Re: Don't Believe the Hype Al Gore is wrong. There's no "consensus" on global warming.

The evidence is in on algore's movie - its a fraud!




On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 15:26:15 +0000, PatsSox wrote:


"Jack Bauer" <Jack_Bauer@xxxxxx> wrote in message
EARTH IN THE BALANCE
Don't Believe the Hype


Ignorance is bliss?


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060628/ap_on_sc/gore_s_science_3

By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Tue Jun 27, 9:15 PM ET

WASHINGTON - The nation's top climate scientists are giving "An
Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore's documentary on global warming, five
stars for accuracy.

The former vice president's movie - replete with the prospect of a flooded
New York City, an inundated Florida, more and nastier hurricanes,
worsening droughts, retreating glaciers and disappearing ice sheets -
mostly got the science right, said all 19 climate scientists who had seen
the movie or read the book and answered questions from The Associated
Press.

The AP contacted more than 100 top climate researchers by e-mail and phone
for their opinion. Among those contacted were vocal skeptics of climate
change theory. Most scientists had not seen the movie, which is in limited
release, or read the book.

But those who have seen it had the same general impression: Gore conveyed
the science correctly; the world is getting hotter and it is a manmade
catastrophe-in-the-making caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

"Excellent," said William Schlesinger, dean of the Nicholas School of
Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University. "He got all the
important material and got it right."

Robert Corell, chairman of the worldwide Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
group of scientists, read the book and saw Gore give the slideshow
presentation that is woven throughout the documentary.

"I sat there and I'm amazed at how thorough and accurate," Corell said.
"After the presentation I said, `Al, I'm absolutely blown away. There's a
lot of details you could get wrong.' ... I could find no error."

Gore, in an interview with the AP, said he wasn't surprised "because I
took a lot of care to try to make sure the science was right."

The tiny errors scientists found weren't a big deal, "far, far fewer and
less significant than the shortcoming in speeches by the typical
politician explaining an issue," said Michael MacCracken, who used to be
in charge of the nation's global warming effects program and is now chief
scientist at the Climate Institute in Washington.

One concern was about the connection between hurricanes and global
warming. That is a subject of a heated debate in the science community.
Gore cited five recent scientific studies to support his view.

"I thought the use of imagery from Hurricane Katrina was inappropriate and
unnecessary in this regard, as there are plenty of disturbing impacts
associated with global warming for which there is much greater scientific
consensus," said Brian Soden, a University of Miami professor of
meteorology and oceanography.

Some scientists said Gore confused his ice sheets when he said the effect
of the Clean Air Act is noticeable in the Antarctic ice core; it is the
Greenland ice core. Others thought Gore oversimplified the causal-link
between the key greenhouse gas carbon dioxide and rising temperatures.

While some nonscientists could be depressed by the dire disaster-laden
warmer world scenario that Gore laid out, one top researcher thought it
was too optimistic. Tom Wigley, senior scientist at the National Center
for Atmospheric Research, thought the former vice president sugarcoated
the problem by saying that with already-available technologies and changes
in habit - such as changing light bulbs - the world could help slow or
stop global warming.

While more than 1 million people have seen the movie since it opened in
May, that does not include Washington's top science decision makers.
President Bush said he won't see it. The heads of the Environmental
Protection Agency and NASA haven't seen it, and the president's science
adviser said the movie is on his to-see list.

"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."

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."


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