Posted on 03/13/2007 2:30:12 AM PDT by RaceBannon
Hollywood has a thing for Al Gore and his three-alarm film on global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth,” which won an Academy Award for best documentary. So do many environmentalists, who praise him as a visionary, and many scientists, who laud him for raising public awareness of climate change.
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i don't think it's tepid at all. it's pretty shocking that the NEW YORK TIMES has dared to print the truth. testing the water is tough when you've spent the last twenty years lying. plus it is, perhaps, a harbinger.
That last line is just them keeping in step with the masses
It is very telling that even the radical NYT is telling Gore to tone it down.
As they say, laughter is the best medicine! Look what "Halp us, Jon Carry" did for that other dufus!
Here's a link to the Great Global Warming Scandal: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9005566792811497638
I figured they would do this. Of course human "heat-trapping" gases would be largely to blame for the globe's recent warming. Unless those "heat-trapping" gases are natural in origin (they are at least partly, but they won't mention that). Unless those "heat-trapping" gases don't trap a lot of heat (they don't trap a lot, just some and the case for trapping more as CO2 concentrations rise is weak, but the Times isn't going to mention that). Unless the temperature rise is natural (it is at least partly natural unrelated to "heat-trapping gases", but the Times isn't going to talk about that either).
This is nothing but a puff piece for Gore, he is, according to them, only a little bit overexcited about sea level rises. And he's fixing his powerpoint slides, so it's ok.
The underlying message reinforces the "oh my god we gotta do something know" attitude by showing us what "some" scientists feel about "some" of his claims, leaving the reader to deduce that the majority of scientists are just fine with all of his claims.
This is in no way a hit piece. It is a prime example of very well done propaganda and the author should be commended by his peers.
...broken up into 10 minute chunks...
The Great Global Warming Swindle 1/8
You'll notice the other segments in the right sidebar.
A commentator at LGF sums it up well:
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Earth2moonbat 3/12/2007 07:35PM PDT |
#34 NY Nana
Here's what I think's going on. Algore made that fast-and-loose piece of non-science called "inconvenient truth". The liberals thought it was great. Until "swindle" came out. Now, they're all crying foul, because "swindle" was piece of "propaganda". Well, compared to IC, it was a paragon of science. So I think they realize that they are in danger of losing the argument if they actually have to refute the points made in swindle. So instead, they want to shout it down. Which makes "inconvenient truth", very inconvenient, because it's so bad, it makes swindle look good.
Thus the call for the Goracle to cool it. He's making them all look like idiots, and now that there's a serious bit of refutation out there, they can't afford that.
You have pinned it here. The "scientists" behind AGW are nothing less than radical agenda pushers using selected factoids. This whole piece is intended to convey the opposite impression.
The NYT is just telling algore he is bringing too much scrutiny and the public is realizing human caused global warming is a 100% scam.
too much attention =too much scrutiny = setbacks to leftists and the NYT.
I just love the way they parade out scientist after scientist, saying that Gore has it wrong in every major respect, but conclude with the assumption that, generally speaking, Gore has it right.
Human Induced Global Warming has become an unchallengable axiom. It is assumed to exist until it can be proven otherwise. Objective observers look at the data, and can prove neither that it exists or does not exist, so the assumption stands.
This is just wrong. If something cannot be proven to exist, it cannot be assumed to exist, particularly as a basis for forming public policy. A bunch of scientists could just as well postulate that Human Induced Global Warming is the result of too little Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere, and have just as much reason to believe that their assumptions were true. But then the appropriate public policy would be to burn even more fossil fuels.
Some time ago I pointed out that Al Gore's political aspirations were dead in the water for one simple reason . . . because he's hitched his wagon to an issue that nobody would care about even if everything he says is true.
Make no mistake about it -- most people are very easily conned when it comes to major issues in the news. But the depth of their ignorance is far exceeded by their stubbornness and desire to enjoy their high standard of living at any cost.
GORE LIED!
People hide!
It's a little difficult to listen to people who live in mansions and fly private jets tell us we need to sacrifice. Further, the carbon credit scam sounds like just that.
Gore is just starting his drive over the cliff. He is clinically insane -
Former Vice-President Al Gore, inventor of the internet, hopes to train 1,000 storytellers to spread the myth of man-made global warming.
Gore is on a one-pony carnival tour to promote his fanciful movie titled “An Inconvenient Truth.” The film is a hodgepodge of dramatic scenes of violent nature at work, concluding that ordinary people doing ordinary things are the quintessential evil force causing global warming and destroying the earth.
Gore complains that awareness of the “climate crisis” peaks and then is washed away as sane people turn to more important matters like buying cereal for the kids or cleaning the cat box.
Because normal people won’t stay permanently fooled by Gore’s chicken little warnings, he hopes to train a small army of fog peddlers to confound and indoctrinate small children, gullible college students and a stray dog or two.
The Gore hustlers will come armed with a slide show and heads filled with junk science to promote the global warming religion at Rotary Clubs and high schools.
GORE LIED
PEOPLE RIDE
Bicycles...
Get hit by cars...
PEOPLE DIED!
That's why they're wanting to make it required viewing in elementary school
A new form of child-abuse. Telling kids to change their way of thinking or they will die violently
A mild rebuke, but when you consider who said it, the stronger it really is. Funny too that cable is now into running "The Day After Tomorrow." And when you consider the nuclear ambitions of dysfunctional nations across the globe, which of the two scenarios is more likely, AlGore's Glo-ball warming or nuclear winter?
Looking back over algore's 'last 30 years'; when did he ever really begin to 'live' his commitment to global warming. Given that he has yet to exemplify. . .personify any evidence; can only say that what algore is really best at, is being the typical, arrogant and hyocritical Liberal politician, that he was then; is now; and obviously, will always be.
The groundswell here of honest, educated responses to this self-serving town-crier is bringing Reason to bear against algore's 'myth-in-the-making'.
Meantime, while the British print media and BBC has been taking this issue head on, am wondering, for why the NYT's even acknkowledging such. Fear of being 'too late smart' - or some other reason.
Any other sources for this? Notice on 'black screen' essenetailly offering that is not available now. . .try later'. . .
In October, Dr. Easterbrook made similar points at the geological society meeting in Philadelphia. He hotly disputed Mr. Gore’s claim that “our civilization has never experienced any environmental shift remotely similar to this” threatened change.
"Nonsense, Dr. Easterbrook told the crowded session. He flashed a slide that showed temperature trends for the past 15,000 years. It highlighted 10 large swings, including the medieval warm period. These shifts, he said, were up to “20 times greater than the warming in the past century.”
Getting personal, he mocked Mr. Gore’s assertion that scientists agreed on global warming except those industry had corrupted. “I’ve never been paid a nickel by an oil company,” Dr. Easterbrook told the group. “And I’m not a Republican.”
That's why "No Controlling Legal Authority" should be kept in his "lockbox". Someone let him out and "HE PLAYED ON OUR FEARS"!
It was a perfect description of the morons who equate a warm spell in the Northeast U.S. or a few hurricanes with "global" warming.
It looks like some more Dan Rather "fake but accurate" logic.
ping
that's a great phrase!
Al Gore is starting to look like Johnny Appleseed trying to explain why he's carrying a big bag of magic beans.
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personally i think what is happening is sources like the nyt are weeding out the democrat candidates who are least likely to win, like hillary and gore. dems know that gore is an idiot and hillary has high unfavorables, so they are going to help shape the elections.
like that's anything new.
What I cannot understand with all of this; that given he controversey is hardly new; why was this not tackled earlier; at least by serious measure.
Disassembling myths is certainly the greater challenge; than putting out the smaller fires by refutation .
But getting away with 'rewrites' per Lib agendas is hardly a challenge today. Seems to me facts and 'reason' should be considered 'endangered' by now.
Not likely.
The Times is taking on Algore because he represents a threat to their heroine -- Hillary.
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