Climate experts: Gore's movie gets the science right (bogus sampling alert)

CNN.com ^ | 6/27/06 | AP staff

[highlander_UW]

One would guess that any scientist that knew this movie was based on bogus science would not have gone to see it, so by selecting only scientists who have seen the movie CNN is making sure they arrive at the support they want to present for the movie. Typical.

[Peach]

This is a lie.

Over 17,000 scientists have signed a petition disputing Gore's theories.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1654996/posts

[Thebaddog]

How much has that movie made so far? Has it cracked $10 million yet?

[highlander_UW]

So we're weighing 19 climatologists who self selected to support the movie by paying to see it in the first place vs 17,000 who say it's bunk. Well, of course the AP/CNN would conclude the 19 that support their view are correct. /disgust

[CedarDave]

Click on the Global Warming keyword to see todays articles and one debunking this.

[highlander_UW]

Not according to Boxoffice Mojo...it's at $9.9 million...5 places BELOW Deep Sea 3-D (IMAX). When an IMAX movie is outselling you it's a sad thing indeed given the very few screens for that format. 11 places better than Gore is Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector. This is movies in 2006 I'm comparing, btw.

[thoughtomator]

Al Gore is the second coming of L. Ron Hubbard.

[highlander_UW]

Without the wit.

[Pilgrim4JC]

Gorebot has created more global warming by all his hot air over "global warming" then my SUV!

[palmer]

"They are quite literally afraid to know the truth," Gore said. "Because if you accept the truth of what the scientific community is saying, it gives you a moral imperative to start to rein in the 70 million tons of global warming pollution that human civilization is putting into the atmosphere every day."

It's hard to pack more lies into one statement.

[highlander_UW]

It's hard to pack more lies into one statement.

Gore is a democrat politician...he's highly skilled at lying.

[Blue Highway]

This says it all:

'As far as the movie's entertainment value, Scripps Institution geosciences professor Jeff Severinghaus summed it up: "My wife fell asleep. Of course, I was on the edge of my chair."'

[syriacus]

Will Al ever tell us who he blames for making the Wisconsin ice sheet retreat, thousands of years ago?

Wisconsin should be covered with ice, not with dairy cows, nice folks, and happy vacationers.

[palmer]

Basically the few weegies who care will get all excited, some might even go out and buy Priuses. The rest of red state America will realize that either (a) Gore is lying or (b) Gore isn't lying but we're f*d no matter what we do. Gore's "solution" for the alleged problem is to send a bunch of money to China and India. Well, gee, says Average Joe, we already sent my job there, what a great idea!

[boop]

What a BS "reporting" job. Exactly who elected these people as "leading" scientists?

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"Will Al ever tell us who he blames for making the Wisconsin ice sheet retreat, thousands of years ago? "

You're kidding, right?

Obviously it was George Bush.

[ForGod'sSake]

Typical indeed. No one in their right mind will believe any of this

But no one ever accused the left of being.......right ;^)

FGS

[secretagent]

What about this?

Harris also refers to a petition signed by 17,000 scientists. It sounds impressive. But it is a crock and has been effectively dismissed. To qualify as scientist all that was required was a B.Sc. degree. How did it come about?

In the spring of 1998, mailboxes of U.S. university graduates were flooded with packets from the “Global Warming Petition Project.” The packets included a reprint of a Wall Street Journal op-ed with the headline “Science has spoken: Global Warming Is a Myth,” a copy of a faux scientific article claiming that “increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide have no deleterious effects upon global climate,” a short letter signed by U.S. National Academy of Sciences, past-president Frederick Seitz, and a short petition calling for the rejection of the Kyoto Protocol on the grounds that a reduction in carbon dioxide “would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind.”

The sponsor, the little-known Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, tried to beguile unsuspecting scientists into believing that this packet had originated from the National Academy of the Sciences (NAS), both by referencing Seitz’s past involvement with the NAS and with an article formatted to look as if it was a published article in the Academy’s Proceedings, which it was not. The NAS quickly distanced itself from the petition project, issuing a statement saying, “the petition does not reflect the conclusions of expert reports of the academy.”

http://www.sierraclub.ca/national/postings/climate-skeptic-response.html

[highlander_UW]

What a BS "reporting" job. Exactly who elected these people as "leading" scientists?

The AP.

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