ClimateTheMovie

ClimateTheMovie is good. Look it up. It is being banned on vimeo so I won't provide a link. The version I saw was put up on X by Tom Nelson.

Some new ideas (for me) in there too, eg. that supernova increase cloud cover on earth (climate is complicated).

As I watched it I wrote down the names of all the sceptics and looked them up. I've listed them below. Over 20 well informed people, some of them top scientists. Some of them are very interesting people, eg. Matthew Wielicki runs a substack called "Irrational Fear". I haven't read Stephen Koonin's book, 'Unsettled' but he was very good. Some of the interviewees had experienced being socially shunned, had their careers terminated. Lots of scientists around who can't tolerate differences of opinion. Not scientific.

My favourite sceptics were not even mentioned (Judith Curry, MIchael Shellenberger, Roger Pielke jnr and snr). There are LOTS of sceptics out there. I read Pielke jnrs book "The Climate Fix" years ago. But that was more about renewables not being able to do the job.

The "scientific" narrative that there is one major factor (CO2) controlling the climate is wrong but mainstream media has been pushing that for decades. Don't challenge the narrative, you will be cast out. Is global warming (annoying how the anthropenic is left out) an existential threat? I don't think so.

Why do they do it, the alarmists? The film's political narrative is that it's a money spinner (renewable energy) plus the Greens / IPCC have tapped into people's fear about growth, capitalism, environment with some pseudo scientific half truths. They want big government to control sensible pro growth people. Do I buy that? Yes and No. Middle class virtue signalling politics, tread lightly on the fragile Earth. How did it become so strong? Hard to figure. Stephen Koonin points out that even the IPCC is not as alarmist as it used to be. (also Judith Curry, but not in this movie)

Here's my list of thinking people from the movie:
Stephen Koonin, author 'Unsettled'
Dick Linzen, atmospheric physicist
Will Happer physicist
John Clauser, Nobel Prize winner
Ross McKitrick
Stephen McIntyre
Willie Soon
Patrick Moore
Nir Shaviv
Henrik Svensmark
Mathew Wielicki, "Irrational Fear" Substack
Roy Spencer
Sallie Baliunes
Claire Fox
Tony Heller
Austin Williams
Benny Peiser
Stephen Davies
Tom Nelson