The ever wise (and droll) Philip Stott says it all here about the eye-opening media spinning of the Ofcom ruling on the Channel Four documentary, The Great Global Warming Swindle. As Philip notes, the only thing that matters is that Ofcom ruled the programme did ‘not materially mislead viewers so as to cause harm or offence' in claiming that man-made global warming was the biggest scam of mo...

A controversial Channel 4 film on global warming broke Ofcom rules, the media regulator said this week. The Great Global Warming Swindle was described in one place simply as ‘propaganda'.

Ofcom, the U.K. television regulator, has rendered a remarkable decision. People interested in what was actually decided will, unfortunately, have to consult the original judgment at Ofcom, rather than the BBC accounts (here, here) of the judgment. BBC stated: The Great Global Warming Swindle, a controversial Channel 4 film, broke Ofcom rules, the media regulator says. In

OFCOM has ruled that Channel 4 failed in its duty to be impartial and reflect a range of views when it broadcast the Great Global Warming Swindle, a documentary that set out to expose the lies around man made global warming. But, strangely, Al Gore's climate change propaganda, An Inconvenient Truth, can be shown in schools as long

Ofcom is about to release its report into complaints made against Channel 4 regarding its film broadcast last year about the great global warming swindle. Channel 4 misrepresented some of the world's leading climate scientists in a controversial documentary that claimed global warming was a conspiracy and a fraud, the UK's media regulator will rule next

Ofcom must be getting fed up with television discussions and polemics about climate change. First it was Channel 4's 'Great Global Warming Swindle' that was found to have misrepresented some scientists, although crucially Ofcom determined that the content did not mislead the public. Now the BBC faces investigation for its 'Earth: The Climate Wars' programme. Lord Monckton, a sceptic of man-made

The makers of the Great Global Warming Swindle have been given a slap on the wrist by the broadcasting watchdog, Ofcom (who makes up these stupid names). Apparently the ticking off was not because the programme misled viewers in any way, but it did, so Ofcom claim, break Channel 4's own rules on "impartiality".A couple of things about this decision intrigue me. First of all, why would anyone think...

OFCOM has ruled that Channel 4 failed in its duty to be impartial and reflect a range of views when it broadcast the Great Global Warming Swindle, a documentary that set out to expose the lies around man made global warming. But, strangely, Al Gore’s climate change propaganda, An Inconvenient Truth, can be shown in schools as long as the teacher tells the children that it doesn’t repre...

The latest thing is that global warming will poison us all. Global warming is increasingly affecting the quality of the air that everyone is breathing. She then goes on to talk about low level ozone and particularates. Erm, no, these are nothing to do with global warming. Nothing at all. Sure, they can be produced by the burning of

There is clearly an appetite on this site for reasoned analysis of global warming theory and the policies that flow from it. There are now several different camps of sceptics setting out their thoughts: 1. Global warming deniers. This group argues from recent temperature data that