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The Great Global Warming Swindle (DVD) |  | Director: Martin Durkin
Actors: Scientists, Economists, Politicians, Writers
Studio: Wag TV
Category: DVD
Rating:  37 reviews
Format: NTSC
Language: English (Unknown)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 120 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5060081370053
ASIN: B001C17EVE
Release Date: July 23, 2007
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 The Average Documentary Review April 5, 2010
lighten_up_already2 (Kirkland, WA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I just wrote this because someone needed to write a three star review.
Seriously, I was suprised at the high production values in this documentary compared to many I've seen. High quality sound, photography, and editing, and a soundtrack. Can't take those for granted these days.
And, a lot of professionals in the climate area expressing their "heretic" points of view concerning global warming. If you don't just decided that global warming skeptics "aren't scientists" or they're just "funded by big oil" then you'll have at least something to ponder. My favorite was the co-founder of Greenpeace who described how different the organization is now compared to what he founded. That alone is almost worth the price of admission to see this movie.
My problem with this documentary is that It seemed just a little unfocused. The documentary movie is about an hour long, and then there are many special features that almost comprise a second documentary in and of themselves. I wish it had all been edited together, but I suppose it was originally created to fit a TV broadcast time slot.
A segment that I thought particularly weak (and sad) was when the African mother and her little one were shown building a fire in their hut and watching the smoke fill the hut, along with a description of all the death this practice causes. Supposedly it's the "solar and windmills only for Africa" people to blame for this, but really all the hut (and millions more I assume) needed was a chimney. You know, cut a hole in the roof and build a column of bricks (the same material the hut was made with, whatever that was) with an opening in the bottom? Then cook under the chimney. Western civilization discovered that little trick centuries ago, so what is the deal in some other parts of the world?
Anyway, if you're interested in climate change issues, this is certainly worth a watch. Then of course there's the controversy following the release of this documentary, which could almost be worthy of a documentary in and of itself.
 Continued obfuscation by big industry November 30, 2009
D. Stuntebeck (Madison, WI)
1 out of 13 found this review helpful
While healthy debate about global issues is important, this film is quite clearly lobsided and continues to blur the public debate on the issue of global climate change. It makes the absurd claim that most climate scientists are sell-outs (protecting their own careers) but that the naysayers are free from bias (despite being funded by big energy companies). Worse yet, they toss out the cautionary principle - suggesting that a move towards alternative energy is a way to keep developing nations poor. While the world powers may want to keep a segment of the world's population poor, I don't think they are inventing human-influenced global warming to carry out that agenda. It simply doesn't pass the smell test. Save your skepticism for this video, not the debate over global climate change (which should be ended by now).
 Warming? Cause??? November 21, 2009
Inventor (Triad, NC)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
OK, and what caused the global warming cycles in the past? Auto emissions thousands, and millions of years ago? Over and over?
They are weather cycles and man had nothing to do with them. Man wasn't even here for most of them.
Let's keep the science with the scientists and away from politicians.
 The Great Global Warming Swindle October 4, 2009
Karl E. Baxter (Hillsboro, OR USA)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Everyone should watch this video. The scientist explain why the carbon tax is a scam! Al Gore is scamming the world! We can conserve to save our resources. But, carbon dioxide has nothing to do with global warming! Great movie!
 Not strong enough September 18, 2009
Jacey (Sacramento, CA United States)
2 out of 13 found this review helpful
I use this film in conjunction with An Inconvenient Truth to show my students both sides of a debate. Putting the fact that I don't support the claims of this documentary, this is just not as well produced as An Inconvenient Truth, so it is difficult to take it as seriously.
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