Is 'global warming' really that bad? (OneNewsNow.com)

Is 'global warming' really that bad?

Pete Chagnon - OneNewsNow - 12/9/2008 6:30:00 AM

global warming question A new documentary tackles the subject of global warming hysteria.

The documentary Not Evil Just Wrong is produced and directed by Irish filmmaker Ann McElhinney. The film questions whether the so-called science behind "global warming" is indeed settled, and whether the slight bit of warming that alarmists are calling for is really all that bad. (See earlier story)

McElhinney tells OneNewsNow that not all scientists agree that a warmer earth would spell disaster. She mentions that one of the contributors to the film is Patrick Moore, a founding member of GreenPeace. McElhinney notes that he has since left GreenPeace because the organization has an anti-human, anti-science agenda.

"But one of the very interesting things he says is if the world did get slightly warmer, which is by the way the only thing that they [global warming alarmists] are ever talking about, I mean the kind of amounts of heating they are talking about, even if it did happen, is very, very small," she contends. "And [Moore] says it would be a good thing because ice and cold is the enemy of life. And where you have ice and where you have cold you have no biodiversity. And when temperature rises, even slightly, you have a great burgeoning of biodiversity."

Ann McElhinney With biodiversity, McElhinney says a person can feed the world. She also states that more people die from cold weather than warm weather.

"For example, in Britain in a very severe winter, up to 20,000 people die of the cold. But that number is much, much less in [hotter weather]," she contends. "So there are all kinds of benefits that are out there, and this idea -- something else that is very senseless -- who said that this average mean temperature that we have on the planet now, who said that that's the ideal temperature?"

Climate science is a relatively new science, according to McElhinney, but geology is a much older science. She claims that, when examining geology, there have been warmer periods in the past, such as the medieval warm period. McElhinney says that was a great time for industry and a great time for humanity. "Huge amounts of learning went on [and] a huge amount of enlightenment [took place]," she points out.

Vikings, she notes, were able to colonize Greenland during the medieval time as well and concludes that the notion that warming translates into disaster is "nonsense." Not Evil Just Wrong is set to open in the U.S. in early 2009.