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Complaint to Ofcom Regarding “The Great Global Warming Swindle”

Appendix E: Media Coverage Afforded to the Contributors to the Channel 4 Programme

Contributor	Google News Search	Google News Archive Search	Total no. of articles on climate change in past 12 months
Patrick Michaels Pat Michaels Total	16 1 17	98 39 137	114 40 154
Patrick Moore	31	75	106
S. Fred Singer	8	75	83
John Christy	8	69	77
Tim Ball	4	54	58
Roy Spencer	13	32	45
Nigel Lawson	2	42	44
Philip Stott	2	29	31
Willie Soon	1	27	28
Paul Reiter	7	20	27
Piers Corbyn	0	19	19
Paul Driessen	1	17	18
Ian Clark	2	10	12
Eigil Friis-Christensen	5	6	11
Nigel Calder	2	7	9
Syun-ichi Akasofu	2	2	4
James Shikwati	2	0	2
Nir Shaviv	1	1	2

E.2 Examples of Sympathetic Press Coverage of Contributors to the Channel 4 Programme

Contrary to the impression that the film attempted to create, much of the media coverage of the contributors to the Channel 4 programme – including in some of the major opinion-forming publications and television channels – has been sympathetic. Here are ten examples:

1.	Newsweek (US), April 16, 2007: Why So Gloomy?, written by Richard Lindzen: http://tinyurl.com/26962z.
2.	The Sunday Telegraph (UK), October 30, 2006: The temperature is as likely to go down as up, written by Richard Lindzen: http://tinyurl.com/y8hezm.
3.	The Washington Post (US), April 16, 2006: Going Nuclear; A Green Makes the Case, written by Patrick Moore: http://tinyurl.com/3xmyzm.

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