In reaction to the Ofcom ruling today on the Great Global Warming Swindle shock-u-mentary, Guardian columnist George Monbiot asks: “Why does Channel 4 seem to be waging a war against the greens?”
Monbiot writes:
The Great Global Warming Swindle is part of a long-standing pattern. Channel 4 upsets all sorts of people, and it has every right to do so. On all other issues it appears to do so in a random fashion, sometimes attacking people on one side of the debate, sometimes on the other. But one polemical position has kept recurring over the past 18 years: a fierce antagonism towards environmentalism.”
For more on the history of the “Great Global Warming Swindle” and Channel 4 controversy check out some of DeSmog’s previous entries:
A Global Warming Swindle play-by-play
Aussie media lambasting Durkin’s Swindle film
Swindle Update: ABC is now slamming the Swindle
Vancouver Sun Promotes Climate Swindle
Newspaper prescribes “the Swindle” for schoolchildren
“The Great Global Warming Swindle”
Monbiot on the Channel 4 Swindle
For a more in-depth look, check out DeSmog’s comprehensive research database on the climate denial industry.
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