Has anyone seen "Global Warming Swindle", and what do you think of it?

Question

How can an unproven theory such as manmade global warming be mandatory education in our schools. How can any unproven theory be taught as truth? You owe it to yourself to at least watch this documentary, and decide for yourself.

Answer 1

Exactly how much proof do we need before we teach our kids about things that will likely have dramatic effects on their health and their ability to lead lives at least as happy as those before them? Waiting for absolute proof is like not telling your kids to avoid smoking until every single government and industry scientist is in agreement that smoking causes cancer.

I did see the movie "The Great Global Warming Swindle" and was not impressed. There is an excellent article on realclimate.org which responds to the points in the film. A few of the main rebuttles to the points in the film are:

- Global warming is caused by fluctuations in radiation from the sun (Wrong. In fact, the radiative forcing from all anthropogenic CO2 emissions to date is 1.66W/m2, while the radiative forcing from the change in solar radiation since 1750 is only 0.12W/m2. Clearly, fluctuations in the sun are not a major factor.)

- Volcanic eruptions emit a lot more CO2 than humans. (Wrong. If volcanoes were contributing to the increase in atmospheric CO2 concentrations, volcanic eruptions would show up as spikes in the measured data. In fact, CO2 concentrations have been increasing steadily, without even the smallest spike)

- Changes in CO2 concentrations haven't matched changes in temperature in the past (True in some cases, but a misleading point. Cooling that occurred from 1940 to 1975 when CO2 increased dramatically was a result of the increase in particulate pollution. Particulates in the air were cleaned up after that, and the warming effect of CO2 dominated.

- In ice core data, increases in CO2 concentrations have been shown to lag behind increases in temperature. (True, but also misleading. Warming oceans release more CO2. But just because CO2 levels increase as a result of warming doesn't mean that CO2 does not also cause warming. It's called positive feedback. And it's one of the greatest risks of continuing along the 'business as usual' path of fossil fuel use.)

- There used to be vineyards in England. (Irrelevant. Anyways, there are still vineyards in England)

Answer 2

The global warming thing has more than just 'holes' in it, I'm afraid. It's completely ridiculous.

I was so happy when I saw this video. Finally, someone is being courageous enough to challenge this media driven, politicized insanity.

I wish the media and the politicians would leave science to the scientists.

Answer 3

What's worse is the people who think that "man made" global warming is true, think it is the most important issue in the world. Even if it was true, it is not as important as the rising police state in America. If Americans want to pass anything on to future generations it should be freedom! If you pass laws to take peoples liberties you are traitor!

Answer 4

then we can't teach the big bang theory because there are holes in it, we can teach scientific evolution because there are holes in that theory too. There can be no psychiatric or psychological theories that hold water because they can't be seen, touched or known as truly real. And the big one, would be, about any type of higher power, (God) metaphysical properties and so forth.

Answer 5

Yes, I saw it and it is VERY informative. It shows that Al Gore is not only a liar but an idiot.

Here is the web site for the documentary that the left does not want you to see.

http://www.jonhs.net/freemovies/great_global_warming_swindle.htm

Answer 6

Here's the link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4520665474899458831

We can take religion, morality, and punishment out of the classroom, why not truth also?

Answer 7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Durkin_(television_director)

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/03/swindled/

http://members.tripod.com/~ngin/equinox.htm

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2031455,00.html

http://www.medialens.org/alerts/07/0313pure_propaganda_the.php

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2355956.ece

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2026124,00.html

http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=70973