An Inconvenient Lie
Scientists: Gore Goes Too Far in 'An Inconvenient Truth'
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
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Feb. 25: Former Vice President Al Gore, left, and Davis Guggenheim, director, hold the Oscar for best documentary feature for `An Inconvenient Truth.'
Several experts on climate change, including both proponents and skeptics of the man-made global warming theory, question former Vice President Al Gore's assertions in his Academy Award-winning documentary film "An Inconvenient Truth."
"I don't want to pick on Al Gore," said Don J. Easterbrook, a geologist at Western Washington University, told an annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, according to a report in The New York Times. "But there are a lot of inaccuracies in the statements we are seeing, and we have to temper that with real data."
In the slideshow presentation that is the central part of "An Inconvenient Truth," Gore lays out what most researchers consider to be the worst-case scenario for global warming, with total melting of polar ice caps, a sea-level rise of 20 feet and catastrophic flooding and droughts.
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"He's a very polarizing figure in the science community," Roger A. Pielke Jr., an environmental scientist at the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, told the Times. "Very quickly, these discussions turn from the issue to the person, and become a referendum on Mr. Gore."
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007
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Feb. 25: Former Vice President Al Gore, left, and Davis Guggenheim, director, hold the Oscar for best documentary feature for `An Inconvenient Truth.'
Several experts on climate change, including both proponents and skeptics of the man-made global warming theory, question former Vice President Al Gore's assertions in his Academy Award-winning documentary film "An Inconvenient Truth."
"I don't want to pick on Al Gore," said Don J. Easterbrook, a geologist at Western Washington University, told an annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, according to a report in The New York Times. "But there are a lot of inaccuracies in the statements we are seeing, and we have to temper that with real data."
In the slideshow presentation that is the central part of "An Inconvenient Truth," Gore lays out what most researchers consider to be the worst-case scenario for global warming, with total melting of polar ice caps, a sea-level rise of 20 feet and catastrophic flooding and droughts.
Click here for the full article in the New York Times (free registration required).
"He's a very polarizing figure in the science community," Roger A. Pielke Jr., an environmental scientist at the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, told the Times. "Very quickly, these discussions turn from the issue to the person, and become a referendum on Mr. Gore."
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"Climate change is a real and serious problem," said Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish political scientist and statistician whose book "The Skeptical Environmentalist" challenges many of the catastrophic assertions made by proponents of the global-warming theory. "The cacophony of screaming does not help."
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I've heard that too. And he does lay out the worst-case scenario. Furthermore, he fudges the time-scale of the predictions he uses a bit. For example, he shows what happens to coast-lines as ocean levels rise....without pointing out that the changes are predicted to happen over a couple of centuries or so.
It is very damaging to scientists' credibility when people hype 'worst case scenarios.0 -
So the large cities on the east and west coasts get flooded out by high seas. I fail to see a problem. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by dakotashooter2
So the large cities on the east and west coasts get flooded out by high seas. I fail to see a problem.
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Al Gore is in the same class as Jesse Jackson and I don't have any use for either one of them. Don't really care what they have to say as whatever it is, I'm sure I'll disagree with it. 0 -
30 years ago we were heading into another ice age. Thirty years later we are heading towards the warmest the planet has ever been.
That proves that scientist and Al Gore (a political has-been-wanna-be-nut-case) don't know what the hell they are talking about. Making movies proves nothing.
When they can predict the weather accurately for a month in advance I might buy into some of it. Until then I'll enjoy warmer days and what ever surprise Mother Nature has for us.0 -
b-post you arent supposed to remember that, you are just supposed to panic at their will[:I][:o)][8)][:X][:0] 0
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