Isn't THAT inconvenient...

[Larry Gude]

http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/harris061206.htm

"Scientists have an independent obligation to respect and present the truth as they see it," Al Gore sensibly asserts in his film "An Inconvenient Truth", showing at Cumberland 4 Cinemas in Toronto since Jun 2. With that outlook in mind, what do world climate experts actually think about the science of his movie?

Professor Bob Carter of the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University, in Australia gives what, for many Canadians, is a surprising assessment: "Gore's circumstantial arguments are so weak that they are pathetic. It is simply incredible that they, and his film, are commanding public attention."

But surely Carter is merely part of what most people regard as a tiny cadre of "climate change skeptics" who disagree with the "vast majority of scientists" Gore cites?

No; Carter is one of hundreds of highly qualified non-governmental, non-industry, non-lobby group climate experts who contest the hypothesis that human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are causing significant global climate change. "Climate experts" is the operative term here. Why? Because what Gore's "majority of scientists" think is immaterial when only a very small fraction of them actually work in the climate field.

Discuss religion with modern libs and you will typically get some rant about the religious right and born again whack jobs believing things you can't prove. The more devout your faith the more it offends them. They are people of science. They are people of reason and truth and facts.


Enter The Church of Global Warming featuring Rev. AlGore.

Carter does not pull his punches about Gore's activism, "The man is an embarrassment to US science and its many fine practitioners, a lot of whom know (but feel unable to state publicly) that his propaganda crusade is mostly based on junk science."

 

[Penn]

Appearing before the Commons Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development last year, Carleton University paleoclimatologist Professor Tim Patterson testified:

"There is no meaningful correlation between CO2 levels and Earth's temperature over this [geologic] time frame. In fact, when CO2 levels were over ten times higher than they are now, about 450 million years ago, the planet was in the depths of the absolute coldest period in the last half billion years." Patterson asked the committee, "On the basis of this evidence, how could anyone still believe that the recent relatively small increase in CO2 levels would be the major cause of the past century's modest warming?"




That, my friend, is embarrassing - if your name is Al Gore!

 

[SamSpade]

I've seen zero evidence that all of the scientists who disagree with the premise of global warming are just shills for industry. I've yet to see ONE who is.

 

[Railroad]

Mr. Gore once made himself infamous by claiming he practically invented the Internet. I happen to know a cousin of his, who says he's a pinhead and an embarassment to the family.

 

[vraiblonde]

I wish Al Gore would shut up about global warming. Every time he spews, the temperature drops and I would like to have a hot, sunny summer, thank you.

Even God hates Al Gore.

 

[mAlice]

Discuss religion with modern libs and you will typically get some rant about the religious right and born again whack jobs believing things you can't prove. The more devout your faith the more it offends them. They are people of science. They are people of reason and truth and facts.

 

[Larry Gude]

What I meant was...

...that quite often those who are put off by faith as being unreasonable have their own 'faith' they see as completely reasonable; global warming

 

[Bruzilla]

Jon Stewart was talking about Gore's movie on The Daily Show last night, and he mentioned something along the lines of "people who agree with Gore, known as "scientists" say that blah, blah, blah." Later when talking about Bush's visit to Iraq, and Bush's statements about how he had great conversations and meetings with Iraqi leaders, Stewart joked about how the President had only been in Iraq for 7 hours, and said that Bush saying he had learned a lot during those meetings was like someone going to Olive Garden and claiming that he's been to Italy.

I thought it was rather telling that he feels that it's okay for Gore to say he's right because some undefined group of "scientists" agree with him and acting like all scientists do, while attacking Bush for saying he learned a lot from only 7 hours of meetings. Liberals... what can you do with these folks?

 

[huntr1]

Liberals... what can you do with these folks?

Shoot 'em?

 

[Penn]

I thought it was rather telling that he feels that it's okay for Gore to say he's right because some undefined group of "scientists" agree with him and acting like all scientists do, while attacking Bush for saying he learned a lot from only 7 hours of meetings.

Liberals... what can you do with these folks?

I would say - NOT vote them into office. When you've got quacks like these wanting to change the way America functions and perceives, ie., leads the world in scientific discovery, or challenging the way we view our world, these kinds of kooks should be thoroughly vetted out.

They are, in fact, trying to influence global thinking, the way we engage ideas - how we feel about things that will affect us, such as climate change. Can't we/shouldn't we trust that what they put forth is useful to our future, not just some political sway that is nothing but garbage?

 

[Bustem' Down]

Jon Stewart was talking about Gore's movie on The Daily Show last night, and he mentioned something along the lines of "people who agree with Gore, known as "scientists" say that blah, blah, blah." Later when talking about Bush's visit to Iraq, and Bush's statements about how he had great conversations and meetings with Iraqi leaders, Stewart joked about how the President had only been in Iraq for 7 hours, and said that Bush saying he had learned a lot during those meetings was like someone going to Olive Garden and claiming that he's been to Italy.

I thought it was rather telling that he feels that it's okay for Gore to say he's right because some undefined group of "scientists" agree with him and acting like all scientists do, while attacking Bush for saying he learned a lot from only 7 hours of meetings. Liberals... what can you do with these folks?

I think you took that wrong. I watched that show also and to me it seemed as if he was making fun of both parties, not just picking on Bush.

 

[ylexot]

I think you took that wrong. I watched that show also and to me it seemed as if he was making fun of both parties, not just picking on Bush.

I saw it too...how was he picking on the Democrats?

 

[ylexot]

Mr. Gore once made himself infamous by claiming he practically invented the Internet. I happen to know a cousin of his, who says he's a pinhead and an embarassment to the family.

I'm surprised nobody has said this yet..."Al Gore invented Global Warming"

 

[voter]

This is good reading

 

[vraiblonde]

We're supposed to be in the 90s all weekend, so look for Al Gore to schedule a press conference on Wednesday and temperatures to be in the low-50s for the rest of the week.