UK's Channel 4 Green War

onJul 21, 2008 @ 09:55 PDT

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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