Great Global Warming Swindle Link Forum On Now And?

Question

Gazpacho, why do I want this link?

http://www2b.abc.net.au/tmb/Client/Board.aspx?b=89

I am trying to work and avoid forums/ answering questions.

****** Well Gazpacho I have read loads of stuff on global warming forum that I do not understand and ain't at all interested in and did not want to read in the first place. I have tried to think about this critically but can only think you have someone else guiding you who has a very strange sense of humour???? ***** Thank you for sending me this link with no explanation whatsoever - belladonna

Leaky earthships? What strange questions have you lot been answering this afternoon then??? Or have you all been on the Gazpacho's Global Warming Forum too??

Answer 1

I am sorry for sending you the forum part without the lead story... http://www.abc.net.au/tv/swindle/

In Australia we were glued to national free to air tv for four hours or so watching the "great debate" on global warming and there were a few crackpots who say it is a hoax as well that carbon emissions are pretty good for us... (I am seriously paraphrasing here to the point of making their argument ridiculous)... but since all western science is based on the hypothesis that everything is false until proved otherwise ..... they are sticking to their opinion (western science really has some flaws in this respect.. for example, acupuncture really works so we should use it even though we don't know why it works) .... someone on a "panel of experts" representing coal mining interests said that they accept that emissions are bad and that industry is ignoring the advice of the "experts" who do not think that global warming is a reality because they recognize that 98% of scientists believe that it is a reality and they have invested billions to research how to clean up their act. I am into that kind of response. Business cant wait for governments to make agreements... some things in capitalism really do work and one of them is that the market drives demand... since every individual makes a difference.. the way to low carbon emissions is for individuals to take control of thei future by personally contributing to the reduction of Co2 emmissions through more discerning product selections. It is bloody simple really.

Answer 2

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:

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

"Pure Propaganda"

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

Explanations of why the science is wrong.

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

History of the director.

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

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.

So, why did Channel 4 broadcast it?

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

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

Answer 3

... and CC science is a false focus - if the Earth ship has several leeks (so to speak) then action is to be taken sooner rather than later - as the WWF fellow said it's about dealing with the risks of global warming, not the degrees of science certainty...

Answer 4

It is a scam to make money. Gore is making millions jetting around the world .