It makes me really angry when people talk about climate change being a hoax, or that it's impossible that 'little ol' humans' could make any impact on the worlds climate. I really woke up to this issue when we had an email discussion about it at work, prompted by the Channel 4 documentary 'The Great Global Warming Swindle'.
When you watch the documentary without much background knowldge, it does really make you think. You suddenly doubt everything you thought you knew, and it's quite a shock. The program basically suggests that global warming is a gigantic conspiracy. That scientists who support the theory do so because they are funded by groups whose goal is to promote man-made climate change as a reality - and why? Oh, because it is a good way of preventing the 3rd world developing. If we stop the 3rd world using fossil fuels, it keeps them living in caves and enables the west to remain in control. That is not beyond what human beings are capable of, but the program is a terrible pack of lies. The wikipedia has a very good page which exposes some of the falsehoods, with support from angry mis-represented scientists on the program who have spoken out since it was shown.
Newsweek has just published a long article about the whole motivation for the climate change denial movement. Funny, it doesn't mention keeping the 3rd world in the stone age, it seems the write thinks it is more to do with industry - chiefly large oil companies that don't want bad press for Hummers and other forms of obscene mass consumption.
Anyone interested in finding out what proper climate scientists believe should read this blog -
http://www.realclimate.org/. It is very good, and has one particularly good post responding to the crap broadcast in the C4 documentary.
Finally - probably the single best resource for taking on a climate change skeptic - http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics.
Read it, get educated, and take on the evil deniers!
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