COIN has been receiving a number of inquiries from people confused by the Channel 4 'documentary' directed by Martin Durkin, entitled the 'Great Global Warming Swindle'. A large number of climate scientists and campaigners have already responded to the points raised by Durkin's collection of climate change deniers - and so we thought that we would bring together some of the most incisive criticism available on the Internet.

Perhaps the best summation of the science can be found at RealClimate:

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/03/swindled

While Sir John Houghton CBE (founder of the Hadley Centre) responds here:

http://www.jri.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=137&Itemid=83

And the Royal Society gives its view here:

http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/news.asp?id=6089

Chris Merchant of Edinburgh University gives a PowerPoint presentation here:

http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/chris

The background of some of the commentators used in the documentary is discussed by George Marshall, George Monbiot and Ross Gelbspan in these links:

http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2007/03/13/channel-4s-problem-with-science/

http://climatedenial.org/2007/03/09/the-great-channel-four-swindle/

http://climatedenial.org/2007/03/14/stuff-and-nonscience/

Professor Carl Wunsch (MIT), who was interviewed for the programme, gives his response to the distortion of his views and the misleading agenda of the film-makers here:

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/03/swindled-carl-wunsch-responds

While other intriguing opinions appear in the blogs below:

http://inthegreen.typepad.com/blog/2007/03/deconstructing_.html

http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/

http://www.madcomments.co.uk/the-great-channel-4-swindle/

Finally - if you want to really examine the science in detail - go to the comprehensive Fourth Assessment of the International Panel on Climate Change (release February 2007). Its conclusion? Climate change is real, its happening, and its caused by human activity:

http://www.ipcc.ch/