(If you'll pardon the pun!)
(A review of Channel 4's 'The Great Global Warming Swindle' which was televised on Channel 4 television, UK at 9PM on March 8th, 2007).
REVIEW QUOTE: "The 'Humanly-engineered global warming theory' is now an entire political activist movement which has been substantially infiltrated by 'green' neo-Marxists. Many of these people would like to see the end of our technologically-advanced society; they moved into environmentalism with the collapse of communism as they needed a new vehicle for their anti-capitalism."
“Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?”
Maurice Strong, Head of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
UK's Channel 4 television must be congratulated!
Ever-increasing pressure from aggressive Marxist-influenced environmentalists has meant that fewer and fewer people have been speaking out against the 'humanly-engineered global warming' hysteria - but many of us now know that the whole thing has gone much too far and that the real science has long since parted company with these global warming propagandists, so Channel Four's 'The Great Global Warming Swindle' (shown on Channel Four television, UK on March 8th 2007), has come at a most welcome time.
In this programme, Channel Four have produced a most compelling and 'watchable' television study which seeks to redress the balance back towards good old-fashioned common sense, free of all hype and sensationalism. They should also be congratulated for not attempting to squeeze this documentary programme into just an hour but deciding to give it a special 90 minute feature slot, with good advance publicity. Wisely, no attempt was made to air the views of just one or two disgruntled or embittered scientists, but a number of highly distinguished scientists and metereologists were chosen for interview. These men were assembled and given ample time to present the real science on this issue - at long last! Of course, many of us get very frustrated with the rapid 'cut and move on' style of much modern television editing and some of this was certainly in evidence but - for once - this was done very judiciously and effectively and the main points of argument against the hysteriaists were very clearly brought out.
While many of us who have been closely observing the antics of the global warming propagandists for some while will not have been surprised by much within the programme, there is little doubt that thousands of viewers who have been subjected to a continual daily dose of the propaganda for longer than they care to remember, will have been stunned at - not only the abundant evidence now available that the global warmers are just plain wrong - but the facts about the financial circus which has now developed from it.
Here are just some of the points which the programme brought out:
The 'Humanly-engineered global warming theory' is now an entire political activist movement which has been substantially infiltrated by 'green' neo-Marxists. Many of these people would like to see the end of our technologically-advanced society; they moved into environmentalism with the collapse of communism as they needed a new vehicle for their anti-capitalism. The whole thing is now largely media-driven with a pronounced accent on sensationalism in reporting.
CO2 gas (carbon dioxide) actually forms only a tiny part of our atmosphere, something like .045% (who would ever guess this from the sensational and apocalyptic-type reporting which have become so common?). A huge 95% of our atmosphere is water vapour. Of the CO2, things such as volcanoes and the seas of the world produce a huge part of it; it is extremely unlikely that human endeavours make any real contribution at all.
The world has already gone through both much colder and much hotter climatic phases even in the last thousand years. 1,000 years ago Greenland, for example, was much warmer than it is now. But then the 'Little Ice Age' came along. During the 'Little Ice Age' England's River Thames regularly froze over. That never happens now. But prior to that age, Europe had gone through a very warm phase - much warmer than at present! At that time, Chaucer tells us, vineyards flourished even in the rugged North of England (in Britain, vineyards now only really flourish in parts of southern England and South Wales).
1940-1975 was a cooling period with temperatures dropping all over the world, in fact, 1970s environmentalists were predicting a new ice age!! Yet if CO2 gases were really causing global warming, 1940-1975 should have been the period when the world should have been getting hotter! But all of these trends perfectly fit with the measurement of sun spot activity. Sun spot activity is far more likely to be the cause of the world's warmer and colder phases!
By the 1990s 'global warming' was big business! If the current
environmental theories were rejected tomorrow, many would be affected by
unemployment. Fact is, thousands are now making large sums of money out of
the hysteria and these people do not want stronger science on the issue to
become more available to the public; they appear to work hard in order to
further a scare-mongering and sensationalist approach. Today science researchers in
many fields know that they need to make the claim of a link to 'global warming studies' in
order to ensure generous funding for their projects - no link and little or no funding will result. Meanwhile those who
reject the theories, or who advise caution, are increasingly being sidelined
or even ostracized. [Something, unfortunately, not brought out in this otherwise excellent programme is that many British local councils are now spending large sums of tax-payer's money in employing environmental advisors and consultants whose task it is to advise the local councils on how to best assist government "carbon emissions" targets. This, at the same time that these same local councils have been reducing their spending on Britain's increasing elderly population, to widespread public outcry!
It is also hardly surprising that the British Meteorological Office and local Weather Centres' now employ certain weather forecasters who are 'environmental specialists' - when some of these people take their turn to deliver weather forecasts (at local, or national level), they will throw in unrequired 'Global Warming' comments whenever possible].
The developing Third World is now coming under great pressure from environmentalists not to modernize their technologies because of the "danger" of increasing CO2 in the atmosphere. In this way, a movement is gathering pace not to give technological assistance, or to pass on western 'know-how' to poor African and Asian countries. Is this not grossly unfair?
“Scientists who want to attract attention to themselves, who want to attract great funding to themselves, have to (find a) way to scare the public...”
Petr Chylek, Professor of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
These are not the only points which 'The Great Global Warming Swindle' brought out and the programme makers should be congratulated for having the daring and honesty to bring these facts to the wider general public who are becoming extremely tired of hype and sensationalism masquerading as science.
This is a Christian website and for two years I have been advising my fellow believers to avoid all association with the global warming propagandists since I have long known that this has become a political movement largely controlled by Marxists and Marxist sympathisers.
Robin A. Brace, 2007.
The reader may also wish to read this:
THE TRUTH ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING
UK APOLOGETICS