The Great Global Warming Swindle (DVD)
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DVD: Region Code 1Product features:
- Format: Color, DTS Surround Sound, Full Screen, Extended Edition
- Production Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Studio: WagTv
- Time: 70 Minutes
DVD Reviews of The Great Global Warming Swindle (DVD)
DVD Review: Controversial misinformation with heaps of bad science
Summary: 1 Stars
This is currently the argument against anthropogenic global warming. Anti-evolutionists and creationists will tend to also flock here. For some reason, Like Darwinism, anthropogenic global warming seems to be a magnet for anti-science groups. This documentary is an outright attack on good science. The material however is designed to be controversial. At the same time it appears to be the only case made against anthropogenic global warming and it's a very poor one.
Scientists interested in refining their understanding of global warming may want to watch it. Those who are interested in anthropogenic global warming should consult peer-review anthropogenic global warming material (e.g., not Al Gore documentaries, but post-graduate peer-reviewed material). If you don't know how to tell the difference between university and documentaries for entertainment then you really shouldn't be putting your faith in a program like `The Great Global Warming Swindle' (TGGWS). Once you understand the greenhouse effect, then maybe you can watch this, but make sure you understand the issue first. Unfortunately many people are just watching this documentary and deeming themselves experts on global warming and capable of a scientific critic. If you think that, you have been fooled.
TGGWS takes a handful of scientists who seem to make counter anthropogenic global warming claims and mixes it with private commentaries and interpretations about anthropogenic global warming, most of which do not cite their sources. I say `seem to make' because some of the scientists here, Carl Wunsch and Eigil Friis-Christensenhave in particular, complained that the documentary makers quoted them and their work out of context. That is not to say that the documentary doesn't contain scientists who genuinely feel that anthropogenic global warming is rubbish, they are here, but their position has been refuted by the peer-review process whether they like it or not.
TGGWS starts with the premise that scientists have verified beyond a doubt that anthropogenic global warming is happening. This distorts the position considerably. There is evidence to suggest a correlation between the rapid increase in anthropogenic CO2 and a rapid rise in global temperature. These sudden correlating rises are of a significant magnitude to make them unique, even when measured against the past, such as previous glacial and interglacial ice age periods. Ignoring this data would be the wrong thing to do. Acting on it and seeing if we can change things would verify this data. That is the case being made by climatologists.
Anthropogenic global warming critics say that the correlation should be ignored because it has all happened before. They are saying, don't act on this information. That is essentially their argument... and it is bad science.
The documentary is constructed by omitting data from 2000 onwards, duplicity, taking scientists out of context, reediting subsequent editions of the same program, forged graphs, prejudice and not offering up sources. In short a program doesn't get more deceptive than this bogus sham. It really is everything that television watchdogs have been warning us about.
The thing is that it is made to be convincing and it does manage to pull that off. If you haven't got a good background in science and if you don't take the time out to think carefully about it, this exploitation material does have the potential to harm. It is not that the documentary doesn't have a right to the freedom of speech. It does. However, to purposefully set out to dupe people over such an important issue is another thing entirely. This isn't just a case of a documentary about scientists who disagree over anthropogenic global warming. The makers of this film are engaged in much more than just that. What they did is what sent the phones buzzing at the watchdog offices.
If the fact that this program has been edited several times to remove sequences that where exposed as hoaxes or the fact that scientists who appear in this program have since distanced themselves from it because they believe they where misrepresented, isn't enough, there is still more.
Instead of replacing charts with the right ones from the sources they claimed they got the charts from, like NASA, in subsequent editions they removed the name of the source and kept the graph without citation. Isn't that just terrible? To actually keep the forged graph and to omit the source (which offered the correct graph to be used mind you) is just indefensible. Thus graphs appear all over the place without sources. Some of the graphs they use don't match up.
The big wedge they use is that the temperature has dropped during an industrialization period. What they omit is that the temperatures can drop when more aerosols are present in the atmosphere. These prevent solar radiation from getting in, becoming trapped in the greenhouse effect. These aerosol increases are responsible for the slight drops we find in the graphs. Then the greenhouse effect builds up again when more CO2 is added. Climatologists predict this. TGGWS still omits this fact even in updated versions of this program.
Basic global warming models show that other factors can increase/decrease global warming other than CO2. These must be factored into the model but are omitted here. These linkages are called coupling. It is a basic fundamental understanding in science and is especially important with global warming.
They have misused data on the Medieval Warm Period to suggest that it was warmer then than it is today. The fact is that from actual data, not conjecture, it was not as warm as it has been in the past few decades.
The Volcano CO2 conjecture they use has no sources. Not a shred of peer-review for it.
The weather balloon segment conflicts with all the available data on the temperature of the atmosphere. They give no explanation for what is happening in their model of the atmosphere. The solar model they conjecture does not explain it and this same solar model they talk about is factored into global warming models.
TGGWS claims that rises in carbon dioxide follow increases in temperature and so implies that CO2 cannot be causing global warming. This view clashes with the greenhouse effect. There are other factors, such as the Earth's orbit, that can raise the temperature, but this doesn't mean that CO2 doesn't causing warming, as they imply.
Without the greenhouse effect there would be no life on this planet but they omit that adding CO2, such as burning fossil fuels, must increase the temperature. CO2 + current greenhouse gases = more greenhouse gases = things get warmer (in this balanced model). There is no way to somersault away from this without creating a means by which this heat goes elsewhere (and it may but this documentary doesn't talk about it).
Essentially the makers of this program have created a pseudoscience that flies in the face of the greenhouse effect, not just anthropogenic global warming.
Science gives a very balanced view of anthropogenic global warming. Since 2000, there is no reason to doubt that there is a relationship between anthropogenic global warming and an environmental crisis, however there is some debate over how much influence we have on this. Scientists have no problem with skepticism, but this documentary is a wooden nickel. When you see the glaring errors and the way the producers have pushed their evidence you can't help but to put this documentary in the same category as telling people that smoking is good for you.
I would recommend watching this documentary only if you follow it up by reading the rebuttals. You can fine tune your skills in debating global warming if you do. I had great fun doing this. Sadly it seems that for some people this is the only thing they will ever watch on anthropogenic global warming and most of them did it because they just didn't like Al Gore. Al Gore isn't the peer-review for anthropogenic global warming... but he does use it, unlike the makers of this program.
We are solving the problem with the hole in the Ozone layer by reducing CfCs and after reading various sources it seems we are more than capable of solving the anthropogenic global warming problem if we make certain changes to how we live.
Description of The Great Global Warming Swindle (DVD)
Everything you've ever been told about Global Warming is probably untrue. From Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth to news reports from the popular media outlets and even public classrooms which, in chicken little fashion, seem to be screaming - the sky is falling. But is it really? This film blows the whistle on what may be the biggest swindle in modern history. We are told that 'Man Made Global Warming' is the biggest threat ever to mankind and that it may even threaten our very survival; and, if we do not change our ways and reduce CO2 emissions - polar ice caps will melt, coastal areas will flood and hurricanes like Katrina will become common. With nearly Gestapo like tactics we are told not to question! There is absolutely no room for doubt because there is a "scientific consensus." Anyone who questions the data or conclusion is an enemy of the state and humanity. Well, bring it on because this is exactly what this well documented film does. The Great Global Warming Swindle uses a plethora of leading scientists who will not bend to political or philosophical or ideaological pressure. So watch this film and make up your own mind.Bestsellers in DVD
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