Warming Swindle film swindled of justice

Andrew Bolt
Herald Sun
Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Ofcom, Britain’s media regulator, seems to have been too quick to damn the Great Global Warming Swindle, and too quick to exonerate one of Britian’s leading warming hysterics:

In the closing moments of the program a voiceover from the climate change sceptic Fred Singer claimed that the Chief Scientist of the UK had said that by the end of the century the only habitable place on the planet would be in the Antarctic and that “humanity may survive thanks to some breeding couples who moved to the Antarctic”.

Sir David has never made such a statement. It is thought that Mr Singer confused the comments with those made by the scientist James Lovelock, who infuriated many colleagues in the science community when he publicly questioned global warming.

Actually, Lovelock didn’t publicly question global warming, but claimed in fact:

Before this century is over, billions of us will die, and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.

But it turns out that that Singer didn’t really misrepesent King that much at all. Reader Paul in a few minutes of searching discovered some King quotes that Ofcom seems to have missed in 15 months of inquiry:

Antarctica is likely to be the world’s only habitable continent by the end of this century if global warming remains unchecked, the Government’s chief scientist, Professor Sir David King, said last week.

With such extreme and scientifically unsupported scare-claims like those, why is it that King and Lovelock aren’t being hounded the way that The Great Global Warming Swindle was for criticising such alarmism?

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