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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Global Warming Labeled A ‘Scam’

By Al Webb
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LONDON—With a packet of claims that are almost certain to defy conventional wisdom, a television documentary to be aired in Britain this week condemns man-made global warming as a myth that has become “the biggest scam of modern times.”
The program titled “The Great Global Warming Scandal” and set for screening by TV Channel 4 on Thursday dismisses claims that high levels of greenhouse gases generated by human activity causes climate change. Instead, the program suggests that the sun itself is the real culprit.
The documentary, directed by filmmaker Martin Durkin, is at odds with scientific opinion as outlined in a United Nations report in February, which blames mankind for global warming.
In his program, Mr. Durkin rejects the concept of man-made climate change, calling it “a lie ... the biggest scam of modern times.”
The truth, he says, is 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.”
Channel 4 says that the program features “an impressive roll-call of experts,” including nine professors, who are experts in climatology, oceanography, meteorology, biogeography and paleoclimatology.
It also says the experts come from prestigious institutions such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Pasteur Institute in Paris, the Danish National Space Center and universities and other schools in London, Ottawa, Jerusalem, Alabama, Virginia and Winnipeg, Canada.
“It’s very rare that a film changes history,” says Martin Durkin, “but I think this is a turning point, and in five years the idea that the greenhouse effect is the main reason behind global warming will be seen as total bunk,” he says.
His program collides sharply with the premise outlined in former Vice President Al Gore’s Oscar-winning documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth,” which presents a bleak picture of how a buildup in greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide affects the global climate, with potentially disastrous consequences.
“Al Gore might have won an Oscar,” says Mr. Durkin, in a preview of the documentary, “but the film is very misleading, and he has got the relationship between [carbon dioxide] and climate change the wrong way around.”

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It’s about time the truth came out on this.

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Well to be perfectly fair, I called it a scam before they did.

Sounds like a good movie.  I’ll pick it up somehow.


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on March 7, 2007 at 09:15 am

TW: Anyone who could think straight recognized it as a scam from the very beginning, but it’s good to see it getting that sort of attention in the public media.


If life doesn’t begin at conception, why do they call it birth control?

robert108 on March 7, 2007 at 09:23 am

You two are both guilty of Global Warming Denial!
Heathens!

electnixon on March 7, 2007 at 01:54 pm

Does that mean I’m out of the leftie church EN?  Will they still be sending their goons our with the collection plate?


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on March 7, 2007 at 02:35 pm
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Will they still be sending their goons our with the collection plate?

That will be a warming plate...solar powered, no doubt!



For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

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Proof on March 7, 2007 at 02:38 pm
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Global warming is for real, it’s not a made up conspiracy.  Although, are we making it worse by pulling the clocks back an hour next week?

trashman on March 7, 2007 at 05:42 pm
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.


-H L Mencken


For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

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Proof on March 7, 2007 at 05:58 pm

Yes, the Sun is nothing compared to Daylight Savings Time!
On the other hand, the Sun produces both global warming and global cooling, twice every 24 hours!  How does that happen?


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robert108 on March 7, 2007 at 06:20 pm

Global warming is for real, it’s not a made up conspiracy.  Although, are we making it worse by pulling the clocks back an hour next week?

Since you’re pulling your clock back I’ll spring mine forward.  That’s the same as buying carbon credits, right?


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on March 7, 2007 at 06:25 pm

trashman said, Although, are we making it worse by pulling the clocks back an hour next week?

What are you talking about? Spring ahead, fall back. Starting this year, we’ll spring ahead in the winter.

likwidshoe on March 7, 2007 at 06:38 pm

Great Lik, there goes my guilt-free clock adjustment.


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on March 7, 2007 at 06:41 pm
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there goes my guilt-free clock adjustment.

Oh, sorry! I thought you said Glock adjustment! I was actually starting to pay attention!



For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

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Proof on March 7, 2007 at 06:44 pm

I ain’t figured out how to adjust any of my glocks.  Damn things just keep shooting.

Last fall I started to teach my son to shoot.  When he had shot the 10/22 a few times I pulled a Glock out and wasted a few cans. 

His eyes got big and said “Ooo, Jack Bauer.”


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on March 7, 2007 at 06:47 pm

Course I didn’t have the heart to tell him Jack shoots a USP not a Glock.


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on March 7, 2007 at 06:52 pm
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I shoot a .40 cal Glock.  It doesn’t matter what caliber Jack Bauer’s pistol is, he’d just beat you death with it anyway!



For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

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Proof on March 7, 2007 at 06:56 pm

Is that before or after he shoots a member of your family?


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on March 7, 2007 at 07:00 pm
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For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

Frederick W. Kagan

Proof on March 7, 2007 at 07:13 pm

There have been no terrorist attacks in United States since Jack Bauer has appeared on television.


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on March 7, 2007 at 07:19 pm
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There have been no terrorist attacks in United States since Jack Bauer has appeared on television.

He’s even more formidable in person!



For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

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