Complaint to Ofcom Regarding “The Great Global Warming Swindle”

If you had x-ray eyes, what appears as a nice, friendly, yellow ball would appear like a raging tiger. The sun is an incredibly violent beast, and it’s throwing out great explosions, and puffs of gas, and endless solar wind, that’s forever rushing past the earth – we’re in a certain sense inside the atmosphere of the sun. The intensity of its magnetic field more than doubled during the 20th century.

In 2005, astrophysicists from Harvard University published the following graph in the official Journal of the American Geophysical Union.

The blue line represents temperature change in the Arctic over the past 100 years; and here [in the on-screen animation, a separate curve is now superimposed on the first one in the graph] is the rise in carbon dioxide over the same period. The two are not obviously connected.

But now look again at the temperature record, and at this red line [an animation of a red line appears], which depicts variations in solar activity over the past century, as recorded independently by scientists from NASA, and America’s Oceanic and Atmospheric administration.

Solar activity over the last 100 years, over the last several hundred years, correlates very nicely on a decadal basis, with sea ice and Arctic temperatures.

To the Harvard astrophysicists and many other scientists, the conclusion is inescapable.

The sun is driving climate change. CO₂ is irrelevant.