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Complaint to Ofcom Regarding “The Great Global Warming Swindle”

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Use of manipulated or highly misleading graphs: for example, labelling 1975 as “Now”, or using long-outdated graphs	Comment 37, Comment 39	2	2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 People’s 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 Wunsch’s 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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