Complaint to Ofcom Regarding “The Great Global Warming Swindle”

[Comment 131: Shikwati is either very ill-informed or he, too, is setting out to deceive the audience. Solar energy is more effective in the tropics than it is in temperate regions and therefore cheaper for a given output, because the tropics get much more intense sunlight, and for longer periods each day, than temperate regions do. Conversely, in under-developed countries, installing a national grid to supply remote rural regions with few people is far more expensive per capita than the per capita cost of a national grid in a developed nation. See also paragraph number 2 of Comment 129, page 109.]

(In breach of Ofcom 5.7)

[Comment 132: So far as we are aware, nobody other than the narrator and Paul Driessen has ever suggested that “the world’s poorest people should be restricted to using the world’s most expensive and inefficient forms of electrical generation”. See Comment 123, page 104 and Comment 129, page 109. The narrator and Driessen are using the logical fallacy known as a “straw man” argument (see Wikipedia: http://tinyurl.com/75l4l) – by pretending that their opponents are taking an absurd position that they are not taking, and then attacking that absurd position. In doing so they are misrepresenting the facts to the public.

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