Have you seen the film "The Great Global Warming Swindle"? can Global Warming be a hoax?

Question

its kind of convinced me that we are being lied to by the mass media for some reason....any thoughts?

http://www.greatglobalwarmingswindle.co.uk/

Answer 1

i say yes it is
and its all just a theory we have no proof to why it is happening
it may just be warming up from the ice age

Answer 2

I've seen the film and being a climatologist I know that much of it is complete garbage. I've also seen the producer (Martin Durkin) being interviewed on ABC where he is left floundering and unable to provide answers as to why he fabricated evidence, distorted facts, misrepresented those who featured on the show, doctored the graphs used etc

I've seen him panicking when he's asked to pass comment on the experts opinions of his documentary. If he had a clue about climatology he would have been able to respond to the basic comments. He also screws up in the interview when he admits he knows global warming is occuring and caused by greenhouse gases.

Don't know which version of 'Swindle' you've seen but the latest version (it gets re-edited approx once every 2 months) is very different from the original due to legal actions for misrepresentations, lible, slander etc.

Years before 'Swindle' was produced, the UK media (Durkin is British) warned about him and branded him a charlatan, this was following a string of convictions imposed on Durkin for having fabricated similar style documentaries.

Answer 3

The swindle movie is the hoax.

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 science. The British press took it apart:

"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

Detailed explanations of why the science is wrong.

http://www.durangobill.com/Swindle_Swindle.html
http://www.amos.org.au/BAMOS_GGWS_SUBMISSION_final.htm
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 4

It could easily be I will not tell you for sure but science has been wrong before. The Earth used to be the center of the universe and science said so and any one that said other wise was stupid. It turned out they were wrong. Science is always changing it may turn out global warming is fake but it could be real. You just need to know that just because most scientist say one thing some intellect ones disagree with the majority.

Answer 5

seem, the actuality keeps to be that putting debris into the ambience of course correlates to temperatures. This has been shown back and back with volcanos. do no longer tell me that the geologists teamed up with the atmospheric scientists in some extensive conspiracy. jointly as adjustments with the sunlight may be accounting for better temperature as nicely, there is no longer something we are able to do approximately that. we are able to, even however, replace our interest. You sheep think of that what you do has no reaction. each and every thing is attached. each and every human interest impacts temperature, albiet somewhat. Even a fowl pooing impacts the temperature, on a miniscule point. even however, human interest is now on a grand point, hence the end result's extra substantial.

Answer 6

Sure we're being lied to by the mass media. That's why I believe the scientists who say global warming is real.

Answer 7

The only people lying to you are the producers of "The Great Global Warming Swindle." Carl Wunsch, a scientist featured in the film says that he was "completely misrepresented" in the film and "totally duped" by the producers. Another scientist, Eigil Friis-Christensen, says that the producers completely distorted his work and misused his data. Every scientific organization who have looked at this film -- including the world's oldest and most prestigious, the Royal Society -- says it's total hogwash.
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/news.asp?id=6089

Scientists don't like to use the word "proof" because everything in science is subject to revision as new data comes in. But the case for human-caused global warming is about as strong as it gets.

1. If the Sun is causing the current warmth, we're getting more energy, and the whole atmosphere should be getting warmer. But if it's greenhouse, then we're getting the same amount of energy, but it's being distributed differently: more heat is trapped at the surface, so less heat should be escaping to the stratosphere. So if it's the Sun, the stratosphere should be warming, but if it's greenhouse, the stratosphere should be cooling.

In fact, the stratosphere has been on a long-term cooling trend ever since we've been keeping radiosonde balloon records in the 1950's. Here's the data:
http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadat/images/update_images/global_upper_air.png
http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadat/hadat2/hadat2_monthly_global_mean.txt
http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/temp/sterin/sterin.html

2. If it's the Sun, we're getting more energy during the day, and daytime temperatures should be rising fastest. But if it's greenhouse, we're losing less heat at night, and nighttime temperatures should be rising fastest. So if it's the sun, the difference between day and night temperatures should be increasing, but if it's greenhouse, the day-night difference should be decreasing.

In fact, the daily temperature range has been decreasing throughout the 20th century. Here's the science:
http://ams.allenpress.com/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1175%2F1520-0450(1984)023%3C1489:DDTRIT%3E2.0.CO%3B2
http://www.bom.gov.au/bmrc/clfor/cfstaff/jma/2004GL019998.pdf

3. Total solar irradiance has been measured by satellite since 1978, and during that time it has shown the normal 11-year cycle, but no long-term trend. Here's the data:
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/SOLAR/solarda3.html

4. Scientists have looked closely at the solar hypothesis and have strongly refuted it. Here's the peer-reviewed science:
http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/media/proceedings_a/rspa20071880.pdf
http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/mpa/publications/preprints/pp2006/MPA2001.pdf

5. CO2 levels in the air were stable for 10,000 years prior to the industrial revolution, at about 280 parts per million by volume (ppmv). Since 1800, CO2 levels have risen 38%, to 384 ppmv, with no end in sight.
http://www.columbusnavigation.com/co2.html

6. We know that the excess CO2 in the air is caused by burning of fossil fuels, because when we do isotopic analysis of the CO2 we find increasing amounts of "old" carbon combined with "young" oxygen.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=87

Answer 8

Some say yes, some say no. It depends on your believes. For example there's the theory in which people believe that the warming of earth is just a cycle it goes in, in order to get to the next ice age. Then, there's the Al G. scenario. I guess its up to the believer.

Answer 9

comrade,

why do you question our authority?

we have tried to enlighten you through our documentaries such as "inconvenient truth" and "eleventh hour".

yet, you still resist these obvious truths.

now you find this evil capitalistic propaganda film and try to hurt the cause.

you must be re-educated for your own good, and the good of the workers.

together, we can build a glorious green world.