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'Global Warming Is Lies' Claims Documentary
Sunday, 4th March 2007, 11:04
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 worlds 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 dont believe you its 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.
"Its 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 Earths 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 UNs 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 worlds poorest people should have the worlds most
expensive form of form of energy really saying they cant have electricity."
Gary Calder, a former editor of New Scientist, is featured in the programme,
and has just released a book claiming that clouds are the real reason behind
climate change.
The Chilling Stars was written with Danish scientist Henrik Svensmark who
published a scientific paper, claiming cosmic rays cause clouds to form,
reducing the global temperature. The theory is shown in the programme.
Mr Calder said: "Henrik Svensmark saw that cloudiness varies according to how
many atomic particles are coming in from exploded stars - when there are more
cosmic rays, there are more clouds.
"However, solar winds bat away many of the cosmic rays and the sun is currently
in its most active phase, which would be an explanation for global warming.
"I am a science journalist and in my career I have been told by eminent
scientists that black holes do not exist and it is impossible that continents
move, but in science the experts are usually wrong.
"For me this is a cracking science story I dont come from any political
position and Im certainly not funded by the multinationals, although my bank
manager would like me to be.
"I talk to scientists and come up with one story, and Al Gore talks to another
set of scientists and comes up with a different story.
"So knowing which scientists to talk to is part of the skill. Some, who appear
to be disinterested, are themselves getting billions of dollars of research
money from the government.
"The few millions of dollars of research money from multinationals cant compare
to government funding, so you find the American scientific establishment is all
for man-made global warming.
"We have the same situation in Britain The governments chief scientific advisor
Sir David King is supposed to be the representative of all that is good in
British science, so it is disturbing he and the government are ignoring a raft
of evidence against the greenhouse effect being the main driver against climate
change."
The programme shows how the global warming research drive began when Margaret
Thatcher gave money to scientists to prove burning coal and oil was harmful, as
part of her drive for nuclear power.
Philip Stott, professor emeritus of biogeography at the School of Oriental and
African Studies in London , who also features in the film warned the issue was
too complex to be down to one single factor, whether CO2 or clouds.
He said: "The greenhouse effect theory worried me from the start because you
cant say that just one factor can have this effect.
"The system is too complex to say exactly what the effect of cutting back on
CO2 production would be, or indeed of continuing to produce CO2.
"Its ridiculous to see politicians arguing over whether they will allow the
global temperature to rise by 2C or 3C."
Mr Stott said the film could mark the point where scientists advocating the
greenhouse effect theory, began to lose the argument.
He continued: "It is a brave programme at the moment to give excluded voices
their say, and maybe it is just the beginning.
"At the moment, there is almost a McCarthyism movement in science where the
greenhouse effect is like a puritanical religion and this is dangerous."
In the programme Nigel Calder says: "The greenhouse effect is seen as a
religion and if you dont agree, you are a heretic.
He added: "However, I think this programme will help further debate and
scientists not directly involved in global warming studies may begin to study
what is being said, become more open-minded and more questioning, but this will
happen slowly."
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