Complaint to Ofcom Regarding “The Great Global Warming Swindle”

[Comment 79: Patrick Moore is actually referring to the gradual phasing out, not of the existence of the element Chlorine, as he implies, but of the production of the complex compounds known as CFCs (see Wikipedia: http://tinyurl.com/yt2dpm), due to their known effect on the ozone layer (see Wikipedia: http://tinyurl.com/ygmgwh) – a decision which most governments in the world have signed up to under the Montreal Protocol (see Wikipedia: http://tinyurl.com/ypl8nq).

Those governments signed the Montreal Protocol not because a few extremist environmentalists told them to (it is hardly credible for a rational person to claim that governments are so easily swayed), but because of hard scientific evidence (again, see Wikipedia: http://tinyurl.com/ygmgwh).

As for Patrick Moore’s suggestion that one would be have to be mad to ban the use of an element that is in the periodic table, we have banned the use of the element lead in gasoline and in paint; and we have laws against the dumping of the element mercury into our lakes and rivers; and we have banned the use of the element radium to illuminate watch and clock hands. Long term exposure to any of those elements has serious effects on human health, including kidney damage, digestive tract failure, and disruption of neurological function in young children.

Thus Moore’s comments are not only profoundly misleading, but apparently intentionally so.]

(In breach of Ofcom 5.7, 5.9)

[Cut to film clip of people destroying the Berlin Wall]