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           chambre noire
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i think everyone ought to watch this
 
  
         
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           Ceri JC
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Indeed.
  Also, have a read of "a convenient untruth". Gore's house  uses 20 times the national average amount of electricity. 
 
  It's true we're using up a fair whack of our petrol/fossil  fuels and ought to look at alternatives. It's also  completely untrue that we have anything more than a  negligible effect on the climate. 
 
  
         
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just to be clear, im not fond of ANY political figure.   i just thought this was a good documentary
 
  
         
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           cygnus
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geological phenomena of planetary proportions...
  humanoids can fix it alright
 
  
         
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           big
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Global warming is scientific fact. I believe that part at  least of Gore's movie. All the serious studies show it is  real. 
  I intuitively believe the argument that the atmosphere with  it's 10 km height is very small in volume compared to the  earth and that's why we can easily affect it, also because i  believe it is a fine balance.
  The scientists that say global warming isn't real  deliberately base themselves on old or wrong studies. 
  Saying global warming doesn't exist imo is stupid conspiracy  thinking. 
 
  
         
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it sure is as it's been hyped up immensly by the government  controlled media to get you ready to pay more taxes. just  wait and see. the thing is, that An inconvenient truth is  very good at showing you the wrong data in a fancy way. 
 
  
         
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global warming is real (radiation from the sun has increased  several % over some years now!) but man is not to blame for  this. 
 
  
         
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             from Jefferson City (United States) on 2007-03-28 03:43 [#02066896]
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Watch the great global warming swindle, then repeat that  with a straight face. 
 
  
         
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             from lsg on 2007-03-28 03:44 [#02066897]
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i think the documentary is awful because i get depressed by  this doomsday stuff
  also i think it's dumb to focus so exclusively on global  warming and not other environmental issues: does throwing my  batteries in the trash affect global warming? no? great then  i'll go ahead and do so  
 
  
         
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no i read the paper
  i will look into it but i think it will be another Loose  Change: I don't have the knowledge to judge this is truth or  not, I will choose which scientists to believe.
 
 
 
  
         
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that argument is rebutted in inconvenient truth
 
  
         
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             from Iceland on 2007-03-28 03:50 [#02066900]
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do yourself a favor and see the great global warming SWINDLE  :) 
 
  
         
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             from the lowest common denominator (United Kingdom) on 2007-03-28 03:55 [#02066901]
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haven't seen either, and i'm certainly no climatologist. but  i've seen plenty of climatologists rip apart the GGWS  arguments. 
  apparently they claimed in it that volcanoes produce more  CO2 etc. than human activity does, which is blatant, total  bollocks. 
 
  
         
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           big
             from lsg on 2007-03-28 04:09 [#02066905]
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jajaja i will tnx 
 
  
         
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           J198
             from Maastricht (Netherlands, The) on 2007-03-28 04:14 [#02066907]
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even if Al Gore is wrong, you deserve to be shot and stamped  upon if you do not start thinking about the fucking filth  you produce and how to be more responsible regarding energy  preservation.
 
  this movie is a wake-up call and anyone telling you there's  no need to wake up, is still sleeping, obviously.
 
  It makes me mad when people do everthing they can do keep on  living the lazy dirty life they are accustomed to. 
 
 
 
  
         
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             from lsg on 2007-03-28 04:18 [#02066908]
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i've believed in global warming almost all my live and  therefor longer than God. it must be a national culture  thing 
 
  
         
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             from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2007-03-28 05:04 [#02066914]
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"About the Guy behind this    (the great swindle)
  Martin Durkin
  In 1997 television producer Martin Durkin from the TV  company Kugelblitz made a series for Channel 4 called  Against Nature, which targeted environmentalists, presenting  them as 'the new enemy of science' and as comparable to the  Nazis."
 
  i trust bush more than a man who says that environmentalists  are fascist enemies of science. what kind of bollocks ist  that?
  Is solar energy against science? Is any alternative energy  against science, is improving houses to save energy against  science, is alternative fuel or electric cars against  science?
 
  being stuck on fossil fuel is against science...
 
 
  
         
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yes, the great global warming swindle was basically  ridiculed and put to shame by a lot of international climate  experts.   
 
  
         
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             from lsg on 2007-03-28 05:44 [#02066927]
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from channel 4 link:
  "According to a group of scientists brought together by  documentary-maker Martin Durkin, if the planet is heating  up, it isn't your fault and there's nothing you can do about  it."
  It's Kyoto over again, why would i believe a couple of  scientist over hundreds of others?
 
  "We've almost begun to take it for granted that climate  change is a man-made phenomenon. But just as the  environmental lobby think they've got our attention, a group  of naysayers have emerged to slay the whole premise of  global warming."
  I don't believe the environmental lobby, i believe science
 
  
         
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             from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2007-03-28 06:19 [#02066932]
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             from lsg on 2007-03-28 06:39 [#02066937]
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evil forces made this a left- or right-wing issue or  something 
 
  
         
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             from the lowest common denominator (United Kingdom) on 2007-03-28 06:44 [#02066938]
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  I wonder which corporations funded that movie.
 
  
         
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             from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2007-03-28 06:49 [#02066940]
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destroy the evil forces !
  destroy i say !
  anyhow the conservative powers that be in germany,  all of a sudden are pro-environmentalism
  finally one point i agree with them
 
  
         
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           big
             from lsg on 2007-03-28 06:53 [#02066942]
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gore isn't a politician imo (wiki:Today, Gore is president of the American television  channel Current TV, chairman of Generation Investment  Management, a director on the board of Apple Inc., and an  unofficial adviser to Google's senior management.) 
 
  
         
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             from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2007-03-28 07:01 [#02066945]
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Yeah, it's all a big conspiracy to make you drive your car  less because that's what socialists and scientists have to  do to make money.
 
  This shouldn't be seen as a political issue (or it should,  but then political issues would have to go back to being  political issues (as opposed to economical, as they are  today)), but rather as an ethical issue. You are the person  doing this, you are the person doing bad. Do you want to be  that person?
 
  And I think the fact that that it already is an ethical  issue is what makes so many people believe it isn't their  fault; the weight of guilt is heavy, but the only way of  truly lightening it is admitting it and repenting it (by  doing good, or rather, stopping doing the bad); moving the  responsibility elsewhere (natural variations, the big  corporations, wherever) is only a temporary solution, and it  will hit you in full weight when it comes back. Then you can  choose if you once more want to send it out to the field to  graze and put on more weight or if you want to actually  admit it, take the responsibility and do something. 
 
  
         
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           redrum
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             from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2007-03-28 07:07 [#02066947]
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It's man made. Not all of it, some is natural variations,  and I can't say with certainty how much of it is us, but  what is us is solely our responsibility and we need to ask  ourselves, as I said, not "can we afford this," but rather  "do we want to be the people who did this?"  Even if the  impact was, as ceri seems to believe, negligible (which I  don't believe. I believe it to be significant), not doing  something where we can is a true sin.
 
  My dad is a meteorologist/geophysicist, and I talk to him  about it quite a bit, so I bet I have more knowledge about  it than you. I also worked for a year at the geophysical  institute here in bergen, where the Bjerknes centre for  climate research also lies, and I read up a bit on their  stuff whenever I didn't have anything to do. Don't ask me  about numbers, though, I can't even remember my own  birthday. 
 
  
         
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             from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2007-03-28 07:11 [#02066949]
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Yeah, people can keep telling themselves that.
  When you get in your car in the morning, it's the air planes  doing the polluting, when you fly to oslo (instead of taking  the train), it's the industry, or you justify it with "I  don't have the time to spend six hours on a train," when you  buy the stuff that is produced by "industry," it's not that  particular industry, it's china and their coal power plants,  please china do something!!! THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY MUST ACT!  *drives off in a hummer* What, the shopping bags are heavy,  ok?
 
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I also read an article by a psychologist a while back.. he'd  done some research on how people perceived the threat of  global warming, and, basically, if you told them how to deal  with it, they perceived it as moralizing or paternalistic  and closed their ears to it. We are a bunch of grown up  babies, and you know what the problem is? Fucking  individualism and liberalism, but even with the capitalist  notion that "no matter where you're born, what you're born  to, if you don't make it, don't strike it big, no-one's to  blame but you," putting all responsibility (for ones  economical situation) on each and every one of us, no-one  seems to be able to figure out that pollution is a personal  problem; Consumers are part of the industrial pollution. 
 
  
         
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             from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2007-03-28 07:20 [#02066954]
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I am angry, will have an ice cream. There's close to 20  degrees in bergen in march! 
 
  
         
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             from the lowest common denominator (United Kingdom) on 2007-03-28 07:20 [#02066955]
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 i am naturally dubious of claims against artificial global  warming but i'm definitely not all that knowledgable in the  field. but it does really interest me.
 
  ceri: what claims did they make in the GGWS documentary and  how did they support them? 
 
  
         
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oops, wrong link
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theres really no problem with creationists,  the idea of creation is quite nice actually
  and sometimes they are SO FUNNY, so i like em
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50 years from now, (if I'm not dead and if I am, it'll be  from something other than climate change) I'll look back on  this and be amused. People will either of quietly dropped  it, or the enviros will still be banging on about this great  cataclysm that will happen "in the next ten years". My  parents lived through this the first time it came up, 40  years ago. All the very same panic about the end of the  world and guilt at using a car was popular material back in  the 70s. Guess what? It didn't happen. 40 years, on they  still want us to believe it's imminent.
 
  It's not even like traditional "end of the world" zealots.  At least they have the courtesy to set a date they reckon  it's all going to kick off. Then, when the date passes, we  can all have a laugh and they can either be quiet, or look  even more stupid and go "well, I got it wrong, actually it's  9 years and 234 days from now." This is effectively what the  enviros have done since the inital claims in the 70s. So, my  challenge is this: Put your head on the line, give a date it  will definately of all gone tits-up by, if we carry  on as we do. If we get to that date and it hasn't, you're  not allowed to bring it up again. I bet you the dates would  suddenly not be quite so close, instead of 10 years, it'll  be 20, or 50.
 
  I think it is massive egotism on the part of humans that: a) We somehow consider ourselves different to any other  animal.
  b) Think our actions, in the grand scheme of things will  dramatically effect the planet for any real length of time.
 
  As an aside, I don't grasp how people are unable to seperate  the two distinct issues of using up fossil fuel (which I  think is worth looking at) from that of global warming. I  also don't understand how the same people who discredit GGWS  on the grounds those involved in it may have vested  interests, fail to see how the same applies to those who  make a living out of global warming.
 
  http://www.oism.org/oism/s32p31.htm is hardly "a couple" is it?
 
  
         
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  17,000 scientists (many who hold pHDs) reckon it's  bunk. Hardly "a few dozen" who are being payed off by oil  companies, is it?  
 
  
         
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i'll just say it's foolish to not think we have a great  impact on climate, just how much is the tricky part
 
  the problem is it's just so complicated a science plus we  never had a situation like now so there is no anticipation  possible based on data 
  so, in fact, NOBODY can really tell what will happen next
  it's a whole new situation for humanity and that's why there  is so much panic, misinformation and misunderstanding
 
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i gladly welcome every reason to cut down pollution, because it stinks and is unhealthy
  and receiving my electricity out of renewable ressources,  that dont have any co2 output doesnt cost me more
  middleclass people can even make a profit out of it by  having solar panels on their houses producing more energy  than they need. and its a benefit for all
 
  factories can save much money by investing in new generators  that work more effectively, decreasing their electricity  bills
 
  using up the fossil fuel more efficently would probably do  no harm either. we all know it will be used up anyway and in  the long run the small people will pay more and more for it,  so why not develop alternatives soon enough so that people  still can afford their own vehicles in the upcoming decades? 
 
  
         
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  i'll read it in detail later and try to compare the  arguments to really see what is going on 
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           Ceri JC
             from Jefferson City (United States) on 2007-03-29 03:44 [#02067264]
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Your assumption that I'm stupid, because I disagree with  your point of view, only serves to discredit your argument. 
 
  
         
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