I don't think that I could express my views better than this article by Dr. Sowell of Stanford University. He had this movement pegged back in 2007.
"Britain's Channel 4 has produced a devastating documentary titled "The Great Global Warming Swindle." It has apparently not been broadcast by any of the networks in the United States. But, fortunately, it is available on the Internet.
Distinguished scientists specializing in climate and climate-related fields talk in plain English and present readily understood graphs showing what a crock the current global warming hysteria is.[/quote]
Hi Codger,
I watched the 'Great Global Warming Swindle' and did a double take. For a while, I really thought our world had been taken for a ride on this 'terrible hoax'. Then I spent months investigating the
claims. Every single one of them is a carefully cherry-picked half truth misrepresenting what the science says or it is worse, an outright
LIE! If you believe this movie, you've been had by the worst anti-science propaganda the net has to offer. It's up there with believing in Aliens at area 51 or the moon landing being faked!
These include scientists from MIT and top-tier universities in a number of countries.
Incorrect: some of the scientists commenting are not who they say they are, such as Tim Ball. Others are part of the 3% of climate scientists who disagree, who are either known to be cantankerous old codgers who's peer reviewed work as been debunked as irrelevant, or one in particular is a literal 7 day creationist ideologically unable to believe in an old earth and 'normal' scientific realities and data.
Some of these are scientists whose names were paraded on some of the global warming publications that are being promoted in the media -- but who state plainly that they neither wrote those publications nor approved them. One scientist threatened to sue unless his name was removed.
Exactly! The Denialists misquoted the peer-reviewed oceanographer! This is a perfect example of how Denialist's grab out-of-context sound bytes and then distort them to pervert and twist the truth. It's revolting behaviour!
Carl Wunsch
Carl Wunsch, professor of Physical Oceanography at MIT, is featured in the
Channel 4 version of the programme. Afterwards he said that he was "completely misrepresented" in the film and had been "totally misled" when he agreed to be interviewed.
[7][30] He called the film "grossly distorted" and "as close to pure propaganda as anything since World War Two",
[31] and he lodged a complaint with
Ofcom. He particularly objected to how his interview material was used:
In the part of The Great Climate Change Swindle where I am describing the fact that the ocean tends to expel carbon dioxide where it is warm, and to absorb it where it is cold, my intent was to explain that warming the ocean could be dangerousbecause it is such a gigantic reservoir of carbon. By its placement in the film, it appears that I am saying that since carbon dioxide exists in the ocean in such large quantities, human influence must not be very importantdiametrically opposite to the point I was makingwhich is that global warming is both real and threatening.
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The Great Global Warming Swindle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
While the public has been led to believe that "all" the leading scientists buy the global warming hysteria and the political agenda that goes with it, in fact the official reports from the United Nations or the National Academy of Sciences are written by bureaucrats -- and then garnished with the names of leading scientists who were "consulted," but whose contrary conclusions have been ignored.
Evidence? The peer-reviewed nature of science tends to mean the 'truth will out'.
Is there a scientific consensus on global warming?
Also, any physics lab in any university in any country can confirm or deny the basic science behind Co2. How powerful it is at trapping heat is a simple physics test like checking the boiling point of water! Do you really think the IPCC is an all-powerful institute that can hide the basic laws of physics? If you really want to disprove global warming, disprove the Radiative Forcing Equation below, which basically counts:-
1. How Co2 traps heat (basic physics demonstrated in any physics lab on the entire PLANET!)
2. How much Co2 there was before the Industrial Revolution.
3. How much Co2 there is now.
4. How much
extra heat is trapped.
Just find a paper that can disprove this following equation, and your work here is done.
There is no question that the globe is warming but it has warmed and cooled before, and is not as warm today as it was some centuries ago,
Incorrect. This is one of the more outrageous lies from Martin Durkin! The so called 'Medieval Warm Period' was no where near as warm as today.
What does past climate change tell us about global warming?
Also, the ancient prehistory of previously warmer dinosaur ages might come as a shock to uninformed newcomers to climate science, but climatologists are all over it. They know all about it. Denialists love to rave about it as if this is some great secret, but talk with any climatologist long enough and they'll explain the variety of really, really, really long term natural forcings that were at work there, that are roughly understood, but that are simply not at work now.i
before there were any automobiles and before there was as much burning of fossil fuels as today. None of the dire things predicted today happened then.
That's because:-
- the MWP was no where near as hot as it is today,
- there were not 7 billion people on the planet but the global population was only back in the hundreds of millions
- human beings had not used up so much fresh water that half the world's rivers no longer actually reach the oceans, and our civilisation back then had plenty of natural resources and new land and new fresh water supplies to discover. Today's all used up.
The British documentary goes into some of the many factors that have caused the earth to warm and cool for centuries, including changes in activities on the sun, 93 million miles away and wholly beyond the jurisdiction of the Kyoto treaty.
All
lies. This is one of the areas that is WAY out there, like believing in Aliens at Area 51. The sun's activity has been stable, even quiet (cooler), while the earth has been getting
warmer over the last few decades.
According to these climate scientists, human activities have very little effect on the climate,
Unfounded lies
compared to many other factors, from volcanoes to clouds.
Volcanoes produce 1% of the carbon dioxide of humans.
Clouds are an interesting potential feedback, with some degree of uncertainty about how they are going to respond to the scientifically measurable rise in temperatures that we KNOW Co2 is causing. But the latest science indicates that clouds could actually help cook the planet!
http://www.skepticalscience.com/graphics/Cloud_Feedback_500.jpg
What is the net feedback from clouds?
These climate scientists likewise debunk the mathematical models that have been used to hype global warming hysteria,
Evidence?
even though hard evidence stretching back over centuries contradicts these models.
Evidence?
What is even scarier than seeing how easily the public, the media, and the politicians have been manipulated and stampeded, is discovering how much effort has been put into silencing scientists who dare to say that the emperor has no clothes.
Evidence? Or are you just referring to disgruntled contrarians that cannot publish lies in peer-reviewed papers?
Academics who jump on the global warming bandwagon are far more likely to get big research grants than those who express doubts
I think you got that the wrong way around. 'Academics' who are Denialists are actually far more likely to be receiving some of the hundreds of millions of dollars being pumped into Denialism by Exxon.
-- and research is the lifeblood of an academic career at leading universities.
And if there was ANY doubt that Co2 does what any lab in the world can demonstrate it does, ANY physics lab in the world would disprove it and make a name for themselves! You're pushing a Denialist Conspiracy theory bigger than any conspiracy on the net. It's bigger than Area 51 or the Moon Landing was faked, because EVERY SINGLE LAB ON THE PLANET WOULD HAVE TO BE IN ON IT! Why don't you just think about what you are claiming, and have a nice hot mug of milk, and then come back to us about your conspiracy theory?
Have a read of this, and think about how any one of these institutes could make a name for themselves by disproving what Co2 does in a lab. Here is a list of every single National Academy of Science on the planet, and every scientific body. Please point to the Scientific Body that disagrees with global warming?
Scientific opinion on climate change - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Any. Single. One. Of. Them. Could. Disprove. Global. Warming. Got it?
But they haven't. Why?
A/ Because they're all dishonest greedy conspirators jumping on the bandwagon, every single one of them across the planet, even the Christian climatologists, or:
B/ Because Co2 really DOES do what they can demonstrate it to do in the lab.
Environmental movements around the world are committed to global warming hysteria and nowhere more so than on college and university campuses, where they can harass those who say otherwise.
Yeah, it's all a conspiracy. And the Moon Landing was faked as well.
One of the scientists interviewed on the British documentary reported getting death threats.
And you've never heard of climatologists getting the same from Denialists? Never? You've never heard of CHRISTIANS accusing them unfairly, without evidence, of ALL BEING IN ON THE LARGEST CONSPIRACY IN HUMAN HISTORY?
In politics, even conservative Republicans seem to have taken the view that, if you can't lick 'em, join 'em. So have big corporations, which have joined the stampede.
Rubbish! Republican denialists like the TEA party are a blight against the truth and need to join the rest of the human race's accumulated knowledge.
No one denies that temperatures are about a degree warmer than they were a century ago. What the climate scientists in the British documentary deny is that you can mindlessly extrapolate that,
Please show where the entire scientific community has been mindless in analysing the basic Radiative Forcing Equation.
1. How Co2 traps heat (basic physics demonstrated in any physics lab on the entire PLANET!)
2. How much Co2 there was before the Industrial Revolution.
3. How much Co2 there is now.
4. How much
extra heat is trapped.
Just find a paper that can disprove this following equation, and your work here is done.
Or have Denialist Republicans just mindlessly accepted a bunch of myths instead?