Complaint to Ofcom Regarding “The Great Global Warming Swindle”2. Complete Transcript and Rebuttal |
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[Comment 64: The narrator continues to present highly contentious interviewees' opinions as fact. The theoretical climate-varying mechanism between cosmic rays and clouds has not been demonstrated empirically, and thus to present it as fact was a serious misrepresentation of the state of scientific knowledge by the narrator. Furthermore, the documentary fails to mention that Shaviv’s work (Shaviv and Veizer, 2003: http://tinyurl.com/3dwgy3) has been strongly disputed in the literature by three papers, none of which were mentioned by the narrator:
The programme’s failure to mention the serious concerns expressed about the Shaviv and Veizer paper in the scientific literature was a serious betrayal of the public’s trust in the public service remit of Channel 4.] (In breach of the 2003 Communications Act Section 265, Ofcom 5.4, 5.5, 5.7, 5.11, 5.12) |
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Comment 64: Failure to mention scientific findings that Shaviv’s paper seriously flawed]
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