‘Global Warming Is Lies’ Claims Documentary
Posted on March 5, 2007
From Life Style Extra:
Accepted theories about man causing global warming are “lies” claims a controversial new TV documentary.
‘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 programme, to be screened on Channel 4 on Thursday March 8, will see a series of respected scientists attack the “propaganda” that they claim is killing the world’s poor.
Even the co-founder of Greenpeace, Patrick Moore, is shown, claiming African countries should be encouraged to burn more CO2.
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.
A source at Channel 4 said: “It is essentially a polemic and we are expecting it to cause trouble, but this is the controversial programming that Channel 4 is renowned for.”
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 ten years to get this commissioned.
“I think it will go down in history as the first chapter in a new era of the relationship between scientists and society. Legitimate scientists – people with qualifications – are the bad guys.
“It is a big story that is going to cause controversy.
“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 palaeontologist 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.
Prof Clark believes increased levels of CO2 are because the Earth is heating up and not the cause. He says most CO2 in the atmosphere comes from the oceans, which dissolve the gas.
When the temperature increases, more gas is released into the atmosphere and when global temperatures cool, more CO2 is taken in. Because of the immense size of the oceans, he said they take time to catch up with climate trends, and this ‘memory effect’ is responsible for the lag.
Scientists in the programme 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 sceptics, 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 programme 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 CO2 theory is further undermined by claims that billions of pounds is being provided by governments to fund greenhouse effect research, so thousands of scientists know their job depends on the theory continuing to be seen as fact.
The programme claims efforts to reduce CO2 are killing Africans, who have to burn fires inside their home, causing cancer and lung damage, because their governments are being encouraged to use wind and solar panels that are not capable of supplying the continent with electricity, instead of coal and oil-burning power stations that could.
Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore is shown saying: “Environmentalists have romanticised peasant life, but this is anti-human.
“They are saying the world’s poorest people should have the world’s most expensive form of form of energy – really saying they can’t have electricity.”
Gary Calder, a former editor of New Scientist, is featured in the programme, and has just released a book claiming that clouds are the real reason behind climate change.
There is more and you should shoot over and read it, because I cannot re-print the whole article. I will say it one more time, there is NO SETTLED SCIENCE ON THIS SUBJECT!!!
Meanwhile, the San Franciscan chronicle is running with this article:
A WARMING WORLD
As warnings grow more dire, Nobelist emerges as leader
The director of Lawrence Berkeley is pushing his scientists and industry to develop technologies to reverse climate change
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Be sure to read The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery. It’s got a really good explanation.
For more info, including teaching materials, be sure to check out the website: http://www.theweathermakers.com/
As Christians we should do everything imaginable to contribute to global warming.. so that the antartica ice sheets will melt and demoncrat controlled states like NY and CA will be flooded… by eliminating the curse of demoncrats and other communists from this nation we can protect the unborn and restore morality to our nation again.
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Please read this Global Warming 101 story.
I second Rob’s recommendation to read “The Weather Makers.”
You can also just Google “milankovitch cycle” to learn why the “CO2 rise came first” (in pre-human earth history) is nonsense.
And to see some excellent rebuttals to the rubbish discussed above, check out:
http://illconsidered.blogspot.com/2006/02/how-to-talk-to-global-warming-sceptic.html
And to Mr. Hawk, instead of merely ranting, you should point your readers to some peer-reviewed literature to back your claims.
Failing that, I suppose you could just improve your “NO SETTLED SCIENCE ON THIS SUBJECT!!!” conclusion by using a larger font, or
underlining it, or adding a few more exclamation points. That might work!!!!
To Yossef:
You know, of course, that along with those awful, dreadful blue
states being flooded, here are some others that will also lose a
great deal of coastline: Virginia, both Carolinas, Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi, Texas…
Okay, I read your propaganda, now you can read mine.
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I am not a scientist but I find it strange that Patrick Moore said in an article in support of nuclear fuel on April 16, 2006 in the Washington Post stated:
“Look at it this way: More than 600 coal-fired electric plants in the United States produce 36 percent of U.S. emissions — or nearly 10 percent of global emissions — of CO2, the primary greenhouse gas responsible for climate change. Nuclear energy is the only large-scale, cost-effective energy source that can reduce these emissions while continuing to satisfy a growing demand for power. And these days it can do so safely.”
and continues……..
“Meanwhile, the 103 nuclear plants operating in the United States effectively avoid the release of 700 million tons of CO2emissions annually — the equivalent of the exhaust from more than 100 million automobiles. Imagine if the ratio of coal to nuclear were reversed so that only 20 percent of our electricity was generated from coal and 60 percent from nuclear. This would go a long way toward cleaning the air and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Every responsible environmentalist should support a move in that direction.”
For full article see http://tinyurl.com/ghmen
Maybe the fact that Moore was co-chair of an “industry-funded initiaitive” at the time of the article may have been a factor. I wonder who he is “funded” by now?
If you missed the documentary, you can get it here.
The Great Global Warming Swindle
http://www.mininova.org/tor/612593
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3635222/The_Great_Global_Warming_Swindle
here is another one
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3635143/Channel_4_-_The_Great_Global_Warming_Swindle.avi
An excellent documentary, pretty much debunks the whole idea of “man-made” climate change. I reckon this is a turning point, in a few years the idea that the greenhouse effect is the main reason behind global warming will be seen as a total myth. Im embarrassed that I ever believed it.
I can see future generations including this in a list of stupid global myths :
Witches exist.
The world is flat.
An Inconvenient Truth is a great movie.
We’re changing the climate so much that the polar ice-caps are melting.
God exists.