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Thursday, December 2, 2010

The Great Global Warming Swindle

The Great Global Warming Swindle

The film, made by British television producer, presents scientists, economists, politicians, writers, and others who dispute the regarding anthropogenic global warming. The programme's publicity materials assert that man-made global warming is "a lie" and "the biggest scam of modern times Its original working title was "Apocalypse my arse", but the title


The Great Global Warming Swindle was later adopted as an allusion to the 1980 about British band The Great Global Warming Swindle is that suggests that the is influenced by funding and political factors, and questions whether scientific consensus on exists.



Although the documentary was welcomed by global warming sceptics, it was criticised by scientific organisations and individual scientists (including one of the scientists interviewed in the film and one whose research was used to support the film's claims). The film's critics argued that it had misused and fabricated data, relied on out-of-date research, employed misleading arguments, and misrepresented the position of the Later broadcasts corrected three errors which had been found in the original film. The film's producer, Martin Durkin, has asserted that the errors were minor and did not affect the film's conclusions.

 

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