The Great Global Warming Swindle | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-13

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00:02:28 1 Viewpoints expressed in the film
00:04:38 2 Assertions made in the film
00:05:32 2.1 Evidential issues
00:10:10 2.2 Political issues
00:12:35 2.3 Disputing the global warming consensus
00:14:28 2.4 Killing the African dream of development
00:15:44 3 Reception and criticism
00:17:05 3.1 Complaints received by Ofcom
00:18:30 3.2 Reactions from scientists
00:26:13 3.3 Criticism from two scientists featured in the programme
00:26:25 3.3.1 Carl Wunsch
00:30:47 3.4 Ofcom ruling on Wunsch complaint
00:32:56 3.4.1 Eigil Friis-Christensen
00:34:42 3.5 Reaction in the British media
00:41:34 3.6 Other reactions
00:44:41 3.7 Reaction to DVD release
00:46:13 3.8 Durkin's response to his critics
00:48:11 3.9 The Armand Leroi correspondence
00:51:41 4 Ofcom investigation of complaints
00:51:52 4.1 Ruling
00:55:23 4.2 General responses
00:57:43 4.3 Channel Four's response
00:59:37 5 Awards and recognition
01:00:17 6 Contributors to the programme
01:03:32 7 Related programmes and films
01:05:37 8 International distribution
01:08:20 8.1 New Zealand broadcast
01:10:10 9 See also



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The Great Global Warming Swindle is a polemical documentary film that suggests that the scientific opinion on climate change is influenced by funding and political factors, and questions whether scientific consensus on global warming exists. The program was formally criticised by Ofcom, the UK broadcasting regulatory agency, which upheld complaints of misrepresentation made by David King.
The film, made by British television producer Martin Durkin, presents scientists, economists, politicians, writers, and others who dispute the scientific consensus regarding anthropogenic global warming. The programme's publicity materials assert that man-made global warming is "a lie" and "the biggest scam of modern times." Its original working title was "Apocalypse my arse", but the title The Great Global Warming Swindle was later adopted as an allusion to the 1980 mockumentary The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle about British punk band the Sex Pistols.The UK's Channel 4 premiered the documentary on 8 March 2007. The channel described the film as "a polemic that drew together the well-documented views of a number of respected scientists to reach the same conclusions. This is a controversial film but we feel that it is important that all sides of the debate are aired." According to Hamish Mykura, Channel 4's head of documentaries, the film was commissioned "to present the viewpoint of the small minority of scientists who do not believe global warming is caused by anthropogenic production of carbon dioxide."Although the documentary was welcomed by global warming sceptics, it was criticised by scientific organisations and individual scientists (including one of the scientists interviewed in the film and one whose research was used to support the film's claims). The film's critics argued that it had misused and fabricated data, relied on out-of-date research, employed misleading arguments, and misrepresented the position of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Later broadcasts corrected three errors in the original film.