Complaint to Ofcom Regarding “The Great Global Warming Swindle”

Using the “significantly” warmer Holocene Maximum period to suggest that we should not be concerned with warming also neglects the fact that the ecosystems and economies of today are not the same as those of 7–8000 years ago: the global population is much larger and societies live in built-up environments. For an assessment of how future warming is likely to impact economies and ecosystems during the 21st century, see the IPCC Third Assessment Report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability at http://tinyurl.com/hu7dr.]

(In breach of the 2003 Communications Act Section 265, Ofcom 5.4, 5.5, 5.7, 5.11, 5.12)

Twentieth Century Cooling

[Comment 40: The narrator is misrepresenting global warming theory by claiming that the theory attributes global warming specifically to industrial growth. In fact global warming theory links temperature increase to the man-made emissions of CO₂, N₂O, CH₄, and other gases (see the IPCC 2001 report at: http://tinyurl.com/32zmpm); and the levels of these emissions are not linked directly to industrial growth levels.

It is true that in the past there has been a fairly strong (but indirect) link between industrial growth and CO₂ emissions and hence global warming. But because the link is indirect, it can be broken, given sufficient effort to do so, and it has already been broken in many countries.

For example, the following countries, whose economies grew every year between 1990 and 2004, all had lower greenhouse gas emission levels in 2004 than in 1990: the United Kingdom. Sweden, Denmark, France, Germany and Iceland (see http://tinyurl.com/y6ccls, PDF [UNFCCC]).

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