Complaint to Ofcom Regarding “The Great Global Warming Swindle”2. Complete Transcript and Rebuttal |
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[Comment 94: Wunsch has subsequently stated (see: http://tinyurl.com/2abj44) that: The part of the program where I’m discussing models was changed by cutting. I believe that I tried to explain that models were essential to understanding climate change, but that I was doubtful about their predictive skill when run out for long periods into the future. I did also say, as shown, that there was a natural bias toward modeling results that were dramatic rather than ones that seemed to show little or slow change. Again, I thought I was appearing in a program whose goal was to show how complicated climate change is and how all the subtleties are lost. Finally, and this did not appear at all in the film, I said that there were some threats that were much more concrete and already present than was a new ice age in the UK by shutting off the Gulf Stream. In particular, I mentioned the ongoing threat of sea level rise, and of mega droughts in the US midwest which I said worried me, among other things. None of this got in. Although it is fair to report Wunsch’s criticisms of models, and of media coverage of global warming, it shows a clear bias on the part of the film makers, and profoundly misrepresents Wunsch’s views, to have edited out his statement that “models [are] essential to understanding climate change;” as well as editing out the concerns he expressed about the threats to be expected from future climate change.] (In breach of the 2003 Communications Act Section 265, Ofcom 5.7, 7.2, 7.3, 7.6, 7.9) |
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Comment 94: Use of selective editing to misrepresent what Wunsch said about modelling]
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