Global warming labeled a 'scam'

Washington Times ^ | March 6, 2007 | Al Webb

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

LONDON -- With a packet of claims that are almost certain to defy conventional wisdom, a television documentary to be aired in Britain this week condemns man-made global warming as a myth that has become "the biggest scam of modern times."

The program titled "The Great Global Warming Scandal" and set for screening by TV Channel 4 on Thursday dismisses claims that high levels of greenhouse gases generated by human activity causes climate change. Instead, the program suggests that the sun itself is the real culprit.

The documentary, directed by filmmaker Martin Durkin, is at odds with scientific opinion as outlined in a United Nations report in February, which blames mankind for global warming.

In his program, Mr. Durkin rejects the concept of man-made climate change, calling it "a lie ... the biggest scam of modern times."

The truth, he says, is that global warming "is a multibillion-dollar worldwide industry, created by fanatically anti-industrial environmentalists, supported by scientists peddling scare stories to chase funding, and propped up by compliant politicians and the media."

Channel 4 says that the program features "an impressive roll-call of experts," including nine professors, who are experts in climatology, oceanography, meteorology, biogeography and paleoclimatology.

It also says the experts come from prestigious institutions such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Pasteur Institute in Paris, the Danish National Space Center and universities and other schools in London, Ottawa, Jerusalem, Alabama, Virginia and Winnipeg, Canada.

"It's very rare that a film changes history," says Martin Durkin, "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 bunk," he says.

[saganite]

It's good to see someone somewhere fighting back against the scam.

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"Al Gore might have won an Oscar," says Mr. Durkin, in a preview of the documentary, "but the film is very misleading, and he has got the relationship between [carbon dioxide] and climate change the wrong way around."

Al Gore distorting facts and being completely wrong.

I'm shocked. /s

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[Mike Nolan]

wow over 100 views and only 2 replies. Global Warming is such BS, I guess we are all tired of talking about it.

[org.whodat]

Did ALgore invent global warming along with the Internet.

[Emmett McCarthy]

Well, when the leaders of the global warming religion start burning heretics at the stake, global warming's gonna really get goin'.

[keeper53]

"Did ALgore invent global warming along with the Internet."?

That would be a great tagline!

[TomGuy]

When the scammers' theory doesn't fit the facts, they change their terminology from global warming to global climate change. That is a convenient shell-gaming of the scam.

In truth, we have had global climate change twice a year for millennia. It gets cold in the winter months. It gets hot during the summer months. The particular winters and summers may vary a few degrees each year, but we still see cold during the winter months and hot during the summer months.

The next great controversy will be that thing about light during the day and darkness during the night. Maybe that will be the result of global darkening or global lighting change.

[LonePalm]

You might enjoy my song parody "Smarmy Weather" to the tune of Stormy Weather.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[dfwgator]

"Burn her, she's a denier!"

[MooseMan]

It's good to see someone somewhere fighting back against the scam.

It's good to see someone somewhere fighting back against the scum.

There, fixed.

[RightWhale]

a multibillion-dollar worldwide industry,
created by fanatically anti-industrial environmentalists,
supported by scientists peddling scare stories to chase funding, and
propped up by compliant politicians and
the media.

Is it multi billions already?
are these enviros actually anti-industry when their worldwide industry is doing so well?
Scientists learn to chase funding while still in grad school
Politicians are not really compliant but merely following their polls
The media chases stories and there is no story when everything is running properly so they have to grasp at straws.

[Signalman]

I hope this show will air in the US sometime soon.

[AndyTheBear]

...the program suggests that the sun itself is the real culprit.

Oh come on, how could the sun have anything to do with heating the Earth?

[patton]

Somebody told me once, years ago, "You will never know how many people love you."

By the same token, you will never know who read the thread, and where it might be on the radar right now.

[saganite]

Thanks. That's better.

[Mrs. B.S. Roberts]

ping honey

[COBOL2Java]

"How DARE you insult my beloved!"

[ErnBatavia]

man-made global warming as a myth that has become "the biggest scam of modern times."

Oops...just a little "Inconvenient Truth".