The Great Global Warming Swindle

The obvious comparison with this documentary is An Inconvenient Truth (especially since some of this documentary is rooted in disproving the other). Both are excellent documentaries, both make strong arguments to support their side of the debate. Both have dubious motives and issues pertaining to their interpretation of the data. Anyone who takes one perspective as rote and dismisses the other out of hand (or by using the same "Look at the source/funding" arguments) have missed the point, especially of The Great Global Warming Swindle, and the debate that has opened up after it's airing. Which is this - much of the data the general public is presented with is skewed, edited and presented by someone according to their own beliefs, their funding, background, political aspirations, etc. Anyone who claims impartiality is wrong. I hope the effect of this documentary is to encourage people to look, read and research for themselves the information they are presented with every day and allow themselves the greatest chance of acting with understanding and knowledge rather than ignorance.

How scary is it when heads of the IPCC and Greenpeace say that global warming is not what the press says it is?

This is a must watch for anyone who feels guilty for owning gas guzzling cars. Read it in conjunction of State of Fear and then watch Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth and see who you wish to trust for the future! Still none of these mentioned that the ozone hole over Australia has nearly closed, why not?

Why is it that time and time against scientists are misquoted and their data manipulated and when they ask for a retraction they are just ignored. The lawyers are ruling the world!

I don't understand why people claim they know something about climate science when they don't understand the complexity of it. The documentary doesn't necessarily say that the climate doesn't change, just the complexities of predicting such a change are largely incomplete and points out many variables that the environmental movement shys away from like decomposing tree leaves giving off more CO2 than any other source. Also, the documentary makes a nice point of saying you can't just blindly discard data because it doesn't say what you like i.e. climate is affected by more than CO2, the data's right in front of you showing an 800 year lag between temperature and CO2. Also, i found the cosmic wind vs solar wind very fascinating, I've done some looking and it's a pretty hot topic in climate science w/ cloud formation... kind of odd that a lot of earth nuts don't mention it cuz it'd disprove the whole CO2 theory.

BTW, i already gave up on the theory of man made climate change when i did a bunch of research on ocean currents and i found it was nowhere to be found in any environmental writing(not that they didn't mention it but instead that they didn't say the inaccuracy of ocean currents since we don't know how to predict them).

I'll start talking about this documentary as it should be, honestly: it is a fraud.

It's presented as a serious movie, but it doesn't take long until you realize that there's something wrong about it. Anybody who has already made a little research about Global Warming know that today's temperature are higher than in the so called "Medieval Warm Period". The graph this movie shows about the recorded temperature shows us that the temperature nowadays are way lower than in that period. I thought myself: "there's something wrong about that", and I decided to make again, a little research about it. Yes, it is a LIE. Pure, unmasked LIE. The period showed by the graph as "NOW" is actually about 1990~1995. Woah, a movie made in 2007 using a 12~15 year-old graph? That doesn't make sense. Why? Because if they had used the graph showing the temperature in, say, 2005, it wouldn't fit to their claims.

There's a lot more misinformation about it than just that. I'll just leave here a link for those interested: http://www.durangobill.com/Swindle_Swindle.html

If you think that this movie is real, please, read the information on that link. Please! Don't let people fool yourself. Also, there was a debate on the Australian Television "ABC" about this movie with real experts which debunked almost everything in this pseudo-documentary. Look for it over at google and you'll find.

I think this is refreshing to see the other point of view. Much of the press is devoted to one point of view and this represents an attempt at balancing that inequity. Some of the reactions to this movie are attacks upon the accuracy of said movie. Al Gore's statement that the debate is over could not be further from the truth. What is true is that those who contradict his viewpoint do not receive the same degree of publication as do those who support his viewpoint. It is good to hear from those who do not agree and to see what they have to say. It is up to the viewer to decide and investigate further. Much of what the popular press reports seems to be so superficial and lacking in empirical evidence. This report, at least, addresses both theory and evidence even if one camp in the discussion considers it merely "denial." Viewing this movie with the objectivity these individuals say they represent would be a refreshing change.