British regulator Ofcom has rejected complaints that the popular polemical film, The Great Global Warming Swindle, misled viewers. The regulator said
it was paramount that the public received alternative points of view - even if these were not endorsed by institutions or the major political parties.
While some aspects of the presentation "caused some concern", the regulator notes, such as failing to give guests time to respond after broadcast, the
errors were "of such insignificance" that they could not be judged to mislead the audience.
Ofcom said it couldn't judge the validity of the facts on each side of the argument, but rather that its job was to decide whether the programme
breached the Broadcasting Code, in which programmes must not mislead viewers in order to cause offence.
The hour long programme, directed and narrated by Martin Durkin, was screened in March 2007, and has subsequently become a hit on DVD.
Environmental activists blame the film, and the broadcaster Channel 4, for undermining public confidence in the theory that human CO2
emissions are primarily responsible for increasing temperatures in the late 20th century.
Ofcom ruled that Swindle did not pretend to represent the mainstream view, and clearly labelled its contents; it did not dispute that temperatures
were rising (something it could legitimately have done, as temperatures have been steady for almost a decade, the British climate research centres
Hadley and the Climatic Research Unit now agree).
The regulator quotes the Stern Report to back its belief that the science was "settled" before the documentary was broadcast:
"This view of human activity as the major cause of global warming does not appear to be challenged by any of the established political parties or
other significant domestic or international institutions." |
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markerer og utløser dommedag. 
eller var det tastaturet som er kvesset til
kamp.
så varmt liker ikke jeg å ha det med mindre det er inne i ovnen min hvor jeg steker strandalefse). Eller vi blir hm...
jeg er vist ikke så god i hoderening.
jeg overlater det til den enkelte å finne enden på historien, som kan være være en "happy or never-ending" story.
