4 - Climate Change -- Gore vs. Durkin

This video, the fourth in my Climate Change series, looks at urban myths spawned by two iconic films -- An Inconvenient Truth and The Great Global Warming Swindle. Whatever you "believe" about climate change, there is no excuse for the kind of exaggerations, fallacies and fabrications we see in films like these. My aim is to cut through the junk science designed to evangelize this issue, and show what the actual scientific research shows us.
The video cuts short at the end, and the final sentence should read: "As I look at more of the urban myths theyve spawned."

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Climate
• change
• global
• warming
• inconvenient
• truth
• great
• swindle
• al
• gore
• martin
• durkin

[moor4348]

The only criticism I have of this otherwise excellent series is about the attribution of individual weather events to global warming. Events like the European Heat Wave are becoming more likely according to ongoing research. Very rare events, far to the right on a bell curve of probabilities that represents the current climate are becoming more common as the entire curve shifts to the right, a curve representing a new, warmer climate regime where a previously rare event becomes more common.

[potholer54]

@moor4348 =Events like the European Heat Wave are becoming more likely according to ongoing research.= This is true. The problem comes when people claim that a particular weather event is due to global warming. It is rather like saying that smoking increases the likelihood of lung cancer. True, but you cannot point to an individual case of lung cancer and say it was due to smoking.

[1212JackJohnson]

@1212JackJohnson Between you and Peter Gleick I think I have a handle on it! I've suspected as much for years but its nice to know.

[1212JackJohnson]

Excellent series - thankyou!

[IFrancyISantosI]

then, al gore used the wrong graph aswell

[grisgrisy]

very interesting video thanks

[smuggecko]

great video thanks

[jaydoubledee]

Durkin screwed up, shooting himself in the foot. Too bad because apart from the needlessly tweaked graphs it's pretty scientifically sound as an argument-making film. He didn't need to tweak and his point is way more compelling than Gore's Disney fantasy whose marketing tag says it all: the most frightening film you will ever see.

[thesparitan]

@bootylicification you need professional help. You keep on posting allen west 20212 and you make very insane arguments.

[Mistersamsam]

Al Gore exaggerates, Durkin straight up lies...

[winterstellar]

@moor4348 The events aren't so rare anymore when every one of the last couple of centuries' warmest years have all occured more or less during the last decade:)