Love it! The interview with the "anonymous expert" made my day.

Unfortunately, I can't watch the original video ("not available in my country"). So the only thing I could do was to click the link. "World Natural Health Organization". Let's see... Errr... This seems to be rather obscure and religious. No one else seems to know this organization with the pretentious ("World..") name. Definitively no serious science. Ok, I'm not going to go through the troubles of trying to watch the video despite the block.

Okay. I watched it. The only thing interesting or informative to me was Margarete Thatcher's political role. I can dissect the arguments made but I really don't understand how you can believe this trash. This is not what people who believe in man-made global warming generally say. If you don't spot straw man argument after straw man argument, you need to learn to watch actual arguments made from people who don't clearly believe your "side".

While we're mentioning Venus, and the movie/ video is mentioning CO2 in the upper atmosphere and how "all the models" ... "every one of them" say that the upper atmosphere should be hotter from the warming. Well, Venus has a cold upper atmosphere and this effect, applied to earth with global warming, has been predicted since 1989, if not earlier. The troposphere gets cooler as elevation rises. This is not at all surprising in an environment high in CO2.

Bring up any other point made by the video.

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Funny, with the biceps. These Arabs are not completely stupid.

After all Obama appears not so bad to me, i like him, there are much worse people.

I am glad Merkel is still able to lift her arms...

Ben Delacob, while I disagree with you, I do wish to thank you for an intelligent, well thought out response. I am more likely to look into anything you say just for being decent about it than anyone else. At least you look at both sides and then make up your mind, which is what I think everyone should do.

The thing is, CO2 is not a pollutant. We produce it all the time by simply breathing, so I am not convinced that the small amounts we produce has that big of an effect. I think the video made a really good point about the global temperature getting warmer in the 1940s when the industrial revolution was just getting started and not contributing much pollution at all, and then later on temperatures dropped after the industrial revolution got off the ground and we were producing a lot, yet it got cooler! I grew up in the 1970s and believe me, it was not getting warmer then! We had snow drifts that covered my school roof at the time.

The real damage that is being done is to poor countries who cannot afford modern technology, like they pointed out in Africa, that was an aspect I had never thought about before.

We are not producing a "small" amount of CO2 unnaturally. All the oil and coal in the world is from hundreds of millions of years of decomposed plant material that decreased the prehistoric levels of CO2. They would never have been re-introduced into the atmosphere naturally. As we burn them, we are introducing greenhouse gases that will destabilize the environment at a rate that is unprecedented.

And CO2 is not a typical pollutant in some sense, sure, but that's not what's being argued. It is a greenhouse gas. Again, Venus has an atmosphere largely ('96%', like the exact number makes a difference ) of CO2. It is hotter than mercury, which is considerably closer to the sun. Gee, I wonder why.

Increased levels of CO2 also pose a problem in the oceans. The ocean has warmed considerably, which has allowed the atmosphere to remain cooler. And warming the ocean is no small feat: the amount of energy required is incredible. It's similar to the power of a hurricane. It requires far more energy to maintain a hurricane than we will use in energy for everything man-made a year, and hurricanes are tiny compared to the ocean.

Yeah.... Global Warming is a misnomer/straw man. It's Climate Change. One area could get cold as hell, but that doesn't mean the world is getting cooler. The climate system doesn't work that way.

I'll absolutely say that Al Gore, and Green Energy have tons of exaggerated claims to make money. But just because someone exploits the truth for financial gain doesn't mean the truth is invalidated.

I'd almost say Global Warming is a gigantic red herring. Pollution in general is damaging to our society, our lives, our children. If we clean up our society and stomp dumping waste into our rivers--even if global warming is false--we're still going to benefit greatly.

Is lower cancer rates and lower child birth defects too small of a benefit to care about?

A couple of weeks ago I went on a trip across NC and SC. I ended up at a dye plant vendor where they take textiles and color them. You know what they do? They literally dump everything into the city's sewage system. All chemicals. Thinning agents, dye, binding agents, cleaners. Everything. They "buffer" it in a gigantic water tower so that it fills up throughout the day but only injects as much as they are allowed to by hour, per city regulation.

I get called a monster for letting some drops of car oil leak into my grass, but these guys are pumping thousands of gallons of the same stuff into our waters every day. And they weren't even a big company! Less than 100 employees!

How the hell is that legal?

Climate change skeptics remind me of anti-vaxxers. There's overwhelming evidence of anthropogenic climate change, but because a handful of research either suggest less dramatic changes or outright deny the effects, that's the truth and the rest is a giant conspiracy! Oooooh.

I mean, seriously. I have a hard time dealing with irrational thoughts and behaviors, but given enough thought and willpower I understand that these same thoughts and behaviors are indeed irrational. Kind of like an extreme phobia.

But to willingly deceive yourself, that's something.