There has been a tonne of global warming threads here lately. While they have lots of people posting with positions, I didn't really "learn" anything from them. I went out and sought some videos to learn more about it and this is one that I found on google videos.
The Great Global Warming Swindle
A great little piece of work. 1 hr, 15 mins.
The premise of the video is that global warming is real but that it isn't man-made. It goes on to explore how evidence suggests that the activities of the Sun are what controls the earth's rising temperature.
The documentary shows that the temperature went up significantly up to 1940 while human-generated carbon dioxide was actually low (relative to the post-war boom). And that during the post-war economic boom the temperature actually fell for 35 years while carbon dioxide rose (1940->1975).
Also investigates the actual atmospheric evidence that while greenhouse warming model should produce more warming in the middle of the troposphere (altitude of 10km), the evidence shows the warming that has occurred is on the surface (satellite and weather balloon data shows that surface temperatures are warming more than upper air temperatures). This means that the warming is unlikely to be caused by greenhouse gases.
The video charges that higher temperatures cause higher levels of co2 in the atmosphere rather than the other way around (ala the human-driven global warming phenomenon).
Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace explains that to remain confrontational and anti-establishment they adopted more extreme positions. Environmental extremism emerged when communism failed and the Berlin Wall fell while people moved into the environmental movement to "...use green language in a very clever way to cloak agendas that actually have more to do with anti-capitalism and anti-globalization than they do with anything ecology or science." Another of the interviewed states that the failure of socialism and communism required them to find a "new guise for anti-capitalism".
Finally it goes on to explore how the large amounts of money have distorted the scientific approach and the IPCC is a largely bully organization that is corrupt in many ways (explored in the video--watch and find out all the bits).
It contains interviews from some scientists from recognized institutes (MIT, NASA to name a few) and shows some evidence from Harvard astrophysicists.
I thought the video was very interesting and at least worth watching. (I'm going to try and watch the alternative view--Gore's movie, next. Tried once but I fell asleep about 10 minutes into it
)
The Great Global Warming Swindle
A great little piece of work. 1 hr, 15 mins.
The premise of the video is that global warming is real but that it isn't man-made. It goes on to explore how evidence suggests that the activities of the Sun are what controls the earth's rising temperature.
The documentary shows that the temperature went up significantly up to 1940 while human-generated carbon dioxide was actually low (relative to the post-war boom). And that during the post-war economic boom the temperature actually fell for 35 years while carbon dioxide rose (1940->1975).
Also investigates the actual atmospheric evidence that while greenhouse warming model should produce more warming in the middle of the troposphere (altitude of 10km), the evidence shows the warming that has occurred is on the surface (satellite and weather balloon data shows that surface temperatures are warming more than upper air temperatures). This means that the warming is unlikely to be caused by greenhouse gases.
The video charges that higher temperatures cause higher levels of co2 in the atmosphere rather than the other way around (ala the human-driven global warming phenomenon).
Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace explains that to remain confrontational and anti-establishment they adopted more extreme positions. Environmental extremism emerged when communism failed and the Berlin Wall fell while people moved into the environmental movement to "...use green language in a very clever way to cloak agendas that actually have more to do with anti-capitalism and anti-globalization than they do with anything ecology or science." Another of the interviewed states that the failure of socialism and communism required them to find a "new guise for anti-capitalism".
Finally it goes on to explore how the large amounts of money have distorted the scientific approach and the IPCC is a largely bully organization that is corrupt in many ways (explored in the video--watch and find out all the bits).
It contains interviews from some scientists from recognized institutes (MIT, NASA to name a few) and shows some evidence from Harvard astrophysicists.
I thought the video was very interesting and at least worth watching. (I'm going to try and watch the alternative view--Gore's movie, next. Tried once but I fell asleep about 10 minutes into it
)
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