'Global Warming Is
Lies,' Documentary Claims
"Al Gore might have won an Oscar for 'An Inconvenient
Truth',
but the film is very misleading"
Here are
several different links to the TV documentary The Great Global
Warming Swindle
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=global+warming+swindle
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2007/090307warminghoax.htm
Thanks to Phillip Brennan , Stephanie Relfe
and Greg Bunt for these links
Watch TV trailer here:
http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/G/great_global_warming_swindle/page3.html
If educators truly want to offer a balanced education, any school
that has shown An Inconvenient Truth to it’s students should
give them the opportunity to see this video.
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4 Mar 07 - Accepted theories about man causing global warming are
"lies" claims a controversial new TV documentary to be aired
March 8 in the United Kingdom.
'The Great Global Warming Swindle - backed by eminent scientists - is
set to rock the accepted consensus that climate change is being driven
by humans.
The program will see a series of respected scientists attack the
"propaganda" that they claim is killing the world's poor.
Nobody in the documentary defends the greenhouse effect theory, as it
claims that climate change is natural, has been occurring for years, and
ice falling from glaciers is just the spring break-up and as normal as
leaves falling in autumn.
Controversial director Martin Durkin said: "You can see the
problems with the science of global warming, but people just don't
believe you - it's taken 10 years to get this commissioned.
"It's very rare that a film changes history, but I think this is a
turning point and in five years the idea that the greenhouse effect is
the main reason behind global warming will be seen as total bollocks.
"Al Gore might have won an Oscar for 'An Inconvenient Truth', but
the film is very misleading and he has got the relationship between CO2
and climate change the wrong way round."
One major piece of evidence of CO2 causing global warming are ice core
samples from Antarctica, which show that for hundreds of years, global
warming has been accompanied by higher levels of CO2 in the atmosphere.
In 'The Great Global Warming Swindle' Al Gore is shown claiming this
proves the theory, but paleoclimatologist Professor Ian Clark claims in
the documentary that it actually shows the opposite.
He has evidence showing that warmer spells in the Earth's history
actually came an average of 800 years before the rise in CO2 levels.
While Prof Clark fully acknowledges that recent increases in atmospheric
CO2 are anthropogenic, he just doesn't see any evidence that the
man-made increases of CO2 are driving temperature change.
Scientists in the program also raise another discrepancy with the
official line, showing that most of the recent global warming occurred
before 1940, when global temperatures then fell for four decades.
It was only in the late 1970s that the current trend of rising
temperatures began.
This, claim the skeptics, is a flaw in the CO2 theory, because the
post-war economic boom produced more CO2 and should, according to the
consensus, have meant a rise in global temperatures.
The program claims there appears to be a consensus across science that
CO2 is responsible for global warming, but Professor Paul Reiter is
shown to disagree.
He said the influential United Nations report on Climate change, that
claimed humans were responsible, was a sham.
It claimed to be the opinion of 2,500 leading scientists, but Prof
Reiter said it included names of scientists who disagreed with the
findings and resigned from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change, and said the report was finalised by Government appointees.
The program shows how the global warming research drive began when
Margaret Thatcher gave money to scientists to 'prove' burning coal and
oil was harmful, as part of her drive for nuclear power.
"At the moment, there is almost a McCarthyism movement in science
where the greenhouse effect is like a puritanical religion and this is
dangerous," says Philip Stott, professor emeritus of biogeography
at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London who also
features in the film
In the program, Nigel Calder said: "The greenhouse effect is seen
as a religion and if you don't agree, you are a heretic."
http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory.asp?story=CZ434669U&news_headline=global_warming_is_lies_claims_documentary
Thanks to John Z for this link
Watch TV trailer here:
http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/G/great_global_warming_swindle/page3.html
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Here’s a different description of the same movie
The Great Global Warming Swindle
7 Mar 07 - In a documentary to be aired in the UK on March 8,
film-maker Martin Durkin argues that the theory of man-made global
warming has become such a powerful political force that other
explanations for climate change are not being properly aired.
The film brings together the arguments of leading scientists who
disagree with the prevailing consensus that a 'greenhouse effect' of
carbon dioxide released by human activity is the cause of rising global
temperatures.
Instead the documentary highlights recent research that the effect of
the sun's radiation on the atmosphere may be a better explanation for
the regular swings of climate from ice ages to warm interglacial periods
and back again.
The film argues that the earth's climate is always changing, and that
rapid warmings and coolings took place long before the burning of fossil
fuels. It argues that the present single-minded focus on reducing carbon
emissions not only may have little impact on climate change, it may also
have the unintended consequence of stifling development in the third
world, prolonging endemic poverty and disease.
The film features an impressive roll-call of experts, including nine
professors –– experts in climatology, oceanography, meteorology,
environmental science, biogeography and paleoclimatology –– from
such reputable institutions as MIT, NASA, the International Arctic
Research Centre, the Institut Pasteur, the Danish National Space Center
and the Universities of London, Ottawa, Jerusalem, Winnipeg, Alabama and
Virginia.
'The ice core record goes to the very heart of the problem we have'
says a respected climatology expert in the documentary. 'They said if
CO2 increases in the atmosphere, as a greenhouse gas, then the
temperature will go up'.
In fact, the experts in the film argue that increased CO2 levels are
actually a result of temperature rises, not their cause, and that this
alternate view is rarely heard. 'So the fundamental assumption, the most
fundamental assumption of the whole theory of climate change due to
humans, is shown to be wrong.'
'I've often heard it said that there is a consensus of thousands of
scientists on the global warming issue, that humans are causing a
catastrophic change to the climate system,' says an eminent earth
science expert. 'Well I am one scientist, and there are many, that
simply think that is not true.'
The film examines an alternative theory that explains global
temperatures, based on research by the Danish Space Center. The Center
found that as solar activity increases, and the sun flares, cloud
formation on earth is significantly diminished and temperature rises.
'Solar activity over the last hundred years, over the last several
hundred years, correlates very nicely, on a decadal basis, with
temperature.'
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