Review: ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’

Finally, a well-sourced, scientific rebuttal to the mainstream media’s portrayal of global warming, not to mention their embrace of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”: The Great Global Warming Swindle.

This documentary that aired on British television this past week has now been made available via Google Videos. You will not be able to view it on a dial-up connection, but those with broadband will have no problem. Click here for the full screen Google Video version.

[Edit 03/22/07: Google Video link above doesn’t work - click here for a list of functional video links]

This is a welcome film debunking the popular viewpoint, including explaining the evidence that the Earth’s climate is always changing and there is less than convincing evidence that the climate is driven significantly by CO2 concentrations. Furthermore, volcanoes produce more CO2 each year than all human-made sources put together. Should we plug them up?

The Sun Drives Climate Change

The current warming trend has been ongoing since long before our introduction of CO2-emitting vehicles…not to mention, the four decade span in the middle-20th century during which global temperatures dropped - the same period when the automobile ownership hit record levels year after year. For just a sampling of the data made available in this documentary, let’s examine the correlation between solar activity and the global temperature variations. The last century is the single period during which we have the most reliable temperature data (direct measurements) and when the CO2 concentration is graphed with temperature variation on Earth, the correlation is weak - particularly during the cooling period from the 1940s through the 1970s. For a stronger correlation, solar activity can be lined up (source):

Who’s presenting this information - another politician? Nope - not this one. This documentary is composed primarily of interviews and discussions with meteorologists, atmospheric scientists, and climatologists from around the world. Many of those interviewed are contributors to the UN’s now infamous series of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports - the most recent of which makes the unjustified claim of an “unequivocal” connection between anthropogenic greenhouse gas production and global climate change.

Says Who?

But you thought the IPCC report was a consensus view of anthropogenic climate change, you say? Not so fast. Many of those listed as authors are far from in agreement on this issue - as they express in their own words in this documentary.

For more on scientists with the contrarian viewpoint, check out this list of 89 climate experts (pdf) - professors, climatologists, and the like - who disagree with the supposed consensus view of anthropogenic climate change, as made available in this newsbusters.org thread. (The list includes a professor from my alma mater, Dr. Al Pekarek).

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Update (03/11/07 6:45am CDT) A reader just sent me this link to purchase a DVD copy of the documentary from the television station that aired it.

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