
It's The Sun, Stupid
The Climate Denier's Playbook
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The Great Climate Change Swindle
In 2006, we are starting to emerge into a new era. Al Gore drops an inconvenient truth. We get a mainstreamified version of what global warming is. In 1991, senior scientists at the Danish Meteorological Institute decided to compile a record of sunspots in the 20th century and compare it with the temperature record. Solar activity they found rose sharply to 1940, fell back for almost four decades and then started to rise again. The graph conveniently stops at 1980 when the temperature starts to rise much more rapidly and the solar activity decreases. Once again, we asked our climatologist to have a look at this section of the film and to comment on it.
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