Product Description

The most explosive film of the year.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3904 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-07-23
• Rating: Exempt
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 78 minutes

Synopsis
Candid documentary that offers an alternative--and controversial--perspective on the global warming debate.

Review
'Devastating' --The Washington Times

Review
'Only rarely can a documentary be seen as a pivotal moment in a major political debate, but such is The Great Global Warming Swindle. Never before has there been such a devastatingly authoritative account of how the hysteria over global warming has parted company with reality. Martin Durkin's superbly professional film shows how the evidence is now overwhelmingly that the chief cause of climate change is not human activity, but changes in radiation from the sun.' --Christopher Booker, Sunday Telegraph

Customer Reviews

Flawed, but revealing
Since the Stern report I have started to read up on the subject in some detail. Of course I am not a climate scientist, but can read and have spent much time seeking, downloading and reading papers on the subject, both popular and more scientific.

Also having a general interest in geology I have come to question the current authodoxy on Anthropogenic Global Warming. The Stern report was a serious shot across the bows of anybody who does not realise that Governments can see a great opportunity to raise taxes even more than the current daylight robbery.

This documentary, whilst flawed, does contribute much more to the debate and thought process than sadly the David Attenborough BBC presentation from 2006 (which I have also boaught and re-watched).

At least TGGWS presents some facts all be it rather controversially.

As for those commentators who claim that the program has been discredited by the Ofcom report of July 2008, please feel free to read that report (as I have) and you will find Ofcom makes no claim at any stage of the 60 odd pages devoted to TGGWS, about the science, only critising the fact that the program makers did not give Carl Wunsh or David King enough time to respond. Most of the complaints were rejected.

Clearly the whole question has become a religious/idealogical crusade for many people and this results in sad and vitriolic ad-hominem attacks on people. This is NOT the scientific way, but the self righteous way of zealots and idealoues. If people would stick to the science and discuss the subject accordngly the only conclusion so far can be "Case not proven, much more reasearch needed".

This documentary at least makes some popular contribution to countering the religious tone of those asserting that debate is over.

Now debunked and discredited.
Haven't those responsible for this been taken to court? The very worst of manipulative TV journalism.

Lies and manipulation
As somebody who works in the alternative energy field, I was appalled when I saw this documentary. It's grossly irresponsible and the commissioning editor responsible for this at Channel 4 should never work in television again.

As pointed out in the excellent ABC debate mentioned by several other reviewers, Durkin has manipulated the data presented so that it conveniently fits his argument. We're not talking about one or two minor points, we're talking about 75% of his argument being based on out of date or misrepresented data. This is journalism at its very worst, and many of the scientists featured on this film immediately disassociated themselves with it after they saw the final cut.

Here's my opinion. Whether you believe that global warming is a problem or not, simply take a look at the world around you: the increasingly scarce natural resources, the pollution, the oil-driven wars and conflicts, disease, world hunger, etc. Things are not getting any better, and the only variable in the whole equation is US. So, step back from the global warming debate and accept the fact that mankind is the cause of all of these effects. To be debating global warming and peak oil is akin to standing in the middle of the road while a 20-tonne truck is speeding towards you, thinking "should I jump out of the way, or will it miss me?"

We need to take responsibility for our actions since the Industrial Revolution and restore the balance of our planet for ourselves and future generations - our children and grandchildren. This is the message that responsible journalists and filmmakers should be getting across - who can argue against the merits of this message?

Durkin's documentary misleads people into believing that they don't need to do a thing, that all of this talk of global warming is nonsense, and that everything will be okay - that's why it's so incredibly irresponsible.