Sorry. This guy loses it with his use of loaded language (“deniers” not “skeptics”).

Climate Change Denier is a term specifically taken from the Holocaust Deniers, and portends a moral equivalence between climate change skeptics and Nazi sympathizers.

The use of the term is a form of Godwin’s Law.

Sinclair may have facts on his side, but he is a Godwin’s Lawer.

By the way, I love the way Sinclair uses Patrick Michaels speech at the Heartland Institute to prove his point. Michaels points out the reference year, 1998, was ” … a huge El-Nino year, and the sun was very active in 1998.”

Really? You mean the heat in 1998 was caused in large part by the El-Nino and the sun? If so, what does that mean for all of the climate models which built their predictions based on the data in outlier year 1998 compared to earlier, cooler year.

Then Sinclair compares the NASA data to the El-Nino data and intentionally excludes the El-Nino impact on 2005, which he points out is the hottest year on record.

Finally Sinclair points to the 1991 anomaly, where Mt Pinatubo’s cooling actually wiped out the El-Nino.

Okay, so we have a cooling anomaly in 1991, and a warming anomaly in 1998. Hockey stick, anyone? Scaremonger using two outlier data points, anyone? Attack using Godwin’s Law anyone who dares to have a different opinion from canon, no matter how slight the difference?

Sinclair is anti nuclear energy (click here). It is simply impossible to generate enough low-carbon electrical power, even with aggressive conservation, to keep the United States competitive in the information age, without nuclear power, period. (More on this subject here)

One last thing. Sinclair is not a climatologist. He is an artist, cartoonist, and independent filmmaker. He is also has some completely unhinged friends, as Anthony Watts found out the hard way, after Sinclair did a video on Watts’ Surface Stations project (and in the process, violated Watts’ copyright).

As Charles like to say, read the whole thing:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/07/30/on-climate-comedy-copyrights-and-cinematography/