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Dr Carl Wunsch of MIT who was featured in The Great Global Warming Swindle, had this to say after viewing the film:

"I'm somewhat troubled that TV companies around the world are treating it as though this were a science documentary. It's not. It's a tendentious political propaganda piece of the sort I really could imagine the Bush Administration in this country could have put out on its own to throw raw meat to their believers. It's not a science film at all. It's a political statement."

Also:

"In an official judgement issued on 21 July 2008 the British media regulator Ofcom declared that the final part of the film dealing with the politics of climate change had broken rules on "due impartiality on matters of major political and industrial controversy and major matters relating to current public policy". Ofcom also backed complaints by Sir David King, stating that his views were misrepresented, and Carl Wunsch, on the points that he had been misled as to its intent, and that the impression had been given that he agreed with the programme's position on climate change. Ofcom further ruled that the IPCC had not been given an adequate chance to respond to adverse claims that its work was politicised and that it had made misleading claims about malaria."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Global_Warming_Swindle

As much as you tend to dismiss the idea that global warming skeptics are "agents of Exxon", if you were to look through a list of them you would find that a good 2/3 are research geologists with little training in climatology and whose departments receive significant funding from Big Oil. Among the most vocal of the remainder are rightwing weatherman personalities like John Coleman. But the bottom line: probably 9/10 of the world's climatologists are in full accord that anthropogenic global warming is a real and ultimately dangerous trend. You haven't provided any specific refutation of the evidence I've provided and instead have provided junk sources which have been debunked here repeatedly.