The polar bears are doing just fine!
Posted on 03/18/2007 9:33:49 AM PDT by Afronaut
As Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth” becomes mandatory viewing for many U.S. school children and nears becoming the “official truth” about global warming, it comes as most welcome news that an absolutely gripping film rebuttal has made its international debut, much to the chagrin of true believers in man-made climate change.
Last week, the UK’s Channel 4 premiered a 75-minute film entitled, “The Great Global Warming Swindle.” Through interviews with prize-winning climate experts and others, this masterful documentary explains the origins of global warming alarmism; debunks claims of man-made global climate change; exposes the motivations of organizations, scientists and activists sounding the alarm; and explains why it’s been extremely difficult, if not downright dangerous, for climate scientists to question global warming orthodoxy publicly.
At about the same time, as Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore explains on-camera, environmentalism became more extreme. By the mid-1980s, environmental goals – e.g., clean air and clean water – had become so mainstream that activists had to adopt more extreme positions to remain anti-establishment.
Then when the Berlin Wall fell and the Cold War ended, many “peace-niks” and political activists moved over to environmental activism, bringing their “neo-Marxist” political philosophy with them. As Moore puts it, environmentalism became the “new guise for anti-capitalism.”
Global warming alarmism was thus borne from this combination of official British policy, environmentalism’s rejection of its own success and political opportunism by “unemployed” left-wing political activists.
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Mom Nature is neither good nor bad, she just doesn't care.
A few days ago, there was a story in the Seattle Times saying that global warming enthusiasts had vastly overstated the reduction in the Cascade mountain snow pack in recent years. They had been claiming a reduction of 50%, but the story said the reduction is actually between 5 and 30%, depending on which data you look at.
Limbaugh said last week that some school is threatening parents if they don't come to see the movie, too.
These multiple postings are having a real, salutary effect. Google has a statistical box beside the film that shows how many separate viewing there have been. Right now it's up to a total of about 270,000, with most of the hits in the last 2 or 3 days. That still makes it a lot less than the number of people who watch Fox News or CNN, but it's definitely creping up on the number who've watched Gore's monstrosity. My only complaint is that somehow the people who printed the film got the lip snyc way off.
They would threaten me ONE TIME and I'd slap a lawsuit on their goatsmellin', Commie asses so fast they wouldn't be able to see straight. I'd own that "school."
BTTT
We watched the video on YouTube. It was just terrific!
I don't know if Al's movie has been shown in local schools or not. Yesterday we found a note by our front door hand written, obviously by a child, that said the following. "Help Save Air Polution Don't want a storm don't drive as much, so I'm here to remind you, do not drive as much. Don't Drive As Much (DDaM inc)
Might be a good time to have DDaM Inc. charged with tresspassing and littering. I would.
As an example of the hysteria caused by the gw doomists, I've had to inform at least two or three people that polar bears are not in danger of extinction after they expressed horror at their possible demise. I quoted Matt Taylor, one of the world's leading polar bear experts, who was quite upset with the polar-bears-are-becoming-extinct- crowd. In fact he affirmed polar bears have actually increased in numbers during the last century and can adapt quite well to warmer weather. My explanation was met with cold stares by the people I related this info to. No, they had heard about the bears becoming extinct on tv, so it must be true.
Click on POGW graphic for full GW rundown
Ping me if you find one I've missed.
It woud be good if this were available on DVD. We could carry a couple with us in our purses or hand them out to the groupies at Dem campaign rallies, especially if they were only $1 or so.
I see it as teaching religion in schools.
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I watched 'Swindle' this weekend. It really is engaging, and the science is easy to follow. It's kid friendly, too, so watch it with the fam.
I'm going to buy a million dollars of carbon offsets to save the polar bears
Al Thanks you! ~~LOL!
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