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'Global Warming Swindle' pulled to pieces by Ofcom

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A controversial Channel 4 documentary declaiming climate change to be a fraud has been criticized by the UK's media regulator. Ofcom's statement, due next week, follows a fifteen-month enquiry into the programme, The Great Global Warming Swindle, which was broadcast in March 2007. Accusations of misrepresenting scientists and their views are expected to be upheld by the regulator.

On separate charges of inaccuracy, however, Channel 4 is deemed to be within the law with the programme, as it did not 'materially mislead' viewers.

The programme, from director Martin Durkin, was criticised by scientists. They claimed it misrepresented the evidence about global warming, that it rehashed discredited old arguments and manipulated data and charts to make its case. One accused it of being 'political propaganda'.
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