"The Great Global Warming Scandal," a film to debunk global warming, was shown today at the New Mexico State Land Office

This is a review of the “documentary,” "The Great Global Warming Scandal," a film shown today at the New Mexico State Land Office. According to Wikepdia, “Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality.” This film might be closer to the opposite. It is thick with sarcasm and thin on fact.

Even Dr. Robert Balding, author of “The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air About Global Warming,” commented afterwards that he did not agree with the film in some areas. One of the core arguments was that rising temperature precedes elevated CO2 levels. Dr. Balding disagreed.

Another core argument in the film is that sun spots was the climate change culprit. Dr. Balding suggested that sun spots are not solely responsible for climate change. In fact, he can not predict what will happen. He allowed that the dynamics are complex.

The main thrust of the film is to cast doubt upon climate change and the harmful impacts of CO2. If climate change does not exist and anthropogenic CO2 emissions are safe, then there need not be regulations or penalties for industry. Consequently, efforts to limit, reduce or eliminate anthropogenic CO2 emissions is anti-capitalistic, even neo-Marxist. Yet, those of faux-free-enterprise do not embrace the green entrepreneurship that is occurring globally.

Beyond blaming the media for the “global warming scandal,” the film is aggressively anti-environmentalist. In fact, it blames environmentalism for the poverty in third worlds.

In an impoverished area in off-the-grid Africa, there was a scene where a doctor had a choice between using a light or a refrigerator that contained medications. The building only had two small, under-producing solar panels, so it had little electric power for either. With strained logic, the film implied that solar power was “experimental” and only for the rich.

The film indicates that environmentalism denies Africans the use of their own resources and was perpetuating poverty. However, there was not a connection made between poverty and environmentalism. It was more a leap of logic. One such leap is that fossil fuel must be used to generate electricity in Africa and create prosperity.

Yet, who benefits from the oil drilling, such as in Nigeria?

Reality check. See video below: