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Climate: The Movie

March 21, 2024

Martin Durkin’s Climate:The Movie is now released:

Climate The Movie from Martin Durkin on Vimeo.

This film exposes the climate alarm as an invented scare without any basis in science. It shows that mainstream studies and official data do not support the claim that we are witnessing an increase in extreme weather events – hurricanes, droughts, heatwaves, wildfires and all the rest. It emphatically counters the claim that current temperatures and levels of atmospheric CO2 are unusually and worryingly high. On the contrary, it is very clearly the case, as can be seen in all mainstream studies, that, compared to the last half billion years of earth’s history, both current temperatures and CO2 levels are extremely and unusually low. We are currently in an ice age. It also shows that there is no evidence that changing levels of CO2 (it has changed many times) has ever ‘driven’ climate change in the past.

Why then, are we told, again and again, that ‘catastrophic man-made climate-change’ is an irrefutable fact? Why are we told that there is no evidence that contradicts it? Why are we told that anyone who questions ‘climate chaos’ is a ‘flat-earther’ and a ‘science-denier’?

The film explores the nature of the consensus behind climate change. It describes the origins of the climate funding bandwagon, and the rise of the trillion-dollar climate industry. It describes the hundreds of thousands of jobs that depend on the climate crisis. It explains the enormous pressure on scientists and others not to question the climate alarm: the withdrawal of funds, rejection by science journals, social ostracism.

But the climate alarm is much more than a funding and jobs bandwagon. The film explores the politics of climate. From the beginning, the climate scare was political. The culprit was free-market industrial capitalism. The solution was higher taxes and more regulation. From the start, the climate alarm appealed to, and has been adopted and promoted by, those groups who favour bigger government.

This is the unspoken political divide behind the climate alarm. The climate scare appeals especially to all those in the sprawling publicly-funded establishment. This includes the largely publicly-funded Western intelligentsia, for whom climate has become a moral cause. In these circles, to criticise or question the climate alarm has become is a breach of social etiquette.

The film was shot on location in the U.S., Canada, Israel, Kenya and UK.

The film includes interviews with a number of very prominent scientists, including Professor Steven Koonin (author of ‘Unsettled’, a former provost and vice-president of Caltech), Professor Dick Lindzen (formerly professor of meteorology at Harvard and MIT), Professor Will Happer (professor of physics at Princeton), Dr John Clauser (winner of the Nobel prize in Physics in 2022), Professor Nir Shaviv (Racah Institute of Physics) and other

57 Comments
  1. March 21, 2024 3:53 pm

    It is an excellent film. The problem is that all those in power, in the MSM and those profiting from the scam will just ignore it (even if any of them watch it, which I doubt amny will). It needs to be seen by the wider public, but it is too complicated for most people. The next step is probably that it will be banned and deleted from YouTube.

    • bnice2000 permalink
      March 23, 2024 10:05 am

      To download a copy to your hard drive, click just under the film where it says Climate The Movie.

      This takes you to the Vimeo page.. 

      Now.. below the video on the right, you should be able to find a “Download” button.

  2. Hugh Sharman permalink
    March 21, 2024 3:53 pm

    Recommended! Unmissable! A bit over-long for my tastes and a bit irritating in parts but still brilliantly conceived and executed! I wonder whether the BBC will even acknowledge its existence…? And how it will comment if it does? Make sure, everyone, to get it to every UK voter, well before the election this year!

  3. malcolmbell7eb132fe1f permalink
    March 21, 2024 4:23 pm

    Why is “free market capitalism” the culprit.

    To me it it left wing socialism trying to destroy capitalism and centralise control.

    • Nigel Sherratt permalink
      March 21, 2024 7:32 pm

      Capitalism is the target of the eco-loons, not the culprit.

      • Gamecock permalink
        March 21, 2024 8:43 pm

        There’s more to it.

        ‘Capitalism’ was Marx’s pejorative of free enterprise (“free market capitalism” is redundant).

        Yes, the commies dressed as eco-loons are trying to kill freedom in the economy. But they are also trying to kill freedom in everything else. ALL freedom must go. They think it wrong for people to have choices.

        “We tried freedom, but it didn’t work . . . people kept making wrong choices.”

      • malcolmbell7eb132fe1f permalink
        March 21, 2024 10:14 pm

        Yes of course you are right. “Greenery” is only one of their several battle fronts. I will never forget what they did to me in 1978 as the very nearly brought down all manufacturing. Actually Thatcher’s over reaction to their attack in the long run did bring heavy and medium industry down.

        Chip by chip they are wearing us away.

      • Chaswarnertoo permalink
        March 22, 2024 11:40 am

        Dear Malcolm, Bliar lost 2x as much manufacturing as Fatch from the reduced base she left. Blame the correct people.

      • malcolmbell7eb132fe1f permalink
        March 22, 2024 12:12 pm

        Yes, Blair was a Thatcherite, anti-Union and a warmonger (Iraq and N.Africa). He bought into her economics 100%.

      • Nigel Sherratt permalink
        March 22, 2024 12:32 pm

        Labour also closed more pits than Conservatives. Blair is a Trotskyite, Starmer is a Pabloite

      • Nigel Sherratt permalink
        March 22, 2024 12:43 pm

        From PwC report in 2009, much has changed since then of course.

        Executive Summary

        There is a widespread assumption that the final demise of manufacturing in the UK is only a matter of time. But this is simply not so. The facts tell a different story:

        • Output of British manufacturing reached an all-time high in 2007, even adjusted for inflation
        • The UK is the world’s 6th largest manufacturer with strong positions in certain key industries, e.g. a 15% global market share in Aerospace
        • UK Manufacturing achieved a 50% increase in labour productivity from 1997-2007. PwC believe UK manufacturing will survive this as it survived the crises of 1973, 1982 and 1991.
          It is undeniably true that in the UK, the manufacturing sector is in relative decline. Over the past 30 years manufacturing output has grown more slowly than services, and the number of people employed in manufacturing has dropped steadily as productivity per employee has increased. Perhaps most seriously, Britain has
          a highly negative balance of trade (total exports minus total imports) that is not sustainable.
      • Nigel Sherratt permalink
        March 22, 2024 12:53 pm

        2017 update; ‘When we talk about the decline of manufacturing, it is important to bear in mind, we only mean a relative decline. Manufacturing output has increased in real terms. To some extent, there is an inevitability that manufacturing as a share of GDP will fall, and it is not necessarily desirable or possible for a government to prevent this shift in the economy. – Just as it would be impossible to have prevented the decline in the coal industry which once employed 1 million miners.’

        https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/7617/economics/economic-growth-during-great-moderation/

  4. tomcart16 permalink
    March 21, 2024 4:26 pm

    Free market capitalism has provided enough funds to ‘fix’ the problem and bankrupt western economies in the process. Talk about jumping under the bus.

  5. micda67 permalink
    March 21, 2024 4:40 pm

    Unfortunately the film is too clever by half, 99.999% of the CCC and politicians would never grasp that the science is not settled, nor the fact that without CO2 we are royally screwed, below 150ppm all life stops, ideally we need to be around 1000ppm.
    The film concentrates on proving that the lies that are being spouted hourly are both dangerous and fit an agenda- the agenda being the biggest Ponzi scam ever, cease use of all reliable fossil fuel production/energy sourcing and use in exchange intermittent energy sources which will bring the World to a crashing stop – without reliable energy, nothing works correctly, everything from water, light, heat, fertiliser sewerage, mobility, food security to name a few will become luxuries few can afford – and the ability to afford is the agenda.
    It is known as Demand Pricing and will apply to everything.
    We are building a regime of oligarchs who will control the supply as a cartel, what little there is will be available but at a price, thus returning the World to pre-industrial slave/serf/servant/master, where the very limited few control the very many.

    Famine will become the normal condition of the majority, and do not think to look to our various “leaders”, given what’s coming, they will quickly sell what few principles they have for the safety and shelter offered by the Few – Nett Zero is worse than Pol Pots Year 1 in that it will not just affect one small nation, but every nation Worldwide.

    A Malthusian plot writ large just waiting……………..2024 World population 8billion, 2054 World population 4billion, 2084 World population 1.5billion.

    Nett Zero really means Nett Zero population, with current birth rates dropping below replacement levels, introduce mass starvation and famine and within 50-60years you will put the world on the path to extinction.

    But at least the planet will flourish with CO2 levels getting back to levels not seen in billions of years, expect the level to head up towards 2000+ppm.

    • malcolmbell7eb132fe1f permalink
      March 21, 2024 10:17 pm

      Exactly right. I won’t live to see it. Nor indeed will six billion others!

  6. Nigel Sherratt permalink
    March 21, 2024 5:36 pm

    Superb film, like all Durkin’s work. Tell all your friends!

  7. glenartney permalink
    March 21, 2024 5:47 pm

    Off topic sorry

    Scotland’s energy revolution brings fear and loathing to rural communities

    Electricity infrastructure earmarked for significant upgrade but there are concerns over the ‘mass industrialisation’ of the countryside.

    https://news.stv.tv/scotland/scotlands-energy-revolution-brings-fear-and-loathing-to-rural-communities

  8. iananthonyharris permalink
    March 21, 2024 6:22 pm

    A brilliant and convincing expose of the great climate scam. Must watch!

  9. GeoffB permalink
    March 21, 2024 6:25 pm

    Excellent, but most of us commenting on Paul’s site know that CO2 is not contributing to climate change. The eco loons are too thick to understand the science outlined in the film.

    What I think it lacks is an emphasis on the high level corruption of Gore, Schwab, Grantham, Soros, Miliband, Davey, Gates, Trudeau, Gummer in promulgating the Climate Change scam to make money.

    I did like the end bit about Africa being denied an industrial revolution. which would lift them out of poverty, so true.

  10. dougbrodie1 permalink
    March 21, 2024 6:25 pm

    An excellent film pitched at the common-sense layman, majoring on the obvious counter-arguments to the climate change scam that we have all been making for decades. Let’s hope it gets wide coverage among the general public and is not sidelined as was Durkin’s 2007 film “The Great Global Warming Swindle”. It is low-key on the establishment’s ulterior climate change agenda motive (authoritarian one-world government) apart from in the final couple of minutes when they introduce a few telling suggestions, including linking it to the Covid fabrications and the war against farmers.

    • knudgeknudge permalink
      March 22, 2024 6:43 am

      Hi, I will watch this but can you say a bit more about the ‘covid fabrications’ you mention?

      • Mavis Emberson M A hons Edin permalink
        March 22, 2024 7:00 am

        I would be careful of this Covid Fabrications scam! Try to get hold of Medcram on Youtube. It will show you what the virus is like… it is still developing. Dr Seheult is a certified medical educator. His background can be checked and he teaches remarkably well. The virus scam is deep seated in the minds of the non scientific minds of the journalism professions and is dangerous

        https:// www. medcram.com

        medcram Doctor Seheult . surgeon.

      • dougbrodie1 permalink
        March 22, 2024 7:33 am

        Near the end the commentary refers to “punitive and restrictive policies carried out both in the name of climate change and Covid have sparked protests …” and the video shows a large protest with a man carrying a banner saying “Justice for Covid crimes”.

        They are making the point that I have been making for nearly three years now, namely that the global establishment and their puppet politicians who have been slowly but steadily pushing their fake climate change agenda for decades suddenly in 2020 showed their psychopathic true colours when they launched their pre-planned, globally-coordinated Covid “plandemic” through which they severely damaged our economies and killed and injured tens of millions worldwide using a gain-of-function lab-engineered virus which in itself turned out to be not much worse than common flu.

        Reiner Fuellmich and his expert colleagues exposed the evil Covid plandemic in their 2022 Grand Jury court of public opinion Covid-19 Crimes against Humanity model trial. For details see my own two-part summary here: https://metatron.substack.com/p/reiner-fuellmichs-grand-jury-court.

      • knudgeknudge permalink
        March 22, 2024 11:21 am

        Hi, just to clarify. Are you claiming that it was the vaccine that caused 10’s of millions of deaths? Not the virus – which I think is referred to in the video as a ‘mild flu’?
        It certainly seems today beyond reasonable doubt that the virus was a ‘gain-of-function’ experiment in Wuhan (that may even have had U.S. funding). This has become much clearer recently – particularly with research by the ‘Drastic’ group.

  11. 2hmp permalink
    March 21, 2024 7:02 pm

    We need to ensure that every MP watches it and comments on it to the sender. I have sent it to my MP already.

    • Nigel Sherratt permalink
      March 21, 2024 7:29 pm

      We need to repeal the Climate Change Act. The most damaging piece of legislation in our history.

      • March 21, 2024 11:39 pm

        The Climate Change Act may ironically be the way to put a stop to this madness as I would argue it is being used in a way not intended by parliament and the government’s plan for net zero is unlawful. You don’t have to become a so called climate sceptic as even people who belief in AGW (for context I was in the green party for a time) see the whole climate political apparatus as farcical and full of grifters who have no real interest in solving (seem to oppose anything that is actually feasible) or even acknowledging potential problems.

        No one honestly believes parliament intended to reduce peoples living standards include making air travel & car use the preserve of the rich & connected), ignore the duties in the electricity act – “the need to secure that all reasonable demands for electricity are met”

        Using the common law understand of negligence I would argue the government’s plan for meeting targets under the Climate Change Act have to be technically feasible at scale and they can’t also contain legal fictions like pretending all the imported electricity is zero carbon & Renewable Energy Certificates.  

        This isn’t the case from intermittent renewables in 2024 as TW/h scale storage does not yet exist or for that matter carbon capture and storage.

        But there were things that were technically feasible in 2008 at scale as far as I’m aware have not even being look at: 

        1 –  a large scale (40GW+) replacement of coal and natural gas generating capacity with nuclear fission using existing reactor designs which France clearly demonstrated was possible  

        Personally I would work with the Canadians to build 50hz a few replicas of a multi unit CANDU site e.g Darlington Nuclear Generating Station but with 8 units like Bruce Nuclear Generating Station as we don’t seem to have the heavy forging capacity for pressure vessels for PWR or BWR in the UK of the scale needed(sorting that may slow things).  Its an established design where the bugs have being worked out and the skills need in refurbishments in Canada are similar to what a new build project would need so of the options the UK has its likely to be built on time and budget.

        2 – I would have prohibited the demolition of all the old coal, oil and gas power station as they could clearly be repowered like many old coal power station in the post war period were to oil with small modular heat reactors based on what we use for nuclear submarines in the short term (as we have clear operating experience with them) but with an long term aim to make liquid fluoride thorium reactors work. 

        3 – Taking what climate scientist have told us all Co2 matters equally it shouldn’t matter if it is from biomass burning or fossil fuel (which is essentially older biomass) if you can claim biomass burning is ok because supposedly the trees are replaced (even if it took decades to grow and absorb it Co2) then there is no reason you can’t do the same with fossil fuels especially if we look at the potential emissions e.g. methane from decaying vegetation in clear cut forrest. You could grow fast growing biomass somewhere semi arid with irrigation  or in the sea that would remove Co2 a lot quicker than trees – I’m sure we could look into a genetically modified crop to specifically do this if we can’t find any exist one that will work here.

        4 – looking at ways for new building to affordably meet the passivhaus standard 

        5  – natural gas heat pumps   

        6 – quadricycles

        7 – reintroducing trolleybuses 

        8 – nuclear marine propulsion

        Why do we have 28+ GWe wind capacity & are the direct and indirect subsidies for renewables value for money or unnecessarily regressive to people on low incomes compared to the alternatives? Why are subsidise linked to generation when helping with the capital cost would be a more rational approach for the tax payer (if we must build them). Also if the computer models on climate change are accurate in future there would likely be less wind at speeds suitable for wind turbines and our winters may get colder.

        We already know about the Renewable Heat Incentive or Cash for Ash scandal in Northern Ireland – I want to know if the people who set up net metering & the solar PV feed in tariff personally benefited from it especially as we have people who have done well from subsidy payments who are now donating to probably all the main political parties which feels like Racketeering – we have organisations getting public funds (I include subsidies) then making donations to political parties to influence them to pay the, not saying charities should not be allowed to lobby e.g a charity that provides a service like a hospice or citizens advice to keep or increase its funding but it should not feel like politicians scratching their mates back especially if it increases the donor’s personal wealth & the donor’s personal wealth matches the total paid in subsidies to business they are linked to.

      • Nigel Sherratt permalink
        March 22, 2024 12:39 am

        CO2 is plant food we need more of it. We need to frack as if there were no tomorrow (there almost isn’t). We also need SMRs of course. All that would help to free us from Wahhabists and other malevolent actors.

    • Vernon E permalink
      March 22, 2024 3:27 pm

      2hmp: You can take the water to the horse but you can’t make it drink.

  12. A. McKay permalink
    March 21, 2024 8:52 pm

    I agree, excellent film but the blob won’t watch it as they don’t care. Time for a public display against the greedy, ignorant green zealots.

  13. john symons permalink
    March 21, 2024 9:40 pm

    Matt,check out, “Climate change – The Movie”, film made by Chris Durkin.

    JB

  14. Jack Broughton permalink
    March 21, 2024 9:43 pm

    I guess that this won’t be mentioned on the BBC News, but possibly GB News can pick it up and broadcast it. They ought also to publicise the BBC South Sudan Weather report to exemplify the truly corrupt and fake news that the regulator accepts as fine.

    • dougbrodie1 permalink
      March 22, 2024 9:18 am

      Using the Search button on the BBC News website finds nothing of relevance on “Climate: The Movie” and finds just one negative hit on “Durkin”. At least a search on the film name on DuckDuckGo comes up with a large number of hits.

  15. Karl Smith permalink
    March 22, 2024 4:30 am

    send to all you know and those you dont

  16. Stuart Hamish permalink
    March 22, 2024 6:15 am
    • Hi there Paul , I am currently experiencing publishing obstruction on Michael Smith News blog - just as I have experienced it on Tony Hellers page regarding a post critical of the Australian Federal Police’s pretentious posturing on the role of policing the [ fictional ] climate crisis in the Pacific that disappeared from his website last year and is not visible on the Wayback Machine internet archive . I am told a vicious obsessive , horrible little man named Simon Laxton - a man whom I dismissed as a case manager years ago on account of his violent temper, radical left politics and what I learned about his criminal history has approached family members of mine without my consent and is monitoring and throttling my online activity. As you may know I am a trenchant critic of medical lysenkoism , green- left psychiatry and psychologists - and their abuses 
    •  I think you know how controversial my research into the  6th century late antiquity cooling and the  14th century climate chaos is as it pertains to cometary debris and the impact hazard . I am told the self styled ’thin green line ‘ Australian Federal Police more loyal to the Australian Labor Party and the Greens are policing climate skeptics and writers My sibling Tom who has intimidated me and assaulted me multiple times – only for police to do nothing - is friends with green activist busybodies and bullies , a number of Victoria Police at least two Australian Federal Police [ or should I say ’Antifa Federal Police ‘ ] and  an alleged paid  police intelligence recruit This sibling also works for a shady nefarious character in the Benalla / Wangaratta region from the United Kingdom and his ’team ‘.  
    • Who do you think they are Paul ? Hopefully I can continue writing again here and other blog pages soon . 
    • Cheers , Stuart
    • 2hmp permalink
      March 22, 2024 7:50 am

      The Australian government should hang its head in shame at the sacking of the late Dr.Robert Carter and Dr.Peter Ridd for telling the truth about the Great Barrier Reef

  17. Up2snuff permalink
    March 22, 2024 9:11 am

    Will it make a difference? Will the ‘Climate Cultists’ go and watch it?

  18. Christopher Harman permalink
    March 22, 2024 9:42 am

    Thanks for sharing this grown up film. It deserves wide circulation.

  19. luc1ozade permalink
    March 22, 2024 10:00 am

    Brilliant film. Thank you Paul – and Martin Durkin.

    Let us try and get this seen by as many people as is possible. I shall be doing my bit.

  20. dennisambler permalink
    March 22, 2024 11:50 am

    The propagandists have done their work well. Whilst Durkin is to be applauded, until dissenting pieces appear on the MSM, the general public will not be converted.

    “Three-quarters of adults in Great Britain worry about climate change

    Those who are worried about climate change are also more likely to make lifestyle changes in response.”

    https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/wellbeing/articles/threequartersofadultsingreatbritainworryaboutclimatechange/2021-11-05

    https://www.bi.team/publications/the-power-of-tv-nudging-viewers-to-decarbonise-their-lifestyles/

  21. iananthonyharris permalink
    March 22, 2024 12:31 pm

    I watched this right through. It should be circulated to every MP and everyone

  22. March 22, 2024 1:10 pm

    Why are we constantly told lies about the climate … search for Lewandowsky’s paper on the Big Lie (I forget the title). It goes into how to tell a lie and then even if it is forced to be retracted, the public only remember the lie.

    Now remember Lewandowsky’s been on the climate nudge group … and presumably the covid nudge group that repeatedly the same Big Lie tactics.

    It’s deliberate calculated lying.

  23. HarryPassfield permalink
    March 22, 2024 1:27 pm

    I do intend to watch it but I get the impression it will be like standing in the CofE Synod telling the Bishops that God does not exist. Nonetheless, I intend to KBO.

    • March 22, 2024 2:53 pm

      Gosh Harry “KBO” I haven’t heard that one since my grandfather died!

      • HarryPassfield permalink
        March 22, 2024 10:37 pm

        Hi, Ray! Well, I just finished watching the film. What a great documentary – and so professionally put together. 

        To my mind, THIS is the inconvenient truth that should be shown to our young. But it won’t: the participants in the film vividly explain how the alarmist governments have controlled the narrative. To my mind the only way this will end will be…not pretty.

        Keep well.

  24. mjr permalink
    March 22, 2024 2:50 pm

    off topic Welcome to the CLOWN SHOW… (youtube.com)

    Justin Trudeau ….Canada to invest C$8.4million to investigat “how climate change react with democratic decline”

    the man is a nutty as a box of frogs

  25. bwelouis permalink
    March 23, 2024 6:06 pm

    Thanks, I will watch

  26. Mark Hodgson permalink
    March 24, 2024 6:54 am

    Climate : The Movie

  27. HarryPassfield permalink
    March 24, 2024 12:46 pm

    The more I think about the film’s message – that pretty-much all our society and its support structures are predicated on belief in man-made climate change – the more I realise that the biggest man-made thing in existence is a new religion, one with its own devil (CO2) and, as yet, an unknown God (but one most definitely modelled on ‘Big Brother’). I have even heard talk of some authorities almost making it near-heresy to deny the new God’s existence. This concern I am feeling is not helped when, in reading the comments on WUWT for the same post, there is one, very persistent commenter who seems to be vying for the position of the new Pope: E Schaffer. With disciples like him/her I truly worry about man’s rationality.

    Happy Easter!

  28. Bob Schweizer permalink
    March 24, 2024 1:16 pm

    This video has now been mysteriously erased. Unavailable. ‘Does not exist.’!!! What has happened to the free exchange of information. It kind of proves the point of what the video was about. Sinister beyond.

  29. Cheshire Red permalink
    March 24, 2024 1:18 pm

    Vanished down the rabbit hole!

  30. March 24, 2024 1:27 pm

    Has this video been taken down or is my ISP (BT) blocking it? I am seeing a black box with “Sorry this video does not exist” here as well as WUWT and climatethemovie.net. Tried Opera & Firefox with the same result.

    It worked yesterday.

  31. John Guinness permalink
    March 25, 2024 3:51 am

    Fantastic and comprehensive. Where can I download a copy?

  32. iananthonyharris permalink
    March 26, 2024 2:47 pm

    I have been trying to spread this around as widely as possible. It should be sent to all MPs, UK and US newspapers, US senators and politicians-especially as it’s widely reported today that Labour want to spend billions on enormous floating turbines (mostly made in China as has been pointed out) in order to solve a non-existent problem

    The movie is still available on line

    http://www.climatethemovie.net http://www.climatethemovie.net

    Cordially

    Ian Harris

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