The Great Global Warming Swindle (2007)

"Global warming has become a story of huge political significance; environmental activists using scare tactics to further their cause; scientists adding credence to secure billions of dollars in research money; politicians after headlines and a media happy to play along. No-one dares speak against it for risk of being unpopular, losing funds and jeopardizing careers."

The Great Global Warming Swindle is a British documentary film directed by Martin Durkin. The film denies the "scientific consensus" of anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming, justifying this by suggesting that climatology is influenced by funding and political factors.

The film argues that climate change is primarily driven by natural factors, especially solar activity, rather than greenhouse gas emissions from human industry.

It features interviews with scientists, economists, and politicians who are skeptical of mainstream climate science, including Dr. Tim Ball, Richard Lindzen, Patrick Michaels, and Nigel Lawson.

The documentary suggests that the global warming narrative is a "multibillion-dollar" conspiracy fueled by political agendas, research funding incentives, and environmental lobbying.

A statement from the makers of this film asserts that the scientific theory of anthropogenic global warming could very well be "the biggest scam of modern times."

Some have called The Great Global Warming Swindle the definitive retort to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.

According to a group of leading scientists brought together by documentary maker Martin Durkin everything you've ever been told about global warming is probably untrue. Just as we've begun to take it for granted that climate change is a man-made phenomenon, Durkin's documentary slays the whole premise of global warming.