Toner_Low

A Contrary View from the Guy What Gave the Previous View

I may have posted my enthusiasm for Gore's film a little too hastily; as I've looked into it, Gore's facts about global warming aren't airtight, and that's a bit of a surprise coming from a man who takes his journalism degree seriously. But Gore does imply that there is a consensus within the scientific community on global warming, and that's not true (what he actually says is that, in a survey of articles in scientific journals on global warming, none disagreed about its existence or what was causing it). But what about David Bellamy? Or Richard Lindzen, who probably got paid off, but still, he's a real, working climatologist. I gotta say, though, after the drubbing science in general has taken from the current administration (creationism, "proof" that gay marriage leads to axe murderers, etc.), I'm pretty sick of the neocon whiners like Lindzen who claim the Liberal Media has taken over Science as well. Frankly, when a Republican congressman in the Republican clubhouse known as the House of Representatives says that there's no denying global warming, it's a goddam done deal.

However, I've also come across so many cranks out there in Googleland that it almost proves how right Gore is. The best comment, as usual, came from Reason.com, which says that Gore is basically accurate, but that he's helping himself to exagerrations to get people to pay attention, and that such a tactic is beneath someone as intelligent as he is. Fair enough. Still, I think An Inconvenient Truth was better than X-Men III.