MightyMartian's Journal: The Great Global Warming Swindle

It seems that UK's Channel 4 "Great Global Warming Swindle", which the anti-global warming crowd, including Janet Daley of the Telegraph (see http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/03/12/do1201.xml) has run into a bit of a problem; mainly that the only swindle going on was the program.

According to the RealClimate blog (http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/03/swindled/), the program was in fact a collection of defunct claims, half-truths, and in the case of Carl Wunsch's contribution, misrepresenting his views. This sort of deceit and dishonesty shouldn't be a surprise, but what is sad is that fiction suddenly gets trumpeted as a legitimate scientific critique of Global Warming.

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[Curmudgeonlyoldbloke]

It's worth mentioning that Channel 4's approach to the idea that they should provide a "neutral point of view" has historically been to schedule multple programs that, when taken together, do that, rather than ensuring that all points are prevented in one programme. I certainly recall seeing Michael Grade (when he was in charge there) defending it in the late '80s and it might even go back further. I can't find a cite, however - but it was a VERY long time ago.

Personally I think that it's important that s

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[MightyMartian]

Yes, Carl Wunsch is a second-rate jackoff.

Now why would a program claiming to be so reputable take the man's words out of context? Why is a geographer being asked about climatology?