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The real global warming swindle
A Channel 4 documentary claimed that climate change was a conspiratorial lie. But an analysis of the evidence it used shows the film was riddled with distortions and errors
By Steve Connor
Published: 14 March 2007
A Channel 4 documentary that claimed global warming is a swindle was itself flawed with major errors which seriously undermine the programme's credibility, according to an investigation by The Independent.
The Great Global Warming Swindle, was based on graphs that were distorted, mislabelled or just plain wrong. The graphs were nevertheless used to attack the credibility and honesty of climate scientists.
A graph central to the programme's thesis, purporting to show variations in global temperatures over the past century, claimed to show that global warming was not linked with industrial emissions of carbon dioxide. Yet the graph was not what it seemed.
Here's the full article...
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2355956.ece
Makes interesting reading but it's a shame the graphs published in the paper are not made available in the online version.
That's Mr Zeus to you!
The real swindle is that the general public have accepted the lawyer-politicians' approach to any inconvenient scientific evidence. This is the criminal law "proof beyond reasonable doubt" (actually 'evidence beyond reasonable doubt'). Evidence in civilian trials is usually "balance of probabilities" which tends to be the way science operates.
Lawyers and politicians have long destroyed notions of scientific evidence with obfuscatory references to "belief" being equivalent to "theory", and "hypothesis" with "guess".