The Great Global Warming Swindle
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When people say we don't believe
in global warming,
I say no, I believe in global warming,
I don't believe that human CO2
is causing that warming.
A few years ago,
if you would've asked me,
I would tell you it's CO2.
Why?
Because just like everyone
else in the public...
I listen to what the media have to say.
Each day, the news reports
grow more fantasticly apocalyptic,
politicians no longer dare to express
any doubt about climate change.
There is such intolerance...
of any dissenting voice...
...some of the worst climate
criminals on the planet.
This is the most pollitically
incorrect thing possible
is to doubt this climate
change orthodoxy
Climate change has gone
beyond politics
it is a new kind of morality.
The Prime Minister is back
from his holidays...
unrepentant and unembarrassed
about yet another long haul destination...
Yes, as the frenzy of a man-made
global warming grows shriller,
many senior climate scientists
say the actual scientific
basis for the theory is crumbling.
There were periods for example
in our history
when we had three times as
much CO2 as we have today
or periods when we had ten times
as much CO2 as we have today;
and if CO2 has a large effect on climate
then you should see it in the
temperature reconstruction.
If we look at climate from
the geological timeframe,
We would never suspect CO2
as a major climate driver.
None of the major climate changes
in the last thousand years...
...can be explained by CO2.
You can't say that CO2
will drive climate.
It surely never did in the past.
I've often heard it's said that there is
a consensus of thousands of scientists...
...on the global warming issue
and that humans are causing...
catastrophic changes
in the climate system.
Well, I am one scientist and
there are many that simply...
...think that is not true.
Man-made global warming
is no ordinary scientific theory.
This morning, the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change made up a...
It is presented in the media as
having the stamp of authority
of an impressive international organization:
"From the IPCC..."
The United Nations Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change or "IPCC".
The IPCC, line any UN body,
is political;
the final conclusions
are politically driven.
This claim, that the IPCC is the world's
top one thousand five hundred...
or two thousand five hundred scientists...
you look at the bibliographies of the
people, and it's simply not true.
There are quite a number
of non scientists.
And to build the number up
to twenty five hundred
they had to start taking group reviewers
and government people, and so on,
anyone who ever came
close to them,
and none of them are asked
to agree, many of them disagree.
Those people who are specialists
but don't agree with the polemic,
been a number that I know of)
they are simply put
on the author list
and become part of these two thousand
five hundred of the world's top scientists.
People have decided they have
to convince other people
that since no scientist desagrees,
you shouldn't disagree either.
But that, whenever you
hear that is science,
that's pure propaganda.
This is the story of how
a theory about climate...
...turned into a political ideology.
I don't even like to call it the
environmental movement anymore,
because really it is a
political activist movement,
and they have become hugely
influential at a global level.
It is the story of the distortion
of a whole area of science.
Climate scientists need there to be
a problem in order to get funding.
We have a vested interest in
creating panic because then,
money will flow to climate science.
There's one thing you
shouldn't say and that is:
this might not be a problem.
It is the story of how a
political campaign...
...turned into a burocratic
bandwagon.
The fact to the matter is that
tenths of thousands of jobs...
...depend upon global
warming right now.
It's a big business.
It's become a great
industry in itself
and if the whole global
warming farrago collapsed,
there would be an awful
lot of people...
out of jobs and looking
for work.
This is a story of censorship
and intimidation.
I've seen and heard that
spitting fury at anybody
who might
disagree with them,
which is not the scientific way.
It is the story of Westeners invoking
the threat of climatic disasters
to hinder vital industrial
progress in the developing world.
One clear thing that emerges from
the all environmental debate...
is the point that there's somebody
keen to kill the African dream.
And the African dream is to develop.
The environmental movement has evolved
into the strongest force there is...
for preventing development
in the developing countries.
The global warming story
is the cautionary tale...
...of how a media scare became
the defining idea of a generation.
The whole global warming business
has become like a religion...
and people who disagree
are called heretics.
I'm a heretic.
The makers of this program,
all heretics.
In 2005, a House of Lords enquiry
was setup to examine...
the scientific evidence of
man-made global warming.
A leading figure in that enquiry
was Lord Lawson of Blaby
who as Chancellor of the Exchequer
in the 1980's was the first politician...
to commit government money
to global warming research.
We had a very very thorough
varied took evidence...
from a whole lot of people expert
in this area and produced a report.
What surprised me was to discover how
weak and uncertain the science was.
In fact, there are more and
more thoughtful people,
some of them a little bit frightened
to come out in the open,
but who quietly privately and
some of then publicly are saying:
"hang on, wait a minute:
this simply doesn't add up"
We are told that the Earth's
climate is changing:
but the Earth's climate
is always changing!
In Earth's long history, there have
been countless periods...
when it was much warmer
and much cooler than it is today
when much of the world was
covered by tropical forests
or else vasts ice sheets.
The climate has always changed,
and changed without any help
from us, humans.
We can trace the present warming
trend back at least two hundred years,
to the end of a very cold
period in Earth's history.
This cold spell?
It's known to climatologists
as the Little Ice Age.
In the 14th century, Europe
plunged into the Little Ice Age,
and when we look for evidences of this,
are the old illustrations and prints,
and pictures of old father Thames
because during the hardest and
toughest winters of that Little Ice Age
the Thames would freeze over
and there were wonderful ice fairs
held on the Thames
skating, and people actually
selling things on the ice.
If we look back further in time,
before the Little Ice Age,
We find a barmy golden era
when temperatures where
higher than they are today
a time known to climatologists
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