Via Barcepundit m’assabento que la televisió britànica Channel 4 emetrà dijous vinent a les 9 de la nit un documental políticament incòmode de Martin Durkin titulat “The Great Global Warming Swindle” (“El gran timo del calentamiento global”). Que jo sàpiga és el primer reportatge d’aquestes característiques que s’emet en “prime time” al Regne Unit. Esperem, com demana Josep Miquel Guàrdia, que l’exemple s’encomani i alguna de les moltes cadenes públiques o privades d’aquest país s’atreveixen a comprar-ne els drets i a programar-la també en un horari de gran audiència.
The film brings together the arguments of leading scientists who disagree with the prevailing consensus that a 'greenhouse effect' of carbon dioxide released by human activity is the cause of rising global temperatures.
Instead the documentary highlights recent research that the effect of the sun's radiation on the atmosphere may be a better explanation for the regular swings of climate from ice ages to warm interglacial periods and back again.
The film argues that the earth's climate is always changing, and that rapid warmings and coolings took place long before the burning of fossil fuels. It argues that the present single-minded focus on reducing carbon emissions not only may have little impact on climate change, it may also have the unintended consequence of stifling development in the third world, prolonging endemic poverty and disease.
The film features an impressive roll-call of experts, including nine professors – experts in climatology, oceanography, meteorology, environmental science, biogeography and paleoclimatology – from such reputable institutions as MIT, NASA, the International Arctic Research Centre, the Institut Pasteur, the Danish National Space Center and the Universities of London, Ottawa, Jerusalem, Winnipeg, Alabama and Virginia.
The film hears from scientists who dispute the link between carbon dioxide levels and global temperatures.
