The Great Global Warming Swindle Full Movie
Why Hacker News recommends it
Climate-skeptic commenters link it as evidence against the CO2 consensus, while others cite it as an example of climate-change denial.
What it is
A 2007 Channel 4 documentary by Martin Durkin arguing that human-caused global warming is overstated or a scam. It features contrarian scientists such as Richard Lindzen and promotes sunspot and cosmic-ray explanations for temperature change. Its claims are rejected by mainstream climate science.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 6 different months, 2015 to 2020.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec graycat · 2019-02 · on “AMA: Bill Gates”
Bill, thanks to you for Microsoft and to you and Melinda on health. For Climate Change, your position is wildly destructive and based on just sewage instead of science. Net, CO2 has essentially nothing to do with the climate. The main driver of climate change for 1+ million years is just changes in the rates of sun spots. Period. Nice details from some real experts, e.g., Lindzen at MIT, are summarized in the quite good video at [this video] "The Great Global Warming Swindle". Take an hour to watch that and save your efforts on Climate Change and stop your highly destructive efforts against CO2. Sorry 'bout that. Just consider the video and its information. But for more, on the science, there wer
Recommends graycat · 2016-01 · on “Bill Gates Expected to Create Billion-Dollar Fund for Clean Energy (2015)”
If his concern is CO2, then he might want to watch a good movie, the BBC The Great Global Warming Swindle [this video]
Recommends graycat · 2016-01 · on “Bill Gates Expected to Create Billion-Dollar Fund for Clean Energy (2015)”
>c: burning a ton ton ton of fossil fuels. Then, fine, that's the solution that should please you. Go ahead. No worries. E.g., you and Bill Gates might be very happy to watch the BBC The Great Global Warming Swindle [this video] Thumbnail version: Human sources of CO2 have nothing to do with climate. Instead for at least hundreds of thousands of years to the present and the foreseeable future, essentially the main cause of climate change is just the level of solar activity. As that varies so does the rate of sun spots, the strength of the solar wind, the rate at which the solar wind blocks cosmic rays, cosmic rays hit water molecules in the atmosphere, water droplets are formed, clouds are formed
Recommends graycat · 2016-01 · on “Bill Gates Expected to Create Billion-Dollar Fund for Clean Energy (2015)”
>c: burning a ton ton ton of fossil fuels. Then, fine, that's the solution that should please you. Go ahead. No worries. E.g., you and Bill Gates might be very happy to watch the BBC The Great Global Warming Swindle [this video] Thumbnail version: Human sources of CO2 have nothing to do with climate. Instead for at least hundreds of thousands of years to the present and the foreseeable future, essentially the main cause of climate change is just the level of solar activity. As that varies so does the rate of sun spots, the strength of the solar wind, the rate at which the solar wind blocks cosmic rays, cosmic rays hit water molecules in the atmosphere, water droplets are formed, clouds are formed
Recommends graycat · 2017-07 · on “Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse Global Warming”
The reasoning in my post is nearly self contained. For more, mostly all you need are just two boxes of common data: First, you need the historical data, especially the ice core data. No doubt you can find that data via many sources on the Internet. See also the video clip I mention below. For the rest of the data, just look up the Medieval Warm period, the Little Ice Age, and the cooling from 1940 to 1970. That's enough for what I wrote from the data and its analysis. Second, you need the results of the models, and I gave a reference that showed the predictions and compared them with the actual measured temperatures. You are welcome to chase down the detailed predictions of the models, one m
Recommends graycat · 2019-05 · on “A Quest to Make Gasoline Out of Thin Air: Prometheus (YC W19)”
Likely a lot easier to make gasoline out of: (1) Crude oil. (2) Coal, water, and electric power. (3) Some biological reactions. To address the hidden agenda here, see [this video]
Recommends graycat · 2019-06 · on “Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the World”
There's a video documentary on YouTube, complete with starting with PM Thatcher and her concerns about the coal miners union and the Mideast oil kingdoms and through the present with sun spots, etc. There is a lot from MIT prof Lindzen. The 800 year lag in the graph Gore put up is made clear. The Medieval Warm period, the Little Ice Age, and the cooling from 1940 to 1970 are also clear. The URL is [this video] Now where does this documentary go wrong? I will mention one place: Their little cartoon has sun light hitting the surface of the earth, reflecting , and then heating the atmosphere. Well, it mostly isn't just reflection . Instead, the sunlight gets absorbed by the surface, the surface warm
Recommends throwaway294 · 2020-04 · on “Wildlife collapse from climate change is predicted to hit suddenly and sooner”
MIT Professor R. Lindzen explains the consensus in "The Great Global Warming Swindle" [this video] The explanation is in one word -- money, as in two words, too much money. In addition, look at the arguments. Since I hold a good STEM field Ph.D., I'm supposed to do that. For more, I gave my explanations in the two URLs to YC I mentioned above.