Posted on 02/03/2007 4:40:01 PM PST by CedarDave
Executive Summary
An Inconvenient Truth ( AIT ), Vice President Al Gore's book on The planetary emergency of global warming and what can be done about it, purports to be a non-partisan, non-ideological exposition of climate science and moral common-sense. In reality, AIT is a colorfully illustrated lawyer's brief for global warming alarmism and energy rationing. It is a J'Accuse hurled at fossil-energy-based civilization, especially the USA, and above all the Bush Administration and its allies in the U.S. oil and auto industries.
We do not expect lawyers to argue both for and against their clients, nor do we expect balance from party men. However, although Gore reminds us (in the film version of AIT ) that he used to be the next President of the United States, and concludes the book and movie with a call for political action, he presents AIT as the work of a long-time student of climate science, a product of meditation on what matters. He thus asks us to expect more from him than the mere cleverness that can sway juries or win elections.
This reasonable expectation is unmet. In AIT , the only facts and studies considered are those convenient to Gore's scare-them-green agenda. And in many instances, Gore distorts the evidence he cites.
The present paper, a running commentary on AIT , finds that nearly every significant statement Gore makes regarding climate science and climate policy is either one sided, misleading, exaggerated, speculative, or wrong. An extensive summary of AIT's distortions is provided in Appendix A. Below is a list of 25 of egregious examples.
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Thank you. I am not a scientist, as you can tell. What other event(s) would cause the earth to warm? Obviously, we emerge from ice ages for reasons unrelated to CO2. But in the late Paleozoic and late Cretaceous flood volcanic activity for thousands of years pumped huge quantities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere which did cause warming.
That "executive summary" is only part of a tremendous article debunking algore's film and that whole global warming crowd.
Here's another one about "An Inconvenient Truth".
The True Believers refer to non-believers as Cynics.
BTTT
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