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Martin Durkin, director of Channel 4's The Great Global Warming Swindle, writes here for the first time since Ofcom rapped the broadcaster for breaching "due impartiality" and treating contributors unfairly: Broadcast won't publish my views of the standard of journalism on BBC's Newsnight and in The Guardian. Apparently they're a bit too fruity. So you'll have to imagine what this first paragraph used to say. When The Great Global Warming Swindle went out, more than a year ago, I knew they wouldn't like it. The soft-left green types, who dictate BBC editorial policy and pour out their confused anti-capitalist bile...

1-866-509-RANT Since I cannot always be here in time to set up a daily thread, I will post it once a week, and ping everyone when I get here each day. We'll pick up where we left off the day before. If I don't make it, whoever gets here around 9:45am EST, ping everyone from the ling list below.

A few weeks ago, I posted a link to the “Great Global Warming Swindle” video here on my weblog. As a skeptic about the evidence presented so far by global warming alarmists, I wanted another side and facts I thought more persuasive to be told. The video points out that CO2 increases happen AFTER temperatures rise, that the “hockey stick” has been discredited, that computer models are wildly inaccurate, that most of the recent temperature rises have occurred BEFORE 1940 and that there have been warming and cooling cycles of the earth throughout known history.