The Great Global Warming Swindle (2007)

Directed by

Martin Durkin

Genre

polemic, documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 15m

Rated

12

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 34 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary challenges the scientific consensus on human-caused climate change. It presents the views of people who argue that global warming is a hoax driven by political and financial motives.

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What happens

The Great Global Warming Swindle is a 2007 British conspiracy theory documentary film directed by Martin Durkin. The film denies the reality and causes of climate change, justifying this by suggesting that climatology is influenced by funding and political factors. The program was formally criticised by Ofcom, the UK broadcasting regulatory agency, which ruled the film failed to uphold due impartiality and upheld complaints of misrepresentation made by David King, who appeared in the film. The film presents scientists, economists, politicians, writers, and others who dispute the scientific consensus regarding anthropogenic global warming. The programme's publicity materials claim 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 mockumentary The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle about British punk band the Sex Pistols. The UK's Channel 4 premiered the documentary on 8 March 2007. The channel described the film as "a polemic that drew together the well-documented views of a number of respected scientists to reach the same conclusions. This is a controversial film but we feel that it is important that all sides of the debate are aired." According to Hamish Mykura, Channel 4's head of documentaries, the film was commissioned "to present the viewpoint of the small minority of scientists who do not believe global warming is caused by anthropogenic production of carbon dioxide." Although the documentary was welcomed by climate change deniers, 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 The film misuses and fabricates data, relies on out-of-date research, employs misleading arguments, and misrepresents the position of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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