Watch: 'CBC - Global Warming Doomsday Called Off'.

Inconvenient Truth is full of propaganda and false "science" First off we are cooling off not warming up, that's why it's called "climate change" now. That's why we were 15-20 degrees celsius below normal for Canada in 8 out of 10 provinces 2 weeks ago. Al Gore used CGI shots lifted from the movie "The Day After Tommorrow" to show the Arctic shelves. Al Gore doesn't zoom into that graph of 650,000 years of Co2 and temperature. The temperature comes first then Co2 follows. There's an 800 year gap but the lines look identical from that zoom level.

Don't fall for energy hog Al Gore's propaganda while temperature's fall. Al Gore owns stock in Occidental Petroleum that drills for oil in eco sensitive ares like the Amazon. His monthly energy bill exceeds $20,000. He knows Man made Global Warming isn't true.

AL GORE is tell the world a lie.
There are many scientist who do not agree with the his global warming myth.

Yes the last ten years have been warming because of the sun solar out put.

Real enviromental issues are important but c02 is a gas of life. Humans exhale the stuff and plants breathe it and also check how much the ocean vapor produces.

The real goal is a global government carbon tax to create a western feudal system.

When this carbon tax is passed we will lose industry but the 3rd world will gain industry. The catch is that the world government will not force them to pay tax or reduce pollution.

It is a trap for the western 1st world the end of opportunity.

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This program only presents one side of the propaganda. The other side of the story is well represented in the British documentary,"The Great Global Warming Swindle." [original title: "Apocalypse my arse"]. Will the CBC be giving us this side of the story soon?

As the other commenters have noted, there is really a lot of problems with Global Warming 'Theory' as presented by Al Gore in this movie. Chief among them, there is no longer a scientific consensus about Global Warming with a good amount of dissent, NASA was caught faking weather records and there is no mention of SUN SPOTS which have dwindled this month (December) and clearly do have an effect (duh). Yes, it is one-sided propaganda at best and a little late to be running this CBC?

I'm a little disturbed by CBCs choice to air this nonsense again! The MOVIE is loaded with errors and a few outright falsehoods and cannot be considered documentary in any sense. CBC appears to have a policy of pushing this AGW noise at every opportunity.

I hear something about AGW on CBC radio or TV evary day! Most of it is conjecture and predictions. CBCs credibility is beginning to fail due to their extreme position on this issue!

Carbon is the basis of all life on Earth!
A carbon tax is literally a "life tax". The ultimate goal of the elites.

This is the Great Global Warming Swindle
Why will the CBC not give coverage to the thousands of the top climate scientists who have demanded their names be taken off the list of people who support this debunked theory of carbon based climate change?

CBC (a crown corporation representing the crown banks that will collect carbon taxes) pushing a global carbon tax using now completely debunked theory of carbon based global warming.
BIG SURPRISE!
This is why they are slowly changing the language from "Global Warming" to "Climate Change" because we have actually been getting colder since 2001 but they still want to push enslaving taxes.

Watch Al Gore carefully. If you zoom in on his graphs that he uses to make generalizations with it will show you the exact opposite of what he and David "population control" Suzuki's tax free foundation say.

During the last ices ages carbon was actually higher in the atmosphere by sometimes as much as 10 times.
The exact opposite of what he is claiming.

So the leaders of 180 nation involved in climate negotiations. The scientist of the UN intergovernmental panel on climate change are wrong So what the sceptics are trying to tell us is the same corporate values that have swindled millions out of their savings are to be trusted. The same corporations that build fleets of SUV as we rushed to peak oil production which the International Energy Association is now forecasting to occur by 2020. The good think is you can forget about the validity of the sceptics The world is way ahead of them Like the lies from the tobacco industry do the sceptics still believe their lies . Several US States have committed to reducing their GHG gassed The American people have finally seen through the Bush lies and elected a man who has committed to leading our planets challenge. So if your are feeling discouraged your should check what is actually happening and the leaders around the world are miles ahead of the doubt factor. There is a revolution occurring it appears the sceptics have also missed out on that occurring. The mid western states the North eastern states , Florida, the California accord. BC the emergence of a carbon trading marking in Montreal. The emergence of electric vehicles by GM of all stubborn hold out may be too late for their own good having earned a reputation of environmental negligenceCome join the revolution to protect our future You will be among friends and leaders

I wish CBC would provide an expert panel with people who really know something about climatology as a lead-in or follow up to Inconvenient Truth. A good start would be Steve McIntyre, a Canadian, who together with Ross McItrick, have absolutely shattered the hockey stick curve that Al Gore relies upon in his presentation (see climateaudit.org). This is the only hint of a scientific explanation of the relationship between atmospheric CO2 and global warming, and frankly, it is horribly deficient and mistaken, as other posters here have alluded.

Incidentally, one of Gore's heroes presented in the movie, Dr. Revelle, changed his mind on the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis before his death. He is just one of hundreds of highly qualified earth scientists who are now coming forward to discount this fantasy. Gore and his like are becoming pretty isolated in the real scientific discourse.

This movie is seriously outdated and seriously inaccurate. Since it came out, it has been revealed that Al Gore misunderstood what he was being taught at Harvard by climate expert, Professor Roger Revelle. Before he died, Professor Revelle disagreed with the message of Al Gore. That upset Gore to the point of claiming Revelle had been senile before his death and that he was coerced by Dr. Fred Singer, another emminent climate scientist. Singer sued Gore and won.

Gore's message is closer to a religious revival meeting than science. A British judge agreed, forcing anyone showing it to children to make a disclaimer as to it's authenticity. Why anyone would want to pollute the minds of children with this pseudo-science is beyond me.

I'm really disappointed that CBC would show Gore's very warped film. I hope that you will follow it with Swindle or at least the very good film produced by CBC in 2004, "Doomsday Called Off"

Just what I expected. Propoganda based on untruths and half truths. Why anyone takes any notice of this garbage I have no idea. However, Al Gore does a magnificant job in selling his ideas. He is just brilliant in a PR mode. It is just a pity he is trying to sell snake oil.

Al Gore should read some history.
Greenland was once warm enough to be green. It was settled by Icelanders, around 900AD, and as the climate changed, they fled Greenland shortly after 1400 because it became to cold to sustain agriculture.
That historical fact should tell Gore and his fellow myth spreaders that climate change is a normal on-going occurrance.
It is shamful to pay good money for such utter rot. But then why would you?

Water vapour is the most important green house gas followed by methane. The third most important greenhouse gas is CO2, and it does not correlate well with global warming or cooling either; in fact, CO2 in the atmosphere trails warming which is clear natural evidence for its well-studied inverse solubility in water: CO2 dissolves in cold water and bubbles out of warm water. The equilibrium in seawater is very high, making seawater a great 'sink'; CO2 is 34 times more soluble in water than air is soluble in water.
Correlation is not causation to be sure. The causation has been studied, however, and while the radiation from the sun varies only in the fourth decimal place, the magnetism is awesome. As I understand it, the hypothesis of the Danish National Space Center goes as follows:
Quiet sun → reduced magnetic and thermal flux = reduced solar wind → geomagnetic shield drops → galactic cosmic ray flux → more low-level clouds and more snow → more albedo effect (more heat reflected) → colder climate
Active sun → enhanced magnetic and thermal flux = solar wind → geomagnetic shield response → less low-level clouds → less albedo (less heat reflected) → warmer climate
That is how the bulk of climate change might work, coupled with (modulated by) sunspot peak frequency there are cycles of global warming and cooling like waves in the ocean. When the waves are closely spaced, the planets warm; when the waves are spaced farther apart, the planets cool.
Using a box of air in a Copenhagen lab, physicists traced the growth of clusters of molecules of the kind that build cloud condensation nuclei. These are specks of sulphuric acid on which cloud droplets form. High-energy particles driven through the laboratory ceiling by exploded stars far away in the Galaxy - the cosmic rays - liberate electrons in the air, which help the molecular clusters to form much faster than climate scientists have modeled in the atmosphere. That may explain the link between cosmic rays, cloudiness and climate change.
The ultimate cause of the solar magnetic cycle may be cyclicity in the Sun-Jupiter centre of gravity. We await more on that. In addition, although the post 60s warming period is over, it has allowed the principal green house gas, water vapour, to kick in with humidity, clouds, rain and snow depending on where you live to provide the negative feedback that scientists use to explain the existence of complex life on Earth for 550 million years. The planet heats and cools naturally and our gasses are the thermostat. Check the web site of the Danish National Space Center.
Keeping in mind that windmills are hazardous to birds, be wary of the unintended consequences of believing and contributing to the all-knowing environmental lobby groups.

The negative comments by global warming nay-sayers only prove Al Gore's point: Glogal warming is a very difficult, a very inconvenient thing to accept. And people are always eager to take any shred of shoddy "evidence" if it supports what they want to believe (i.e., that we can go on living in the thoughtless, destructive, CO2 producing way that we currently do.) You can find plenty of economists and PR "experts" to debunk global warming, but I challenge you to find even one reputable climate scientist who is willing to do so. Your grandchildren will pay for your stupidity. Unfortunately, so will mine.

Wow, CBC must be getting desperate to pull this piece of propaganda out. The CBC's dream of a leftist world government teeters on the brink as Europe's ridiculous carbon trading scheme goes bust. More and more of the world's best (and real) scientists come out against this hoax. I wonder how many taxpayer dollars were wasted getting the broadcast rights to this garbage film.

What's next? More from Dr. Potato Head?

The comments I see posted here so far confirm there are many skeptics to global warming. The skeptics however are not our best and brightest atmospheric scientists. There are many old-vested economic interests that find this documentary 'inconvienent' and will try to sew seeds of doubt. There are far more hydrocarbons on this planet than we dare to burn. There are strong ethical agruments that point to greatly limiting and/or strongly modifying our use of fossil fuels.

Well done CBC! I hope my MP amd MLA and their families were watching.

Will the CBC be showing "The Great Global Warming Swindle" which was aired on BBC some time ago. It is a more factual interpretation of climate change than "The Inconvenient Truth" in which Al Gore expounds on many untruths about global warming. Al Gore will never face to face defend his views with any of his opponents. As I understand, he will not even take questions @ his presentatations.
Many of his & other people's beliefs are shown to be wrong by real scientists & a cooling earth.

I second the request for "The Great Global Warming Swindle." Please show it soon.

It is interesting that the CBC puts up 'facts' about Global Warming, yet not one of said 'facts' can be directly proved to be linked to Global Warming.

Another Critique of Al Gore's Movie

The CBC played Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" on TV, so this is a good time to revisit man-made global warming theory.

The so called "Scientific Consensus" on global warming asserted in Al Gore's movie is a myth. In a 2007 U.S. Senate Report over 400 prominent scientists disputed man-made global warming claims.

No doubt, the climate is changing as it always has. The question is to what extent does CO2 have an effect on that climate change? What is the size of this effect relative to natural changes in the climate due to natural changes such as glacial cycles?

In Al Gore's movie he displays long term charts of CO2 concentrations and temperature extracted from glacial ice cores. He then implies that because they have been correlated in the past that man made increases in CO2 will result in large increases in temperature. This is untrue if the cause and effect points from glacial cycles to CO2 concentrations, and not the other way around for past glacial cycles. We were not around(burning large amounts of hydro-carbons) during previous interglacial melts, and so could not have caused those melts with increased CO2. In fact, there is evidence that the primary driver in past glacial cycles was geo/solar orbital phenomena, and the dramatic fluctuations in CO2 concentration were an effect of the glacial cycle, not the cause of it.

The disorder of the US electoral system addressed in Al Gore's movie is disturbing and unfortunate for Al Gore, but what does it have to do with global warming? Does Al Gore have an axe to grind?

There is a perfectly good reason for reducing consumption of oil. That reason is that oil is a scarce non-renewable resource that by many accounts may be near a peak in our ability to extract it from the earth. A potential negative effect of Man-Made Global Warming theories is that they may cause us to focus reductions on other hydrocarbons, such as coal when coal is abundant and could be a key alternative to oil for transportation fuel via coal to liquids technology for existing vehicles, and electricity from coal for electric vehicles.

Ultimately our efforts and limited financial resources may be better spent in mitigating the effects of climate change rather than speculative changes in CO2 emissions. Migration of peoples living in flood planes would be necessary whether the glacier melt is mostly natural or partly caused by man made gases.

I'm sure this movie is very well done but honestly, what scientific qualifications does Al Gore have? I have read many reputable accounts that the concept of man made global warming is completely false.

The self aggrandizing diatribe by Gore is strictly motivated by political and profiteering purposes.
It is full of exagerations and scientifically unsupportable untruths.

By deliberately ignoring historical geological data, Al Gore’s claims of human caused global warming is nothing short of fraudulent especially in the light of the enormous financial benefit he will derive from these scare mongering tactics. The airing of Al Gore’s views without presenting the myriad of contesting arguments has made CBC an accessory to the crime.

To justify your Mantra of "Truth", CBC must present the other side of the controvercy.

The best part about al gore is how he cries about how the earth is going to hell and the current America government is doing nothing about it. How soon he forgets that he was once in arguably the second most powerful position in America and he himself did next to nothing to prevent it.

Dear CBC,

I wanted to know why, in your write-up about the Al Gore film (http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/specials/2008/inconvenienttruth/), you indirectly assert that "the vast majority of the world's scientists" believe "we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced."? What convincing, serious, professional evidence do you have that this statement is true?

Sincerely,

Tom Harris
Executive Director
International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC)
P.O. Box 23013
Ottawa, Ontario
K2A 4E2
Canada
http:///www.climatescienceinternational.org

613-728-9200

I can not believe this is still running on the air waves. There are many studies that can be found to disprove the facts Al Gore uses if we all choose to research it for ourselves. Why can't CBC allow viewers to see these other documentaries? I do take offense when those who push an agenda can not openly discuss the other side of the coin. This is especially true when it comes to our children's classrooms or in commercials where David Suzuki's position is never allowed to be challenged.

This is a typical media blitz to drive someones agenda including Al Gore's. What does Al Gore do to curb his carbon footprint? What is he and the likes of David Suzuki willing to fore go (including government funding)? It becomes brainwashing for which we can only turn off these garbage shows.

Finally, someone decided to do the right thing and tell people how serious Global Warming is.

Personally, I am impressed with the CBC's record of airing controversial material like Al Gore's documentary film, the Fifth Estate's program "The Denial Machine", and (the ever environmentally conscious program) The Nature of Things.

The CBC proves, once again, that they never shy away from telling Canadians inconvenient truths.

I was a little surprised that CBC would run this feature (An inconvenient truth) in the middle of the coldest/snowiest winter we've had since the seventies, there is three feet of snow here in the city of Vancouver, it snowed in Texas, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. I appreciate that CBC is involved financially with Mister Gore at this point in a new news network and this represents a conflict of interest at least at a superficial level. In the future if you are to run this piece it would only make sense that you would run some of the large variety of media available contending against the ragged theory of anthropomorphic climate change. I wish you well but I also wish you would try to be a little more objective as you represent Canada and you are making us look a little silly by being biased and one sided at a point in the discussion where there is a deluge of contradicting evidence. The suns output has dropped and so have global temperatures, duh.

Nice of you to leave posted comments that are about a year old. Had you noticed that,CBC staff? I'm happy to see that there were climate realists slapping away at the CBC greenie bias a year ago. Unfortunately, the CBC has chosen to ignore anything that has debunked their green myths since then. They should be showing Canadian content (their mantra, after all). Why don't they use the airtime to interview Tim Ball , Ross McKitrick and Steve McIntyre to get some new climate change content, instead of showing the American windbag's theatrical drivel? So sad that Canadian taxpayers are forced to fund this abomination of a media outlet. Rex Murphy, we applaud you.

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I am calling the CBC Ombudsmen. The fact you ran this science fiction last night given all the uncertainty on this issue is an outrage. This is among the most biased, dispicable acts ever perpetrated by the network owned by the people of Canada.

Will you run Apocaplypse No ? Will you run The Great Global Warming Swindle? Will you ever repeat the airing of Doomsday called off?

If not, perhaps it's time a campaign to sell the CBC should commence.