Not Evil Just Wrong Documentary to Take on Global Warming

The debate on global warming, that great climate expert Al Gore has opined, is over. However the makers of a documentary, Not Evil Just Wrong, now in development would beg to disagree. And they have some support from actual climate scientists.

The Irish filmmakers, Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer, have raised a million dollars of the four and half million dollars they need to complete Not Evil Just Wrong and to distribute it. McElhinney and McAleer have been denied funding by the Irish Film Board, so they are seeking to raise funding on the Internet from a website that sports an unflattering likeness of Al Gore. An uncompleted version of Not Evil Just Wrong is due to be screened at the Amsterdam Film Festival.

Not Evil Just Wrong, when completed will examine that subject of global warming in three parts, according to McElhinney and McAleer. First, Not Evil Just Wrong will discuss the history of previous environmental scares, including the one that led to the ban on DDT. While the ban may have had benign environmental benefits, many believe that it led to millions of deaths in the third world from malaria.

Next, Not Evil Just Wrong will argue that there are flaws in the reasoning behind the idea of man-made global warming, Finally, Not Evil Just Wrong will argue that measures to mitigate global warming will cause more harm than good. In this McElhinney and McAleer have support of "a number of eminent scientists, including Dr Syun-Ichi Akasofu, former director of the International Arctic Research Centre and Prof Richard Lindzen, an atmospheric physicist from MIT."

Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer are experienced investigative journalists. They have previously caused controversy with a documentary called Mind Your Own Business, which argued that environmentalists are harming communities in the third world. Mind Your Own Business, which was financed in part by a Canadian mining company, was picketed during a screening in the United States.

The prospect of a film like Not Evil Just Wrong joining in the argument about global warming, or climate change as its proponents now call it, would certainly prove that Al Gore is wrong and that the discussion is not over. Recently, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, run by global warming proponent and Al Gore friend James Hanson, was forced to admit that its announcement that this October was the hottest October on record was wrong. The reason for the error was that scores of temperature readings from Russia and other locations used to come to the conclusion were not from October, but September.

Errors like that lead to the supposition that global warming alarmism is based on bad science. It is also based, many suspect, on the desire of politicians to enact policies that would increase government control over the lives of people.

Sources: Film-makers taking on our 'global warming hysteria', Harry McGee, Irish Times, November 15th, 2008

Red-Hot October?, Powerline, November 15th, 2008

Not Evil Just Wrong, Film Website