Warming
I watched the Great Global Warming Swindle on Channel 4 and it has to be said, it has me convinced. Essentially this is a documentary in which a number of highly regarded scientists explain that while global warming is happening, it’s by no means a man-made event. Now I’ve seen Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, and he makes a strong case as well, but there was just something about the way this so strongly debunked all of the supposed “facts” that it was hard not to be convinced. The most basic of all is to compare the two graphs that denote temperature change of the last century, and amount of carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere over the same period. They simply do not match up, in fact during one of the largest rises in carbon dioxide production (the post war industrial growth) the temperature actually drops. In the 70’s the BBC were showing documentaries telling us how we were all about to be plunged into another ice-age, yet now we’re meant to believe the opposite.
If this is true, and we’re now being suckered into making all these changes that will ultimately make no difference whatsoever, then that’s a terrible state to be in. Essentially the power of the media and the strong arm tactics of the few have managed to put the whole planet in a panic over something they’re powerless to do anything about anyway. That’s more disturbing to me than a slightly warmer winter.
