Must-See Global Warming TV

Fox News Online ^ | March 18, 2007 | Steven Milloy

[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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[ClaireSolt]

Excellent documentary. I watched it on Powerline. I hope Fox runs it.

[Afronaut]

Link to Film --> here

I watched this whole show this morning. It is worth watching. Also if you google the Ttitle he Great Global Warming Swindle there is also some good reading.

It is no wonder that Rudy and Arnie subscribe to this garbage,

[FlingWingFlyer]

Forcing little kids to watch al-Gore's money-making, propaganda piece is nothing more than domestic terrorism. We have already heard how the school kids in England can't sleep at night because al-Gore and his environazis have scared them so bad. Now they are telling us that the kids in this country are under so much stress and pressure that they won't be required to do homework anymore. This has to stop. Let them be kids! Stop al-Gore's domestic terrorism!

[BenLurkin]

environmentalism became the “new guise for anti-capitalism.”

[Afronaut]

Frostbite, equipment damage end latest Bancroft-Arnesen trek

PATRICK CONDON

Associated Press

SCOTT TAKUSHI, PIONEER PRESS

Anne Bancroft - Pioneer Press archive photo from March 2004.

MINNEAPOLIS - A North Pole expedition meant to bring attention to global warming was called off after one of the explorers got frostbite.

The explorers, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, on Saturday called off what was intended to be a 530-mile trek across the Arctic Ocean after Arnesen suffered frostbite in three of her toes, and extreme cold temperatures drained the batteries in some of their electronic equipment.

"Ann said losing toes and going forward at all costs was never part of the journey," said Ann Atwood, who helped organize the expedition.

On Monday, the pair was at Canada's Ward Hunt Island, awaiting a plane to take them to Resolute, Canada, where they were to return to Minneapolis later this week.

Bancroft, 51, became the first woman to cross the North Pole on a 1986 expedition. She and Arnesen, 53, of Oslo, Norway, were the first women to ski across Antarctica in 2001.

But the latest trek got off to a bad start. The day they set off from Ward Hunt Island, a plane landing near the women hit their gear, punching a hole in Bancroft's sled and damaging one of Arnesen's snowshoes.

They repaired the snowshoe with binding from a ski, but Atwood said the patch job created pressure on Arnesen's left foot, which led to blisters that then turned into frostbite.

Then there was the cold - quite a bit colder, Atwood said, then Bancroft and Arnesen had expected. One night they measured the temperature inside their tent at 58 degrees below zero, and outside temperatures were exceeding 100 below zero at times, Atwood said.

"My first reaction when they called to say there were calling it off was that they just sounded really, really cold," Atwood said.

She said Bancroft and Arnesen were applying hot water bottles to Arnesen's foot every night, but had to wake up periodically because the bottles froze.

The explorers had planned to call in regular updates to school groups by satellite phone, and had planned online posts with photographic evidence of global warming. In contrast to Bancroft's 1986 trek across the Arctic with fellow Minnesota explorer Will Steger, this time she and Arnesen were prepared to don body suits and swim through areas where polar ice has melted.

Atwood said there was some irony that a trip to call attention to global warming was scuttled in part by extreme cold temperatures.

"They were experiencing temperatures that weren't expected with global warming," Atwood said. "But one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability."

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On the Net: http://www.bancroftarnesen.com

[uscabjd]

Are there any plans for any media outlet in the US (like Fox, CNN or the Science cable outlet) to show this film? Or is this a dumb question?

[I see my hands]

[MrEdd]

ping for later

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Thanks for re-posting... A complete debunking in the first 30 minutes... but the entire 73 minutes is well worth watching.

[Afronaut]

Re-Post? Punch in the title; Must-See Global Warming TV, there is no other listings. I always check.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Sorry... there were two other postings of this video yesterday under different titles (not FoxNews links). Regardless, good to see this video get maximum exposure from multiple postings.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1800896/posts

and there was another one posted an hour or two before this one yesterday as well.

[betsyross1776]

Get the dvd in the USA, I buy it!

[betsyross1776]

Get the dvd in the USA, I buy it!

[Sudetenland]

Dang, I just posted this link on another thread. Wish I had read further down the list. Oh well the truth cannot be told often enough.

[tndarlin]

I just watched the entire program and became ill to my stomach that this lie exists. I also became ill to think about the underdeveloped countries that have to remain in the stone age in order to sustain that lie. Disgusting!

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

Atwood said there was some irony that a trip to call attention to global warming was scuttled in part by extreme cold temperatures.

"They were experiencing temperatures that weren't expected with global warming," Atwood said. "But one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability."

You just can't make this stuff up. Amazing.