Have to write an argumentative essay so I want to get both sides of the climate change topic so I can make a better argument
Where can I watch the video %26quot;The Great Global Warming Swindle%26quot;?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4123082535546754758%26amp;hl=en
More insight can be found here:
http://www.friendsofscience.org/
Critique
http://www.csiro.au/resources/pfxg.html
http://www.csiro.au/files/files/pfb4.pdf
For desperate downplay by alarmists, just google the title.
Bear in mind:
As recounted in the book “Chaos” by James Gleick, Dr. Lorenz’s accidental discovery of chaos came in the winter of 1961. Dr. Lorenz was running simulations of weather using a simple computer model. One day, he wanted to repeat one of the simulations for a longer time, but instead of repeating the whole simulation, he started the second run in the middle, typing in numbers from the first run for the initial conditions.
The computer program was the same, so the weather patterns of the second run should have exactly followed those of the first. Instead, the two weather trajectories quickly diverged on completely separate paths.
At first, he thought the computer was malfunctioning. Then he realized that he had not entered the initial conditions exactly. The computer stored numbers to an accuracy of six decimal places, like 0.506127, while, to save space, the printout of results shortened the numbers to three decimal places, 0.506. When typing in the new conditions, Dr. Lorenz had entered the rounded-off numbers, and even this small discrepancy, of less than 0.1 percent, completely changed the end result.
Even though his model was vastly simplified, Dr. Lorenz realized that this meant perfect weather prediction was a fantasy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/17/us/17lorenz.html?_r=1%26amp;scp=1%26amp;sq=Chaos+Theory
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Good luck.
Where can I watch the video %26quot;The Great Global Warming Swindle%26quot;?
Hope we will be able to read the essay, somewhere when you have completed it?
About global warming and other related issues on environment problems, please refer blog -
http://www.environmentengineering.blogsp…
In that blog one video also attached regarding melting of glaciers, hope u would like that.
YouTube has it in about 8 parts. I watched it whole once.
you can watch it in parts on you tube, or buy it from amazon, you should also look at this website. http://www.iceagenow.com
After you watch it, you'll probably want to see how scientists have refuted it:
http://www.amos.org.au/BAMOS_GGWS_SUBMIS…
http://www.durangobill.com/Swindle_Swind…
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=4…
Even the TV station that broadcast it now says on their website it's wrong.
First link should take you there. Check out the 2nd link after you've watched it.
Heres a link to all the false claims about global warming.
http://environment.com/channel/earth/dn1…
http://z4.invisionfree.com/Popular_Techn…
as a side note but related to the Great Global Warming Swindle:
Follow the money...
Gore investment body closes $683m fund
By Fiona Harvey in London
Published: April 29 2008 19:55 | Last updated: April 29 2008 19:55
The investment vehicle headed by Al Gore has closed a new $683m fund to invest in early-stage environmental companies and has mounted a robust defence of green investing.
The Climate Solutions Fund will be one of the biggest in the growing market for investment funds with an environmental slant.
The fund will be focused on equity investments in small companies in four sectors: renewable energy; energy efficiency technologies; energy from biofuels and biomass; and the carbon trading markets.
This is the second fund from Generation Investment Management, chaired by the former vice-president of the US and managed by David Blood, former head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
The first, the Global Equity Strategy Fund, has $2.2bn invested in large companies the company judges have “sustainable“ businesses, from an environmental, social and economic viewpoint. Mr Blood said he expected that fund to be worth $5bn within two years, based on commitments from interested investors.
Mr Blood said raising $683m for the new fund in the midst of “market disruption” showed the resilience of green investing. “The fact we were able to raise $683m was extraordinary, so our experience is that it has not really been a problem [raising funds despite what is] generally a difficult environment,” he told the Financial Times.
“A fear expressed by some is that the first thing to go in a downturn is the nice-to-have sort of investment. Some people put green investments in that category, but we think that is nonsense. This is not nice-to-have – it is fundamental finance...because the transition from a high-carbon to a low-carbon economy is a ginormous step that is going to happen quickly,” he said.
Both Mr Gore and Mr Blood had invested in the new fund to a “pretty sizeable” extent, Mr Blood said.
The average size of investment made by the new fund is likely to be about $30m, in small private or public companies. All of the investors in the new fund were drawn from the company’s existing pool of investors.
None were willing to be named but existing investors in the Global Equity Strategy Fund include the Swiss private bank Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch; the California State Teachers Retirement System; Sweden’s Mistra Foundation; and Australia’s Victoria Super Fund.
Last year, Generation formed a partnership with the Silicon Valley venture capitalists Kleiner Perkins Caufield %26amp; Byers to collaborate on possible investments.
