Scientists want film questioning global warming changed

[Regis Philbin]

Don't you dare question science...

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070425/global_warming_film.html?.v=1

Film on Global Warming Is Challenged

Wednesday April 25, 3:22 pm ET
By Raphael G. Satter, Associated Press Writer

Scientists Demand Changes to Global Warming Skeptic's Film

LONDON (AP) -- A group of British climate scientists is demanding changes to a skeptical documentary about global warming, saying there are grave errors in the program billed as a response to Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth."

"The Great Global Warming Swindle" aired on British television in March and is coming out soon on DVD. It argues that man-made emissions have a marginal impact on the world's climate and warming can better be explained by changing patterns of solar activity.

An open letter sent Tuesday by 38 scientists, including the former heads of Britain's academy of sciences and Britain's weather office, called on producer Wag TV to remove what it called "major misrepresentations" from the film before the DVD release -- a demand its director said was tantamount to censorship.

Bob Ward, the former spokesman for the Royal Society, Britain's academy of science, and one of the letter's signatories, said director Mark Durkin made a "long catalog of fundamental and profound mistakes" -- including the claim that volcanoes produce more carbon dioxide than humans, and that the Earth's atmosphere was warmer during the Middle Ages than it is today.

"Free speech does not extend to misleading the public by making factually inaccurate statements," he said. "Somebody has to stand up for the public interest here."

Durkin called the letter "loathsome."

[Richard Tafoya]

If they've got the facts, they can point to factual errors. Global warming deniers have a habit of making up facts convenient to their argument, so lets get their claims listed out and take them one at a time.

By the way, how many people involved with the film are on the Exxon-Mobile payroll?

[emjay]

"deniers", like Holocaust deniers?

Anyway, look, the sun is causing the majority of our 'problems' with this warming, which is a natural trend. You so readily trust junk science from Gore and co., used for political gain. Do you know they want to push a Carbon tax on us? Aka 'the breathing tax'? If that's not politically charged, I don't know what is. Now they're saying that global warming is what we need to focus on, instead of terrorism. Come on, can't you see the possibility at least, that these types of things are used as a tool of fear, in order to gain monetarily? To bend will?

Eh, Gore owns a 20-room mansion that uses more than 20 times the national average gas and electricity, so I naturally am not going to look to him as someone to follow in example, even if I did believe that what they are saying is correct. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6401489.stm

Now they're getting celebrities in on this one, which I believe is actually causing this global warming hysteria establishment to lose whatever credibility it has left, as we know that even with good intentions, comes seriously misleading and hypocritical situations involving double standards.

[Richard Tafoya]

There are natural trends and human-generated trends. Simple as that.

[emjay]

Recommended

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/07/18/wsun18.xml

[Richard Tafoya]

And natural trending is part of the full ecosystem of warming. The overwhelming evidence is that man-made greenhouse gasses are making any natural trends more extreme, and that we have an opportunity to minimize our human factors and reduce those elements that we've put into motion.