Climate: The Movie

This movie debunks climate alarmism as a made-up scare with no scientific basis. It shows that mainstream studies and official data do not support the claim that we are experiencing an increase in extreme weather events - hurricanes, droughts, heat waves, wildfires and everything else. It strongly contradicts the claim that current temperatures and CO2 levels in the atmosphere are unusually and worryingly high. On the contrary, compared to the last half billion years of the Earth's history, both current temperatures and CO2 levels are extremely and unusually low. We are currently in an ice age. It also shows that there is no evidence that changing CO2 levels (they have changed many times) have ever "driven" climate change in the past.

Why then are we repeatedly told that "catastrophic man-made climate change" is an irrefutable fact? Why are we told that there is no evidence to contradict this? Why are we told that anyone who questions the "climate chaos" is a "flat-earther" and a "science denier"?

The film explores the nature of the consensus behind climate change. It describes the origins of the climate finance bandwagon and the rise of the trillion-dollar climate industry. It describes hundreds of thousands of jobs that depend on the climate crisis. It explains the enormous pressure on scientists and others not to question the climate alarm: Withdrawal of funds, rejection by scientific journals, social ostracism.

But the climate alarm is much more than just a funding and employment boom. The film examines the politics of climate. From the beginning, the climate scare was political. The culprit was free market industrial capitalism. The solution was higher taxes and more regulation. From the beginning, climate alarm has appealed to those groups who favor stronger government, and it has been adopted and promoted by them.

This is the unspoken political divide behind climate alarmism. Above all, climate anxiety appeals to all members of the sprawling, publicly funded establishment. This includes the largely publicly funded Western intelligentsia, for whom climate has become a moral issue. In these circles, it is a breach of social etiquette to criticize or question climate alarmism.

The film features interviews with a number of very prominent scientists, including Professor Steven Koonin (author of "Unsettled", former Rector and Vice President of Caltech), Professor Dick Lindzen (former Professor of Meteorology at Harvard and MIT) and Professor Will Happer (Professor of Physics at Princeton), Dr. John Clauser (winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics), Professor Nir Shaviv (Racah Institute of Physics), Professor Ross McKitrick (University of Guelph), Willie Soon and several others.

The film was written and directed by British filmmaker Martin Durkin and is the sequel to his excellent 2007 documentary "The Great Global Warming Swindle". The film was produced by Tom Nelson, a podcaster who has been deeply involved in the climate debate for almost two decades.