Climate: The Movie

Climate The Movie does as it says, presents the Cold Truth. It gives a good overview of how climate change came to dominate current political discourse. It features a raft of prominent scientists, physicists, climatologists and Patrick Moore (the founder of Greenpeace) all who dared to dispute the prevailing consensus that the science is settled. The documentary meticulously details the 4 other more reliable measurements of temperature change (rural surface stations, ocean gauges, satellite readings and atmospheric balloons) to show that all the IPCC reports and models are mostly based on sites that have been engulfed over time by urbanization and hence subject to distortions in the record by the urban heat island effect. The 4 methods confirm only a slight temperature rise and this is reported alongside the long term historical records going back centuries and then tree ring and ice core testing going back millennia to show that we've been warmer before when there was no industrial output to blame.

Finally many current media myths and obsessions were debunked including no increase in hurricanes and storms, hotter daily temps in the 1930's than recently and significantly fewer modern forest fires than the '20' and '30s.

The way prominent scientists, environmentalists, politicians and the media exaggerate and distort the truth to manipulate the masses into accepting all of the constraints on lifestyle and escalating costs of enforcing net zero is dramatically laid out. This documentary is an important contribution to the debate of climate science that is in reality far from settled.

So far the ratings are either 1/10 or 10/10, clearly this is a marmite subject! Most viewers will either be 'sceptics' and have their ideas confirmed or 'believers' in the Climate Crisis and probably won't watch to the end.

A lot of excellent interviews with credible people, clearly sensible and not the swivel-eyed-loons we're told to expect.

In the last few minutes it touches on causes: the rise of the new class of anti-capitalist left-leaning folk (the swamp, the elite), who use their positions in society to silence descent against the message.

I could watch on loop the clip of working people, trying to get to work, pulling an Extinction Rebellion protestor off the roof of a London Underground train.

An obvious conspiracy theory-driven film funded by the oil and gas industry. There is no basis for truth in anything represented in this film. Don't waste your time. If you believe this nonsense, you aren't thinking critically. Sound bites, half video clips without context, and outright lies form a narrative in this film that is so far removed from reality this should be considered fiction. Don't be fooled and be a gullible easily manipulated person by believing the nonsense portrayed in this film. Doing your own research doesn't involved watching nonsense conspiracy theory "documentaries" like this garbage.

When you come across plausible-sounding polemics like this, it's always worth taking the time to look at their provenance. For example, this film is at least partly sponsored by the Heartland Institute, which also denies the ill-effects of smoking!

The speakers sound very plausible (there's even a Nobel physicist) with that avuncular, trust-me-I'm-a-scientist smile, or the down-to-Earth Southern drawl, but there isn't a true climatologist amongst them, and being clever in one sphere doesn't make you an expert in another (remember Linus Pauling, who won TWO Nobels prizes, was fixated on the idea that Vitamin C supplementation prevents colds, for which there is no convincing evidence).

Putting a picture of King Charles III in the cast list doesn't mean he says anything, let alone supports these ideas, and one contributor claims to be a founder of Greenpeace, which Grenpeace themselves deny.

Most of the speakers are discredited elsewhere; my favourite is the one who has our solar system whizzing past other stars in the spiral arms of the Milky Way, presumably at warp factor 10 (Aye aye, Cap'n), picking up cloud-forming cosmic rays.

I sat through this garbage so you don't have to, but, if you insist on doing so, look at it as an example of how these people try to suppress the overwhelming evidence they are trying to deny.

If you are a truth seeker and a free thinker, this review is for you.

Do not blindly trust what you see on TV. Don't trust news sources that say the world will end in 10 years. Don't trust people on TV, even if they show you graphs. Always check their sources.

Many of the graphs shown in this film have been edited so that they no longer reflect the truth. In one graph, they pretend that the graph ends "now", when it really ends in 1950. In other graphs, the data were outright manipulated.

If you watched the film and believed that their graphs are accurate, please take the time to look at their sources and try to find the graphs there. Or check out the video by Potholer54 that describes several of their lies in detail. And of course, check Potholer54's sources.

I gave this film 3 stars because while lying is immoral, the producers are at least good at it.