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05/20/2007: "An Inconvenient Lie"

There has been a lot more going on than this little article about Al Gore's movie, but I wanted to get this out there before I update on all the other happenings.

Read the entire article here. An excerpt is below.
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Though Mr. Gore was right for "getting the message out," University of Colorado climatologist Kevin Vranes told The New York Times last month that he worried about the film "overselling our certainty about knowing the future."

James E. Hansen, a NASA scientist and one of Mr. Gore's advisors, agreed the movie has "imperfections" and "technical flaws."

About An Inconvenient Truth's connection of rising hurricane activity to global warming -- something refuted by storm experts -- Mr. Hansen said, "We need to be more careful in describing the hurricane story than he is."

Among other things, since the film's release last year, scientists have rejected Mr. Gore's claims that 2005 was the warmest year on record (temperatures have been receding since 1998), that polar bears are heading for extinction (their numbers are growing), that Antarctica is warming (interior temperature readings show cooling) and that sea levels will "rise 18 to 20 feet," swamping coastal cities (the International Panel on Climate Change predicts a few inches).

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Did anyone else catch that???

"Though Mr. Gore was right for "getting the message out...."

"....scientists have rejected Mr. Gore's claims that 2005 was the warmest year on record (temperatures have been receding since 1998), that polar bears are heading for extinction (their numbers are growing), that Antarctica is warming (interior temperature readings show cooling) and that sea levels will "rise 18 to 20 feet," swamping coastal cities (the International Panel on Climate Change predicts a few inches)."

I have a hard time accepting that a known politician such as Al Gore can be a credible source for anything scientific. To me, he has hurt his cause more than helped it. Although from the media hype, you would think he has millions convinced. It bothers me to think there are that many people that will believe anything they hear in the world today.