The Great Global Warming Swindle

Video: The Great Global Warming Swindle, Martin Durkin. 3/8/2007, WagTV. The portion of the film I want to discuss in class runs from about the 20:34 minute mark when the film begins to respond to An Inconvenient Truth, up to about the 32:00 minute mark covering discussion of solar activity. In response to Ian Clark's claims about the 800 year lag between temperature increases and CO2 increases, and about volcanoes producing more CO2 than human activity, please see this response to the film by the British Antarctica Survey (the two paragraphs under "Ice cores and past climate change"). For Carl Wunsch's response to how the film represents his claims about CO2 in the oceans, see his statements here. For claims made about the 40 year cooling period, see this explanation of sulphate cooling. For claims about a link between solar cycles and global warming, see this article about Mike Lockwood's study that argues the film is misleading. The film uses interviews and research of Eigel Fris Christensen, and creates a graph called the "Temp and Solar Activity 400 Years." For his response to how the film represents his work, see his statements here.