From a Rapt Audience, a Call to Cool the Hype [Gore Spanked by NYT]

NYT ^ | March 13, 2007 | WILLIAM J. BROAD

[pbear8]

Al Gore invented hype.

[IncPen]

"Let's Don't Blow it Everyone"

(we almost had them this time)

[glorgau]

Since he's gotten an Oscar, he must be an official member of the Film Actors Guild (FAG)

[saganite]

Not exactly the butt kicking promised on Drudge and another thread here on FR but overall a more balanced treatment than one has a right to expect from the NYT. However, the bottom line is that the last word in the piece still says Gore has it basically right.

[blade_tenner]

"Let's Don't Blow it Everyone"

(we almost had them this time)

Yah, or else people will actually LOOK INTO this... and discover that we have NO serious scientists, NO peer-reviewed articles, NO EVIDENCE PERIOD that the weather CARES about what we do... let's just keep this cool (pardon the pun..)

[txroadkill]

Some backers concede minor inaccuracies but see them as reasonable for a politician.

Unless that politician were to have been a Republican, then it would have been "LIER!!!!! IMPEACH!!!!!"

[I see my hands]

[PajamaTruthMafia]

You mean, "Fake but accurate" ;-)

[karnage]

Global Warming is just the latest Sky-Is-Falling horse hockey from the Chicken Little brigade. I'm too bored to even yawn.

[patton]

"You blew a seal."

"No, its just ice cream!"

[lepton]

“The degree of scientific consensus on global warming has never been stronger,”

Perhaps as high as "90% likely."

[lepton]

They have "peer-reviewed" papers. We've just found that they used significantly altered definitions of "peer-reviewed" - ones in which no one actually checks the work.

[Eddie01]

It wasn't even a slap piece.

[xcamel]

FReepmail me to get on or off

Click pn POGW graphic for full GW rundown

Ping me if you find one I've missed.

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Nothing new here..

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Gore is a potential 2008 Presidential candidate. The NYT is trying to take some wind out of his sails.

Orders from Hillary....

[hsalaw]

Still, Dr. Hansen said, the former vice president’s work may hold “imperfections” and “technical flaws.”

One of these "imperfections" and "technical flaws" was pointed out in the British Channel 4 documentary, "The Great Global Warming Swindle": Gore's central thesis is that we create CO2 which causes the oceans to warm up; the documentary pointed out that the opposite is true: the oceans warm up (caused, get this, by the SUN), and release CO2. So Gore's "technical flaw" is that he has it exactly backwards. The NYSlimes is trying to soft-pedal the fact there is no scientific "consensus" (assuming such a thing exists) on this by pointing a few gentlemanly opponents to the ChurchofAlgore.

[Zeppo]

“On balance, he did quite well — a credible and entertaining job on a difficult subject,” Dr. Oppenheimer said. “For that, he deserves a lot of credit. If you rake him over the coals, you’re going to find people who disagree. But in terms of the big picture, he got it right.”

In other words, Dr. Oppenheimer is a strong advocate of the "fake but accurate" standard...

[tang-soo]

They are alarmed, some say, at what they call his alarmism.

It was not only amazing, it was amazingly amazing. -- Zaphod Beeblebrox.

[nosofar]

The truth, he said, was that virtually all unbiased scientists agreed that humans were the main culprits.

I have to wonder by what criteria one knows an 'unbiased' scientist. Is it one that agrees with you?