Complaint to Ofcom Regarding “The Great Global Warming Swindle”

This, along with other evidence (http://tinyurl.com/3cjq8x [IPCC]), led the IPCC in 2001 to conclude that “most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations” (http://tinyurl.com/2kd75l [IPCC]), and to upgrade the certainty level to “very likely” in the 2007 IPCC report (http://tinyurl.com/2xl4c6 (PDF) [IPCC]).]

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

[Comment 91: In fact, climate models do incorporate solar variability, as well as water vapour, clouds, aerosols, and a large number of other influences on the climate (see Comment 55, page 50). Tim Ball and Ian Clark must be well aware of this fact, so they are apparently setting out to mislead the public with the above statements.

Ironically, it is the graphs that this programme used to “show” a direct one-to-one relationship between solar activity and climate (see Comment 59, page 53 and Comment 64, page 59) which fail to take any account of aerosols or any of the many other influences on climate. Those graphs try to pretend that climate could possibly be influenced entirely by cosmic rays levels, driven by solar activity. For if there is more than one influence on climate, then by definition there could not be any overwhelming correlation between temperature and any one of the influences.]

(In breach of Ofcom 5.7, 5.10)