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The Great Global Warming Swindle Full Movie

Kazza0423 · documentary · Watch on YouTube

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What it is

A 2007 Channel 4 documentary by Martin Durkin arguing that human-caused global warming is overstated or a scam. It features contrarian scientists such as Richard Lindzen and promotes sunspot and cosmic-ray explanations for temperature change. Its claims are rejected by mainstream climate science.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Climate-skeptic commenters link it as evidence against the CO2 consensus, while others cite it as an example of climate-change denial.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 6 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2015, last 2020

What HN commenters said

  1. “Take an hour to watch that and save your efforts on Climate Change”

    Urges watching for Lindzen's arguments that CO2 is irrelevant.

    graycat, 2019-02 · Strong recommendation · in “AMA: Bill Gates”

  2. “MIT Professor R. Lindzen explains the consensus in”

    Lindzen explains the climate consensus as driven by money.

    throwaway294, 2020-04 · Recommendation · in “Wildlife collapse from climate change is predicted to hit suddenly and sooner”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: global warming, climate skepticism, lindzen, sunspots, channel 4

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