A British television station is set to do something that no American network (including Fox News) has ever done--air a lengthy documentary arguing that global warming is not caused by humans.
The Washington Times has the story:
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.[...]
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."
Story Continues Below Ad ↓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.
There's lots more:
Scientists in the Channel 4 documentary cite what they claim is another discrepancy involving conventional research, saying that most of the recent global warming occurred before 1940, after which temperatures around the world fell for four decades.
Mr. Durkin's skeptical specialists view this as a flaw in the official view, because the worldwide economic boom that followed the end of World War II produced more carbon dioxide, and therefore should have meant a rise in global temperatures -- something he says did not happen.
"The Great Global Warming Swindle" also questions an assertion by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's report, published last month, that it was backed by some 2,500 of the world's leading scientists.
Another of Mr. Durkin's professors, Paul Reiter of Paris' Pasteur Institute, an expert in malaria, calls the U.N. report a "sham" because, he says, it included the names of scientists -- including his own -- who disagreed with the report and who resigned from the panel.
"That is how they make it seem that all the top scientists are agreed," he says. "It's not true."
—Matthew Sheffield is the creator of NewsBusters and its Executive Editor.
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Water Vapor?
March 7, 2007 - 01:08 ET by pickerseniorWhen do we get to see it? Can it be shown in our country? I'm sure MSM won't show it.
Wonder if the below is included?
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html
Me three I'd love to see th
March 7, 2007 - 02:05 ET by radiofitz34Me three I'd love to see this documentary. It would have to be available in some form at some point. Who would have thought it would air in Great Britain first?
Chalk up another who would
March 7, 2007 - 09:07 ET by Jake GonteskyChalk up another who would love to see this documentary made available to US viewers. Additionally, as a earth science instructor, I'd love to make this available to my students.
As I mentioned last evening, I've written a great deal about the mainstream media hype surrounding global warming on my own website (below) and, as a meteorologist, I feel obligated to make my voice more heard and raise the chorus that is slowly increasing in opposition to the alarmist claims.
http://www.notesinthemargin.com
How long will it take for t
March 7, 2007 - 02:17 ET by liberal_bug_zapperHow long will it take for the vitriolic rhetoric to start on the other side... not that they haven't already been spewing vitriol. But how long will it take for them to absolutely go nuts and start calling for us, and anyone else who disagrees with them to be put on trial for crimes against humanity?
You know they've already suggested it in some corners, but once they start losing the argument, they'll start screaming for heads to roll.
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"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right." ~ Thomas Paine
Well, in the war of ideas, they are unarmed.
March 7, 2007 - 02:20 ET by acaiguanaWell, in the war of ideas, they are unarmed.
So, yes, you deniers, look for some real nutty stuff.
ACA
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Quoted from: 'Acaiguana Notes from the Bomb Shelter' (soon to be a movie at theaters near you)
Well Lib. Aren't we all being
March 7, 2007 - 08:58 ET by danboWell Lib. Aren't we all being paid by Exxon. Not like.
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.” H.L. Mencken
global warming
March 7, 2007 - 06:44 ET by DontabI hope they show a link between gw hysteria, and those who stand to benefit financially by implementing climate controls. algore anyone?
Gorbal warming is a sickness, not a science.
It's not just them. The pai
March 7, 2007 - 09:58 ET by BruzillaIt's not just them. The painful irony is that it's also the Exxons, GEs, Shells, BPs, and all the other energy and heavy manufacturing companies. The GW folks use statements admitting that mankind is contributing to warming as evidence that "even these big companies can see the truth!" What they don't tell you is that all these millions of dollars that governments and private sources are dumping into alternative fuels research is going to... these same companies. Exxon can't make millions more in profits by drilling in Alaska, but they can admit to global warming and get millions in research dollars, which frees up those oil revenue dollars that would have been used for research to be used for profit.
Any company that can market itself as being "green" or working on green projects stands to make millions doing "research". They don't need to actually produce anything, just to research what can be done. That's a super-high profit margin operation and most companies in the US are making plans to cash in.
Global Warming
March 7, 2007 - 07:46 ET by HelenSWhat do you have if you have ardent believers, evangelists, doctrine (dogma), hypocricy, promise of paradise, and conversion experiences, amongst other things...? That's right! The Global Warming Enviro-mental Movement! (Just another religion).
Richard Feynman said it so well: "Governments ought not to be empowered to decide the validity of scientific theories, that is a ridiculous thing for them to try to do." - Richard Feynman, Galileo Symposium, 1964
I remember when the old USSR tried to define 'science'.
March 7, 2007 - 08:02 ET by acaiguanaI remember when the old USSR tried to define 'science'.
Where did that get them?
If we want to go back, let's go back all the way.
ACA
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Quoted from: 'Acaiguana Notes from the Bomb Shelter' (soon to be a movie at theaters near you)
Pseudo-capitalism
March 7, 2007 - 08:05 ET by CarpareusWhere did that get them?
Pseudo-capitalism 8l- Left by Right West straight on 'till mourn. (c) me
Many who supported the old US
March 7, 2007 - 08:16 ET by Interested and concerned CDNMany who supported the old USSR are now leaders of Greenpeace and other envirowacko orgs.
Discoverthenetworks
When they tried to redefine b
March 7, 2007 - 10:01 ET by danboWhen they tried to redefine biology politically under Lysenko. Well quite a few people died of starvation when the crops failed. Then there were the discenting scientist who were put in prison. And those who were just shot as enemies of the state. (Sound like what AGWers want?)
Remember millions died for the environmentalist having their way with DDT.
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.” H.L. Mencken
What a nice headline to wake
March 7, 2007 - 07:53 ET by dahliatraversWhat a nice headline to wake up to.
Great quote by Feynman, HelenS. Can we inscribe it on a plaque and send it to Al Gore?
Maybe someone can hang it up
March 7, 2007 - 08:11 ET by HelenSMaybe someone can hang it up in the Senate!? ...yeah, like that would ever happen.
Kudos to this guy for exposin
March 7, 2007 - 08:18 ET by I am conservativeKudos to this guy for exposing the truth, this "Al Gore Science" is bogus and we all knew it anyway....
Bittorrent to the rescue!
March 7, 2007 - 09:33 ET by GordySay what you may, but at times like this I'm glad I use Bittorrent. This documentary should hit the servers the day after it airs.
I do hope they are not going
March 7, 2007 - 10:35 ET by ucI do hope they are not going to ask President Bush to do an about face and ask the laisse faire market system to do the same. Whether global warming is a product of Al Gore or not I think Bush should stay his course with our businesses and industries. I don't think these Brits will try to make the arguement against this administrations awareness of limited natural resourses and wisdom of having alternate energy products? Maybe when the Gore hype is checked such policies will be recognized and credited to this administration. Maybe even Bush's administrations respect for increasing business efficiencies and energy efficiencies.
Good stuff.
March 7, 2007 - 12:03 ET by EvokeGood stuff.
I thought I recognized paul R
March 7, 2007 - 12:27 ET by danboI thought I recognized paul Reiter's name. In reference to IPCC's experts he stated.
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.” H.L. Mencken
Hey the main reason I final
March 7, 2007 - 13:19 ET by radiofitz34Hey the main reason I finally joined NB was because I was sick and tired of this global warming hype. Hopefully this new documentary will act as a rubber mallet bonked on some heads to bring them back to reality.
Way to go Great Britain! A
March 7, 2007 - 13:20 ET by Tim the EnchanterWay to go Great Britain! And, judging from comments recently made in Australia, the show would be a big hit there as well. Maybe some publisher like Regnery could put it out on a DVD. I'd buy it in a second!
Swindle programme exposed.
March 10, 2007 - 11:15 ET by jmckeownA critique by Sir John Houghton (former chair IPCC Scientific Assessment working group 1988-2002) of Channel 4 "Great Global Warming Swindle" is at: www.jri.org.uk