Comments on: The Swindle Behind ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’ http://dublinopinion.com/2007/03/14/the-swindle-behind-the-great-global-warming-swindle/ It's a group blog. What more do you need to know? Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:15:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Molly Rubinstein http://dublinopinion.com/2007/03/14/the-swindle-behind-the-great-global-warming-swindle/#comment-65363 Molly Rubinstein Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:04:41 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/03/14/the-swindle-behind-the-great-global-warming-swindle/#comment-65363 So I noticed that you mentioned that the movie was backed by Chevron. I recall finding similar information. Do you possibly still have the link to this information? So I noticed that you mentioned that the movie was backed by Chevron. I recall finding similar information. Do you possibly still have the link to this information?

]]> By: Donagh http://dublinopinion.com/2007/03/14/the-swindle-behind-the-great-global-warming-swindle/#comment-8616 Donagh Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:33:09 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/03/14/the-swindle-behind-the-great-global-warming-swindle/#comment-8616 Thanks for the comment Hugh. It seems that John Lanchester agrees with you. Writing in the latest issue of the London Review of Books he says: "I don’t think I can be the only person who finds in myself a strong degree of psychological resistance to the whole subject of climate change. I just don’t want to think about it. This isn’t an entirely unfamiliar sensation: someone my age is likely to have spent a couple of formative decades trying not to think too much about nuclear war, a subject which offered the same combination of individual impotence and prospective planetary catastrophe. Global warming is even harder to ignore, not so much because it is increasingly omnipresent in the media but because the evidence for it is starting to be manifest in daily life." It's a pity the issue has got so muddled. Thanks for the comment Hugh. It seems that John Lanchester agrees with you. Writing in the latest issue of the London Review of Books he says:
“I don’t think I can be the only person who finds in myself a strong degree of psychological resistance to the whole subject of climate change. I just don’t want to think about it. This isn’t an entirely unfamiliar sensation: someone my age is likely to have spent a couple of formative decades trying not to think too much about nuclear war, a subject which offered the same combination of individual impotence and prospective planetary catastrophe. Global warming is even harder to ignore, not so much because it is increasingly omnipresent in the media but because the evidence for it is starting to be manifest in daily life.”

It’s a pity the issue has got so muddled.

]]> By: Hugh C http://dublinopinion.com/2007/03/14/the-swindle-behind-the-great-global-warming-swindle/#comment-8485 Hugh C Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:36:54 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/03/14/the-swindle-behind-the-great-global-warming-swindle/#comment-8485 It's all bloody lies innit? I'm a tv editor by trade andknow just how easy it is to misrepresent statements presented as fact and turn 'em into fiction. A mere snip here or there - you really don't actually have to remove anything at all, just change the emphasis by rhythm. So I'm in two minds about the documentary. On the one hand, I know the tricks of the trade and realise that much of the representations could've started off life with a different sentiment. On the other hand, I have a solid scientific backround and can grasp some of the data bith for and against the arguments. I guess the bottom line is that one of my kids has come to me crying saying that our house will be under water in fifty years. That means more a lot more to me than any of the dogma that I've read so far. It’s all bloody lies innit?

I’m a tv editor by trade andknow just how easy it is to misrepresent statements presented as fact and turn ‘em into fiction. A mere snip here or there - you really don’t actually have to remove anything at all, just change the emphasis by rhythm.

So I’m in two minds about the documentary. On the one hand, I know the tricks of the trade and realise that much of the representations could’ve started off life with a different sentiment. On the other hand, I have a solid scientific backround and can grasp some of the data bith for and against the arguments.

I guess the bottom line is that one of my kids has come to me crying saying that our house will be under water in fifty years. That means more a lot more to me than any of the dogma that I’ve read so far.

]]> By: Mr Tagomi http://dublinopinion.com/2007/03/14/the-swindle-behind-the-great-global-warming-swindle/#comment-8318 Mr Tagomi Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:08:55 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/03/14/the-swindle-behind-the-great-global-warming-swindle/#comment-8318 Well done, Donagh. It is frightening to see how many people still take that piece of garbage seriously. Most of "Swindle" was fact-free innuendo, and the bit where they try to provide a scientific basis for their polemic has been thoroughly discredited in every detail. Well done, Donagh. It is frightening to see how many people still take that piece of garbage seriously. Most of “Swindle” was fact-free innuendo, and the bit where they try to provide a scientific basis for their polemic has been thoroughly discredited in every detail.

]]> By: Donagh http://dublinopinion.com/2007/03/14/the-swindle-behind-the-great-global-warming-swindle/#comment-7415 Donagh Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:23:37 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/03/14/the-swindle-behind-the-great-global-warming-swindle/#comment-7415 Thanks Reasic. You’re doing sterling work there. The ‘whatever it is’ seems like a last ditch attempt. I just don’t understand Durkin's motivation. Surely now he’s up there with Holocaust deniers. But maybe that suggestion screams ‘censorship’. If so, whatever. Matt, I was wrong, he isn’t a member of The Cooler Heads Coalition but he was a speaker at their 2004 conference "The Impacts of Global Warming: Why the Alarmist View is Wrong" held at Capitol Hill. In fact, he’s spoken for them several times and written for other organizations that are fronts for the Oil industry. Complaining about non-scientist ‘activists’ taking over the Green agenda smacks of hypocrisy when he uses his credibility and authority so politically to aid organizations who are trying to counteract the move towards cutting greenhouse gases because its bad for their business. Thanks Reasic. You’re doing sterling work there. The ‘whatever it is’ seems like a last ditch attempt. I just don’t understand Durkin’s motivation. Surely now he’s up there with Holocaust deniers. But maybe that suggestion screams ‘censorship’. If so, whatever.

Matt, I was wrong, he isn’t a member of The Cooler Heads Coalition but he was a speaker at their 2004 conference “The Impacts of Global Warming: Why the Alarmist View is Wrong” held at Capitol Hill. In fact, he’s spoken for them several times and written for other organizations that are fronts for the Oil industry. Complaining about non-scientist ‘activists’ taking over the Green agenda smacks of hypocrisy when he uses his credibility and authority so politically to aid organizations who are trying to counteract the move towards cutting greenhouse gases because its bad for their business.

]]> By: Matt http://dublinopinion.com/2007/03/14/the-swindle-behind-the-great-global-warming-swindle/#comment-7402 Matt Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:34:24 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/03/14/the-swindle-behind-the-great-global-warming-swindle/#comment-7402 Your just following a well trodden green path, if you can't attack the science attack the scientists. Nothing new for the Green Movement to dig up and tenuous link a scientist has with some big company. Of course the fact what he said in the film being true doesn't mean a thing now does it? Your just following a well trodden green path, if you can’t attack the science attack the scientists. Nothing new for the Green Movement to dig up and tenuous link a scientist has with some big company.

Of course the fact what he said in the film being true doesn’t mean a thing now does it?

]]> By: Reasic http://dublinopinion.com/2007/03/14/the-swindle-behind-the-great-global-warming-swindle/#comment-7361 Reasic Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:09:27 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/03/14/the-swindle-behind-the-great-global-warming-swindle/#comment-7361 Nice post. Thanks for the link. :D Piece of work, this mockumentary is, huh? Nice post. Thanks for the link. :D

Piece of work, this mockumentary is, huh?

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