Excellent, a Must See

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

By Thomas Sowell...Britain's Channel 4 has produced a devastating documentary titled "The Great Global Warming Swindle." It has apparently not been broadcast by any of the networks in the United States. But, fortunately, it is available on the Internet.Distinguished scientists specializing in climate and climate-related fields talk in plain English and present readily understood graphs showing what a crock the current global warming hysteria is.These include scientists from MIT and top-tier universities in a number of countries. Some of these are scientists whose names were paraded on some of the global warming publications that are being promoted in the media -- but who state plainly that they neither wrote those publications nor approved them.One scientist threatened to sue unless his name was removed.While the public has been led to believe that "all" the leading scientists buy the global warming hysteria and the political agenda that goes with it, in fact the official reports from the United Nations or the National Academy of Sciences are written by bureaucrats -- and then garnished with the names of leading scientists who were "consulted," but whose contrary conclusions have been ignored.There is no question that the globe is warming but it has warmed and cooled before, and is not as warm today as it was some centuries ago, before there were any automobiles and before there was as much burning of fossil fuels as today.None of the dire things predicted today happened then. CARTOONS | Jerry Holbert View CartoonThe British documentary goes into some of the many factors that have caused the earth to warm and cool for centuries, including changes in activities on the sun, 93 million miles away and wholly beyond the jurisdiction of the Kyoto treaty.According to these climate scientists, human activities have very little effect on the climate, compared to many other factors, from volcanoes to clouds.These climate scientists likewise debunk the mathematical models that have been used to hype global warming hysteria, even though hard evidence stretching back over centuries contradicts these models.What is even scarier than seeing how easily the public, the media, and the politicians have been manipulated and stampeded, is discovering how much effort has been put into silencing scientists who dare to say that the emperor has no clothes.Academics who jump on the global warming bandwagon are far more likely to get big research grants than those who express doubts -- and research is the lifeblood of an academic career at leading universities.Environmental movements around the world are committed to global warming hysteria and nowhere more so than on college and university campuses, where they can harass those who say otherwise. One of the scientists interviewed on the British documentary reported getting death threats.In politics, even conservative Republicans seem to have taken the view that, if you can't lick 'em, join 'em. So have big corporations, which have joined the stampede.This only enables the green crusaders to declare at every opportunity that "everybody" believes the global warming scenario, except for a scattered few "deniers" who are likened to Holocaust deniers.The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that is causing such hysteria, we have only a movie made by a politician and mathematical models whose results change drastically when you change a few of the arbitrarily selected variables.No one denies that temperatures are about a degree warmer than they were a century ago.What the climate scientists in the British documentary deny is that you can mindlessly extrapolate that, or that we are headed for a climate catastrophe if we don't take drastic steps that could cause an economic catastrophe."Global warming" is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible.

If you like conspiracy theories like the fake moon landings, 9/11 inside jobs, Elvis's death, then this is the documentary(?) for you. Almost every climate disinformation found on the web is 'copy and pasted' into this hour-long programme. And for bonus points, the programme takes the extra step of doctoring graphs and skipping relevant information to bolster its case. Take the case of the 'cosmic ray theory'... hmmm... stop the graph in 1980s... why... showing the rest would put a hole the size of the Grand Canyon in that claim; then there's the blatantly false 'volcanoes produce more CO2 than humans'claim, which was quickly removed after the first edition; or the CO2 lagging crock peddled on the denial websites... The rest I'm not even going to bother because I don't think there are enough gigabytes on the IMDb servers.This travesty is narrated by Martin Durkin, a producer with a history of releasing refutable documentaries, featuring an entire host of questionable characters like Tim Ball, credential fudging professor of the Climatology Department at the University of Winnipeg. Only problem is, Ball was a professor of geography and there was never a climatology department at the University of Winnipeg; Piers Corbyn, who ran a weather predicting service that was so successful it went bankrupt; Fred Singer，a physicist who will say anything for a small fee. About the only characters worth their salt were Carl Wunsch and Eigil Friis- Christensen, both of whom lodged a complaint about this programme.But for extra laughs, the programme claims climate science is cooked up by scientists for funding purposes and it is a greenie scam to hamper African development, except that wouldn't be so funny because the people who are going to suffer most from a changing climate are those in the Third World. If this was a documentary and if it was serious about doing an expose, Durkin could have done an investigation into the millions of dollars spent by the Koch brothers and Exxon just on climate disinformation.I'd give this programme negative rating if IMDb would allow it but as it is, I gave it one star for its comedy value. Watch it but bear in mind, there is no scientific value in this, just a mish mesh of incoherent conspiracies and factual inaccuracies.

I've been doing a lot of research on this matter. And even though more facts affirm global warming, this documentary was refreshing to me because I always appreciate different perspectives.My main point: It is a wrong idea that environmentalists are evil. I personally, don't care much if the earth is warming or cooling as these are long term effects. I'm more concerned about the present - I do want a clean earth and preservation of ecosystems for aesthetic and practical reasons. So global warming or not, it's the pollution I'm worried about which is irrefutable and overly apparent. Now I'm an engineer and a nature friendly guy. It's a wrong idea that we're against development. I do want development but I just want technology that doesn't pollute. Such technology is development and progression itself.Secondly the anti-Africa theory is apparently a valid point. But also it should be understood that there might not be any conspiracy at all. Maybe an underdeveloped Africa would just be a consequence if exploitation of oil and gas was to be stopped completely; but that doesn't necessarily mean that preventing development in Africa is a motive to the people behind this supposed global warming propaganda.

It's about time someone blew the whistle on global warming. There is no data to prove that global warming is true and never have been. It is comical that the only reason global warming ever came about was because england needed to find an alternative power source so that the coal miners could never strike and disrupt englands power supply.It is stupid how much money we spend on global warming each year, BILLIONS and BILLIONS of dollars on something that has no proof. Is the world getting warmer, seems to me its getting colder each year not warmer, No proof has ever existed that the earth is getting warmer OR that global warming is the reason. YOU CANNOT prove global warming is caused by humans and not just a natural occurrence of the earth.This movie is great and although the billions of dollars will never be put into hospitals and much other needed research but we can only hope.