Quote Of The Weak

Environmental advocate Peter Sinclair put together this presentation about the British documentary “The Great Global Warming Swindle.” When Channel 4’s anti-AGW polemic was first broadcast, we linked to it here at LGF; but since that time a number of ... uh ... problems have been found with the data in the film.

Charles Johnson (June 21, 2009)

Hey Chuckie, 2007 called!

What LGF missed this week

Hundreds of thousands in Turkey and Pakistan protested against Islamic extremism.

Outrage over desecration of Muslim WWII graves in Paris.

U.S. top brass urges action on climate change.

All of these stories go against the grain at LGF, and therefore Charles Johnson consciously withholds discussion of them from his readers...

Hot Air

"Dear LGFWatch," writes reader DS, "I was very impressed by the RCP's recent propaganda piece TV documentary debunking global warming theory, and was wondering whether you might have a picture to illustrate other environmental myths. For example, a picture of two allegedly extinct species (such as the dinosaur and the dodo) very much alive and sharing cocktails in a Manhattan bar..."

The Great Global Warming Swindle Swindle

Now far be it from us to point out Chuckles the Clown's hypocrisy is promoting a programme on Channel 4 (anyone who reads us regularly will know why) but just to add balance and provide actual information (which the documentary got wrong) here are some bloggers who seem on the ball.

Stoat (here and here)
Realclimate
In the Green
Reasic
Fermi Paradox (who links to a great paper by Damon & Laut)

To use a newspaper cliche 'read all about it' and don't take one programmes 'findings' as gospel. It seems that in his haste to shill for the Bush administrations destructive approach to the environment ,Charles will latch on to anything he can, even if it's a documentary on Channel 4.

UPDATE: More swindles! It seems that a scientist who appeared on the show isn't happy.

Carl Wunsch, professor of physical oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the film, The Great Global Warming Swindle, was ‘grossly distorted’ and ‘as close to pure propaganda as anything since World War Two’.

He says his comments in the film were taken out of context and that he would not have agreed to take part if he had known it would argue that man-made global warming was not a serious threat.

UPDATE: It appear this isn't the first time TGGWS's director, Martin Durkin, has been accused of misrepresenting people he interviewed for a program.