The Great Global Warming Swindle

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Contributors to the programme

The film includes appearances from the following individuals:

• Syun-Ichi Akasofu – Professor and Director, International Arctic Research Center
• Tim Ball – Head of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project
• Nigel Calder – Former Editor, New Scientist from 1962 to 1966
• John Christy – Professor, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Alabama in Huntsville and a Lead Author of Chapter 2 of the IPCC Third Assessment Report (Credited in the film as 'a Lead Author, IPCC')
• Ian Clark – Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa
• Piers Corbyn – Weather Forecaster, Weather Action
• Paul Driessen – Author: Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death
• Eigil Friis-Christensen – Director, Danish National Space Center and Adjunct Professor, University of Copenhagen (who has since criticised the programme for fabricating data and not fully explaining his position on 20th century global warming).
• Nigel Lawson – Former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Richard Lindzen – Professor, Department of Meteorology, M.I.T.
• Patrick Michaels – Research Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia
• Patrick Moore – Co-founder, Greenpeace and now an anti-environmentalist. Runs Greenspirit Strategies
• Paul Reiter – Professor, Department of Medical Entomology, Pasteur Institute, Paris
• Nir Shaviv – Professor, Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• James Shikwati – Economist, Author, and CEO of The African Executive
• Fred Singer – Professor Emeritus, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Heartland Institute

Resources

• MediaLens, Pure Propaganda - The Great Global Warming Swindle, MediaLens, 13 March 2007.

See Also

• Against Nature: An earlier controversial Channel 4 programme made by Martin Durkin which was critical of the environmental movement.