Anti-development
This documentary also goes on to talk about anti-growth and an anti-development, which is 100% inaccurate. The “environmental” movement is NOT about being anti-growth or development, it is about developing and growing in DIFFERENT directions, ones that are cleaner and healthier for the planet and us humans. This arm waving is noting more than a detractor, attempting to scare people into falling in line with the position of the film. People are afraid of changes to their lifestyle, so by linking potential life-style change and the unknown with Global Warming, it immediately forces the average Joe to the opposition side of the theory. Also, by dragging in the African development debate into the same documentary, it again forces the Politically Correct set to feel uncomfortable in their skin and force them to the opposition side as well.
Funding Issues
This made me laugh out loud. The Global Warming theory is now all about making money for scientists! Money increased so this theory could be proved and continue to increase money into the scientific community! WTF??? What a brutal connection. Jesus, what’s next? 911 happened so law enforcement could get more money? Just plain stupidity!
Something that really bothered me was they turned around and brought up something that seemed to beat down their own cause, and didn't even know they did it. The producers attempted to use the 1974 BBC production, The Weather Machine, as evidence of their case. This production was about the cooling of the climate and the potential for a new ice age. But during the production of this documentary (The Weather Machine) Swedish scientist Bert Bolin predicted that man's creation of greenhouse gases (in the form of CO2) would counteract the cooling that was evident from the previous 30 years and that the planet would experience a dramatic warming of several degrees. His prediction of 30 years ago had come to fruition. This is the same stuff that Gore talked about in An Inconvient Truth, and what is happening today. IMO, they put a fully loaded gun to their head and emptied the clip. Stupid work on their part.
The most intelligent thing I head in this documentary was when Professor Phillip Stott (Dept of Biogeography – University of London) stated that “the moment politicians put their weight behind something and attach their name to in some way, of course, money will flow.” Yes, that is indeed the fact, and is indeed why the carbon based economy of the world is trying to buy CO2 emission theory. This is why good old oil barons, like Bush and Co., are the ones opting out of accords like Kyoto and such, and getting their political organs like the American Enterprise Institute to BUY them some science to counter consensus.
Frankly, this is a documentary that Michael Moore would be proud of. The producers take 20 different people, with 20 different theories, and attempt to present them as a unified cause. This could not be further from the truth. The ONLY thing these people have in common is their disbelief that CO2 emissions are responsible for the climate change. Taken as individuals, they each have their theories and believe everyone else to be wrong, including the other people presented in the film. This is not consensus. This is nothing more than a piece that attempts to shout down Global Warming theory by having multiple people come forward and say its wrong, but unable to agree on anything else themselves. That is what makes Global Warming theory so compelling, is that is brings people with diverse interests and diverse specialties together and finds consensus. If this documentary had done any of that, it would be a worthy film. In the end all it ends up being is a collection of people with dissenting opinions and no agreed upon answers or solutions.
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