Complaint to Ofcom Regarding “The Great Global Warming Swindle”

Has published on a wide range of population health issues, including the effects of climate change on health (see http://tinyurl.com/25h7d7 and http://tinyurl.com/2tdd5u).

Professor Woodward has co-written (with the lead authors) those sections of this complaint that relate to IPCC Working Group II and to the epidemiology and entomology content of the IPCC WG2 reports.

Dr Jonathan Kohler

Dr Kohler is an economist, and a Senior Research Associate with the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. Research interests include scenario-generation of urban land use, technological change, macroeconomic analysis of climate change policy and transport policy. See also http://tinyurl.com/yqs2x3.

Dr Kohler has co-written those sections of this complaint that relate to alternative energy and development economics.

Monica Samec

Monica Samec is a renewable energy consultant working in Nigeria. She holds degrees in chemistry, physics and international development from the University of Toronto. She has had first hand experience working with grass roots renewable energy projects in both Nigeria and Indonesia. She currently serves as an Advisor for the Council for Renewable Energy in Nigeria (http://renewablenigeria.org)

Ms Samec has co-written those sections of this complaint that relate to alternative energy and development economics.

Dr Julie Doyle

Dr Julie Doyle is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies at the University of Brighton, UK. She has published work on environmental and science communication, with a specific focus upon the history of climate change communication by environmental NGO’s. She has been involved in the environmental movement since 1994, initially as an active member of a local Greenpeace group, and from 1997-2003 as co-ordinator of Brighton and Hove Greenpeace local campaign group. In this capacity, she has been involved in local and national Greenpeace campaigns, and has also worked closely with other environmental NGOs, such as Friends of the Earth, on joint climate change campaigns. More recently she has contributed to work done by ‘Stop Climate Chaos’ – a coalition of environmental groups, campaign groups and international development agencies – through dialogue with MPs on climate change policies.. See also: http://tinyurl.com/2sdo3m.

Dr Doyle has co-written (with the lead authors) those sections of this complaint that relate to the Channel 4 programme’s criticisms of the media. She also peer reviewed those sections of this complaint that relate to the environmental movement (see Appendix J.10, page 172).