Complaint
This was the last in a five-part series billed as telling the 鈥4.5-billion-year story of our home - from its dramatic creation to the arrival of human life鈥.聽 A viewer complained about the presenter鈥檚 statement that 鈥渢oday the climate is changing at a faster rate than at any time in the last 66 million years鈥, citing evidence from ice core data which appeared to show temperatures rising more steeply at the end of the Younger Dryas 12,000 years ago.聽 The ECU considered the complaint in the light of the 大象传媒鈥檚 editorial standards of accuracy.
Outcome
Recent scientific work indicates that the ice core data reflected local conditions which were not replicated globally, and there appears to be agreement that the rate of recent temperature increases has exceeded the rate of those in the most significant period of global temperature increase in the previous 66 million years (the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum).聽 Therefore the ECU did not agree that the presenter鈥檚 statement was inaccurate.
Not upheld