LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY lihan161051)

but it's made the rounds to me:

The Great Global Warming Swindle

Near as I can tell, Martin Durkin is trying to say:

• Not all scientists agree


• CO2 isn't really driving climate change


• The earth's climate changes all the time, what's to worry?


• The fuss is all whipped up by a UN political organization, a bunch of dirty hippies, and some Hollywood celebrities


• Liberals are nasty racists for not letting Africans use their oil reserves

Those are the key points that I got from it (the video is an hour and 15 minutes long, maybe someone who has more free time than I do can sit down with this and see if there are any good talking points to refute it..)

I'm not sure what to say, other than I knew it was only a matter of time before someone came up with something like this. At least Wikipedia's article seems to take a more objective look at it (although, unsurprisingly, it's been tagged as "disputed neutrality", probably because it doesn't just take the assertions in the video lying down but is actually (gasp!) somewhat critical of it). They don't quite come out and say that there's no such thing as global warming, but they strongly imply that there's no such thing as anthropogenic global warming and any words to the contrary are all lies. (In some cases, by using carefully edited interview dialogue with scientists, since at least one, Carl Wunsch, has come out later and stated he was totally misled by the interviewers and his opinions were misrepresented so completely as to be "as close to pure propaganda as anything since World War Two.")

And I smell a dominionist influence behind this one. It's too dead center on their message not to have something to do with the doms on some level, given that one claim the doms have made all along is that global warming is an "anti-Christian" scam ..