Comments on New Channel 4 film

"The Great Global Warming Swindle"

Polemical film challenging the consensus that man-made CO2 is heating up
the earth. Featuring leading academics, the film questions the science
behind the accepted reasons for global warming and argues other explanations
for climate change are not being properly aired.

Bringing together the arguments of leading scientists who disagree with the
prevailing view that carbon dioxide, released by human activity, is the
cause of rising global temperatures, the film highlights recent research
that the effect of the sun's radiation on the atmosphere may be a better
explanation for the regular swings of climate. The film argues that the
earth's climate is always changing, and that rapid warmings and coolings
took place long before the burning of fossil fuels. It contends that the
present single-minded focus on reducing carbon emissions not only may have
little impact on climate change; it may also have the unintended consequence
of stifling development in the third world, prolonging endemic poverty and
disease. The film features an impressive roll-call of experts, including
nine professors - experts in climatology, oceanography, meteorology,
environmental science, biogeography and paleoclimatology - from such
reputable institutions as MIT, NASA, the International Arctic Research
Centre, the Institut Pasteur, the Danish National Space Center and the
Universities of London, Ottawa, Jerusalem, Winnipeg, Alabama and Virginia.

Director: Martin Durkin. Production: Wag TV

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