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******************************************************************************* CBC - Our World Environmental Revolution ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Type.................: documentary More Information.....: (none) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technical Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source...............: NTSC CABLE AVI Size.............: 276,871,168 bytes Duration.............: 00:22:37 FPS..................: 29.97 Video Codec..........: XviD Codec DCT......: H263 QPel...........: No Video Bitrate........: 2000 (ABR) Video Resolution.....: 640x464 Video Aspect Ratio...: 1.379 GMC............: No Audio Format.........: 0x0055(MP3, ISO) MPEG-1 Layer 3 Audio Encoder........: LAME 3.92 Bitrate..............: 128kbits/sec (CBR) Hz...................: 48000 Channels.............: Stereo Captured by..........: festering leper ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENVIRONMENTAL REVOLUTION: The new era of environmentalism and why it's now on the international agenda. We feature this week Brian's conversation with writer Thomas Homer-Dixon about what he describes as the looming crisis facing our Fragile Planet, as well as reports from the CBC's Beijing based-correspondent Michel Cormier, and the CBC's Toronto-based Joan Leishman about how different countries are meeting the environmental challenge There were times when the media paid little attention to environmental stories. Governments, for that matter, also gave the issue low priority. Those seem like ancient days, now. The state of the environment is of top interest among Canadians and the news media and governments are playing a frantic game of catch up as we watch our fragile planet change significantly within the span of our own lifetimes. A sign of the change in viewpoint, certainly, was when "An Inconvenient Truth", a film about Al Gore's lonely crusade to educate people about the perils of global warming, won an academy award this year for best documentary. The former Vice President, long dismissed as a policy wonk on the environment, is now something of a folk hero, as he takes his message about green-thinking around the Globe. Even two decades ago, Gore was an early warning voice on environmental challenges, so what a vindication for him to see a kind of an environmental revolution catch on with increasing force. The Canadian writer, Thomas Homer Dixon, based at the University of Toronto, is another former voice in the wilderness. He has been talking for years about a coming collapse caused by global warming, energy scarcity, widening gaps between rich nations and poor ones and the need for western societies to rethink their dependencies on oil and other limited resources, and become more resilient and innovative and , well, green. Brian recently sat down for a conversation with Thomas Homer Dixon and they talked about this new era in environmental consciousness and why it's a cause for hope. Western societies are increasingly aware and vocal about global warming, in particular, but there is some hypocrisy to all of this, poorer nations say. Take, for instance China. Millions of people there hope to attain the lifestyle of the middle-class for the first time ever. That means cars, and modern appliances, and all the things we take for granted in the West and which contribute to global warming and pollution.The Chinese citizen has a right to aspire to an easier life, but the cost to the environment, just because of the enormous size of the population, is terrifying.We have a report from the CBC's Beijing-based correspondent Michel Cormier about China's looming environmental problem. After that, so as to not leave you discouraged, we leave you with a report by CBC reporter Joan Leishman about how some Canadians are making a difference by shopping for clean energy sources. --

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oldngrey (2007-11-09)

Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming 'Greatest Scam in History'
Intro by Joe D'Aleo, Icecap, CCM
I was privileged to work with John Coleman, the founder of The Weather Channel in the year before it became a reality and then for the first of the 6 years I was fortunate to be the Director of Meteorology. No one worked harder than John to make The Weather Channel a reality and to make sure the staffing, the information and technology was the very best possible at that time. John currently works with KUSI in San Diego. He posts regularly. I am very pleased to present his latest insightful post.
By John Coleman
It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a SCAM. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an allusion of rapid global warming. Other scientists of the same environmental whacko type jumped into the circle to support and broaden the "research" to further enhance the totally slanted, bogus global warming claims. Their friends in government steered huge research grants their way to keep the movement going. Soon they claimed to be a consensus.
Environmental extremists, notable politicians among them, then teamed up with movie, media and other liberal, environmentalist journalists to create this wild "scientific" scenario of the civilization threatening environmental consequences from Global Warming unless we adhere to their radical agenda. Now their ridiculous manipulated science has been accepted as fact and become a cornerstone issue for CNN, CBS, NBC, the Democratic Political Party, the Governor of California, school teachers and, in many cases, well informed but very gullible environmentally conscientious citizens. Only one reporter at ABC has been allowed to counter the Global Warming frenzy with one 15 minute documentary segment.
I do not oppose environmentalism. I do not oppose the political positions of either party. However, Global Warming, i.e. Climate Change, is not about environmentalism or politics. It is not a religion. It is not something you "believe in." It is science; the science of meteorology. This is my field of life-long expertise. And I am telling you Global Warming is a non-event, a manufactured crisis and a total scam. I say this knowing you probably won't believe a me, a mere TV weatherman, challenging a Nobel Prize, Academy Award and Emmy Award winning former Vice President of United States. So be it.
I have read dozens of scientific papers. I have talked with numerous scientists. I have studied. I have thought about it. I know I am correct. There is no run away climate change. The impact of humans on climate is not catastrophic. Our planet is not in peril. I am incensed by the incredible media glamour, the politically correct silliness and rude dismissal of counter arguments by the high priest of Global Warming.
In time, a decade or two, the outrageous scam will be obvious. As the temperature rises, polar ice cap melting, coastal flooding and super storm pattern all fail to occur as predicted everyone will come to realize we have been duped. The sky is not falling. And, natural cycles and drifts in climate are as much if not more responsible for any climate changes underway. I strongly believe that the next twenty years are equally as likely to see a cooling trend as they are to see a warming trend. See John's full blog story here.