Sorry Al, You're Wrong
Al Gore would have you believe that all the world's greatest scientists have debated the facts and come to a consensus on the impending doom we face due to global warming. The truth is, as inconvenient as it may be for Mr. Gore, there is no such consensus. Richard Lindzen writes about the lack of scientific consensus in his piece, Don't Believe the Hype, in today's WSJ Opinion Journal.
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When Mr. Stephanopoulos confronted Mr. Gore with the fact that the best estimates of rising sea levels are far less dire than he suggests in his movie, Mr. Gore defended his claims by noting that scientists "don't have any models that give them a high level of confidence" one way or the other and went on to claim--in his defense--that scientists "don't know. . . . They just don't know." So, presumably, those scientists do not belong to the "consensus." Yet their research is forced, whether the evidence supports it or not, into Mr. Gore's preferred global-warming template--namely, shrill alarmism. To believe it requires that one ignore the truly inconvenient facts. To take the issue of rising sea levels, these include: that the Arctic was as warm or warmer in 1940; that icebergs have been known since time immemorial; that the evidence so far suggests that the Greenland ice sheet is actually growing on average. |
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008597
Global warming is the the Democrat meal ticket. You see, if they're elected they'll save us from ourselves, prevent us from destroying the planet. They want to distract people from the fight on terror, since their only achievement in that fight is their impotence.