[Rhodes22-list] The Great Global Warming Swindle

[Hank]

Here is another view of the Global Warning Issue that is not usually seen in
the mainstream media.

Hank

Channel 4 Thursday 8 March at 9pm

http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/G/great_glob...g_swindle/index.html<http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/G/great_global_warming_swindle/index.html>

Watch the trailer
http://www.channel4.com/player/v2/player.jsp?showId=5150#<http://www.channel4.com/player/v2/player.jsp?showId=5150>

At last we have a mainstream debate.

quote:



In a polemical and thought-provoking documentary, film-maker Martin Durkin
argues that the theory of man-made global warming has become such a powerful
political force that other explanations for climate change are not being
properly aired.

The film brings together the arguments of leading scientists who disagree
with the prevailing consensus that a 'greenhouse effect' of carbon dioxide
released by human activity is the cause of rising global temperatures.

Instead the documentary highlights recent research that the effect of the
sun's radiation on the atmosphere may be a better explanation for the
regular swings of climate from ice ages to warm interglacial periods and
back again.

The film argues that the earth's climate is always changing, and that rapid
warmings and coolings took place long before the burning of fossil fuels. It
argues that the present single-minded focus on reducing carbon emissions not
only may have little impact on climate change, it may also have the
unintended consequence of stifling development in the third world,
prolonging endemic poverty and disease.

The film features an impressive roll-call of experts, including nine
professors – experts in climatology, oceanography, meteorology,
environmental science, biogeography and paleoclimatology – from such
reputable institutions as MIT, NASA, the International Arctic Research
Centre, the Institut Pasteur, the Danish National Space Center and the
Universities of London, Ottawa, Jerusalem, Winnipeg, Alabama and Virginia.

The film hears from scientists who dispute the link between carbon dioxide
levels and global temperatures.

'The ice core record goes to the very heart of the problem we have,' says
Tim Ball, Climatologist and Prof Emeritus of Geography at the University of
Winnipeg in the documentary. 'They said if CO2 increases in the atmosphere,
as a greenhouse gas, then the temperature will go up'.

In fact, the experts in the film argue that increased CO2 levels are
actually a result of temperature rises, not their cause, and that this
alternate view is rarely heard. 'So the fundamental assumption, the most
fundamental assumption of the whole theory of climate change due to humans,
is shown to be wrong.'

'I've often heard it said that there is a consensus of thousands of
scientists on the global warming issue, that humans are causing a
catastrophic change to the climate system,' says John Christy, Professor and
Director of the Earth System Science Center, NSSTC University of Alabama.
'Well I am one scientist, and there are many, that simply think that is not
true.'





Neil F. Shearman

neilthai at usa.net



It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to
tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and
he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a
second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual. --Thomas
Jefferson



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