Channel 4's "Great global warming swindle" ruled unjust and unfair by Ofcom
source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/21/channel4.ofcom?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews
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The premise of the film argues against the scientific consensus that human activity is the main cause of global warming and that man-made global warming is "a lie" and "the biggest scam of modern times.
Channel 4 must now broadcast a summary of Ofcoms adjudication on the program which will no doubt make interesting viewing.
Did anybody see the film? What did you think?
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wolfstano
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I agree with it to an extent.
- 3 years ago
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wolfstano
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Inofuilwell
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wolfstano:
You agree with what? That man has had an influence on climate change or you don't agree with that concept?
- 3 years ago
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Inofuilwell
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wolfstano
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wolfstano:
I strongly agree that man has a very great influence on climate change. I don't think it's completely and totally our fault though- I think part of it is Earth undergoing natural changes as well.
Natural or not, I do believe we need to take responsibilty for the damage that we have done to the Earth and that the time is long overdue for us to take steps to prevent future damage.
- 3 years ago
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wolfstano
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jefftego
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I have seen excerpts of the film, as well as presentations on the major inaccuracies presented in the film. This is a great lecture debunking "The Great Global Warming Swindle."
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656640542976216573&hl=en
- 3 years ago
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jefftego
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Inofuilwell
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jefftego:
ROTFLMAO!
It is easy to see how people who are not specialists in a given field or who have agendas race to make money as "experts" whop can be hired as gunslingers to shoot down ideas.
They are often residents of the periphery of the the scientific community who need financing from opponents of global warming theories for sustenance.
Merely disproving th reliability of computer models, which are always going to have some human error in the relation of data, does not dispel climate change or man's effect on it.
One need only to look at irrefutable measurements of sea levels, ice caps, snow peaks on mountain ranges and the undeniably accurate coring of antarctic ice to see that this amount of change has EXACTLY mirrored man's ability to ramp up the production of greenhouse gases.
Go spread you "It's just liberals trying to make a profit off fear" to the real users of that tactic, neo-cons selling the war on terror, the war of drugs and Christian zealotry.
Is the fact that you've ruined the world's economy, spread religious intolerance like no other period since the Crusades and summarily destroyed the middle class to save the corporate world's right to make a profit at any cost not enough? Must you destroy the planet, too?
Chill, pal, Abandon your life 's work of tearing down things that impede the headlong hurtling of Western culture toward Capitalism's own chosen path of survival of the fittest or should that be "the richest"?.
- 3 years ago
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Inofuilwell
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jefftego
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jefftego:
Inofuilwell -- maybe I am mis-understanding your comment but I am not sure why it was a reply to me. I think "The Great Global Warming Swindle" is a load of crap, which is why I posted that lecture. The lecture completely debunks the claims made in the film. I spend a ton of my time learning about and educating people on climate change.
- 3 years ago
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jefftego
