Swindled

They couldn’t even be bothered to stick a question mark at the end of the title.

C4’s The Great Global Warming Swindle has been given a hammering by Ofcom for misrepresenting contributors. However, there is enough wriggle room in the judgement for the producers to have the chutzpah to claim they have been vindicated on the substance of the complaints.

George Monbiot flays the film alive in a typically forensic piece in The Guardian today.

The approach of C4 seems to be that it’s enough to have a forthright and opposing view to give people airtime and money. That’s not balance or a full debate, it’s just the crap commissioning of poor journalism.

Week in, week out Ben Goldacre exposes the media’s inability to report science correctly. When coupled with a desire to make a noise rather than shine a light we end up with garbage such as TGGWS.