There's a documentary set to air in the UK on Thursday called The Great Global Warming Swindle, which promises to show that "climate change is natural, has been occurring for years, and ice falling from glaciers is just the spring break-up and as normal as leaves falling in autumn." The article has a lot of interesting information, and is worth a read. But perhaps the most interesting piece is that instead of rising levels of C0₂ being the cause of global warming, it just might be the other way around:

"Al Gore might have won an Oscar for ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, but the film is very misleading and he has got the relationship between CO2 and climate change the wrong way round."

One major piece of evidence of CO2 causing global warming are ice core samples from Antarctica, which show that for hundreds of years, global warming has been accompanied by higher levels of CO2 in the atmosphere.

In ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’ Al Gore is shown claiming this proves the theory, but palaeontologist Professor Ian Clark claims in the documentary that it actually shows the opposite.

He has evidence showing that warmer spells in the Earth’s history actually came an average of 800 years before the rise in CO2 levels.

Prof Clark believes increased levels of CO2 are because the Earth is heating up and not the cause. He says most CO2 in the atmosphere comes from the oceans, which dissolve the gas.

When the temperature increases, more gas is released into the atmosphere and when global temperatures cool, more CO2 is taken in. Because of the immense size of the oceans, he said they take time to catch up with climate trends, and this ‘memory effect’ is responsible for the lag.

The article also refers to the vast sums of money politicians throw at research to prove man-caused global warming, political bodies claiming scientific consensus, information about changes in solar activity being related to changes in climate, and of the fact that "the greenhouse effect is seen as a religion and if you don’t agree, you are a heretic."

Will it air in the US? I can only hope so. The only way global warming alarmists will be countered is with science. The alarmists won't listen, of course, but at least those of us who remain skeptical won't be seen as lone voices in the wilderness.

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