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WSJ: Will Al Gore Melt?
Wall Street Journal ^ | January 18, 2007 | FLEMMING ROSE and BJORN LOMBORG

Posted on 01/18/2007 10:59:49 AM PST by OESY

...The U.N. climate panel expects only a foot of sea-level rise over this century. Moreover, sea levels actually climbed that much over the past 150 years. Does Mr. Gore find it balanced to exaggerate the best scientific knowledge available by a factor of 20?

Mr. Gore says that global warming will increase malaria and highlights Nairobi as his key case.... Today Nairobi is considered free of malaria, but in the 1920s and '30s, when temperatures were lower than today, malaria epidemics occurred regularly. Mr. Gore's is a convenient story, but isn't it against the facts?

He considers Antarctica the canary in the mine, but again doesn't tell the full story. He presents pictures from the 2% of Antarctica that is dramatically warming and ignores the 98% that has largely cooled over the past 35 years. The U.N. panel estimates that Antarctica will actually increase its snow mass this century. Similarly, Mr. Gore points to shrinking sea ice in the Northern Hemisphere, but don't mention that sea ice in the Southern Hemisphere is increasing. Shouldn't we hear those facts? Mr. Gore talks about how the higher temperatures of global warming kill people. He specifically mentions how the European heat wave of 2003 killed 35,000. But he entirely leaves out how global warming also means less cold and saves lives. Moreover, the avoided cold deaths far outweigh the number of heat deaths. For the U.K. it is estimated that 2,000 more will die from global warming. But at the same time 20,000 fewer will die of cold. Why does Mr. Gore tell only one side of the story?

...Getting answers to hard questions is not an unreasonable expectation before we take his project seriously....

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climatechange; convenientlies; environmentalists; globalwarming; gore; inconvenienttruth; lomberg; lomborg; manbearpig
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Mr. Rose is culture editor of Jyllands-Posten, in Copenhagen. Mr. Lomborg is a professor at the Copenhagen Business School.
1 posted on 01/18/2007 10:59:51 AM PST by OESY
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To: OESY

LOL! There will be puddle of lard I wouldn't want to clean up....


2 posted on 01/18/2007 11:00:49 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
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To: OESY

"Will Al Gore Melt?" is it possible that we could be so lucky?


3 posted on 01/18/2007 11:02:18 AM PST by geo40xyz (Born a democRAT, Dad set me free in 1952: He said that I was not required to be a MF'ing democRAT)
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To: Abathar

Al Gore didnt want to debate this guy. Wonder why?


4 posted on 01/18/2007 11:02:21 AM PST by Long Island Pete
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To: OESY

He's a liberal. Liberals don't have to deal with facts.


5 posted on 01/18/2007 11:02:31 AM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: OESY

Mr. Rose is culture editor of Jyllands-Posten, in Copenhagen. Mr. Lomborg is a professor at the Copenhagen Business School. Mr. Gore is a pompous, self-righteous twit, late of Washington, D.C.


6 posted on 01/18/2007 11:02:54 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Abathar
LOL! There will be puddle of lard I wouldn't want to clean up....

Think of it as alternative fuel.

7 posted on 01/18/2007 11:03:13 AM PST by Ditto
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To: OESY
You may want to note that the Wall street Journal and the Washington Post are not the same newspaper.
8 posted on 01/18/2007 11:04:31 AM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: Ditto

If it's pork lard, then just send it to the IDF to coat their rounds with it.


9 posted on 01/18/2007 11:04:41 AM PST by YoungAmerican84 (Honorary member of the World Zionist Conspiracy)
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To: Long Island Pete

Al would have his fat head handed to him, 'swhy.


10 posted on 01/18/2007 11:05:21 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: OESY

BTTT


11 posted on 01/18/2007 11:06:02 AM PST by Chena
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To: Long Island Pete
He has been dodging a lot of debates lately, seems that every time someone with a whole lot of facts that don't agree with his view shows up his idiot replies make the headlines. He finds it easier to just refuse to "condescend" to argue what he holds to be utter truth with someone so misguided. Al is a political whore who found another sugardaddy to leach off of, the greens and their "religion" of global warming.
12 posted on 01/18/2007 11:07:24 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
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To: OESY

The piece is pure blasphemy. The writers need to be put in the gas chambers for spewing this global warming denial piece. Nobody dare speak against the global warming religion. Gaia is not happy.


13 posted on 01/18/2007 11:08:40 AM PST by Always Right
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To: OESY

Global Warming sounds cool, why debate it?? One of those phrases that people accept w/o question.

Pray for W and Our Troops


14 posted on 01/18/2007 11:11:17 AM PST by bray (Redeploy to Iran)
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To: OESY

Al Gore and Ted Dantzen both are sure that there are only 10 more years to live.


15 posted on 01/18/2007 11:11:57 AM PST by x_plus_one (Allah has no son.)
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16 posted on 01/18/2007 11:12:52 AM PST by UnklGene
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Al Gore (is) sure that there are only 10 more years to live. - In Als case one can be hopeful.
17 posted on 01/18/2007 11:14:01 AM PST by SF Republican
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18 posted on 01/18/2007 11:15:47 AM PST by UnklGene
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To: Abathar

" There will be puddle of lard I wouldn't want to clean up..."
Well, you could fry meatballs in it, and get your friends to eat them as "Art" consumers, like that twit in South America did!


19 posted on 01/18/2007 11:23:25 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: OESY

I think he IS melting! He sure sweats a lot. Yish.


20 posted on 01/18/2007 11:26:00 AM PST by AmericanChef
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