The Great Global Warming Swindle - Rebuttals

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I'm far from a global warming expert. I know more than the average Joe, but it's still just a surface level understanding.

So when I watched The Great Global Warming Swindle, it all sounded pretty convincing. I don't have the deep foundation to be able to recognize the gaps. Rather than change my outlook though, I figured I would wait to see what the rebuttals had to say. Here are a few, starting with those that address the documentary's content.

Sir John Houghton on the John Ray Initiative site

Annika at Virescent

RealClimate

Frank O'Dwyer at Rearranging the Deckchairs

Update: Here are a couple more rebuttals...

Reasic (different post from the one below)

In the Green

Campaign Against Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

Fermi Paradox

And then there are those questioning the cast of characters behind the whole thing. There's Channel 4, for example, which has a reputation for generating viewers by stirring up controversy. And documentary maker Martin Durkin has come under fire on numerous occasions for sensationalism and taking liberties with the truth.

Channel 4 was forced to issue a prime time apology for another of his documentaries attacking environmentalists in 1997 after it was found that "the programme makers 'distorted by selective editing' the views of the interviewees and 'misled' them about the 'content and purpose of the programmes when they agreed to take part.'"

Some posts and articles with a closer look behind the scenes...

Climate Denial

Monbiot.com (about Martin Durkin's past controversies)

madcomments

Zoe Williams in The Guardian

Reasic

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Comments

[Reasic]

Thanks for the link.

Just for your info, I also posted a rebuttal to most of the points in the documentary:

http://reasic.wordpress.com/2007/03/10/the-great-global-warming-swindle-questions-answered/

[Curt Rosengren]

Excellent. Thanks. I've updated the post.

[Chris Merchant]

Hi,
You might also be interested to watch a lecture I gave students in Edinburgh looking at how TGGWS documentary managed to be so persuasive, despite presenting dubious science.
www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/chris
Rgds, Chris

[Diane]

Thanks a lot for this. I also posted a rebuttal.
http://dianespov.blogspot.com

[williamgeorge]

Have you noticed that most of the articles you see that are skeptical about man’s role in climate change come from foreign publications based in countries like Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada? Why do you think that is?
Are the American press too emotionally attached to the issue -- and, in particular, the chief spokesman, soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore -- to even consider the possibility that the debate isn't over, and that their role as journalists is supposed to be to further discussion rather than squelch it?
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