Outing Al (Chicken Little) Gore
One method of determining whether something is true or not is to look at the motives of those promoting something as being true. Does the promoter stand to gain by promoting a falsehood, or stand to lose by the opposite being believed? Examining motives, while not perfect, can usually provide some valid suspicions to investigate.
The radical environmental movement baffled me for well over a year. Their claims did not ring true for me, yet I could not find spurious motives that would explain what I suspected was a pack of lies. How could so many people be completely wrong? Part of the explanation that shocked me was that so very many people had simply bought, hook, line and sinker, what had been fed to them via a fervent quasi-religious dogma. Another area that it took time for me to accept was how many people were profiting big-time from that movement.
That movement's emphasis has, like blood flowing from a wound, clotted to form a major scab... global warming.
Enough investigation and thought finally led me to understand just how such a massively successful movement could happen despite being based on exaggeration, misrepresentation, and outright lies. The formula, which I have since seen repeated, includes more than a few self-serving liars, many self-serving people who come to thrive off of the movement, and a huge number of people who are simply sucked in by emotional propaganda repeated ad nauseum.
Global warming, caused by carbon dioxide from human activity, is a deadly farce, or as the following documentary calls it, a swindle. It's certainly not the first time that a large number of people have been fooled by propaganda. My own favorite examples are:
(1) Hitler convincing the German people that Jews were sub-human and the cause of German troubles,
(2) The once-widespread belief of the American people that Indians were ruthless, uncivilized savages, and
(3) The myths that cigarette smoking is the cause for a wide variety of human ailments.
In each case, a "villain" was created specifically to frighten people into belief, then into action, creating a bandwagon effect that became continually bigger, feeding upon itself, becoming more vicious in attacking the frightening straw-man villain. What is really frightening is how gullible so many of us can be to such propaganda campaigns, resulting in us turning against one another for no reason at all.
The Global Warming Swindle is a documentary each human needs to watch, before it's too late. There are many books and research supporting the same facts, but, being video, this presentation of only an hour and 16 minutes is a concentrated, well-done summary that is so easy to watch that, hopefully, it will reach many times more people around the world. I'm a bit embarrased to say that it's British, not American, but the media of the Brits has remained far more objective and courageous than ours.
The Global Warming Swindle - 1 hr 15 min 56 sec
Description: Are you green? How many flights have you taken in the last year? Feeling guilty about all those unnecessary car journeys? Well, maybe there's no need to feel bad. 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. 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.
The radical environmental movement baffled me for well over a year. Their claims did not ring true for me, yet I could not find spurious motives that would explain what I suspected was a pack of lies. How could so many people be completely wrong? Part of the explanation that shocked me was that so very many people had simply bought, hook, line and sinker, what had been fed to them via a fervent quasi-religious dogma. Another area that it took time for me to accept was how many people were profiting big-time from that movement.
That movement's emphasis has, like blood flowing from a wound, clotted to form a major scab... global warming.
Enough investigation and thought finally led me to understand just how such a massively successful movement could happen despite being based on exaggeration, misrepresentation, and outright lies. The formula, which I have since seen repeated, includes more than a few self-serving liars, many self-serving people who come to thrive off of the movement, and a huge number of people who are simply sucked in by emotional propaganda repeated ad nauseum.
Global warming, caused by carbon dioxide from human activity, is a deadly farce, or as the following documentary calls it, a swindle. It's certainly not the first time that a large number of people have been fooled by propaganda. My own favorite examples are:
(1) Hitler convincing the German people that Jews were sub-human and the cause of German troubles,
(2) The once-widespread belief of the American people that Indians were ruthless, uncivilized savages, and
(3) The myths that cigarette smoking is the cause for a wide variety of human ailments.
In each case, a "villain" was created specifically to frighten people into belief, then into action, creating a bandwagon effect that became continually bigger, feeding upon itself, becoming more vicious in attacking the frightening straw-man villain. What is really frightening is how gullible so many of us can be to such propaganda campaigns, resulting in us turning against one another for no reason at all.
The Global Warming Swindle is a documentary each human needs to watch, before it's too late. There are many books and research supporting the same facts, but, being video, this presentation of only an hour and 16 minutes is a concentrated, well-done summary that is so easy to watch that, hopefully, it will reach many times more people around the world. I'm a bit embarrased to say that it's British, not American, but the media of the Brits has remained far more objective and courageous than ours.
The Global Warming Swindle - 1 hr 15 min 56 sec
Description: Are you green? How many flights have you taken in the last year? Feeling guilty about all those unnecessary car journeys? Well, maybe there's no need to feel bad. 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. 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.
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