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<blockquote data-quote="diesel96" data-source="post: 236828" data-attributes="member: 9859"><p style="margin-left: 20px"><p style="text-align: left"><strong>Climate scientist ‘duped to deny global warming’</strong></p> <p style="text-align: left">A Leading US climate scientist is considering legal action after he says he was duped into appearing in a Channel 4 documentary that claimed man-made global warming is a myth. Carl Wunsch, professor of physical oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the film, The Great Global Warming Swindle, was ‘grossly distorted’ and ‘as close to pure propaganda as anything since World War Two’.</p></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">He says his comments in the film were taken out of context and that he would not have agreed to take part if he had known it would argue that man-made global warming was not a serious threat. ‘I thought they were trying to educate the public about the complexities of climate change,’ he said. ‘This seems like a deliberate attempt to exploit someone who is on the other side of the issue.’ He is considering a complaint to Ofcom, the broadcast regulator. - <a href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2031455,00.html" target="_blank"><em><span style="color: #e58712">Guardian</span></em></a></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Professor Wunsch said: “I am angry because they completely misrepresented me. My views were distorted by the context in which they placed them. I was misled as to what it was going to be about. I was told about six months ago that this was to be a programme about how complicated it is to understand what is going on. If they had told me even the title of the programme, I would have absolutely refused to be on it. I am the one who has been swindled.” </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>Martin Durkin (television director)</strong></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</strong></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>Martin Durkin</strong> is a television producer and director, most notably of television documentaries for Channel 4 in Britain. Many of his documentaries have caused consistent controversies. He is understood to have once been closely involved with the Revolutionary Communist Party and its later offshoots Living Marxism (or LM magazine) and Spiked, a magazine and associated political network which promotes libertarian views, and is critical of environmentalism. </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">When it comes to science, I'll trust realtime scientist with no political, or Religious ties, and no affilliations with Oil,Logging,or Polluting Corperations. And certaintly don't trust a Marxist Communist wacked out Director. And before your Rt wing friends start freaking out and yelling at me that I got my head up Al Gore's butt, I never even seen his movie. Someone who loves his country,nature and the Earth should all take notice with an open mind, not a political mind. Why am I a Liberal because I want to conserve the Earth? And why don't Conservatives want to conserve? This is linguistically puzzling.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">BTW...I feel for all the Olympic Athletes participating in Beijing,China. I here the Air Quality is 5x worse than the harmful levels are here in the states. Some countries are taking precautions with extra breathing apparatuses and extra DR.'s..I guess it's just nature and volcanos over there blowing off a little steam.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="diesel96, post: 236828, member: 9859"] [INDENT][LEFT][B]Climate scientist ‘duped to deny global warming’[/B] A Leading US climate scientist is considering legal action after he says he was duped into appearing in a Channel 4 documentary that claimed man-made global warming is a myth. Carl Wunsch, professor of physical oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the film, The Great Global Warming Swindle, was ‘grossly distorted’ and ‘as close to pure propaganda as anything since World War Two’.[/LEFT] He says his comments in the film were taken out of context and that he would not have agreed to take part if he had known it would argue that man-made global warming was not a serious threat. ‘I thought they were trying to educate the public about the complexities of climate change,’ he said. ‘This seems like a deliberate attempt to exploit someone who is on the other side of the issue.’ He is considering a complaint to Ofcom, the broadcast regulator. - [URL='http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2031455,00.html'][I][COLOR=#e58712]Guardian[/COLOR][/I][/URL] Professor Wunsch said: “I am angry because they completely misrepresented me. My views were distorted by the context in which they placed them. I was misled as to what it was going to be about. I was told about six months ago that this was to be a programme about how complicated it is to understand what is going on. If they had told me even the title of the programme, I would have absolutely refused to be on it. I am the one who has been swindled.” [B]Martin Durkin (television director)[/B] [B]From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/B] [B]Martin Durkin[/B] is a television producer and director, most notably of television documentaries for Channel 4 in Britain. Many of his documentaries have caused consistent controversies. He is understood to have once been closely involved with the Revolutionary Communist Party and its later offshoots Living Marxism (or LM magazine) and Spiked, a magazine and associated political network which promotes libertarian views, and is critical of environmentalism. When it comes to science, I'll trust realtime scientist with no political, or Religious ties, and no affilliations with Oil,Logging,or Polluting Corperations. And certaintly don't trust a Marxist Communist wacked out Director. And before your Rt wing friends start freaking out and yelling at me that I got my head up Al Gore's butt, I never even seen his movie. Someone who loves his country,nature and the Earth should all take notice with an open mind, not a political mind. Why am I a Liberal because I want to conserve the Earth? And why don't Conservatives want to conserve? This is linguistically puzzling. BTW...I feel for all the Olympic Athletes participating in Beijing,China. I here the Air Quality is 5x worse than the harmful levels are here in the states. Some countries are taking precautions with extra breathing apparatuses and extra DR.'s..I guess it's just nature and volcanos over there blowing off a little steam.[/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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