New Climate Denial Movie is Same Old Same Old

Bunch of very, very old white guys interviewed in a new attempt at muddying the science, using, I kid you not, the same Climate Denial Crocks that I started out debunking in 2008.

Martin Durkin, the same climate-denying lefty weirdo that was completely humiliated after releasing the Fox News lauded dumpster fire of a movie, the “Great Global Warming Swindle”in (Jesus has it been that long?) 2007 – has now, somehow, gotten some misanthropic billionaire to fund yet another stab, even as the planet has continued to rapidly and catastrophically warm in the interim.
One more illustration that progress often has to wait for old guys to die off.
I know I should watch this eco-porn, but honestly I’m way too busy at the moment, and so posting the short synopsis above. The actual thing is somewhere on youtube, if someone wants to find it, I won’t be giving them a link.
Skeptical Science, bless their hearts, have cataloged the list of warmed-over whoppers.

The first 42-odd minutes of this 80 minute long festival of misinformation, once the initial ‘elevator-pitch’ is done with, are dedicated to “The Science”. But instead of that, what one is exposed to is a veritable Gish-gallop of climate myths, with the phrase, “we are told” liberally scattered among them.

There are a few claims that are not in our database. Did you know that at the height of the last glaciation, there was a “CO₂ famine” that, had it gotten any worse, would have made life on Earth go extinct? No, neither did we. The claim may have originated from a post at the Wattsupwiththat? blog from June 2017, which doesn’t present any actual evidence for it. 

After that, the movie drifts off into a mixture of stuff. Apparently, until the 1980s, climate change was just a scare caused by a few radical environmentalists. Then Al Gore came along, there was limitless government money all of a sudden for climate research (so long as you sang to the same hymn-sheet) and a Consensus was formed, with which “to bludgeon opponents”. Etcetera etcetera etcetera. Never mind the likes of Foote, Tyndall and Arrhenius, who in the 19th Century had pretty much worked out the greenhouse gasproperties of CO₂.