Never thought I’d see the day, but here it is - in living color (or rather, black and white - as the case may be). Page 2, in particular, is where things really get warmed up (no pun intended):
Other critics have zeroed in on Mr. Gore’s claim that the energy industry ran a “disinformation campaign” that produced false discord on global warming. The truth, he said, was that virtually all unbiased scientists agreed that humans were the main culprits. But Benny J. Peiser, a social anthropologist in Britain who runs the Cambridge-Conference Network, or CCNet, an Internet newsletter on climate change and natural disasters, challenged the claim of scientific consensus with examples of pointed disagreement.
“Hardly a week goes by,” Dr. Peiser said, “without a new research paper that questions part or even some basics of climate change theory,” including some reports that offer alternatives to human activity for global warming.
Geologists have documented age upon age of climate swings, and some charge Mr. Gore with ignoring such rhythms.
“Nowhere does Mr. Gore tell his audience that all of the phenomena that he describes fall within the natural range of environmental change on our planet,” Robert M. Carter, a marine geologist at James Cook University in Australia, said in a September blog. “Nor does he present any evidence that climate during the 20th century departed discernibly from its historical pattern of constant change.”
In October, Dr. Easterbrook made similar points at the geological society meeting in Philadelphia. He hotly disputed Mr. Gore’s claim that “our civilization has never experienced any environmental shift remotely similar to this” threatened change.
Nonsense, Dr. Easterbrook told the crowded session. He flashed a slide that showed temperature trends for the past 15,000 years. It highlighted 10 large swings, including the medieval warm period. These shifts, he said, were up to “20 times greater than the warming in the past century.”
Getting personal, he mocked Mr. Gore’s assertion that scientists agreed on global warming except those industry had corrupted. “I’ve never been paid a nickel by an oil company,” Dr. Easterbrook told the group. “And I’m not a Republican.”
Biologists, too, have gotten into the act. In January, Paul Reiter, an active skeptic of global warming’s effects and director of the insects and infectious diseases unit of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, faulted Mr. Gore for his portrayal of global warming as spreading malaria.
“For 12 years, my colleagues and I have protested against the unsubstantiated claims,” Dr. Reiter wrote in The International Herald Tribune. “We have done the studies and challenged the alarmists, but they continue to ignore the facts.”
Read the whole thing.
Media Global Warming?
I do find this somewhat interesting, if you place the Media as part of the equation.
It’s warming, we must have meetings, and sessions…but can’t because of snow storms, and can’t get to the pole because it is too bitterly cold.
The media in itself has played a warming trend, becoming ‘hot’ on the subject of the GW, and now, after a time, have begun to ‘cool’ and now we begin to see stories come out questioning in parts the hysteria that is being whipped up.
I guess with the media also, it depends on it’s relative ‘position’ in the universe whether it will be hot or cold…….
Comment by sanity @ 3/13/2007 - 1:02 am
Meanwhile Al Gore has been overheard muttering angrily lately, “I want a recount…”
Comment by sanity @ 3/13/2007 - 1:04 am
Ignoring the facts are what the left does best.
Comment by arcman @ 3/13/2007 - 8:03 am
Has Al Gore ever made a prediction that came true; like the outcome of an election? I’d love to play Poker with this guy!
Comment by Tom TB @ 3/13/2007 - 10:04 am
Algore had one thing right. Republicans are “mean-spirited”.
Oh crap! Who took over my body when I wrote that. Get out!!
Comment by Baklava @ 3/13/2007 - 10:57 am
Al Gore is probably making a fortune from his global warming movie. I feel sorry for all the people that shelled out 10 bucks to go see it. I’d much rather spend my ten bucks on something entertaining.
Comment by G-Monster @ 3/13/2007 - 5:05 pm
If you’d like to read recent and archived news articles by the author of this article-William J. Broad of The New York Times, go here.
Comment by forest hunter @ 3/13/2007 - 6:22 pm
Comment by forest hunter @ 3/13/2007 - 6:27 pm
The trouble the “Humans=Bad, Nature in the absence of Humans=Good” crowd have is that they can never agree on what life style Adam and Eve and Steve and Amazonia should live. Then there’s always the “What about the Childreeen?” rant. If they were honest, they would openly wish for a plague that would wipe-out Humanity, so the Earth would be safe for snail-darters!
Comment by Tom TB @ 3/14/2007 - 8:37 am