By Ann McElhinney & Phelim McAleer

A powerful new film reveals how global warming activists cause economic destruction in the United States while they unwittingly spread misery and death around the world. Commencing a full blown attack on the hypocrisy and ill-conceived policies of the modern environmental movement, Not Evil Just Wrong is a feature length documentary that shows how extreme environmentalism is damaging the lives of the most vulnerable populations in the developed and developing world. With examples from Indiana to Uganda the film shows how Global Warming “solutions” will destroy jobs and livelihoods in America during one of the biggest recessions in living memory.

In time for the world premiere at 8pm on October 18th, DVDs can be pre-ordered by simply by clicking on flash promo below. Bypassing the Hollywood barriers to mass distribution, pre-ordered Not Evil Just Wrong DVDs will arrive in mailboxes in time for a coordinated attempt to break the world record for “largest simultaneous DVD movie premiere” on Sunday, October 18th, 2009, at 8pm.

“This is a film that Hollywood doesn’t want anyone to see because it uncovers the dirty truth of extreme environmentalism,” states the film’s co-director and producer, Phelim McAleer. “Our film is an attempt to spread this truth across America so that this issue, which threatens to damage so many lives and jobs, finally gets the debate it deserves.

“Documentary film co-director and producer Ann McElhinney invites everyday Americans to “Help us expose the true cost of global warming hysteria and become a part of cinematic history by making sure a documentary that finally tells the truth about their lives is shown across the nation.” “CO2 is the new DDT. Environmentalists want to ban it without any firm scientific basis or any consideration of the effect a ban on fossil fuels will have on the lives of working Americans.” says McElhinney.

The film sweeps back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean, starting in the United States. It examines the history of environmentalism, rooted in Rachel Carson’s famed 1962 book, Silent Spring, which led to a ban on DDT. This ban was disastrous for people in the developing world because DDT was the cheapest and safest way of combating malaria. An estimated 30 million people died when the DDT ban left them vulnerable to malaria. Not Evil Just Wrong exposes the full impact of robust and crushing environmental restrictions on the people of Uganda, before returning back to the United States to see how those same policies could impact American families in small towns like Vevay, Indiana.

Not Evil Just Wrong also shreds outrageous claims made in Al Gore’s award-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth, and rips apart academics and actors alike as they promote bad science to raise money for “green” initiatives.

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Marc Morano Climate Depot Editorial - Serving as the Media’s Ombudsman

Washington Post staff writer Juliet Eilperin continues her downward slide as an objective and balanced reporter of climate issues. Eilperin’s September 25, 2009 article titled “New Analysis Brings Dire Forecast Of 6.3-Degree Temperature Increase,” is a journalistic embarrassment.

Earlier this month, Eilperin (publicly available email) did a similarly poor job of reporting on claims of an Arctic “Hockey Stick.” (See: Not Again! WaPo’s Eilperin and Media Promoting Arctic ‘Hockey Stick’ - Claim Temps Warmest in 2000 Years - September 3, 2009)

Eilperin’s latest article once again features discredited political climate activist Robert Corell, without noting Corell’s incorrect scientific claims or his affiliation with the activist Heinz Center, run by Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Sen. John Kerry.

In her September 25 article on the latest UN climate scare report, Eilperin wrote: “Climate researchers now predict the planet will warm by 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century even if the world’s leaders fulfill their most ambitious climate pledges, a much faster and broader scale of change than forecast just two years ago, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations Environment Program.” (Note: Other media outlets are also serving as public relations arms of the UN. See: Laughable: UN Report: ‘Damage being caused by climate change...is no longer a matter of debate’—‘The science has become more irrevocable than ever’ - Sept. 24, 2009—For a reality check on the latest science, see: ‘Series of inconvenient developments for promoters of man-made global warming fears continue unabated’ - August 25, 2009)

UN report ‘aimed at marshaling political support’

Eilperin does note the obvious—that this new piece of “global warming research” is “aimed at marshaling political support for a new international climate pact by the end of the year.”

At least she admitted the UN climate report was all about “politics” and not science. But Eilperin then gives what she freely acknowledged is “research” aimed at “marshalling political support” a free ride from any critical scientific counter view in her article.

Eilperin glosses over the fact that this latest UN climate “report” is a strategically timed political document peppered with unproven computer climate models that violate the basic principles of forecasting and that even the UN does not call “predictions.” See: Climate Depot’s Report Exposing Climate Models

UN presenting ‘best science politics can manufacture’

The fact that the UN is once again presenting the best science politics can manufacture, does not raise a single skeptical journalistic impulse in Eilperin’s reporting. In fact, Eilperin breathlessly reports the new report “highlights the extent to which recent scientific assessments have outstripped the predictions issued by the Nobel Prize-winning U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007.” Eilperin should take lessons from New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin’s recent article on the UN. See: NYT’s Moment of Clarity: UN faces challenge achieving climate treaty ‘when global temps have been stable for a decade and may even drop in next few years’ - September 23, 2009.

The New York Times has also noted how the UN IPCC’s credibility is not what Eilperin seems to believe. (See: NYT’s Moment of Clarity: ‘Nobel Halo Fades Fast for UN IPCC Climate Change Panel’—‘It could quickly lose relevance’ - Climatologist: ‘It just feels like the IPCC has gone from being a broker of science to a gatekeeper’ - August 4, 2009

Why does Eilperin fail to note that a top UN IPCC scientist, Mojib Latif of Kiel University in Germany told a UN conference earlier this month that he is now predicting global cooling for several decades and he admitted he was unsure how much the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) had impacted global temperatures in the past three decades. The New Scientist article reported: “Breaking with climate-change orthodoxy, he said NAO cycles were probably responsible for some of the strong global warming seen in the past three decades. ‘But how much? The jury is still out,’” Latif told the conference. See: UN Fears (More) Global Cooling Commeth! IPCC Scientist Warns UN: We are about to enter ‘one or even 2 decades during which temps cool’ - Admits ‘Jury is still out’ on ocean cycle’s temp impact!

Even the New York Times is now recognizing the global cooling possibility. See: NYT: Missing Its Spots: ‘Sun may be on verge of falling into an extended slumber’—could cause ‘extended chilly period’ - ‘Cosmic ray levels correlate well with climate extending back thousands of years’ - July 21, 2009 & Also see: ‘Sun Sleeps’: Danish Scientist declares ‘global warming has stopped and a cooling is beginning...enjoy global warming while it lasts’ - Sun is ‘heading towards ‘a grand minimum’ as we saw in Little Ice Age’ - Sept. 11, 2009

Perhaps Eilperin could do some basic research like the Houston Chronicle’s Science reporter Eric Berger. (See: Media Tipping Point: Houston Chronicle Reporter Reconsiders Science is ‘Settled’ Claims! ‘I am confused. 4 years ago this all seemed like a fait accompli’ - September 6, 2009 - Berger Excerpt: ‘Earth seems to have, at least temporarily, stopped warming’—‘If we can’t have confidence in short-term prognosis for climate change, how can we have full confidence in long-term?’

Eilperin could have followed the excellent reporting of her Washington Post colleague David A. Fahrenthold, who recently did a balanced and objective report on sea level for the paper. (See: Wash. Post reporting makes progress! Article concedes sea level computer model ‘predictions could be flawed or flat wrong’ - June 9, 2009)

If Eilperin was still confused, she could have consulted the Washington Post’s own resident skeptical meteorologist Matt Rogers to help set her reporting straight. (See: Wash. Post’s Own Meteorologist Counters Paper’s Claims! ‘I wince when hearing...science is ‘settled’—Climate ‘hysteria’ may be ‘another bubble waiting to burst’ - September 10, 2009).

See much more in the full post with many embedded links here.

Investor’s Business Daily, 22 September 2009

President Obama warns of planetary doom at the U.N. if we fail to pass cap-and-trade legislation. Meanwhile, a former warm-monger predicts decades of cooling as the sun stays nearly “spotless.”

The president had hoped to address Tuesday’s United Nations climate change summit in New York with a finished cap-and-trade bill. Failing that, he hoped he’d at least have a version of the Waxman-Markey bill that has passed the House on his desk before the Copenhagen talks in December to cobble together a follow-up to the failed Kyoto Protocol.

Not only did that not happen in the cool summer of 2009, but both science and circumstance have turned against the administration. The American people are in no mood in a recession with near double-digit unemployment to have their electricity rates “necessarily skyrocket” while our economic hole is dug deeper for microscopic, if detectable at all, reductions in global temperature.

The president paraphrased Al Gore’s sentiment that the science is settled and the debate is over, saying that “after too many years of inaction and denial, there is finally widespread recognition of the urgency of the challenge before us. We know what needs to be done.”

Actually, the science is not settled. Nor is it clear what, if anything, needs to be done to prevent what he called “irreversible catastrophe.”

In a speech last week at the U.N.’s World Climate Conference in Geneva, Professor Mojib Latif of Germany’s Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University, one of the world’s foremost climate modelers and a lead author for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change acknowledged that the Earth has been cooling and is likely to continue that trend for the next couple of decades. Al Gore, call your office.

Latif has been looking into the influence of cyclical changes to ocean currents and temperatures in the Atlantic, a feature known as the North American Oscillation. When he factored these natural fluctuations into his global climate model, Professor Latif found the results brought the allegedly endless rise in global temperatures to a screeching halt. Latif conceded the planet has not warmed for nearly a decade and that we are likely entering “one or even two decades during which temperatures cool.” Latif still believes in a warming trend and thinks it will resume. But he at least acknowledges the empirical evidence of cooling, that there are factors at work here other than your SUV, and that doom will not occur the day after tomorrow.

None of the alarmists and their supercomputer climate models ever predicted even a 30-year respite in their apocalyptic scenarios. Neither did they predict the sun, that thermonuclear furnace in the sky that has more influence on earth’s climate than any number of Ford Explorers, would suddenly go quiet for an indefinite period.  Charles Perry, a research hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Lawrence, Kan., says there’s a growing sense in the scientific community that the earth may be entering into a “grand minimum” - an extended period with low numbers of sunspots that results in cooler planetary
temperatures.  In July through August of this year, 51 consecutive days passed without a sunspot, one day short of the record. As of Sept. 15, the current
solar minimum - with 717 spotless days since 2004 - ranks as the third longest on record. Perry cites data indicating that global temperature fluctuations
correspond to a statistically significant degree with the length of the sunspot cycle and variations in solar activity. 1816, the “year without a summer,” was during an 1800 to 1830 grand minimum when Europe became significantly cooler.

Latif and others conclude that, at the very least, we have time to think about it and analyze and learn. We don’t have to fight global warming by inflicting global poverty. More things on Earth affect climate than are dreamed up in computer models. Read more here.