consensus

The Great Global Warming Swindle is a DVD, but its website can be viewed here. The main page begins with a note on how the DVD will be available soon "... despite the strenuous efforts of those who support the theory of global warming to prevent its release". This wording makes it clear that the DVD is controversial enough that global warming supporters would go out of their way to prevent it from reaching the public.

The website has a few tabs on specific subjects, such as the sun and its role in climate change. With regards to this, the authors of the website call it "curious" that mainstream scientists would not consider the role of the sun in relation to climate, and they go on to explain that they are clearly related, since summer is warmer than winter and so on. Their point is simple: we, normal everyday people, notice the obvious things that mainstream scientists overlook. Each tabbed subject is much the same, followed by a long list of more detailed links that will explain the ideas more thoroughly.

On the page titled "Apocalypse Then", the authors point out that scientists have long foreseen terrible apocalyptic events, assuming that we would all start dying off in the 1970's, which has obviously not come to pass. By comparing those hysterical ideas to our ideas of global warming, the authors suggest that we are being unrealistic.

One of the more interesting pages is the one on "consensus", and how orthodox views often lead to fear mongering amongst scientists (an example being mad cow disease). The website makes it clear that even though 'top scientists' have arrived at a consensus, we don't know who these people are, and there are intelligent scientists who dare to disagree.

The website as a whole appears to speak to the "common" person, the one who doesn't necessarily know much about science but would still be concerned about scientific issues. One of the goals of the website appears to be to make scientists look like silly and reactionary people who don't understand common sense.