Did anybody WATCH the documentary?

http://globalisation-and-the-environment.blogspot.com/2007/03/great-global-warming-swindle.html

According to George Monbiot, "The programme’s thesis revolves around the deniers’ favourite canard: that the “hockey-stick graph” showing rising global temperatures is based on a statistical mistake made in a paper by the scientists Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley and Malcolm Hughes(11)." The hockey-stick graph was mentioned exactly zero times in this documentary, which I watched last night.

Mr Monbiot then goes for ad hominem insult: "In 1997, the director, Martin Durkin, produced a very similar series for Channel 4 called “Against Nature”, which also maintained that global warming was a scam dreamt up by environmentalists. It was riddled with hilarious scientific howlers." Would Mr Monbiot like to tell us what they were? No. Didn't think he would.

We now enter the even more deranged world of the comments section-

"Global warming cannot be caused by Solar activity. For the following reasons. Since life has formed on earth the suns energy has increased from 25% output to 30%, yet the Earths surface temperature has remained the same. How? It is becayse the living Earth can adapt to it's environment (in this case the sun). What this program fails to recognise is that in order for the earth to maintain it's consistency in adapting to the ever-increasing heat, it needs for us HUMANS to not f**k it up by filling the skies with CO2 (thanks aircraft!). Consider this before you disregard humans as the cause for global warming." Can't spell, but can solve the worlds problems from his bedroom... The earths surface temperature has remained the same through the whole of its history? Okay, good argument. Did this guy actually watch the program?

"Climate change isn't a certainty, but when an enormous body of science tells me that something has a 90% probability I tend to believe it. I would question the objectivity of anyone in the non-scientific community who doesn't believe it." Really? If 100% of physicists believe that Newtonian physics pretty much covers all the bases, and one young scruffy Jewish scientist says actually it doesn't, and writes the proofs to demonstrate he is right, I guess that all the orthodox physicists are right because there are more of them...

According to the info on this blog, Rob Elliott, Matt Cole & David Maddison are environmental economists at the University of Birmingham, UK. What is an environmental economist? Does an environmental economist accept a priori that human activities on planet earth always have a 'cost'? If so, their conclusions must always be asterisked with doubt. For many ordinary people, human activity is just as legitimate as say, wolf activity or whale activity. But a whole industry based on human badness and human culpability has grown up, and for them human activity is a scourge and source of shame. How sad.