Complaint to Ofcom Regarding “The Great Global Warming Swindle”

Where I live we have a local council global warming officer. There’s a huge tail out there of people who have, in one way or another, been recruited to join this particular bandwagon.

Anybody who then stands up and says: “hey, wait a minute, let’s look at this coolly and rationally and carefully; and see how much merit, how much this stands up – they will be ostracised.

Scientists accustomed to the relative civility and obscurity of academic life suddenly find themselves publicly attacked if they dare to challenge the theory of man-made global warming. Vilified by campaign groups, and even within their own universities.

There’s the old English saying: “if you stand up in the coconut shy, they’re gonna throw at you;” so I understand that there’s going to be some of that, but it gets pretty difficult and pretty nasty and very personal; and there’ ve been, you know, death threats and all sorts of things – so I’m not doing it for my health.

These days, if you are sceptical about the litany around climate change, you’re suddenly like as if you’re a holocaust denier. The environmental movement, really it is a political activist movement; and they have become hugely influential at a global level. And every politician is aware of that today, whether you’re on the left, in the middle or the right, you have to pay homage to the environment.

In the past month, the global warming campaign has won a great victory. The United States government, once a bastion of resistance, has succumbed. George Bush is now an ally.