The Greenhouse Conspiracy

"The Greenhouse Conspiracy" is a documentary film broadcast by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom on 12 August 1990, as part of the "Equinox" series, which criticised the theory of global warming and asserted that scientists critical of global warming theory were denied funding [http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/444184] . It is one of the earliest instances of the suggestion of a conspiracy to promote false claims supporting global warming. Although the title of the program implied the existence of a conspiracy, when interviewed on the program Patrick Michaels played down the idea, saying, "It may not quite add up to a conspiracy, but certainly a coalition of interests has promoted the greenhouse theory: scientists have needed funds, the media a story, and governments a worthy cause". [http://fufor.twoday.net/stories/3428768/]

Contributors to the programme

The film includes contributions from the following individuals:

Critical of global warming theory

*Dave Aubrey
*Robert Balling
*Sherwood Idso
*Peter Jonas - Professor, Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Manchester
*Richard Lindzen - Professor, Department of Meteorology, M.I.T.
*Patrick Michaels - Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia
*Reginald Newell
*Julian Paren
*Roy Spencer - Weather Satellite Team Leader, NASA

upporting global warming theory

*John T. Houghton
*Tom Wigley
*Stephen Schneider
*John Mitchell