Know Your Enemy

"It's very disappointing that Ofcom hasn't come up with a stronger statement about being misled ... I know hundreds of people, literally hundreds, who were misled by it - they saw it, it was a well-produced programme and they imagined it had some truth behind it, so they were misled and it seems Ofcom didn't care about that ... They said it's completely settled, so why worry - so they can just broadcast any old rubbish."

It's Ofcom rather than Channel 4 who have got it in the neck from Sir John Houghton, "a former head of the UK Met Office and chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scientific assessment", in the wake of today's ruling about the documentary 'The Great Climate Change Swindle', aired in March last year.

Fair point, but there's also scope for a few choice words about Hamish Mykura, C4's Head of Documentaries, who on their own news report on the story suggested they had been vindicated for the decision to screen something which "challenged orthodoxies, which is kind of what Channel 4 is there to do"...