"Al's Big Adventure": This summer's hottest hit

townhall.com ^ | Jun 23, 2006 | Mark M. Alexander

[baseball_fan]

snip..."The debate in the science community is over,'' Gore insists, but in the inimitable words of the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a classical liberal, "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."

More than 17,000 scientists, to date, have signed a petition sponsored by Dr. Frederick Seitz, past president of the National Academy of Sciences, refuting Gore's claims that global warming is human-induced. The petition states: "There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. ...snip..."

Renowned meteorologist Dr. William Gray, in a recent interview with Discover Magazine (which has advocated the theory of human-induced global warming), says: "This human-induced global-warming thing ... is grossly exaggerated. ... I'm not disputing there has been global warming. There was a lot of global warming in the 1930s and '40s, and then there was global cooling in the middle '40s to the early '70s. Nearly all of my colleagues who have been around 40 or 50 years are skeptical ... about this global-warming thing. But no one asks us." ...snip

Commenting on the misuse of science to support political agendas, Harvard's Dr. Malcolm Ross concludes of such folly, "Freeze or fry, the problem is always industrial capitalism, and the solution is always international socialism."

Dr. Roy Spencer, former Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, has issued "Questions for Al Gore" based on what he calls "Gore's Inconvenient Truth." ...snip

Neil Frank, former director of the National Hurricane Center, is a bit less nuanced about Gore's claims: "[Global warming] is a hoax."

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[samtheman]

Questions for Al Gore

[samtheman]

Letter from Frederick Seitz

[driftless]

Well I know why Gore wants to recruit people to spread his message. He is undoubtedly the worst public speaker I've ever heard. And yes, I've heard Gore speak in person twice. The first time In La Crosse, Wis when he ran with the Slickster in 1992. And the second time in 2000 when he ran with Lieberman. Dubya sounds like Churchill when compared to Gore as a public speaker.

[pallmallman]

Is Gore talking about planet Earth, or the one he lives on?

[Publius6961]

Of course.
There is no controversy or argument about climate change. it's been going on for hundreds of thousands of years (that we care about).

Now, the cause is a whole other thing, and the embarrassing "fact" is...

... nobody knows and, in my opinion, might never know.