The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is showing the mockumentary, masquerading as a documentary, called “The Great Global Warming Swindle”. Unfortunately, it’s being pitched as a documentary, and those who do not have an understanding of science, climatology, or plain logic, may be fooled into believing it.<\/p>\n
There have been many deconstructions of it, and it includes bad science, generalisations, straight out lies, and “data” which was based on outdated, or discredited data – yet certain sections of the community would have you believe it’s valid information. It’s worth watching for the sake of identifying the bad science, for your own purposes, but in the meantime, here are some I wonder if they’ll pay equal time to deniers of other global events (scientific and historical) just because there are a few people out there who deny it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is showing the mockumentary, masquerading as a documentary, called “The Great Global Warming Swindle”. Unfortunately, it’s being pitched as a documentary, and those who do not have an understanding of science, climatology, or plain logic, may be fooled into believing it. There have been many deconstructions of it, and it includes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n good links on Geek Counterpoint<\/a> – Lorne pays equal time to the people who support, and those who deny climate change, and the holes in the extremes of each argument, from a logical perspective.<\/p>\n