Anti-Global Warming Documentary Did not Mislead

The Global Warming crowd is all in a tizzy over this, but you have to love the reasoning on which the decision was based.

The Broadcasting Code requires Channel 4 to show “due impartiality” on “matters of major political and industrial controversy and major matters relating to current public policy”. 

Human hands are driving climate change, Ofcom acknowledges

The last segment of the programme, dealing with the politics of climate change, broke this obligation, Ofcom judged, and did not reflect a range of views, as required under the code.

But the main portion of the film, on climate science, did not breach these rules.

Ofcom’s logic is that “the link between human activity and global warming… became settled before March 2007”.

This being so, it says, climate science was not “controversial” at the time of broadcast, so Channel 4 did not break regulations by broadcasting something that challenged the link.