So that just about wraps it up for global warming

[alitalf]

I watched "The Great Global Warming Swindle" a couple of days ago. It increased my knowledge of some of the reasons I had already had doubts about the theory that human activity was causing any significant fraction of the climate change that is happening, as well as adding other reasons not to be a true believer.

Global warming caused by human activity seems to have many aspects including; a misunderstanding, a scam, an excuse to increase taxes, and a cult or a religion.

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[emperor]

Are you aware of the pedigree of the chap who made that film? He previously made a set of anti-global-warming films, about which the regulator upheld complaints that he deliberately distorted what interviewees said such that they appeared to support his thesis when in fact they opposed it. Furthermore, he appears to have done so again in making this film.

Ben Goldacre, who does the excellent Bad Science column in the Guardian, has written a couple of columns on the program, which you can find online here and here. Now, climatology is far from my specialty, but Dr Goldacre's commentry on science done in areas of my expertise in the past has always been very good, so I'd be inclined to give his comments considerable weight.

The Royal Society, not known for jumping on bandwagons, has a page on the issue, too.

The IPCC's latest summary for policymakers summarised a lot of the evidence on climate change into a short report.

[alitalf.livejournal.com]

After spending as long as I had available looking at the sources you cite, I have to say I am shocked and surprised that the programme appears to have faked one of the graphs used to make the case.

I haven't found anthing showing fakery in the other material so obviously, but it does throw doubt on the accuracy of other information put forward.

OTOH I had been sceptical about some of the claims about human effects on climate previously, though my best guess was that the actual effect of man was less than widely claimed, not that it was completely insignificant.