Almost all coverage of the ruling about the UK’s Channel 4’s climate change documentary, the Great Global Warming Swindle, on the surface, comes down against the TV channel, with headlines ranging from Climate program swindled viewers (Sydney Morning Herald) to Channel 4 rules ‘unjust and unfair’ in climate change documentary (Guardian).

But you might say that Channel 4 got off pretty lightly for their documentary that suggested that global warming wasn’t caused by humans burning fossil fuels. Ofcom https://www.ofcom.org.uk/ charged the programme with misrepresenting certain scientists, which leads to those critical headlines, but ultimately the regulators said that the programme didn’t mislead viewers.

This has irked some climate change scientists. Robert Watson, ex-head of the IPCC airs his views in a column in the Guardian. Although over in the Telegraph, David Hughes comes down firmly on the side of the programme makers, saying that the furore caused by those who complained in the aftermath of the programme aired was ‘bullying’.

David Rado, who coordinated the en-masse protest about the show has his say over at the BBC. What do you think?