Global Warming Swindle

By Thomas Sowell

Thursday, March 15, 2007


Britain's Channel 4 has produced a devastating documentary titled "The Great Global Warming Swindle." It has apparently not been broadcast by any of the networks in the United States. But, fortunately, it is available on the Internet.

Distinguished scientists specializing in climate and climate-related fields talk in plain English and present readily understood graphs showing what a crock the current global warming hysteria is.

These include scientists from MIT and top-tier universities in a number of countries. Some of these are scientists whose names were paraded on some of the global warming publications that are being promoted in the media -- but who state plainly that they neither wrote those publications nor approved them.

One scientist threatened to sue unless his name was removed.

While the public has been led to believe that "all" the leading scientists buy the global warming hysteria and the political agenda that goes with it, in fact the official reports from the United Nations or the National Academy of Sciences are written by bureaucrats -- and then garnished with the names of leading scientists who were "consulted," but whose contrary conclusions have been ignored.

There is no question that the globe is warming but it has warmed and cooled before, and is not as warm today as it was some centuries ago, before there were any automobiles and before there was as much burning of fossil fuels as today.

None of the dire things predicted today happened then.

The British documentary goes into some of the many factors that have caused the earth to warm and cool for centuries, including changes in activities on the sun, 93 million miles away and wholly beyond the jurisdiction of the Kyoto treaty.

According to these climate scientists, human activities have very little effect on the climate, compared to many other factors, from volcanoes to clouds.
These climate scientists likewise debunk the mathematical models that have been used to hype global warming hysteria, even though hard evidence stretching back over centuries contradicts these models.

What is even scarier than seeing how easily the public, the media, and the politicians have been manipulated and stampeded, is discovering how much effort has been put into silencing scientists who dare to say that the emperor has no clothes.

Academics who jump on the global warming bandwagon are far more likely to get big research grants than those who express doubts -- and research is the lifeblood of an academic career at leading universities.

Environmental movements around the world are committed to global warming hysteria and nowhere more so than on college and university campuses, where they can harass those who say otherwise. One of the scientists interviewed on the British documentary reported getting death threats.

In politics, even conservative Republicans seem to have taken the view that, if you can't lick 'em, join 'em. So have big corporations, which have joined the stampede.

This only enables the green crusaders to declare at every opportunity that "everybody" believes the global warming scenario, except for a scattered few "deniers" who are likened to Holocaust deniers.

The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that is causing such hysteria, we have only a movie made by a politician and mathematical models whose results change drastically when you change a few of the arbitrarily selected variables.

No one denies that temperatures are about a degree warmer than they were a century ago.

What the climate scientists in the British documentary deny is that you can mindlessly extrapolate that, or that we are headed for a climate catastrophe if we don't take drastic steps that could cause an economic catastrophe.

"Global warming" is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible.




Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and author of Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy.
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Yup,

Here is an update:

Too many journalists and scientists have built their careers on the global-warming alarm. Certain newspapers have staked their reputation on it. The death of this theory will be painful and ugly. But it will die. Because it is wrong, wrong, wrong.
'The global-warmers were bound to attack, but why are they so feeble?' | Uk News | News | Telegraph

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I agree, but still believe that a cleaner earth will be a better, healthier one.

I also don't think it's much of a swindle. There will always be people that will worry more than others... but just because it's happened before does not mean that it isn't going to have catastrophic consequences for the human race. We have more populace, more built-up areas than we did 1500 years ago. Less trees to aid us in oxygen development, hardly any barrier reef left at all... We also have better ability at keeping records, and I believe that with each year the death toll due to climate is going to rise dramatically.

We modern humans thrive on crisis and seeing as we haven't had a major world war for a few years, the next major civilization killer is natural disasters. I believe there is some truth in Global Warming, but there are other factors involved let alone mans contribution.

Hi H3 welcome aboard, I largely agree with your post...



Yes, skunky, I think we agree about wanting a cleaner planet.

Regardless of climate direction, it is highly debatable whether we humans can do anything about it...the earth does what it does with or without human consent or cooperation.
It is wise to try and conserve the environment, and I can see the results of the effort to do this here in my country.
The real problem with pollution is from the so called developing nations, many of which happen to be reckless polluters.

Gore’s appearance today on the hill exemplifies his lack of ability to say anything other than “the debate is over”. It’s settled…etc. etc. it is like a silly mantra.
Rules were changed for this charlatan….seems like a political pep rally was what the chicken littles were interested in conducting...
The need for open public debate about all of the angles of this issue is necessary to expose the scientific lapses in Gore’s huckster spiel!

We’ll see!

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I watched the whole thing on Cspan, and he did not say anything that is credible.... Kind of funny how things turn out when you can't read a script.

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I think it's a shame that a politician is using global warming as a leverage to get more votes, of course he might actually believe that global warming could actually be stopped, or slowed down.

Also, this warming is happening quicker than ever before. I'm not sure if we are responsible for this, maybe Al Gore isn't either. Is he aware of what he is doing? Meaning, did he realise from the beginning that this will be a vote winner?

The greens have won a major victory with this. Fear is an excellent way of getting people under control.

did he realise from the beginning that this will be a vote winner?


Gore is using this issue to worm more government control into our lives. that's all he wants to do. to him, and others like him, government is the biggest, best, most lucrative industry in the world and he wants to be on the "board of directors".

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Just another way to tax, regulate, and control a (for the most part) free people. .................................................. ...Indie.

Excellent post VI. Yes it is true that Al Gore's now claim to fame is bull shit. You have to see who profits from it at the end of the day. Why is it that his views are so main stream, while the people who deny are basically silenced. I read an article about a college professor who was told by his university that he could not express his views on global warming because the government gave the college grants. Meaning he could not say that global warming was NOT caused by humans, but by naturally occurring events.

You can not trust a globalist who will most definitely in the future try and create a tax to "help rid global warming" when in fact will help the globalists gain more power and have more money in their pockets. They can not accept the fact that the temperature on Mars has raised as well meaning that there is something going on with the sun, not because humans are creating it. In fact, humans only produce about 10% (if less) of the entire world's CO2 exhaust. It is really sad to see such an asshole manipulate the entire world.....well almost the entire world.

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