Global Warming? Don't Worry Yourself. It's Out Of Our Hands.

Posted by Jeff
Filed in City
March 26, 2007

"Tone down your indulgent lifestyle because you're destroying the planet!" "Don't cut down ancient trees." "Don't destroy the Alaska coast by drilling for oil." "Don't do this." "Don't do that." "Save the forests." Blah blah blah. Self-righteous environmentalists got you down? Sick of being guilt-tripped simply because you're treating yourself to the affluent lifestyle that you deserve? Well now you can throw all of those misguided feelings out the window of your Hummer while you drive two blocks to the store because a crack team of scientifical experimentationers have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that global warming is not caused by human activity.

The Great Global Warming Swindle could be the first strike in the battle to save our generation. I mean honestly... look at us with our compact cars, bicycles, and walking shoes. What a bunch of saps! Doesn't anyone see that the whole world is laughing at us? The communists and hand-wringing liberals (is there a difference?) have got us wallowing in anguish over something that we didn't even have anything to do with in the first place for christ's sake! Can you control the sun? I know I can't. So do your country a favour for once in your life. Throw your bicycle in the back seat of your compact car, drive that shit off the seawall, and run like the dickens to the closest car dealership to buy yourself an SUV or a pickup truck before we start looking like idiots.

Photo courtesy of Paul Davidson.

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Ummm, have you watched it? I was interested in your analysis of their arguments...

Posted by: christopher at March 26, 2007 1:37 PM | Quote Comment

I don't think you would be interested in any analysis that I made of their argument. It wouldn't be worth much. For all I know, the video could be right. What I have a problem with is that people are now using this video as evidence that our excessive use of resources isn't causing any problems. Even if human-caused global warming is a myth, human-caused environmental destruction is definitely not.

Posted by: Jeff

at March 26, 2007 3:27 PM | Quote Comment

The DesmogBlog offers an excellent play-by-play of that film, deconstructing every supposed "fact" as the fallacy it is. You might call it a global warming smackdown
http://www.desmogblog.com/a-global-warming-swindle-play-by-play

Posted by: ianmack at March 26, 2007 4:23 PM | Quote Comment

Awesome.
Ianmack & Jeff-Thanks for your response...I stumbled on it on GoogleVideo and watched it, albeit with a skeptical eye and promptly blogged it, more as a conversation piece. The problem with the whole scientific aspect of the global warming debate for me is that if you're not that schooled in highly specified fields that the scientists on both sides are, you can easily buy either side's spin, or be left scratching your head...

Posted by: christopher at March 27, 2007 12:08 AM | Quote Comment

I think the biggest problem is that people hear scientists from both sides and think "The truth is probably somewhere in the middle". Even though the truth is very clearly on one side. And even though one of the two sides consists of hundreds of reputable scientists while the other side has a handful of scientists mostly sponsored by the big oil companies.

Posted by: Hendrik at March 27, 2007 12:45 AM | Quote Comment

Here's an interesting article
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2355956.ece

"The Great Global Warming Swindle, was based on graphs that were distorted, mislabelled or just plain wrong. The graphs were nevertheless used to attack the credibility and honesty of climate scientists."

Posted by: -=Dan=- at March 27, 2007 4:24 PM | Quote Comment

If you have any doubt about Global Warming reality or not! Go to www.prwatch.org. Probably one of the most accurate, best referenced sites in the world today. Click on Global Warming. They just finished doing a question and answer with the US House of Rep. 15 minutes ago.

Posted by: nslater at March 28, 2007 12:24 PM | Quote Comment

ianmack, -=Dan=-, nslater... thanks for the links.

Posted by: Jeff

at March 29, 2007 8:36 AM | Quote Comment