Jewish World Review Thomas Sowell March 15, 2007
The British Broadcasting Corporation has produced a devastating documentary titled “The Great Global Warming Swindle.” It has apparently not been broadcast by any of the networks in the United States. But, fortunately, it is available on the Internet.
Distinguished scientists specializing in climate and climate-related fields talk in plain English and present readily understood graphs showing what a crock the current global warming hysteria is.
These include scientists from MIT and top-tier universities in a number of countries. Some of these are scientists whose names were paraded on some of the global warming publications that are being promoted in the media — but who state plainly that they neither wrote those publications nor approved them.
One scientist threatened to sue unless his name was removed.
While the public has been led to believe that “all” the leading scientists buy the global warming hysteria and the political agenda that goes with it, in fact the official reports from the United Nations or the National Academy of Sciences are written by bureaucrats — and then garnished with the names of leading scientists who were “consulted,” but whose contrary conclusions have been ignored.
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One of the scientists quoted in this documentary is now charging that his comments were grossly distorted and taken out of context. Dr. Carl Wunsch of MIT wrote to the BBC to complain:
Below is the text of a letter from Carl Wunsch, reproduced with permission.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/03/swindled/#comment-27434