More on Gore:
The gods are laughing Scientists who work in the fields liberal arts graduate Al Gore wanders through contradict his theories about man-induced climate change
Albert Einstein once said, "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
While the gods must consider An Inconvenient Truth the ultimate comedy, real climate scientists are crying over Al Gore's new film. This is not just because the ex-vice-president commits numerous basic science mistakes. They are also concerned that many in the media and public will fail to realize that this film amounts to little more than science fiction.
At least the Canadian Media seem to get it.
posted by dataman @ 7:50 PM
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Hmm. We will each have our thoughts on this, but I was catching quite a few errors -- and some of them blatant! -- in the linked article. Perhaps the most painfully obvious is here:
Besides clumsy errors in the presentation of the facts (Katrina did not get "stronger and stronger and stronger" as it came over the Gulf of Mexico; rather, it was category 5 over the ocean and was downgraded to category 3 when it made a landfall) ...
Folks in Florida will remember a tropical storm that had formed off the ocean-side coast of Florida, and had only barely made it to Category 1 at Florida landfall. It was never above Category 1 in the ocean, or in fact at any point until striking the Gulf of Mexico. [ref.]
One also wonders why the Environment Canada website seems so consistently to say the exact opposite of Dr. Khandekar, a former employee of Environment Canada ... especially in its own analysis of extreme weather events.
Interestingly, in the film itself, Gore never actually says that CO2 causes global warming. What he does say is that CO2 is one of the known greenhouse gases. Check it for yourself.
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