I recommend watching the following new film which I became aware of a few days ago through former U.S. television meteorologist, Anthony Watts’s website, Watts Up With That?
This film exposes the climate alarm as an invented scare without any basis in science. It shows that mainstream studies and official data do not support the claim that we are witnessing an increase in extreme weather events – hurricanes, droughts, heatwaves, wildfires and all the rest. It emphatically counters the claim that current temperatures and levels of atmospheric CO2 are unusually and worryingly high. On the contrary, it is very clearly the case, as can be seen in all mainstream studies, that, compared to the last half billion years of earth’s history, both current temperatures and CO2 levels are extremely and unusually low. We are currently in an ice age. It also shows that there is no evidence that changing levels of CO2 (it has changed many times) has ever ‘driven’ climate change in the past.
Why then, are we told, again and again, that ‘catastrophic man-made climate-change’ is an irrefutable fact? Why are we told that there is no evidence that contradicts it? Why are we told that anyone who questions ‘climate chaos’ is a ‘flat-earther’ and a ‘science-denier’?
The film explores the nature of the consensus behind climate change. It describes the origins of the climate funding bandwagon, and the rise of the trillion-dollar climate industry. It describes the hundreds of thousands of jobs that depend on the climate crisis. It explains the enormous pressure on scientists and others not to question the climate alarm: the withdrawal of funds, rejection by science journals, social ostracism.
But the climate alarm is much more than a funding and jobs bandwagon. The film explores the politics of climate. From the beginning, the climate scare was political. The culprit was free-market industrial capitalism. The solution was higher taxes and more regulation. From the start, the climate alarm appealed to, and has been adopted and promoted by, those groups who favour bigger government.
This is the unspoken political divide behind the climate alarm. The climate scare appeals especially to all those in the sprawling publicly-funded establishment. This includes the largely publicly-funded Western intelligentsia, for whom climate has become a moral cause. In these circles, to criticise or question the climate alarm has become a breach of social etiquette.
The film was shot on location in the U.S., Israel, Kenya and UK.
The film includes interviews with a number of very prominent scientists, including Professor Steven Koonin (author of ‘Unsettled’, a former provost and vice-president of Caltech), Professor Dick Lindzen (formerly professor of meteorology at Harvard and MIT), Professor Will Happer (professor of physics at Princeton), Dr John Clauser (winner of the Nobel prize in Physics in 2022), Professor Nir Shaviv (Racah Institute of Physics) and others.
MARTIN DURKIN
Martin Durkin has produced, directed and executive produced hundreds of hours of documentaries and TV for broadcasters around the world, including Discovery, National Geographic and many others. The company he founded and ran was, for a while, the single biggest producer of shows for the Science Channel and Discovery Networks International. His various documentaries have won many awards and he has served on the steering committee of the World Congress of Science Producers, the Edinburgh Television Festival, and as a judge for the Bafta and Royal Television Society awards.
TOM NELSON
Tom Nelson is a podcaster who has been deeply examining climate debate issues for the better part of two decades. On the Tom Nelson Podcast in the fall of 2022, Martin expressed a desire to remake 2007’s “The Great Global Warming Swindle”, and that kicked off a successful effort to do just that. Many of the scientists interviewed in Climate: The Movie have done lengthy interviews for the Tom Nelson Podcast.
At one point last week, Climate The Movie had been removed from Vimeo but I see that is there now. Just it goes down again you can also watch it on YouTube, at least for now.
It is notable that the The Great Global Warming Swindle film “caused controversy in the UK when it premiered March 8, 2007 on British Channel 4.”
About The Great Global Warming Swindle film:
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 jeopardising careers."
Contributors to The Great Global Warming Swindle include:
The late Professor Tim Ball - Dept. of Climatology - University of Winnepeg, Canada
Professor Nir Shaviv - Institute of Physics - University of Jerusalem, Israel
Professor Ian Clark - Dept. of Earth Sciences - University of Ottawa, Canada
Professor John Christy - Dept. of Atmospheric Science - University of Alabama, Huntsville - Lead Author, IPCC (NASA Medal - Exceptional Scientific Achievement)
Professor Philip Stott - Dept of Biogeography - University of London, UK
Al Gore - Former Presidental Candidate
Margaret Thatcher - Global-Warming Promoter
Professor Paul Reiter - IPCC & Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
Professor Richard Lindzen - IPCC & M.I.T.
Patrick Moore - Co-Founder - Greenpeace
Dr. Roy Spencer - Weather Satellite Team Leader - NASA
Professor Patrick Michaels - Department of Environmental Sciences - University of Virginia, US
Nigel Calder - Former Editor - New Scientist
James Shikwati - Economist & Author
Lord Lawson of Blaby - Secretary of Energy - UK Parliament Investigator, UK
Professor Syun-Ichi Akasofu - Director, International Arctic Research Centre
Professor Fredrick Singer - Former Director, US National Weather Service
Professor Carl Wunsch - Dept. of Oceanography - M.I.T., Harvard, University College, London, University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Eigil Friis-Christensen - Director, Danish National Space Centre
Dr. Roy Spencer - NASA Weather Satellite Team Leader
Paul Driessen - Author: Green Power, Black Death
In my opinion, The Great Global Warming Swindle film is worth watching if you haven’t seen it before.
Dr. John Constable’s work is highly recommended as is his new short film which is included in this previous post:
