This film was shown Sunday, October 18, 2009 in Toronto, and simultaneously in other centres across Canada in free screenings sponsored by the Fraser Institute. Its theme is that global warming is not as important as we have been led to believe and environmental legislation will only impede economic growth. The result will be, according to the arguments set forth, that only the poor will be affected.

The film starts with close-ups of Al Gore, Dr. Paul Ehrlich, President of Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University, and a preacher making statements about global warming. This is followed by Dr. Patrick Moore, founder of Greenpeace and now head of Greenspirit Strategies [from activist to consensus], who stated that cutting production of fossil fuels has a most serious impact on the lives of the poor. Dr. Syun-lehi Akasofu, professor emeritus of the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska, stated that glaciers were receding naturally. Dr. Moore added that the number of polar bears is not actually declining. Bret Stephens, Wall Street Times Editorial Board, pointed out that there has always been end of the world warnings. He mentioned a Professor Schneider who warned of a coming ice age in the 1970s but who has now converted to the global warming theory. Schneider also said that the international furor over mad-cow disease was overrated - only 200 people actually died and a number of cattle were destroyed.

It also was stated that Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, was wrong about the dangers of DDT - that they were far outweighed by the advantages, and millions had died as a result of banning. Roy Innis, CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) has started campaigning to overcome the ban on DDT in the developing world and wants it withdrawn immediately. Dr. Don Roberts, medical zoologist, claimed that 300 to 800 million suffered unnecessarily from malaria, that opposition to DDT is wrong.

A mother whose child was shown dying, then dead, of malaria said that DDT eliminated malaria in the U.S.A. and then was made unavailable to other countries. The strong implication was that this was deliberate. Dr. Roberts verified that there had been malaria in the U.S. and DDT was used to eliminate it in the 1940s and it did absolutely no harm - zero risk. South Africa reintroduced DDT recently and malaria dropped. WHO says it is okay.

The scene then moved to Vevay, Indiana, a small heavy-industry town. and coal and steel producer. It was said that seven million jobs, three to four percent of all in the U.S. were directly or indirectly related to oil, coal and gas industries and their standard of living is already under distress because of global warming hysteria. An Indiana housewife appeared, saying that there were jobs for those able to go to university but average families were less able than ever to afford education. The poor get poorer - with an unemployment increase there is no hope of an economic or educational future for their children.

Patrick Moore reappeared and stated that carbon dioxide is the currency of all life. Other sources of power are far more expensive than coal and would put steel-making out of business.

The housewife from Vevay and her husband have moved to a larger home which they hoped to fix up but now wonder if it's worth it with increased cost of energy and the slower rate of economic growth. "Environmentalists don't care what happens to ordinary people - people not flying in private jets, " she said. "Gore flies his own jet and preaches to ordinary people who must take commercial flights for family and business. People like Gore do not understand the impact of their decisions on decent ordinary Americans. Environmentalists are wealthy privileged people. They think there are too many people in the world and have an agenda to reduce population. They are anti-human, would even ban chlorine and go back to cholera and the black plague."

Stephen McIntyre, University of Guelph, said that calculations of principal components have minor and some major discrepancies, for instance, the 20th century is NOT the warmest in one thousand years. Something is wrong with data collation The hottest year in the U.S.A. was 1934, nothing more recent matches. Dr. James Hansen of NASA, who helped alert the world to dangers of global warming, said that flaws McIntyre found were of no significance and not too much stock should be put in individual years.

Dr. Richard Lindzen, former International Climate Change member, and now at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology, said climate scientists were not meaningful. Muir Dickie, Financial Times correspondent, said coal power is essential for China to equal Western economic growth.

The Vevay housewife re-appeared writing a letter to Gore. She then visited his home to deliver it at the door and asked to speak to him. She was refused. Her letter stated that by removing coal-mining from the U.S.A. people will lose jobs and the quality of life for families will suffer. She has not received a reply to her letter.

Roy Innis, National Chairman, CORE (Congress for Racial Equality), appeared again saying that the global warming issue is retarding economic development. The poor and minorities are the only ones who will suffer.

The room was packed for this film. All seats were full, people were sitting on the floor at the front and standing along the sides and across the back. At a guess, there were at least 200 people present. A small group at one side cheered periodically (from the Fraser Institute?) but I think most of those attending felt shell-shocked. To me, the film implied financial and racial discrimination in an emotional and slanted way.

The film is available on DVD from www.amazon.com. It costs $10.95 plus shipping $2.98 USD