Sounds like good news. Hopefully these attempts to silence will only perk further interest amongst the general population, forcing the AGWarmism pushers right where they don't want to be...in the middle of a public debate. Sweet.

This kind of open letter is released for dramatic  effect.   Less politically motivated people would approach the producers privately with a list of erratum and perhaps publish that list if necessary.

Laurie David seems to be using he same open letter technique in her Huffington Post comments aimed at Rush Limbaugh. The left is religious in its zeal and medieval in its intolerance.

My reading of the Commitee on Surface Temperature Report  is that:

1. Surface temperatures have increased over the past 400 years as the Earth pulled out of a 'Little Ice Age'.
2. By 1950, the temperature was back up to where it was 1000 years ago, well before any possible big effects of human releases of CO2.
3. Since 1950, the increase in temperature has been less than 1 F, which is too small to measure accurately or be concerned about. Indeed, since 1950 there was a period of a few years where there were concerns about 'global cooling'.
4. We have very little idea just why the Earth went into the Little Ice Age or just why it came out, but apparently humans releasing CO2 have had little or nothing to do with it.

I apologize for loosing the source - but this should play into the conversation.. And I admit- Mt. St. Helens does not do such burping, 365 days a year.

Mount St. Helens Is State's Top Polluter

Thu Dec 2, 3:32 AM ET

SEATTLE - Washington state's top polluter isn't a pulp mill, a power plant or refinery. It's the newly awakened Mount St. Helens.

Since the volcano began erupting in early October, it has been pumping out 50 to 250 tons a day of sulfur dioxide, the lung-stinging gas that causes acid rain and contributes to haze. At peak, that's more than double the amount from all the state's industries combined. ..

.."You can't put a cork in it," said Greg Nothstein of the Washington Energy Policy Office.

Sorry I don't have time to find a link right now, but I seem to recall a big hullabaloo (sp?) about the Bush administration asking a government employee to take said employee's unsupported political opinions out of policy documents that were being created specifically for the administration. Imagine that, an employer insisting on an employee to stick to the facts. But oh, the crying of censorship. Congressional hearings, headlines, and more BDS.

On the other side, when an independent producer creates a film and wants to reach a wider audience, be it a film that covers the Clinton administration's record on combatting terrorism, or a film with some actual facts about AGW, it's not censorship to use the full force and power of government to stop such irresponsible dissent.

I'm sure Stalin would be proud.

Hunter/Giuliani 2008

Much as I like the 'The Great Global Warming Swindle' the part about volcanic carbon dioxide figures dwarfing human related release is clearly incorrect and it should be amended for the DVD since I'd rather we hit them with cold hard indisputable facts. Let's not provide the other side with an easy way to disregard all the facts in the entire production.

Based on a 1991 study by Gerlach.
http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/Gases/man.html
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/Hazards/What/VolGas/volgas.html

Here's more up to date information where the scientists admit their previous estimates of volcanic CO2 emissions where off by a factor of 3-4.

Expert on volcanic gases exsolves from USGS

" More recently, Terry led studies that improved our understanding of the release of carbon dioxide (CO2) from Kilauea, Alaska, and Cascade volcanoes and Long Valley and Yellowstone calderas in the U.S., and Mt. Popocatepetl in Mexico. The results for Kilauea, in particular, showed that previous emission rate estimates were off by about a factor of three to four. Although volcanic output of CO2 is dwarfed by the amount released when humans burn fossil fuels, volcanoes do contribute significantly to the natural carbon cycle of the Earth. Gerlach's leadership in enhancing the quality of these measurements and their interpretation is already improving the accuracy of global volcanic CO2 release estimates."

http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/2006/06_10_26.html

Here he comments on Mount Saint Helens being the States biggest polluter.

Mount St. Helens the state's No. 1 air polluter

" Worldwide, people and their activities pump 26 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, he said. The total from volcanoes is about 200 million tons a year — or less than 1 percent of the man-made emissions."

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002105397_volcano01m.html

Obviously large scale eruptions can have dramatic effects on the weather but this is not due to CO2 release. It's due to the extremely large amount of crap (technical term) thrown up into the atmosphere.

Cheers,
Flash

PS: I'll not bother to go into the falsehoods in Al Gore's little effort since they're all well known. At least they are by the more informed and skeptical amongst us.

I would bet that carbon dioxide emissions from the trona (hydrated sodium carbonate/bicarbonate) mines in the Green River area of Wyoming are greater than carbon dioxide emissions from volcanoes in the continental US, anyway. Some of the trapped carbon dioxide deposits are as big as typical natural gas deposits.

There are a number of English scientists, especially representing the Royal Society, who are very favorable to the Blair program, and have no interest in the public doubting their analysis or the validity of the English economic programs based on their catastrophe theories. (I can hear the howling now, betting I'm on the oil industry payroll)

Nope. I can't understand why our war ally, England, has gone way out on the edge on this one. I believe Mr Blair, when he leaves office, will return to the US, and ask a Democrat administration to be their "war ally" on preventing The Greatest Catastrophe in the Histroy of the Earth.

I hope we "cool off" by then, before the West takes real steps to demolishing their own economies. Right now it is mostly just talk. But really bad stuff, really bad decisions, are possible

"Who in the hell came up with this carbon offset crap anyways?! It is such a joke!"

I don' t know who came up with it, but I know none other than Enron and Ken Lay himself were big proponents of such schemes back in the 90's when Clinton and Gore were in office, and had more than one meeting with the 2 in support of them.

Just a few errors is Swindle:

1. Volcanoes produce more CO2 than humans.
2. Use of uncorrected satelite data.
3. Musrepresentation of Dr. Carl Wunsch.
4. Using old data and distorting graphs.
5. Uncorrected and outdated sunspot data.

This film is a joke, except to ideologues who would believe it if it told them incorns cause GW--as long as Gore is wrong, right fellas?

Hello. Some of you might remember me as the pro-AGW guy who posted some time back.

I have not seen Al Gore's movie. But I have seen the "Global Warming Swindle Movie".

I don't know if there's a double standard. However, I do want to raise the following point.

Let's look at the movie on it's own. Do you agree, in principle, that errors pointed out (assuming for the moment that they are correctly claiming errors) should be corrected? Would you call that "censorship"? Or an abrogation of free speech?

Now, I repeat, practically, what happens to this "global warming swindle" movie, the same standard should be applied to Al Gore's movie. But, do you agree that, the principled position on this should be that the errors are corrected?

My own view is that two wrongs don't make a right. We should fight errors wherever they are made, whoever makes them.

If anybody wants to discuss specific claims that the scientists protesting made, I'll be happy to go into it. Here's the text of the letter, in case you haven't read it.

Note: As my posts tended to become longer and numerous as time went on, I promised myself that I would post at most 3 times on a particular topic.