Cynic that I am, I am amazed that a documentary taking issue with the anthropogenic theory of Global Warming managed to find its way onto television, but it has.

And on British television at that!

I guess we're a little behind on this side of the ocean, although I'm a bit surprised, because the usual stereotype is that media bias in Europe is worse than here.

Not so in this case.

Here's Noel Sheppard from Newsbusters:

With American media falling all over themselves in unbridled adoration for soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore while they generate totally unwarranted hysteria over climate change, it seems impossible to imagine a televised documentary debunking the junk science surrounding this issue.

Yet, across the Pond, our greatest ally, Great Britain, has done exactly that.

The program is called "The Great Global Warming Swindle," and the entire must-see video has been posted at Google

The documentary is over an hour long and can be watched in its entirety at YouTube (and here's the Google version), but I thought I'd supply an eight minute teaser version (which follows).

Needless to say, George Monbiot (and, I'm sure, all of his Biotic moonbots) are hopping mad.

But the big question on my mind is What Would Al Gore Say?

I'd call Al Gore and ask him to comment, but I doubt he'd talk to me -- even if I said I was with the country's leading values site. However, Steven Milloy says this:

When I met Al Gore in January 2006 after a presentation of his climate slideshow, I asked him if he'd be interested in setting up a public debate between climate scientists. He declined - twice. At this point, I'd settle for a movie face-off - "An Inconvenient Truth" vs. "The Great Global Warming Swindle."

Let the public see both sides of the story and then we'll see who's believable and who's not.

Here's the eight minute teaser.

(The link is here if the video won't work in your browser.)

MORE (03/16/07): Here's Dr. Helen, on a Pajamas Media report about how quickly a recent global warming debate changed the minds of a New York audience:

I am certainly glad that Crichton and his colleagues changed some minds at the debate but it makes me wonder, "Isn't it kind of astounding that such a high percentage of people changed their minds about global warming over one debate?" It makes me wonder what happens when An Inconvenient Truth is shown in schools without any scientists or experts on the other side to balance out the views of global warming advocates. If adults can change their mind this quickly when given another view of global warming or perhaps any political message for that matter, then what does it do to kids to give them one side of an issue without equally presenting the other side?

Not that I blame them. I often wish people would learn to think for themselves.

But do they have time?

AND MORE: I think this phenomenon may be a classic illustration of why Al Gore is against media balance.