Hello Everyone, There is a group based out of Calgary, Alberta, called Friends of Science, who claim to be climate change experts and have also produced a video entitled "Climate Catastrophe Cancelled: What You're Not Being Told About the Science of Climate Change."
There is no science presented in this video either and the basis of the FoS argument is that the assumptions of global circulation models are flawed so we cannot believe the predictions. My favourite quote from the video is by astrophysicist Sallie Baliunas: "What carbon dioxide is, is essential for life on earth. Plants eat it, it is plant food and in fact, as carbon dioxide has increased in the air over the last 50 years, plants have grown bigger, more vigourously, faster, farmers have gotten a little extra bounty in their crops for free, because there's more carbon dioxide in the air." The interesting thing about FoS is the source of the group's funding and the list of references they have supporting their point of view. Desmogblog has some good reading on this. In case anyone is interested, here are the links: http://www.desmogblog.com/search/node/friends+of+science http://www.friendsofscience.org/ Cheers, Gillian Donald On 4/20/07 3:05 PM, "Jack Cibor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In case anyone is interested, a link to the full length 1 hour 13 minute > version. > > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4499562022478442170&q=global+warming+s > windle&hl=en > <http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4499562022478442170&q=global+warming+ > swindle&hl=en> > > > David M Bryant wrote: >> Hello fellow propagandists, >> >> I just received this link to a video supposedly contradicting the >> recent media hype on global warming. >> >> You owe it to yourself to take a look. To paraphrase the "final >> line" it would be hilarious if it weren't such a sad rhetorical >> example of poor debate. No data is presented other than the >> observations that climate has changed in the past and that the >> recession of the 1970's should have resulted in cooling. I'm curious >> as to whether the scientists quoted really understand the feedbacks >> and lags involved in the carbon cycle or even the physical connect >> between CO2 and IR absorption. Perhaps they've never heard of an IRGA. >> >> Cheers, >> >> David Bryant >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> >>> From: "Insight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Date: April 19, 2007 11:25:35 AM EDT >>> To: "Insight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Subject: Global Warming Swindle >>> >>> If you believe the prejudice-based science of Al Gore and Sheryl Crow, >>> you need to look at this video: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJSupf6rkgE&mode=related&search= >>> >>> >> >> >>
