Has anybody seen the film 'The Great Global Warming Swindle'?

Question

It's excellent.
Unlike Al Gore's mixture of truth and lies,it's accurate.

Answer 1

That would be the film that has been discredited on both sides of the Atlantic; the director forced to acknowledge false and forged data; and that Channel Four has disavowed any association with? Did I mention the multiple lawsuits?

Do us a favor -- put your head back in the sand and let those of us willing to fight climate change get on with our work.

Answer 2

Well said Andy said film was a well orchestrated propaganda film attacking the truth in desperate defense of corporate profits for the fortunate few.

Al Gore is a giant of a man with the courage to stand up for the entire planet, knowing the price he would personally pay.

For any American who doesn't believe in global warming - join us downunder in the land of Oz, our great barrier reef is dying because the water temperature is getting too high for the polyps which build it to survive. Our food bowl is a dusty wilderland after 12 years of severe drought and we have just turned off the taps to their irrigation water because the capital cities need that water to survive until alternative water sources can be tapped. Melbourne, my town used to be one of the greenest spots on the continent and has now started construction of the first of multiple planned giant desalination plants. Brisbane the third largest capital city has water reserves of only 20% AND FALLING.

Answer 3

I can't believe anyone hasn't heard how bogus that film is. Massive proof below:

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. The British press and scientists tore it to shreds:

"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.durangobill.com/Swindle_Swindle.html
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/03/swindled/
http://www.amos.org.au/BAMOS_GGWS_SUBMISSION_final.htm

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 say: "Although, The film featured an impressive roll-call of experts, The vast majority of scientists believe that the arguments in this film are outdated and have now been disproven by more recent research"

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

Mr Jello - The British court said Gore's film was excellent. They denied the suit asking to ban it. Read the full decision here:

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2007/2288.html

"It is clear that the Defendant understandably formed the view that AIT was an outstanding film, and that schools should be enabled to show it to pupils."

Lawsuits have been filed against swindle, and the producers have chosen to remove the material in question to avoid going to court, because they know they'd lose.

Answer 4

It's so accurate that they've had to take the Swindle down from YouTube and edit it several times since its initial release.

It's so accurate that one of the scientists they interviewed sued the producers for taking his words out of context, and they had to remove him from the film.

It's so accurate that they use 17-year-old data which has since been superceded.

It's so accurate that they show graphs that stop at 1980, because the data from 1980-Present disproves their argument.

It's so accurate that another scientist's data analysis in the film turned out to be completely wrong, and he has since retracted and corrected it.

Yeah, very accurate.

Sorry, it would be nice if global warming were really a swindle and nothing to worry about. Unfortunately that's not the case, no matter how much we want it to be.

Further details in the transcript below.

Answer 5

It should be noted that no court has found any problems or issues regarding 'The Great Global Warming Swindle' while the courts have found dozens of flaws with Algores flick.

If 'The Great Global Warming Swindle' has flaws, those that say so should sue the film and get a court order explaining where the flaws are.

However they know they can't. Any suit they file like this will never make it into a court of law.

Answer 6

Same basic question was posted just hours ago.

Both films have their flaws. We can leave it at that, or we can keep the global warming time warp going and march in place while the world outside of Yahoo passes us by.

No points for originally, or honesty, sorry.

Answer 7

It's purely fictitious but it mirrors reality.

Answer 8

It is a complete fraud.

Sorry. You'll find more facts in the Saturday Morning cartoons.