Complaint to Ofcom Regarding The Great Global Warming Swindle

Appendix A: Complaint Category Analysis

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Appendix A: Complaint Category Analysis

 

In this section, we have analysed which of the breaches of the Ofcom Code and the Communications Act that we have documented fall into which of the categories outlined in the Complaint Summary (see page 1). We have also grouped some related breaches into one complaint per group.

A.1

Categories of Serious Individual Breaches of the Codes

A.1.1

Falsification or Serious Misrepresentation of Graphs or Data; or of Quotations from Reports, or of Press Articles; or of Film Footage

Category

The Comment Numbers that fall into this category

No. of Breaches

No. of Complnts

Falsification/manipulation of graphs

Comment 42, Comment 59, Comment 60

3

3

Use of manipulated or highly misleading graphs: for example, labelling 1975 as Now, or using long-outdated graphs

Comment 37, Comment 39

2

2

Other falsification of data

Comment 126

1

1

Mislabelling of film footage

Comment 104

1

1

Selective quoting, making a passage being quoted appear to state the opposite of what it actually states

Comment 112

1

1

Selectively quoting from a discredit press article without making it clear that the article has been discredited

Comment 114

1

1

Total

 

9

9

A.1.2

Serious Misrepresentations of Peoples Views and Other Breaches of Section 7 of the Ofcom Code

Category

The Comment Numbers that fall into this category

No. of Breaches

No. of Complnts

Misrepresentations of Carl Wunschs views

Comment 54, Comment 94

2

2

Failure to inform Wunsch of the nature and purpose of the programme

Comment 53

1

1

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