Complaint to Ofcom Regarding “The Great Global Warming Swindle”

And there is a lot of oil, and there are vast amounts of coal left, and we seem to be burning it with an ever increasing rate; and if we go on doing this, in about 50 years' time, the climate may be a few degrees warmer than today. We just don’t know.

We were the first to put Bolin of Sweden on international television talking about the dangers of carbon dioxide; and I remember being bitterly criticised by top experts for indulging him in his fantasy.

At the height of the cooling scare in the 70s, Bert Bolin’s eccentric scare of man-made global warming seemed absurd. Two things happened to change that.

First, temperatures started to rise; and second, the miners went on strike.

To Margaret Thatcher, energy was a political problem. In the early 70s, the oil crisis had plunged the world into recession. The miners had brought down Ted Heath’s conservative government. Mrs Thatcher was determined the same would not happen to her. She set out to break their power.

What we have seen in this country is the emergence of an organised revolutionary minority who are prepared to exploit industrial disputes, but whose real aim is the breakdown of law and order and the destruction of democratic parliamentary government.

The politicisation of the subject started with Margaret Thatcher.