Posted by
Steve on Monday, October 29, 2007 3:56:32 PM
Last week, I had the opportunity to see “The Great Global Warming Swindle” again with a group of students and faculty from my college. There were about 20-25 people in attendance. It was put on by Phi Theta Kappa, the National Honor Society group on our campus. They showed Al Gore’s Propaganda film last year. When they showed Al Gore’s film, I complained enough that they needed to show this film that they did.
I had seen the film one other time, but I had forgotten how powerful it is in destroying the main thrust of those that believe in global climate change. Those that believe that man is the cause of global climate change point to carbon dioxide as the main greenhouse gas. They then go into elaborate scenarios that show that we are all going to be destroyed by climate change if we do not act today to do something.
The film shows positively that carbon dioxide is not the main ingredient in climate change. They put a chart up that showed temperature and carbon dioxide and the two did not look similar at all. They showed a chart of sun spots and temperature and the two matched almost exactly. They even had on one scientist that is using sun spots to forecast the long term weather. He is more accurate than the National Weather Service.
After the film we had a discussion. I intended to sit there and let everyone talk about the topic. The first question out of his mouth got my goat and I had to say something. I then proceeded to dominate the discussion. My main thrust is that after seeing these scientists give their facts, anyone who believed that man caused global climate change was either an idiot or worse. I was asked why I believed this film over Al Gore’s film. My position was that these people were scientists. Al Gore is a politician. These people studied climate and climate change for a living. Al Gore studied to be a Journalist and a Politician. Their credibility was much higher than Al Gore in this field.
I think some eyes were opened during and after the film. It was a small group. But, even a small group is important. There were many less people that believe in global climate change after showing the movie than before. The interesting thing is that most of the faculty members in attendance were backing me up in my position. For a college, that was impressive. Colleges have a reputation as being bastions of liberalism. It was good to see that there were actual conservatives on campus to balance the idiocy that is used for liberalism.
I understand there is an updated “The Global Warming Swindle”. It contains more information that will debunk the thought that carbon dioxide is responsible for climate change. There is another teacher on campus that would like to obtain and show it. The one we saw was the older version I showed to my class about a year ago. I would love to see the updated information.
What this showed is that if you can get people to watch “The Global Warming Swindle”, you can convince people of the truth. Unfortunately, too many people have drunk the global warming kool-aid and would never watch anything that would disagree with their pre-conceived notions.