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THE director of a controversial documentary about global warming which aired on ABC television last night was put on the spot over a simple graph which was to meant show how global warming was linked to sun spot activity.In his documentary,The Great Climate Swindle, director Martin Durkin used a graph produced by acclaimed English climatologist Hubert Lamb to show that the Earth's temperatures for hundreds of years had risen and fallen in keeping with sun spot activity.He argued possible causes for rising temperature had not been given proper consideration by scientists and those arguing global warming was caused by human-induced greenhouse gas emissions.But the graph's two lines stopped around 1980, just the time when temperatures rose-without a corresponding rise in sunspot activity-and science began to show concern about human-induced global warming.Mr Durkin also said a warmer period some hundreds of years ago, referred to as the mediaeval warm period, was even hotter than temperatures today.Pressed by interviewer Tony Jones on why he did not avail himself of the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) graphs available since 1990-which have shown astronomical rising temperatures and slowing sunspot activity, Mr Durkin said they were unreliable....To read more go to:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22066664-2,00.html
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