Director: Global Warming is a Big 'Scam'

A controversial documentary that questions global warming aired on British television last night.

The film, "The Great Global Warming Scandal," dismisses the notion that climate change is being caused by human activity.

Film director Michael Durkin says that global warming is "the biggest scam of modern times," and he backs this up by featuring scientists from places such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NASA.

"…global warming.we're just being told lies," said Durkin.

One major piece of evidence that is used to prove that CO2 causes global warming are the ice core samples from Antarctica.

They show that, for hundreds of years, global warming has been accompanied by higher levels of CO2 in the atmosphere.

In 'The Great Global Warming Swindle,' Al Gore claims that this evidence proves the global warming theory -- but paleoclimatologist Professor Ian Clark explains in the British documentary that it actually shows the opposite.

Professor Clark fully acknowledges that recent increases in atmospheric CO2 are caused by humans, but he says he just doesn't see any evidence that the man-made C02 increases are driving the warming trend.

Scientists in the program also raise another discrepancy with the official theory, showing that most recent global warming occurred before 1940, when global temperatures then fell for four decades. It was only in the late 1970s that rising temperatures became more the norm.

Those who created the documentary claim that this is a flaw in the CO2 theory because the post-war economic boom produced more CO2 -- so if human C02 causes global warming, it should have caused a rise in global temperatures.

Professor Paul Reiter of the Pasteur Institute in Paris adds that the influential United Nations report on Climate Change, that claimed humans were responsible, was a sham.

The report claimed to be the opinion of 2,500 leading scientists, but Prof. Reiter said it included names of scientists who disagreed with the findings and resigned from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Prof. Reiter said that his name was removed form an assessment only when he threatened legal action against the panel.

"That is how they make it seem that all the top scientists are agreed," he said. "It's not true."
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He said that the report was finalized by government appointees.

The CO2 theory is further undermined by claims that billions of pounds is being provided by governments to fund greenhouse-effect research, so thousands of scientists know that their job depends on the theory continuing to be seen as fact.

Sources: Associated Press, Daily Mail