All,
Not quite the backstory but there is a good response to the film that
is, fortunately, also a film. ABC (for Americans, this stands for
Australian Broadcasting ...) did a debate that intersperses clips of
the film with responses by people like Steve Schneider to the film
and a relatively tough interviewing of the filmmaker, himself.
And, thanks to youtube, its all on line.
Its nine segments but the first one is at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeQfD2DNnUQ
(I think that will work but if not google -- "great global warming
swindle" site:www.youtube.com )
Best,
Ron
At 08:15 AM 10/24/2007, Michael Maniates wrote:
Hello all,
Does anyone have the backstory on The Great Global Warming Swindle,
a "contrarian" climate change video aired in the UK recently and now
available on DVD? My understanding is that many of the scientists
in the video objected to how their on-camera comments were
manipulated in the editing process. I've also gleaned from the web
-- from totally unreliable sources I might add -- that both Channel
4, which aired the movie, and the producers distanced themselves
from the production because of data falsification, and that the show
has not been run in the U.S. (even by Fox News) because of this.
But most of this comes to me through third-person contacts or random
web sites. Do any of you have the larger story, or can you point me
in the right directions?
I ask because a colleague of mine at Allegheny, in response to a
request from students who feel silenced by the energy Al Gore has
generated, is thinking of screening this video as a formal,
College-sanctioned event to "bring balance to the debate on campus."
As an aside, I think The Great Global Warming Swindle can be a
useful addition to teaching tool-box of those of us who teach the
climate-change controversy. And I myself wouldn't object to the
video if it's used to teach the debate. I'm more wary of Swindle as
a definitive, credible "counter-balance" to Inconvenient Truth or
the material that my colleagues and I present in the classroom, in
large part because of its accusations of conspiracy and intentional
distortion of data.
Feel free to reply to me off-list. I'll summarize the helpful
replies and repost them for all to see.
Yours,
Mike Maniates
Allegheny College
Ronald Mitchell, Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Oregon
Eugene OR 97403-1284
Phone: 541-346-4880/Fax: 541-346-4860
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uoregon.edu/~rmitchel/
International Environmental Agreements Database: http://iea.uoregon.edu/
Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate Change
Research (DISCCRS): http://www.disccrs.org/
New Book: Global Environmental Assessments: Information and
Influence, Edited by Ronald B. Mitchell, William C. Clark, David W.
Cash and Nancy M. Dickson
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11038
