Global Warming Documentary: Not The One You Think

If science is ever to triumph over the politics of self interest and distain for mankind with regards to the global warming issue, perhaps that process will begin with a documentary to be shown Thursday on Britain's Channel 4 titled The Great Global Warming Swindle. The broadcaster's website tells us that "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 Institute Pasteur, the Danish National Space Center and the Universities of London, Ottawa, Jerusalem, Winnipeg, Alabama and Virginia."

An interesting Washington Timesarticle on the program quotes filmmaker Martin Durkin as saying that global warming "is a multibillion-dollar worldwide industry, created by fanatically anti-industrial environmentalists, supported by scientists peddling scare stories to chase funding, and propped up by compliant politicians and the media." The newspaper story also relates a remark of Philip Stott, professor emeritus of biogeography at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, who maintains that “at the moment, there is almost a McCarthyism movement in science where the greenhouse effect is like a puritanical religion, and this is dangerous.”