This is an exploration of influential organizations, worldwide, who lobby for the coal, oil and nuclear power industries against supporters of sustainable energy. They claim to have the support of scientists to show that the burning of fossil fuel is actually beneficial to the environment. Global warming, they say, allows a longer growing season and better crops.

The Leipzig Declaration, sponsored by Fred Singer's organization called the Science & Environmental Policy Project, is used to convince the public that global warming is a phantom problem. Signed by a group of "experts," the investigative filmmakers have discovers that the majority of signatories are not climatolgists, but range from insectologists, dentists, civil engineers and lab assistants to people who cannot be found at all. The Project, not surprisingly, is funded by industry.

The film goes on to show areas of the world that have suffered defoliation, floods and other natural disasters due to changes in climate. Yet when governments allocate funds for research, 40% goes into fossil fuels, 50% into nuclear power, and just 9% into renewable energy.