The Great Global Warming Swindle

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,

and resigned (and there have

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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