The Great Global Warming Swindle caused controversy in the UK when it premiered March 8, 2007 on British Channel 4. A documentary, by British television producer Martin Durkin, which argues against the virtually unchallenged consensus that global warming is man-made. A statement from the makers of this film asserts that the scientific theory of anthropogenic global warming could very well be “the biggest scam of modern times.” According to Martin Durkin the chief cause of climate change is not human activity but changes in radiation from the sun. Some have called The Great Global Warming Swindle the definitive retort to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. Using a comprehensive range of evidence it’s claimed that warming over the past 300 years represents a natural recovery from a ‘little ice age’.
According to the program humans do have an effect on climate but it’s infinitesimally small compared with the vast natural forces which are constantly pushing global temperatures this way and that. From melting glaciers and rising sea levels, The Great Global Warming Swindle debunks the myths, and exposes what may well prove to be the darkest chapter in the history of mankind. According to a group of leading scientists brought together by documentary maker Martin Durkin everything you’ve ever been told about global warming is probably untrue. Just as we’ve begun to take it for granted that climate change is a man-made phenomenon, Durkin’s documentary slays the whole premise of global warming.
“Global warming has become a story of huge political significance; environmental activists using scare tactics to further their cause; scientists adding credence to secure billions of dollars in research money; politicians after headlines and a media happy to play along. No-one dares speak against it for risk of being unpopular, losing funds and jeopardizing careers.”
@ Sebastien Zorn:
No problem… you axcuzed. I betcha det culumbis still don’t now what he started..
One of my keys is misbehaving. to get it to work (the “i”) I have to press it several times very hard then it works at a touch 3-4 times then it won’t..the same thing over again. I’ve picked under it with a thinned down tooth-pick, got out a little fluff but made no difference.. I’d take the letter top off if I could be sure to get it back on again, which I’m not.
@ Edgar G.:
Chit chat was probably closed for Columbus Day, oh, excuse me, Indigenous People’s Day.
@ david melech:
This should be in Chit Chat but it’s closed.
My maternal uncle was the Labour Candidate for Huyton for years, a doctor who treated the poor free all his life, and a shoo in whether Labour won or not. Near the end of the election campaign, his partner ran away with his wife, and in those days, the proper thing to do was to resign and withdraw. This he did.
His replacement was Harold Wilson. My uncle’s son to date has been Lord Mayor of Liverpool 3-4 times already. A top league table tennis player, it krenked him like poison that I ALWAYS beat him comfortably. No sense of humour, with tremendous will to win, so just the right kind of pomposity to make the perfect Lord Mayor.
Which I believe he has been.
Martin married to a cousin of mine. she has both a degree in theology and law. her mother a secretary to P M Harold Wilson, her father an English barrister ( not the coffee maker type.) never made ‘queer cousin’ or Q C.