An Inconvenient Interview
Al Gore wants to rescue all of us from ourselves. The self appointed global warming spokesman proposes we change the very nature of our civilization to counter the effects of a changing climate. Though when the biggest Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Postenasked asked to interview him, with the intention of asking some tough questions, he backed out. Even when the paper agreed to all of his stipulations.
With his movie, An Inconvenient Truth, filled with questionable information Flemming Rose and Bjorn Lomborg explain in the WSJ why they thought it necessary to find out why Mr. Gore chose to ignore certain facts and exaggerate others.
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It would have been great to ask him why he only talks about a sea-level rise of 20 feet. In his movie he shows scary sequences of 20-feet flooding Florida, San Francisco, New York, Holland, Calcutta, Beijing and Shanghai. But were realistic levels not dramatic enough? The U.N. climate panel expects only a foot of sea-level rise over this century. Moreover, sea levels actually climbed that much over the past 150 years. Does Mr. Gore find it balanced to exaggerate the best scientific knowledge available by a factor of 20? |
So many people I talk to think the debate over global warming has been presented and concluded. Can we say the debate is over when, on what seems like a daily basis, scientists are contradicting each other?