Originally Posted By Darkbeer <a href="http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory.asp?story=CZ434669U&news_headline=global_warming_is_lies_claims_documentary" target="_blank">http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory .asp?story=CZ434669U&news_headline=global_warming_is_lies_claims_documentary</a> >>'Global Warming Is Lies' Claims Documentary Accepted theories about man causing global warming are "lies" claims a controversial new TV documentary. ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’ - backed by eminent scientists - is set to rock the accepted consensus that climate change is being driven by humans. The programme, to be screened on Channel 4 on Thursday March 8, will see a series of respected scientists attack the "propaganda" that they claim is killing the world’s poor. Even the co-founder of Greenpeace, Patrick Moore, is shown, claiming African countries should be encouraged to burn more CO2. Nobody in the documentary defends the greenhouse effect theory, as it claims that climate change is natural, has been occurring for years, and ice falling from glaciers is just the spring break-up and as normal as leaves falling in autumn. A source at Channel 4 said: "It is essentially a polemic and we are expecting it to cause trouble, but this is the controversial programming that Channel 4 is renowned for." Controversial director Martin Durkin said: "You can see the problems with the science of global warming, but people just don’t believe you – it’s taken ten years to get this commissioned. "I think it will go down in history as the first chapter in a new era of the relationship between scientists and society. Legitimate scientists – people with qualifications – are the bad guys. "It is a big story that is going to cause controversy. "It’s very rare that a film changes history, but I think this is a turning point and in five years the idea that the greenhouse effect is the main reason behind global warming will be seen as total bollocks. "Al Gore might have won an Oscar for ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, but the film is very misleading and he has got the relationship between CO2 and climate change the wrong way round." One major piece of evidence of CO2 causing global warming are ice core samples from Antarctica, which show that for hundreds of years, global warming has been accompanied by higher levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. In ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’ Al Gore is shown claiming this proves the theory, but palaeontologist Professor Ian Clark claims in the documentary that it actually shows the opposite. He has evidence showing that warmer spells in the Earth’s history actually came an average of 800 years before the rise in CO2 levels. Prof Clark believes increased levels of CO2 are because the Earth is heating up and not the cause. He says most CO2 in the atmosphere comes from the oceans, which dissolve the gas. When the temperature increases, more gas is released into the atmosphere and when global temperatures cool, more CO2 is taken in. Because of the immense size of the oceans, he said they take time to catch up with climate trends, and this ‘memory effect’ is responsible for the lag. Scientists in the programme also raise another discrepancy with the official line, showing that most of the recent global warming occurred before 1940, when global temperatures then fell for four decades. It was only in the late 1970s that the current trend of rising temperatures began. This, claim the sceptics, is a flaw in the CO2 theory, because the post-war economic boom produced more CO2 and should, according to the consensus, have meant a rise in global temperatures. The programme claims there appears to be a consensus across science that CO2 is responsible for global warming, but Professor Paul Reiter is shown to disagree. He said the influential United Nations report on Climate change, that claimed humans were responsible, was a sham. It claimed to be the opinion of 2,500 leading scientists, but Prof Reiter said it included names of scientists who disagreed with the findings and resigned from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and said the report was finalised by government appointees. The CO2 theory is further undermined by claims that billions of pounds is being provided by governments to fund greenhouse effect research, so thousands of scientists know their job depends on the theory continuing to be seen as fact. The programme claims efforts to reduce CO2 are killing Africans, who have to burn fires inside their home, causing cancer and lung damage, because their governments are being encouraged to use wind and solar panels that are not capable of supplying the continent with electricity, instead of coal and oil-burning power stations that could. Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore is shown saying: "Environmentalists have romanticised peasant life, but this is anti-human. "They are saying the world’s poorest people should have the world’s most expensive form of form of energy – really saying they can’t have electricity."<< Here is the link to the Channel 4 page talking about the documentary... <a href="http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/G/great_global_warming_swindle/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.channel4.com/scienc e/microsites/G/great_global_warming_swindle/index.html</a>
Originally Posted By DAR Good I'm glad this is coming out, because I feel this is one issue that needs to be looked at from two sides. Not because Al Gore says so.
Originally Posted By DAR Geez. Not because Al Gore and Hollywood tells us that global warming is happening. One person who should be leading this charge instead is Ed Begley Jr. I saw an interview with him last week and he told people to read up on global warming from all perspectives and then make your own decision. That is an attitude we need nowadays, not the right or left telling us how to think.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Ed Begley has been living "green" for 20 years at least. He doesn't make a big deal out of it, just walks the walk.
Originally Posted By DAR And I admire him more for it than anyone else telling me how I should live my life. I just find many people in Hollywood hypocritical about this issue, when sets from a movie are destroyed and left to rot in some landfull. Or they have to set off 20 explosions for the next Michael Bay action film. Then they tool around in a giant SUV or take private jets to the premieres and film festivals.
Originally Posted By CrouchingTigger Not sure if this has been posted here before: Daryl Hannah is another green star (not to mention hot, as well). Her site and videoblog: <a href="http://dhlovelife.com/v2/opening/" target="_blank">http://dhlovelife.com/v2/openi ng/</a>
Originally Posted By CrouchingTigger ^ Especially look at her episode on bio-diesel. She's a hoot there.
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka I haven't seen Ed Begley's tv show but the ads for it cracked me up. I love that he rides his exercise bike to generate enough energy to make toast. LOL
Originally Posted By Ursula <And I admire him more for it than anyone else telling me how I should live my life. I just find many people in Hollywood hypocritical about this issue, when sets from a movie are destroyed and left to rot in some landfull. Or they have to set off 20 explosions for the next Michael Bay action film. Then they tool around in a giant SUV or take private jets to the premieres and film festivals. > Hey there, watch what you say about my industry. You are right on the landfill crap, even I've said that here before. But most explosions are not as they appear. Some are done live, but most are digitally enhanced to avoid having to ruin our planet. Or a combo of both. But, if I had a nickel for every Prius on the lot, I'd have about $15. And one of my mixers owns a converted car. No, not converted to electricity...this one burns vegetation of some sort. It smells like a freakin' Vegan restaurant. I just wonder that it took THIRTY YEARS for everyone to give a hoot and not pollute. (this post in honor of Kar2oonman who asked for my return to WE).
Originally Posted By alexbook So, has anybody seen a preview of the movie? How's it look? (Trying to get back to the original topic.)
Originally Posted By Darkbeer You can watch the trailer at this link <a href="http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/G/great_global_warming_swindle/trailer.html" target="_blank">http://www.channel4.com/scienc e/microsites/G/great_global_warming_swindle/trailer.html</a> It premieres Thursday night on British TV. Hopefully it will end up on one of the Discovery Channel networks soon, as Discovery has worked with Channel 4 in the past to co-produce programming. Or maybe it will end up on YouTube or another video sharing service after it plays Thursday.
Originally Posted By DlandJB The Discovery Channel -- the same place that brought you the tomb of Jesus and his family. I think I'll pass.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer The entire video (75 minutes) is available at Google Video at this link <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9005566792811497638&q=the+great+swindle" target="_blank">http://video.google.com/videop lay?docid=9005566792811497638&q=the+great+swindle</a>
