Complaint to Ofcom Regarding The Great Global Warming Swindle

Appendix A: Complaint Category Analysis

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Category

The Comment Numbers that fall into this category

No. of Breaches

No. of Complnts

Use of non-sequitur logical fallacies

Comment 35, Comment 41, Comment 50, Comment 51

These seem to the authors to be less serious than the straw man and ad hominem fallacies, so they have been grouped into one complaint.

4

1

Recycling of long discredited myths

Comment 38, Comment 68, Comment 99, Comment 101

4

4

Total

 

17

14

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Groups of Breaches in which Multiple Interviewee and Narrator Statements, Taken Together, Constitute a Highly Misleading Narrative

Some Comment numbers describe more than one breach of the Broadcasting Code and/or Communications Act and therefore fall into more than one of the following categories: but each category of grouped Comments constitutes a single serious breach.

Category

The Comment Numbers that fall into this category

No. of Breaches

No. of Complnts

Gross over- simplifications of the relationship between CO2 and climate

Comment 6, Comment 14, Comment 43, Comment 44, Comment 46, Comment 55

6

1

Misrepresentations of the science of climate modelling

Comment 87, Comment 88, Comment 89, Comment 90, Comment 91, Comment 92, Comment 93, Comment 94, Comment 95

9

1

Misrepresentations of the state of scientific knowledge regarding the ice core record (the lag fallacy)

Comment 8, Comment 14, Comment 50

3

1

Misrepresentations of the state of scientific knowledge regarding the effect on climate of solar and cosmic ray activity

Comment 59, Comment 60, Comment 62, Comment 63, Comment 64, Comment 65

6

1

Misrepresentations of the state of scientific knowledge regarding warming in the troposphere

Comment 49

6

1

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