Talk:The Great Global Warming Swindle/intro

The Great Global Warming Swindle is a documentary by British television producer Martin Durkin, which makes "polemical" critique of what it sees as the received wisdom of global warming. The film premiered on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom on March 8, 2007.

The film features scientists who are sceptical of the prevailing scientific opinion on climate change, which is that the modern global warming period is caused mostly by human activity. Some of the people who are interviewed in the film are Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace; Richard Lindzen, professor of meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Nigel Calder, former editor of New Scientist; and Paul Reiter of the Pasteur Institute.

The film is critical of the concept of man-made global warming, and claims that the current state of knowledge on the topic has numerous flaws. In general, only those sceptical of man-made global warming were interviewed, and there was no attempt to present the most widely held scientific opinion on climate change except in the context of counter-arguments. Channel 4, preempting the controversy, said, "It is essentially a polemic and we are expecting it to cause trouble, but this is the controversial programming that Channel 4 is renowned for."