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The Swindle
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1997 · Film · 105 min
Directed by Claude Chabrol
Betty and Victor, a rather ill-matched couple, tour unobtrusively around France in their motor-home, earning their living as petty con artists, until one day they find themselves involved in an international money scam which takes them on a globe-trotting adventure.
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> In an 8400-word official judgement issued on 21 July 2008 the British media regulator Ofcom declared that the final part of the film [Swindle] dealing with the politics of climate change had broken rules on "due impartiality on matters of major political and industrial controversy and major matters relating to current public policy". Ofcom also backed complaints by Sir David King, stating that his views were misrepresented, and Carl Wunsch, on the points that he had been misled as to its intent, and that the impression had been given that he agreed with the programme's position on climate change. Ofcom further ruled that the IPCC had not been given an adequate chance to respond to adverse claims that its work was politicised and that it had made misleading claims about malaria.
Do you have any sources that haven't been ruled misleading by OFCOM?
CO2 absorbs in three spectral lines out in the infrared, keeping the quantum mechanics and molecular spectroscopy simple, one line for each of bending, twisting, stretching of the molecule.
The photons the CO2 absorbs are supposedly mostly just those radiated by the Planck black body radiation of the surface of the earth heated by the photons direct from the sun. Lindzen argues why this absorption is not affecting the climate.
It's a long way from that molecular spectroscopy to the climate effect claims of the alarmists. The analysis in the movie Swindle... from Lindzen and others explains clearly.