here is the real deal with global warming, click on link and tell me what you think?

Question

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4499562022478442170&hl=en

i have seen and read the sites that have claimed it was a scam, sure there is holes and you can explain anything away as fabrication, they also fail to mention key areas dealing with fact and one example is the warm periods that have been recorded in the past through ice records, there aerosol theory sounds very weak and only explains for the year after the industrialization. there is other sites that counter the sites that claim it was a scam

Answer 1

I don't think that you can get an unbiased answer to the question of global warming now or in the near future. To me it is pure politics and has little or nothing to do with science.

One more brick in that wall is seeing Bob quoting a lot of politicians on the matter as a mean of "proving" his point (hasn't the Pope given any comment on the matter yet? Would that be the final proof that we are destroying our God-made planet with our sinful lives driving cars, heating our homes, and, well, breathe?).

To me this film is, just like Gore's film, a collection of more or less unproven statements to make a political point. This is politics and has little or nothing to do with science.

Answer 2

To Bob, I met a climate scientist returning from a conference once while I was away in Argentina. His work had been deliberately misquoted to tow the party line on climate change.

In an official report, one of the lines (not his originally work) the line "there is no evidence that human activity is causing global warming" had been edited to "there is evidence..."

There is a lot of this about.

Forgive me if I do not trust the pro warming lobby. It is politcally well motivated, educated, aggressive and willing to stoop to moral lows.

I am not telling you what I think the truth is - but I do have a PhD in physics and have worked in environmental science and remote sensing, so I suspect I have more reason than most here to actually know what I am talking about and not spout political invective.

Answer 3

I in basic terms examine an editorial on BBC that stated that we are presently in a stagnant state of warming, opposite to what replaced into projected - and they do no longer recognize why. it might nicely be by actual undeniable actuality that the earth is partly of its rotation cycle that orbits somewhat further far flung from the solar - i favor to element which will stability the 'warming' situation. there is not any doubt that CO2 and different greenhouse gases are filling are environment at a on the issue of fee. tied with deforestation, arising international industrialization etc. i ought to assert human beings are not any more doing any favours for mom earth, yet mom earth would not care about human beings.

Answer 4

The "swindle" movie is wrong. It is simply a political statement which distorts science. The director has a history of putting out misleading stuff. In 1997 he made a series for Channel 4 called “Against Nature”, which compared environmentalists with Nazis. Channel 4 had to apologise for the misleading stuff in that one. The present movie is also a distortion of the science. More here:

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

"A Channel 4 documentary claimed that climate change was a conspiratorial lie. But an analysis of the evidence it used shows the film was riddled with distortions and errors."

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

"Pure Propaganda"

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

Explanations of why the science is wrong.

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

History of the director.

http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2032572,00.html

"The science might be bunkum, the research discredited. But all that counts for Channel 4 is generating controversy."

Gore's movie may be a little over dramatic, but it has the basic science right. This movie does not.

Channel 4 itself undercuts the movie in a funny way. If you go to their website on the movie you find links to real global warming information. They also have a way to "Ask the Expert" about global warming. The questions go to a respected mainstream scientist who supports (mostly) human responsibility for global warming.

Here's the "real deal". Solid, verified, and peer reviewed data. And two opinions about it, much more significant than mine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png

"I wasn’t convinced by a person or any interest group—it was the data that got me. I was utterly convinced of this connection between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change. And I was convinced that if we didn’t do something about this, we would be in deep trouble.”

Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly, USN (Ret.)
Former NASA Administrator, Shuttle Astronaut and the first Commander of the Naval Space Command

"There's a better scientific consensus on this [climate change] than on any issue I know - except maybe Newton's second law of dynamics".

Jerry Mahlman, NOAA

To epidavros below. You talk about one scientist you met. Are these people part of the "global warming" lobby that you don't trust? Is Admiral Truly?

"The science of global warming is clear. We know enough to act now. We must act now."

James Rogers, CEO of Charlotte-based Duke Energy.

"The overwhelming majority of atmospheric scientists around the world and our own National Academy of Sciences are in essential agreement on the facts of global warming and the significant contribution of human activity to that trend."

Russell E. Train, Republican, former environmental official under Presidents Nixon and Ford

"I agree with you (Gore) that the debate over climate change is over."

Rep. Dennis Hastert, Republican, Illinois

"Global warming is real, now, and it must be addressed."

Lee Scott, CEO, Wal-Mart

"Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming."

Senator John McCain, Republican, Arizona

"I'm trying to learn [about greenhouse gases and global warming]. The more I learn, the bigger believer I become."

Senator Lindsay Graham, Republican, South Carolina

“DuPont believes that action is warranted, not further debate."

Charles O. Holliday, Jr., CEO, DuPont

"These technologies will help us become better stewards of the environment - and they will help us to confront the serious challenge of global climate change."

President George Bush

Answer 5

I agree.