Review of Merchants of Doubt (2014) by Scott M — 10 Jun 2016

The magic stuff is fun, but this is not a real documentary, but more of a pro climate change presentation.

Seems a little cheap to compare Climate Change skeptics, to the tobacco companies. Ad Homonym.

And seems counter-factual, when they have the Climate changers playing the victims, and acting terrorized. Aren't they the ones that have 97% on their side?? Aren't all the grants going to Change studies? Don't their proponents win Nobel prizes?

It is certainly obsessed with who is denying the claims.

But it seems to ignore the fact that all the change predictions always turn out wrong. Really wrong.

The Skeptic publisher got interested in climate change when all the 70s predictions turned out wrong. But doesn't acknowledge all the current ones are wrong too.

Ignores the 20 years of no global temperature increase.

And THEY say the stolen climate emails weren't really about making up data. But it's pretty clear they were.

They say they were investigated, but they were always investigated by their friends and fellow change proponents.

It poo poos the "threat" to our freedoms to live our lives, which is naïve. It's everywhere. And very statist to downplay the treat.

Never acknowledges that what the Changers want to do, thru legislation, would bankrupt the world, and would have almost no impact on CO2 in atmosphere.

Never acknowledges that American is producing less CO2 each year, and the rest of the world won't change their output even if we do.

No evidence that rising CO2 levels actually causes any change, since 97% of "greenhouse gases" in the atmosphere is actually water vapor. CO2 is almost inconsequential, except that it lets politicians control industry, and people.

They found a couple people who had switch to Change, but ignore all those who have decided it's not warming, or not man-made.

I actually wish the world were warming slightly, as it would be great for food production. It's too bad that It's likely cooling, which will be bad for us.

It's disingenuous when they act like they've been out played and beaten by some smart hidden CABAL. Yet they seem to have won at every level, without evidence of warming . . .

They claim hurricanes have been worse do to climate change, when it's well known they have been much milder recently.

"There will be huge loses from storms" when insurance companies don't see anything like that.

I gave up at about 1 hour in, when it became clear they weren't going to deal with any of the hole in their story, and just keep up casting aspersions on skeptics.

It was well made, but ultimately unpersuasive to me due to lack of anything other than trying to discredit skeptics.