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From the Cooked Timer post you linked to:

Central to the film was the testimony of the MIT oceanographer Carl Wunsch.

Actually Wunsch was only one of over a dozen talking heads in the documentary and highlighted only one of several fatal flaws in the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

For those who have not seen the documentary, here it is. And here are some of the points covered:

During the Medieval Warm Period, temperatures were warmer than they are now, and obviously weren’t produced by human industrial activity.

During the Holocene Warm Period, temperatures were warmer than they are now, and obviously weren’t produced by human industrial activity. Polar bears obviously survived the Holocene Warm Period.

Industrial activity during the 20th C doesn’t match the temperature record over the same period because global mean temperatures were actually falling from the 40s to the 70s, a period when human industrial activity was soaring.

Water vapor dwarfs CO2 as a greenhouse gas. CO2 is a minor greenhouse gas and humans are a minor contributor to CO2. Non-human animals produce far more CO2 than humans. Plants produce more than animals. And the amount produced by the oceans dwarfs the amount produced by both plants and animals, including humans.

The theory of man-made global warming predicts that the troposphere should warm faster than the near surface and the facts show the opposite pattern.

Effects do not precede causes, and temperature regularly leads CO2 by about 800 years in the ice cores.

A model based on sun measurements does a better job at forecasting than traditional models, and Dr. Piers Corbyn has the wages of wagering to prove it.

Sun spot activity tracks changes in temperature better than changes in CO2.

http://www.tmgnow.com/IMAGES/lassen7.gif

Cosmic rays track changes in temperature better than changes in CO2.

http://www.schulphysik.de/ShavivVeizerFit.jpg

The argument from consensus is bogus. The consensus of climate scientists in the early 70s, after the post-war period of cooling, was that Earth was heading toward a new Ice Age.

Computer models are bogus. The thicket of parameters can be tweaked to produce any desired result. Water vapor in the form of clouds remain a big wild card.