry Of Propaganda?

What a fantasy. It could never happen. –Not in England.

And don’t think Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the “fairness doctrine” gang aren’t taking notes.

For the record, here is the The Great Global Warming Swindle documentary, via YouTube:

The Great Global Warming Swindle - Produced by WAGTV

Watch it while you still can.

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This article was posted by Steve Gilbert on Monday, July 21st, 2008 at 11:58 am. You can leave a response.

5 Responses to “UK: ‘Global Warming Swindle’ Broke Rules”

  1. Reality Bytes
    July 21st, 2008 at 2:59 pm

    Get used to it. The Fairness Doctrine will subordinater eporting (e.g. fair and balanced) to ongoing rulings and regulation.

  2. Zeusshiloh
    July 21st, 2008 at 3:28 pm

    Who said that if you are going to tell a lie, tell a big one? People will believe that easier than a small white lie. Global warming is that lie; a big one.

    What many fail to release is that Global Warming is not a science. It is a religion. As with evolution, it takes faith to believe it, and that makes it a religion. Hard to argue about a religion, and many of the fanatical global warmest people are as hard to convince as Islamic Terrorists.

    Facts and truth have nothing to do with Global Warming; neither does science. As you stated, it is a dogma and heaven help those who disagree with it. Then you have those sets of people (like Al Gore and the UN) who use people’s fears to justify taxing us more (so more money becomes available to both Al Gore and the UN). Just follow the money.

  3. Colonel1961
    July 21st, 2008 at 4:11 pm

    Glad to see two of the brilliant dissenters of this myth-cum-religion are from my Alma Mater - UAH!

  4. BillK
    July 21st, 2008 at 4:24 pm

    Does anyone else love the irony in this statement:

    The Broadcasting Code requires Channel 4 to show “due impartiality” on “matters of major political and industrial controversy and major matters relating to current public policy”.

    Yet the government mouthpiece network (and the agency reporting this), the BBC, has been found time and time again and has even admitted to having a liberal bias.

    From the London Mail in 2006:

    We are biased, admit the stars of BBC News

    By Simon Walters

    It was the day that a host of BBC executives and star presenters admitted what critics have been telling them for years: the BBC is dominated by trendy, Left-leaning liberals who are biased against Christianity and in favour of multiculturalism.

    A leaked account of an ‘impartiality summit’ called by BBC chairman Michael Grade, is certain to lead to a new row about the BBC and its reporting on key issues, especially concerning Muslims and the war on terror.

    It reveals that executives would let the Bible be thrown into a dustbin on a TV comedy show, but not the Koran, and that they would broadcast an interview with Osama Bin Laden if given the opportunity. Further, it discloses that the BBC’s ‘diversity tsar’, wants Muslim women newsreaders to be allowed to wear veils when on air.

    At the secret meeting in London last month, which was hosted by veteran broadcaster Sue Lawley, BBC executives admitted the corporation is dominated by homosexuals and people from ethnic minorities, deliberately promotes multiculturalism, is anti-American, anti-countryside and more sensitive to the feelings of Muslims than Christians.

    One veteran BBC executive said: ‘There was widespread acknowledgement that we may have gone too far in the direction of political correctness.

    ‘Unfortunately, much of it is so deeply embedded in the BBC’s culture, that it is very hard to change it.‘

    In one of a series of discussions, executives were asked to rule on how they would react if the controversial comedian Sacha Baron Cohen ) known for his offensive characters Ali G and Borat - was a guest on the programme Room 101.

    On the show, celebrities are invited to throw their pet hates into a dustbin and it was imagined that Baron Cohen chose some kosher food, the Archbishop of Canterbury, a Bible and the Koran.

    Nearly everyone at the summit, including the show’s actual producer and the BBC’s head of drama, Alan Yentob, agreed they could all be thrown into the bin, except the Koran for fear of offending Muslims.

    In a debate on whether the BBC should interview Osama Bin Laden if he approached them, it was decided the Al Qaeda leader would be given a platform to explain his views.

    And the BBC’s ‘diversity tsar’, Mary Fitzpatrick, said women newsreaders should be able to wear whatever they wanted while on TV, including veils.

    Ms Fitzpatrick spoke out after criticism was raised at the summit of TV newsreader Fiona Bruce, who recently wore on air a necklace with a cross.

    The full account of the meeting shows how senior BBC figures queued up to lambast their employer.

    Political pundit Andrew Marr said: ‘The BBC is not impartial or neutral. It’s a publicly funded, urban organisation with an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities and gay people. It has a liberal bias not so much a party-political bias. It is better expressed as a cultural liberal bias.‘

    Washington correspondent Justin Webb said that the BBC is so biased against America that deputy director general Mark Byford had secretly agreed to help him to ‘correct’, it in his reports. Webb added that the BBC treated America with scorn and derision and gave it ‘no moral weight’.

    Former BBC business editor Jeff Randall said he complained to a ‘very senior news executive’, about the BBC’s pro-multicultural stance but was given the reply: ‘The BBC is not neutral in multiculturalism: it believes in it and it promotes it.’

    Randall also told how he once wore Union Jack cufflinks to work but was rebuked with: ‘You can’t do that, that’s like the National Front!’ …

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....-News.html

    Why that would be like an American network news anchor wearing a flag pin.

    Regardless, the BBC has not yet been found to be in violation of the “Broadcasting Code.”

    Curious, no?

    Have UK broadcasters ever aired Gore’s A Convenient Lie?

  5. Greg England
    July 22nd, 2008 at 3:34 pm

    These thoroughly despicable liberal-pinko-commie-enviro-wacko-nutjobs overplay their hand.

    Because if man-made global warming is true, then it has nothing to fear from genuine scientific enquiry.
    I watched the documentary, and I found it had some interesting arguments.

    But the libs hate the idea that there is more than one opinion in the world.

    And they see man-made-global warming (especially the algore hypothesis) as their salvation.
    Because history has disenfranchised them, because it has validated capitalism and not liberalism.

    So of course, all dissent must be crushed.

    ———————————————————————————————–

    By the way, for those of you across the pond, here’s a reminder of how the BBC is funded:

    It costs £139.50 for a TV licence, which you must purchase if you wish to watch any TV broadcast, even satellite.
    http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/

    As the website states, “Part 4 of the Communications Act 2003 makes it an offence to install or use a television receiver to watch or record any television programmes as they’re being shown on television without a valid TV Licence.”
    http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/a.....lation.jsp

    This year, I believe that Auntie will receive £4 Billion from the British public.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC


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