Further resources for October 17, 2007 Media Alert

[David Edwards]

For our analysis of the C4 film, ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’ by Martin Durkin, see:
http://www.medialens.org/alerts/07/0313pure_propaganda_the.php

and:
http://www.medialens.org/alerts/07/0321climate_swindle_the.php

For a devastating interview on Australian television with Martin Durkin by ABC journalist Tony Jones, see: http://www.desmogblog.com/video-abc-australias-tony-jones-dissects-debunks-martin-durkin

The whole ABC debate is available as a series of video segments on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/voltscommissar

Start with the segment titled "_Pt0".

The excellent website, realclimate.org run by climate scientists, took a critical look at Durkin's documentary:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=414

Here is another powerful rebuttal of Durkin's fallacious arguments:
http://www.medialens.org/downloads/GWS_Scientific_Responses.pdf

A very useful briefing by the Royal Society, tackling all kinds of misleading arguments such as those aired in Durkin's film, can be found at the following link:
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=4761

And here is the C4 commissioning editor refusing even to +discuss+ any of the film's many scientific howlers:
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2007/04/01/correspondence-with-hamish-mykura/

There is an online New Scientist resource dedicated to demolishing climate myths, ‘Climate change: A guide for the perplexed’ by Michael Le Page, 16 May, 2007:
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462

There is a companion resource, ‘Climate myths: Assessing the evidence’ by Michael Le Page, 16 May, 2007:
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11637