The Great Global Warming Swindle

This video is well worth the 75 minutes of viewing time. “The Great Global Warming Swindle” is a documentary produced in England that demolishes the arguments of “climate change” ideologues using a combination of rigorous scientific analysis and plain common sense.

One of the most striking features of this documentary is its examination of how the environmental movement has actually hindered the development of the most desperately poor people on the planet. Advocates of “sustainable” energy block programs for bringing electricity and clean water to developing countries out of concern for burning fossil fuels, using chemical pesticides, and so forth. These technologies could prevent millions of deaths each year from disease and hunger, but environmental extremists through lobbying groups and other NGOs consistently act to keep the developing world from developing. It is easy to lampoon tree-huggers such as the now-famous Redbud Eight at Cornell, but it’s sobering to know that such activism often is literally a death sentence for millions of people in the world’s poorest countries.