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'Global Warming Is Lies' Claims Documentary
National News ^ | 3/4/07

Posted on 03/04/2007 11:19:53 AM PST by Mr. Brightside

'Global Warming Is Lies' Claims Documentary

Sunday, 4th March 2007, 11:04

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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.

‘The Chilling Stars’ was written with Danish scientist Henrik Svensmark who published a scientific paper, claiming cosmic rays cause clouds to form, reducing the global temperature. The theory is shown in the programme.

Mr Calder said: "Henrik Svensmark saw that cloudiness varies according to how many atomic particles are coming in from exploded stars - when there are more cosmic rays, there are more clouds.

"However, solar winds bat away many of the cosmic rays and the sun is currently in its most active phase, which would be an explanation for global warming.

"I am a science journalist and in my career I have been told by eminent scientists that black holes do not exist and it is impossible that continents move, but in science the experts are usually wrong.

"For me this is a cracking science story – I don’t come from any political position and I’m certainly not funded by the multinationals, although my bank manager would like me to be.

"I talk to scientists and come up with one story, and Al Gore talks to another set of scientists and comes up with a different story.

"So knowing which scientists to talk to is part of the skill. Some, who appear to be disinterested, are themselves getting billions of dollars of research money from the government.

"The few millions of dollars of research money from multinationals can’t compare to government funding, so you find the American scientific establishment is all for man-made global warming.

"We have the same situation in Britain The government’s chief scientific advisor Sir David King is supposed to be the representative of all that is good in British science, so it is disturbing he and the government are ignoring a raft of evidence against the greenhouse effect being the main driver against climate change."

The programme 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.

Philip Stott, professor emeritus of biogeography at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London , who also features in the film warned the issue was too complex to be down to one single factor, whether CO2 or clouds.

He said: "The greenhouse effect theory worried me from the start because you can’t say that just one factor can have this effect.

"The system is too complex to say exactly what the effect of cutting back on CO2 production would be, or indeed of continuing to produce CO2.

"It’s ridiculous to see politicians arguing over whether they will allow the global temperature to rise by 2C or 3C."

Mr Stott said the film could mark the point where scientists advocating the greenhouse effect theory, began to lose the argument.

He continued: "It is a brave programme at the moment to give excluded voices their say, and maybe it is just the beginning.

"At the moment, there is almost a McCarthyism movement in science where the greenhouse effect is like a puritanical religion and this is dangerous."

In the programme Nigel Calder says: "The greenhouse effect is seen as a religion and if you don’t agree, you are a heretic.

He added: "However, I think this programme will help further debate and scientists not directly involved in global warming studies may begin to study what is being said, become more open-minded and more questioning, but this will happen slowly."


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: algore; convenientfiction; convenientlie; globalwarming; inconvenienttruth; junkscience
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To: Mr. Brightside
My guess is that many in this country believe that there is only one way to look at this subject.

This stuff needs to be shown over here in this country and slammed into the face of the public to let them know that there is an opposite point of view that can also be intelligently portrayed and a thought provoking excersise in logic.

Apparently, if you don't believe that man has caused the so called global warming you are probably an unenlightened redneck.

21 posted on 03/04/2007 11:51:40 AM PST by R_Kangel ("Please insert witty tag-line here")
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To: Mr. Brightside
Has anyone ever bothered to ask Al Gore what his scientific credentials are? Why would anyone believe he is trained in critical thinking?
Did he major in science? No, he has a BA in Government.
Did he finish law school? No.
Did he finish divinity school? No.
22 posted on 03/04/2007 11:58:13 AM PST by TX Bluebonnet
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To: Mr. Brightside

Hmmmm, notice how this documentary is "controversial", and Gore's documentary isn't??


23 posted on 03/04/2007 12:03:12 PM PST by Ikemeister
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To: Ikemeister

If this isn't shown in the U.S. can we somehow get it on to the internet?


24 posted on 03/04/2007 12:13:19 PM PST by WVNan
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To: Mr. Brightside
There was a show on the history channel that I watched a while back that put the lie to the whole scam. On of the better parts was the discussion of English wine and how it was so much better than the French stuff that there were near wars over it. Then in the 1300s it got too cold to grow grapes in England and all was forgiven.

Here is the show's DVD and a brief write up, don't know if they are going to rerun it, but it is worth watching. Chilling.

Do they grow grapes in England now?
25 posted on 03/04/2007 12:23:27 PM PST by Tarpon
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To: dfwgator
He's just like any other phoney tele-evangelist.

Al Gore is the Jim Jones of the Global Warming Cult.

26 posted on 03/04/2007 12:34:20 PM PST by vox humana
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To: Mr. Brightside

http://www.channel4.com/listings/C4/index.jsp?offset=4&position=4

21:00 The Great Global Warming Swindle
[subtitles] [watch live]
Polemical film challenging the consensus that man-made CO2 is heating up the earth. Featuring leading academics, the film questions the science behind the accepted reasons for global warming and argues other explanations for climate change are not being properly aired.


27 posted on 03/04/2007 12:35:18 PM PST by EBH (May God Save Our Country)
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To: Mr. Brightside

*BUMP*!


28 posted on 03/04/2007 12:37:31 PM PST by ex-Texan (Matthew 7: 1 - 6)
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To: TX Bluebonnet

You just don't get it.... who better to preach to the world on the "science" of global warming than a guy who couldn't hack it in divinity school, couldn't hack it in law school...... a man who "re-invented government" merely by slashing US military strength and preparedness, and was part of the most depraved administration in recent US history? Al Bore is supremely qualified to lead this crusade.......


29 posted on 03/04/2007 12:39:28 PM PST by Enchante (Chamberlain Democrats embraced by terrorists and America-haters worldwide!!)
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To: hsalaw

I like, it's very apt. The land of make believe awarding a pretentious lie as being the truth is just so rich with irony. Al Gore receiving an Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth is man-made Global Warming jumping the shark. The Oscar is just great, as it officially recognizes man-made Global Warming as a fantasy worthy of a Hollywood production.


30 posted on 03/04/2007 12:49:47 PM PST by Justa (Politically Correct is morally wrong.)
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To: Mr. Brightside

He says most CO2 in the atmosphere comes from the oceans, which dissolve the gas.




Dissolves into carbonic acid is what i learned in school...also i learned that we have no clue what the capacity of CO2 absorption is for the earth's oceans...has this changed? Do we now know how much CO2 can be absorbed?


31 posted on 03/04/2007 12:54:22 PM PST by chasio649
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To: TX Bluebonnet

He didn't even attend classes at Harvard. As a freshman he c;aimed he already had what they were teaching at prep school. later, he got into pot smoking and anti vietnam war protesting and cut his classes, again.


32 posted on 03/04/2007 12:56:11 PM PST by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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To: chasio649

The Kool Aide drinkers are going to go bonkers over this.


33 posted on 03/04/2007 12:57:45 PM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: Mr. Brightside

Well, it is certainly about time. I hope it will be shown in the U.S.


34 posted on 03/04/2007 12:58:36 PM PST by Chena
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To: HenpeckedCon

Or an Oscar. I don`t think it has the requirements though to be classified as a documentary by Oscar standards. For one, it tells the truth.


35 posted on 03/04/2007 1:04:54 PM PST by Screamname (Looking for a good book to read? Read "Night song of the last Tram" by Robert Douglas.)
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To: Mr. Brightside

bump


36 posted on 03/04/2007 1:10:34 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s......you weren't really there)
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To: xcamel; Mr. Brightside
"It’s ridiculous to see politicians arguing over whether they will allow the global temperature to rise by 2C or 3C."

BUMP

37 posted on 03/04/2007 1:13:00 PM PST by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSHA)
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To: TX Bluebonnet

Al Gore doesn`t need any of those credentials He is a liberal and by law they know everything.


38 posted on 03/04/2007 1:15:52 PM PST by Screamname (Looking for a good book to read? Read "Night song of the last Tram" by Robert Douglas.)
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To: Mr. Brightside

Where do I purchase my JUNK SCIENCE OFFSET CREDIT?


39 posted on 03/04/2007 1:17:01 PM PST by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: zimfam007

ping


40 posted on 03/04/2007 1:38:08 PM PST by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand; but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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