Global-Warming Swindle, Hysterics exposed...(Thomas Sowell)

NRO ^ | March 15, 2007 | Thomas Sowell

[IrishMike]

The British Broadcasting Corporation 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.

These include scientists from MIT and top-tier universities in a number of countries. 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.

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.

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, 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.

[mewzilla]

It has apparently not been broadcast by any of the networks in the United States.

FOX and/or FNC ought to broadcast it.

[kittymyrib]

Fox really should air this documentary. It is a cinch that the Lefty msm networks won't.

[05 Mustang GT Rocks]

Do you know where that documentary is available? It is amazing how many sheeple believe the GW bull$#!t!

[wolfcreek]

They should sue the pants off Gore for using their names. Send him from his 20 room house to a 1 bedroom apt.

[Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek]

Most of the people I know have already seen it on one internet site or another. Little Green Footballs linked it on March 10, so go there if you want to see it now.

[IrishMike]

See post #6

[nuconvert]

I'm really surprised that this is a BBC production.

[poobear]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XttV2C6B8pU

[IrishMike]

I'm really surprised that this is a BBC production.
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The New York Slimes had a hit piece on Al Gore this Tuesday, the source shocked me.
Something's up.
I'll march St. Patricks Day in New York in a foot of snow, with temperatures in the 30's and windy.
A black Bush or two to warm the blood.

[beebuster2000]

I really wish there was a website or thread to critically examine it. I saw it and thought it was great. then i read that at least some of its claims are wrong. Like saying volcanoes produce more co2 than humans. I read that isnt true.

I'd really like to see a hyper critical analysis of the documentary so we can sort thru fact and hype.

Its the best anti GW BS thing i have seen.

[6ppc]

Try this link http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9005566792811497638&hl=en

[Malsua]

A better quality version of the movie is available on Bittorrent. Download Utorrent then fire up either of the links below. I used cucusoft to convert it into a DVD that I'm burning and distributing to everyone I know.

http://www.mininova.org/tor/617122
http://www.isohunt.com/download/17860358/global+warming

[chaos_5]

Unfortunately there are many Internet sources out there that have attempted to discredit this film in one way or another.

It's a statistical problem, it may be that at this moment with minimal volcanic activity, our CO2 is more than the volcano's. I bet that would change as soon as one blows its top!

Whatever the case is, I think it is sad that the rhetoric is so very shrill. To often I am reading nothing less than hate speech directed at assailing the personal character and motives of those involved in the film. The most common accusation is the are "deniers".

Hopefully the fire storm this film is causing will help to bring the debate back into the subject. To the best of my memory, the political nature of GW is far more extreme that that of the ozone hole days.

[agere_contra]

I'm really surprised that this is a BBC production.

You are right to be suspicious. It was made by (UK) Channel 4, not the BBC, as far as I know.

[fatnotlazy]

"There is no question that the globe is warming but it has warmed and cooled before,..."

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That's it. These things happen in cycles. Just like many years ago, when the hysteria du jour was about the shrinking of the ozone layer. The ozone layer shrinks and expands all the time.

Junk science. Or snake oil. Whatever you want to call it, this global warming propaganda is a scam.

[docbnj]

I don't think that it is a BBC production. It was shown on British television, not all of which is BBC. Sowell should know that.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

They produce huge amounts of sufuric and other gases which the ecomarxists and econazis say are the worst that Mankind has produced though industrialization and which contribute to global warming.

Here's an article that gives some good info about the "pollution" that Mt. St. Helens was putting out when it was merely burping, it's entitled "Mt. St. Helens Top Polluter."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6635776/

[ryan71]

I had a link to the video on google but it's gone, now.

Surprise.

[nuconvert]

Thanx for the clarification