Great Global Warming Swindle maker responds to warming zealots
Martin Durkin (and you can almost see the fatwa on his head)When Australia's ABC had the guts to show The Great Global Warming Swindle last week the viscousness of the verbal attack was predictable. Here is Martin Durkin's post-showing response including: "'I was warned a middle-class fatwa would be put on my head":
WHEN I agreed to make The Great Global Warming Swindle, I was warned a middle-class fatwa would be placed on my head.
So I wasn't shocked that the film was attacked on the same night it was broadcast on ABC television last week, although I was impressed at the vehemence of the attack. I was more surprised, and delighted, by the response of the Australian public.
The ABC studio assault, led by Tony Jones, was so vitriolic it appears to have backfired. We have been inundated with messages of support, and the ABC, I am told, has been flooded with complaints. I have been trying to understand why.
First, the ferocity of the attack, I think, revealed the intolerance and defensiveness of the global warming camp. Why were Jones and co expending such energy and resources attacking one documentary? We are told the global warming theory is robust. They say you'd have to be off your chump to disagree. We have been assured for years, in countless news broadcasts and column inches, that it's definitely true. So why bother to stamp so aggressively on the one foolish documentary-maker - who clearly must be as mad as a snake - who steps out of line?
I think viewers may also have wondered (reasonably) why the theory of global warming has not been subjected to this barrage of critical scrutiny by the media. After all, it's the theory of global warming, not my foolish little film, that is turning public and corporate policy on its head.
For the full article see: The Australian
Peter C Glover
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I think Durkin himself knocks the nail on the head. Why indeed should a programme, which expounds the theory that the sun is all important and that the seas store CO2, receive such media scrutiny whilst nobody asks questions regarding the more remarkable claim that it is the Co2 level which is responsible for climate change rather than being a mere indicator of an overlying process.