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* [[James Shikwati]] – Economist, Author, and CEO of ''The African Executive''
 
* [[James Shikwati]] – Economist, Author, and CEO of ''The African Executive''
 
* [[Fred Singer]]&nbsp;– Professor Emeritus, Department of Environmental Sciences, [[University of Virginia]], [[Heartland Institute]] <ref>[[Heartland Institute]] [http://heartland.org/s-fred-singer S. Fred Singer] </ref>
 
* [[Fred Singer]]&nbsp;– Professor Emeritus, Department of Environmental Sciences, [[University of Virginia]], [[Heartland Institute]] <ref>[[Heartland Institute]] [http://heartland.org/s-fred-singer S. Fred Singer] </ref>
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==Durkin's response to his critics==
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On 17 March 2007, ''The Daily Telegraph'' published a response by Durkin, 'The global-warmers were bound to attack, but why are they so feeble?'<ref>[[Martin Durkin]] Martin '[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/18/ngreen218.xml The global-warmers were bound to attack, but why are they so feeble?]' ''Daily Telegraph'' 17 March 2007.</ref> In it, he rejected any criticism of the close correlation between [[solar variation]] and temperature change, saying that 'No one any longer seriously disputes the link between solar activity and temperature in earth's climate history.' He accepted that the time axis of one graph was incorrectly labelled when the programme was first transmitted, but said that this does not change his conclusions.  He concluded by saying that the "global warming alarm...is wrong, wrong, wrong."
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Commenting at a [[Cannes film festival]] press conference on 17 April 2007, Durkin noted: 'My name is absolute mud on the Internet; it's really vicious', adding 'There is no good scientific basis for it but the theory continues to hold sway because so many people have built their careers and reputations on it.'<ref>Alison James [http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117963243.html?categoryid=19&cs=1 Swindle' goes global&nbsp;– Australia, Sweden buy docu] ''Variety'' 17 April 2007.</ref>
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===The Armand Leroi correspondence===
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''[[The Times]]'' reported that Durkin had seriously fallen out with a scientist who had been considering working with him. [[Armand Leroi]], a geneticist, was concerned that Durkin had used data about a correlation between solar activity and global temperatures which had subsequently been found to be flawed. Leroi sent Durkin an e-mail in which he said that he thought the programme 'made some good points (the politics of the [[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change|IPCC]]) and some bad points (anthropogenic global warming is a conspiracy to keep Africa underdeveloped)' but said what had most interested him was some of the scientific claims about solar activity and global temperature; he said he looked for citations of the 1991 Friis-Christensen scientific paper used in the programme.
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While Leroi acknowledged 'I am no climate scientist' he said that after reviewing criticisms of the paper, he had become convinced that: 'To put this bluntly: the data that you showed in your programme were wrong–and may have been deliberately faked... it does show what abundant experience has already taught me–that, left to their own devices, TV producers simply cannot be trusted to tell the truth.'<ref name="Leroi emails" />
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Leroi copied the e-mail to other parties including ''[[The Guardian]]'' journalist and Bad Science columnist [[Ben Goldacre]] and science writer and mathematician [[Simon Singh]]. Durkin replied to all with the single sentence: 'You’re a big daft cock'. Singh then sent an email to Durkin that said: 'I have not paid the same attention to your programme as Armand has done, but from what I did see it is an irresponsible piece of film-making. If you can send me a copy of the programme then I will examine it in more detail and give you a more considered response...it would be great if you could engage in the debate rather just resorting to one line replies'.
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Durkin responded: 'The IPCC's own figures show the hottest year in the past ten was 1998, and the temp has been flat-lining now for five years. If it's greenhouse gas causing the warming the rate of warming should be higher in the troposphere than on the surface. The opposite is the case. The ice core data shows that temperature change causes the level of atmospheric CO2 to change&nbsp;— not the other way round. Why have we not heard this in the hours and hours of shit programming on global warming shoved down our throats by the BBC?', and concluded with, 'Never mind a bit of irresponsible film-making. Go and fuck yourself'.<ref name="Leroi emails">[http://ocean.mit.edu/~cwunsch/papersonline/durkinemails.htm Email correspondence between Armand Leroi, Simon Singh and Martin Durkin] ''Ocean.mit.edu'' 9 March 2007 </ref> Durkin later apologised for his language, saying that he had sent the e-mails when tired and had just finished making the programme, and that he was 'eager to have all the science properly debated with scientists qualified in the right areas'.<ref name="Times 15 March" />
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==Resources==
 
==Resources==
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*David Adam, [http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2119695,00.html Temperature rises 'not caused by Sun'] ''The Guardian'' 5 July 2007.
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*Richard Black, '[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7517509.stm Climate documentary "broke rules"]'. ''BBC News'', 21 July 2008
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*Connor Steve [http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article2355956.ece The real global warming swindle ''The Independent'', 14 March 2007
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* [[Janet Daley]] [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/03/12/do1201.xml Green lobby must not stifle the debate] ''Daily Telegraph''  12 March 2007.
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*Ben Goldacre and David Adam [http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2031457,00.html Climate scientist 'duped to deny global warming'] ''The Guardian'' 11 March 2007.
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*Mark Henderson [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article1517515.ece C4’s debate on global warming boils over] ''The Times'' 15 March 2007
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*Jones D , Watkins A, Braganza K, Coughlan M [http://www.csiro.au/files/files/pfb4.pdf "The Great Global Warming Swindle": a critique] ''Bulletin of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society'' 2007
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*Dominic Lawson [http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_a_l/dominic_lawson/article2318675.ece Here is another inconvenient truth (but this one will infuriate the Green lobby)] ''The Independent'' 2 March 2007.
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*Geoffrey Lean [http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2326210.ece Global warming: An inconvenient truth or hot air?]  ''The Independent'' 4 March 2007.
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*Geoffrey Lean [http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2347526.ece Climate change: An inconvenient truth... for C4] ''The Independent'' 12 March 2007.
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*Robin McKie, [http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2026125,00.html Why Channel 4 has got it wrong over climate change| ''The Guardian'' 4 March 2007
 
*MediaLens, [http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2007/489-pure-propaganda-the-great-global-warming-swindle.html Pure Propaganda - The Great Global Warming Swindle], MediaLens, 13 March 2007.
 
*MediaLens, [http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2007/489-pure-propaganda-the-great-global-warming-swindle.html Pure Propaganda - The Great Global Warming Swindle], MediaLens, 13 March 2007.
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* George Monbiot [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2001694,00.html Don't be fooled by Bush's defection: his cures are another form of denial] ''The Guardian'' 30 January 2007.
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*George Monbiot [http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2032572,00.html Don't let truth stand in the way of a red-hot debunking of climate change] ''The Guardian'' 13 March 2007
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*George Monbiot [http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2053520,00.html There is climate change censorship — and it's the deniers who dish it out] ''Guardian'' 10 April 2007
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*Roisin Murphy [http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article2521677.ece C4 accused of falsifying data in documentary on climate change] ''The Independent'' 8 May 2007.
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*Ofcom [http://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv/obb/prog_cb/obb114/ Ofcom Broadcast Bulletin 114]
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*Ofcom [http://www.ofcomswindlecomplaint.net/About/Ruling/SummaryOfAdjudication.htm Summary of adjudication]
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*Brendan O'Neill '[http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/2948 Apocalypse my arse]' 9 March 2007
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*Claire Parker [http://www.cpi.cam.ac.uk/gore/PDF/GWS%20Scientific%20Responses3.pdf Scientific Response to "The Great Global Warming Swindle"] ''University of Cambridge Programme for Industry''
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*Dave Rado [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7517444.stm A reluctant whistle-blower] BBC News, 21 July 2008.
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*Nathan Rive, Dr Brian Jackson, Dave Rado et al [http://www.ofcomswindlecomplaint.net/FullComplaint.pdf Complaint to Ofcom Regarding “The Great Global Warming Swindle”] ''Ofcom Swindle complaint Website'', Last updated: 11/06/2007.
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*Royal Society '[http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/news.asp?id=6089 The Great Global Warming Swindle]' 11 March 2007.
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*Alan Thorpe 'Fake fights are not helping climate science', ''New Scientist'' 17 March 2007, page = 24
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* [[Bob Ward]] ' [http://climateofdenial.net/?q=node/1 The Great Global Warming Swindle: open letter to Martin Durkin from 37 signatories]' ''Climate of denial'', April 2007
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*Carl Wunsch [http://ocean.mit.edu/~cwunsch/papersonline/channel4response  Partial Response to the London Channel 4 Film "The Great Global Warming Swindle"] 11 March 2007
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*Carl Wunsch [http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2007/s1977366.htm My words were twisted in global warming documentary: expert] ''Lateline'' ABCnet.au 12/07/2007
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*Carl Wunsch '[http://ocean.mit.edu/~cwunsch/papersonline/furthercommentonswindle.htm Further comments on The Great Global Warming Swindle]' 20 July 2007.
 
===See Also===
 
===See Also===
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* ''[[Against Nature]]'': An earlier controversial [[Channel 4]] programme made by [[Martin Durkin]] which was critical of the environmental movement.
 
* ''[[Against Nature]]'': An earlier controversial [[Channel 4]] programme made by [[Martin Durkin]] which was critical of the environmental movement.
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==
 
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Contributors to the programme

The film includes appearances from the following individuals:

Durkin's response to his critics

On 17 March 2007, The Daily Telegraph published a response by Durkin, 'The global-warmers were bound to attack, but why are they so feeble?'[3] In it, he rejected any criticism of the close correlation between solar variation and temperature change, saying that 'No one any longer seriously disputes the link between solar activity and temperature in earth's climate history.' He accepted that the time axis of one graph was incorrectly labelled when the programme was first transmitted, but said that this does not change his conclusions. He concluded by saying that the "global warming alarm...is wrong, wrong, wrong."

Commenting at a Cannes film festival press conference on 17 April 2007, Durkin noted: 'My name is absolute mud on the Internet; it's really vicious', adding 'There is no good scientific basis for it but the theory continues to hold sway because so many people have built their careers and reputations on it.'[4]

The Armand Leroi correspondence

The Times reported that Durkin had seriously fallen out with a scientist who had been considering working with him. Armand Leroi, a geneticist, was concerned that Durkin had used data about a correlation between solar activity and global temperatures which had subsequently been found to be flawed. Leroi sent Durkin an e-mail in which he said that he thought the programme 'made some good points (the politics of the IPCC) and some bad points (anthropogenic global warming is a conspiracy to keep Africa underdeveloped)' but said what had most interested him was some of the scientific claims about solar activity and global temperature; he said he looked for citations of the 1991 Friis-Christensen scientific paper used in the programme.

While Leroi acknowledged 'I am no climate scientist' he said that after reviewing criticisms of the paper, he had become convinced that: 'To put this bluntly: the data that you showed in your programme were wrong–and may have been deliberately faked... it does show what abundant experience has already taught me–that, left to their own devices, TV producers simply cannot be trusted to tell the truth.'[5]

Leroi copied the e-mail to other parties including The Guardian journalist and Bad Science columnist Ben Goldacre and science writer and mathematician Simon Singh. Durkin replied to all with the single sentence: 'You’re a big daft cock'. Singh then sent an email to Durkin that said: 'I have not paid the same attention to your programme as Armand has done, but from what I did see it is an irresponsible piece of film-making. If you can send me a copy of the programme then I will examine it in more detail and give you a more considered response...it would be great if you could engage in the debate rather just resorting to one line replies'.

Durkin responded: 'The IPCC's own figures show the hottest year in the past ten was 1998, and the temp has been flat-lining now for five years. If it's greenhouse gas causing the warming the rate of warming should be higher in the troposphere than on the surface. The opposite is the case. The ice core data shows that temperature change causes the level of atmospheric CO2 to change — not the other way round. Why have we not heard this in the hours and hours of shit programming on global warming shoved down our throats by the BBC?', and concluded with, 'Never mind a bit of irresponsible film-making. Go and fuck yourself'.[5] Durkin later apologised for his language, saying that he had sent the e-mails when tired and had just finished making the programme, and that he was 'eager to have all the science properly debated with scientists qualified in the right areas'.[6]


Resources

See Also

Notes

  1. ↑ NR+EFC Statement Folk.uio.no Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 20 June 2008
  2. ↑ Heartland Institute S. Fred Singer
  3. ↑ Martin Durkin Martin 'The global-warmers were bound to attack, but why are they so feeble?' Daily Telegraph 17 March 2007.
  4. ↑ Alison James Swindle' goes global – Australia, Sweden buy docu Variety 17 April 2007.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Email correspondence between Armand Leroi, Simon Singh and Martin Durkin Ocean.mit.edu 9 March 2007
  6. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Times 15 March
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