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The Great Global Warming Swindle (DVD)

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In the first ten minutes of this video, the whole premise of "man-made" global warming is not only refuted, but the whole theory is proven to be BACKWARDS from the science. The ONLY piece of real scientific evidence in "Inconvenient Truth" was misinterpreted and misused by Al Gore (the rest is political diatribe, scare stories and religious sermonizing), and actually proves the opposite of what he claims! The best part of this film, though, is the way it talks about the gross immorality of adopting the alarmists' recommendations and unnecessarily condemning the Third World to more poverty, disease and death.

I know this DVD has only recently been released, so I will warn everyone now that some of the following reviews will be highly negative, posted by Al Gore's True Believers determined not to allow any other viewpoint to be expressed. Whatever they say should not necessarily be believed. View this film, verify the sources, and you can make up your own mind. I expect you will find yourself convinced, and a bit angry at the swindlers and their high-handed tactics.

And thank God for that! One of the scientists here describes the furor surrounding global warming skepticism as being "a story of anger and intimidation." Absolutely, that's the way the left fights its battles and his words will resonate loudly with conservatives. Whenever one questions politically correct isms or sacred causes it automatically results in attacks on your person and character. This documentary was absolutely outstanding though and I heartily recommend it. I got my copy from the Heartland Institute and will be passing it on to my friends.

I bought into global warming for 20 years (no joke) and I'm sorry to admit it. Of course, like the scientists here I believe in global warming as a phenomenon but believe that most of what humans do has no impact upon it. These 70 minutes are chock full of valid and excellent points; one of which is that climate is never stable. That's obvious on its face but global warming proponents rely on the notion that fluctuations evidence abnormality, but the earth's temperature is constantly moving in one direction or another.

The Great Global Warming Swindle lacks the production values of An Inconvenient Truth, but it offers an abundance of logical arguments--all of which are more convincing and powerful than what you'll find in the Al Gore flick. The ideas the scientists proffer here directly clash with conventional thinking, and that's a very good thing. Unlike what you'll hear from the mainstream media we discover that temperature changes produce carbon dioxide fluctuations as opposed to it being the other way around. We also find that solar activity, and not CO2, is the principal predictor of the earth's temperature. Therefore, what humans do is largely irrelevant given the force and size of the sun.

The film succeeds in illuminating the ways in which this topic has become entirely politicized over the course of the last two decades. That the Bush administration ended a long line of American resistance to this dogma is a regrettable. To our misfortune, with a Democrat or John McCain taking office in November the future promises carbon taxes and the purposeful derailing of our economy. My only hope is that more people read the contrarian books out there on the subject and see this film. Maybe we can mitigate some of the damage the government will inflict by, yet again, attempting to "solve" a problem that is not a problem at all.

This documentary is essential if you want to get to some light in the global warming "debate" led (meaning guided but not Light-Emitting-Debate) by the new Nobel prize winner Al Gore. Al Gore's film is not a documentary because it does not take into account any alternative hypothesis or model that could in any way jeopardize his own approach. This here film is a documentary because it does take into account several approaches and it is always referring to the CO2 hypothesis and the IPCC process. This documentary brings forward a whole set of scientific research that question the CO2 hypothesis and bring forward other hypotheses. It is thus essential if we want to know more than what we are allowed to absorb from the standard point of view that has become politically correct. Then it is also essential because it acknowledges the fact that all climatologists work on models and that models are not reality but only a tool for us to analyze and interpret reality, but a tool that tends to project onto reality the a priori vision that the model contains. The third important contribution of this documentary is the historical dimension it takes and develops. It connects several historical events and political motivations and shows how these had to bring forward the present CO2 approach. Margaret Thatcher's distrust of the Mine Workers' Union, hence coal, and of the Middle East, hence oil, made her invest in nuclear power. The miracle of North Sea oil exploited by the English intensively and wastefully. The fall of the Berlin Wall and the recycling of left-wing militants from communism to anti-capitalistic ecology or whatever. It also insists on the fact that the West's desire to limit development is particularly egocentric and selfish because it means to maintain the undeveloped areas of the planet in un-development: the documentary gives examples of the deadly consequences of the lack of electricity in Africa. It also rebukes the pretension that malaria is a southern, hence tropical disease, what's more only at low altitudes. Yet it is not complete. One thing is missing at least. It is BP who is selling solar panels in ex-English colonies and Total is said to detain the similar license in France. This means the present campaign against CO2 corresponds to the change in strategy of these enormous corporations that have worked essentially in oil and now are preparing the after-oil future. At the same time the documentary is slightly short. There is no reason whatsoever to pollute when we can be clean, and that for two main reasons, first if pollution can be avoided it is ethical to avoid it, and it is also economical to do so because we can thus save on the cost of post-pollution cleaning up. But yet this documentary is essential for us to start seeing some light in the total darkness of the anti-CO2 faith-requiring religious campaign.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines

This excellent documentary is a proper antidote for the fraud perpetrated by the Drive-by media and Al Gore about global warming. It seems that scientific opinion about the dangers of man-made global warming are not quite as unanimous as we have been told. This effort lends some perspective to the debate... or at least it reveals that there is legitimately a debate on this issue that is far from settled.

Despite Al Gore's elementary school level presentation style, after watching An Inconvenient Truth, I became very concerned about our planet's future. Full of vigor, I started researching the information presented. I experienced a full range of emotions as I slowly began to discover that the film was full of intentional distortions and exagerations.

In the end I now feel mostly embarrassed that I could have been so easily manipulated by the documentary equivalent of Merideth Wilson's, The Music Man. Fortunately, I have a sense of humor about my own vulnerabilities.

Much of what I discovered during my research is presented in The Great Global Swindle. The video is well researched and well presented. It's arguments are coherant and easy to follow, and easy to verify. The implications raised are far scarier to me than the doom predicted in An Inconvenient Truth.

My emotions and millions of others have been manipulated by Al Gore's, An Inconvenient Truth. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for God's sake. Billions and quite possibly Trillions of dollars are in jeopardy of being wasted in a futile attempt to influence the global climate. At the same time hundreds of millions of people are suffering and dying in under-developed countries. We are essentially sacrificing the futures of millions of children while we pursue pure fantasy based on flawed beliefs justified by junk science.

How far have we really progressed since a time when human sacrifices were made to the Gods? What lessons have we learned from the propoganda campains that made it possible for the most evil dictators of the 20th century to murder millions of innocents? I don't think we have come very far and that is what really scares me.

Finally, a documentary countering Al Gore's eco-hysteria. Very well done, supported by strong research. The documentary is quite entertaining and directed towards the general public.

In this documentary, you will see that:
a) there is no "scientific consensus" on the issue of man-made global warming. In fact, there are many scientists that consider the theory of man-made global warming to be simply untenable when confronted by the data.
b) there have been periods in relatively recent human history, with much warmer climate, such as the Medieval Warm Period.
c) the Earth's climate is not, has never been and will never be, something static. The Earth's climate is very dynamic, and is always changing. That's why we have had so many episodes of ice ages, then warming, then ice age again, then warming, and so on.
d) the paleoclimatic evidence so often cited by Al Gore and the eco-alarmists, when analyzed deeper, shows that the ice-core records reveal something very different from what these eco-alarmists pretend. Those ice-core records show that the changes in the atmospheric concentration of CO2 do not precede, but FOLLOW the warming or cooling of the Earth's atmosphere. This lagging effect has been calculated to be of approximately 800 years. Thus, it is not CO2 that is driving climate change, but in any case it is the other way round.
e) you will learn of a very interesting alternative hypothesis that explores the role of the Sun on climate change.

And many other things that you should know.

This is a well done and informative response to Al Gore and many on the alarmist side of the issue. I have been working in environmental biology for 13 years at the University of California. My job requires me to attend more conferences than I care to year in and year out. I know of no scientist that would agree the issue is settled, or that the extreme measures being pursued by the alarmists would have any affect. I suggest you read as many peer reviewed articles and research the issue on your own. This is a great place to start, but don't stop here, keep digging and form your own opinion.

I had seen the shorter version in low quality video on the net, and I had been wating for this to appear on DVD. It is worth every penny, and I plan on buying more copies for my friends. Highly recommended.

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Don't some people and/or their views get right up your nose?

#FIRSTLY, there are those who bravely fly in the face of popular political, press and public opinion. And for this I applaud the makers of these two DVD releases ['The Great Global Warming Swindle' and 'Global Warming Or Global Governance?'], and the appearances in them of those who swim against the tide of the rotten filth that is being spoon fed to the gullible masses of humanity. Indeed, why don't some people think things through for themselves with clarity and sobriety? For example, have you ever noticed just how one-sided the global warming argument is from almost every form of man made communication? All other views appear to be wrong, irrelevant, ignored or heretical. But remember this, that there is NOT an overwhelming consensus of opinion (as the global warming brainwashers would have us believe), as the documentary 'Global Warming or Global Governance?' clearly shows us. A reason for the 'anti global warming' gag is revealed when that documentary describes to us a hidden global agenda. Again, in this other documentary 'The Great Global Warming Swindle', it is explained to us in general terms just WHO is involved in the creation of the reports that are churned out by the IPCC, and what levels of expertise in a particular field the contributors may or apparently may not be suitably qualified in. And in the other GWGG documentary we discover in specific terms exactly HOW those reports are constructed. Anyone with an honourable conscience should be both appalled and alarmed by the modus operandi of this politically driven, government sponsored and corrupt organization.

#SECONDLY, there are those who sadly are perhaps either unwilling, unable, stiff necked, arrogant or morally dishonest in their opposition to plain and sensible facts regarding the current man made global warming fallacy -and sadly there are plenty of them around. For this reason many will choke on the "Unequivocal" [an IPCC/Gore buzzword] evidence that is presented in these two rather excellent documentaries. The extras section of the GWSwindle DVD contains some very good additional material. For example, there is a lecture entitled 'Some Real Science', regarding the natural cycles of the sun/weather etc. Not only does this classroom lecture act as an articulate and expert summary explanation and restatement of evidence submitted in the documentary, but it is also factual evidence which generally, we the public are not being told.

#THIRDLY, - Fact 1. The Norsemen [Vikings] did not migrate to Greenland and enjoy the good weather there as a result of 'man made' global warming. Fact 2. At the present time Australia is suffering its worst drought in over a hundred years, but obviously 'man made' global warming could not possibly have caused the previous one. Fact 3. Apparently, Australia is one of the world's hottest, driest continents. Fact 4. believe it or not but living as I do on the North East coast of England right beside the North sea, we over here are currently experiencing 'global cooling', with not even a hint of warming anywhere - but then, this has been the case for a number of centuries over here at this time of year. Perhaps the IPCC will come and turn up the heat for us?

#LASTLY, for those of you who are wondering why Amazon removed the title 'Global Warming Or Global Governance?' from its store, and would like a copy of it, the address on the World Wide Web can be found when you join all the words of the DVD title together but remove the word 'or' [and don't forget the dot and the com]. Alternatively - have a root around the World Wide Web for americanvision where it is listed in their top ten products. I would also recommend GWSwindle and GWGG as being good and complimentary companions to each other.

It is not unlikely that the contents of this review will irritate a plethora of people. No doubt it will probably get a lot of 'unhelpful' hits, particularly by those whose attitudes I have described in my 'second' point. But really friends, I for one could not care less just how far up other peoples proverbial noses the GWSwindle, GWGG and me may or may not get. Like you the reader, I too only desire the unadulterated truth. Global Warming or Global Governance? (DVD)

I have grown very tired of listening to politicians and activists promote their man-made climate change agendas without proper regard for the underlying science. Finally, we have an opportunity in the "The Great Global Warming Swindle" to hear from such professors as Lindzen, Christy, Ball, Michaels, Stott and others. These scientists are truly faithful to the scientific method and lay out that information so that a layperson can understand the theory of man-made climate change. When one can examine the real data, one sees just how unsupported this theory is. It is also very illuminating to see what the IPCC process really was and how many important scientists objected to the published summary and tried to get their names removed from the report. Martin Durkin has performed a great service to us by presenting these important issues in this very powerful documentary. If you have watched Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, as I have, you need to watch Swindle as well.