Are you still convinced that Al Gore is telling the truth?

Question

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckton/goreerrors.html

Answer 1

No. Courts have found at least 9 errors in his film, and scientist have discovered over 30 more than that. That's an error every 2 minutes and 20 seconds!

He's just profiteering off of a natural phenomena.

Answer 2

Of _course_ he's telling the truth. He _is_ a politician, isn't he? How could he pander lies just for his own accretion of more wealth?

AGW is a Gore invention specifically designed to sell carbon 'credits'.

Here is truth about global warming:

Global warming is one-half of the climatic cycle of warming and cooling.
The earth's mean temperature cycles around the freezing point of water.
This is a completely natural phenomenon which has been going on since there has been water on this planet. It is driven by the sun.
Our planet is currently emerging from a 'mini ice age', so is
becoming warmer and may return to the point at which Greenland is again usable as farmland (as it has been in recorded history).
As the polar ice caps decrease, the amount of fresh water mixing with oceanic water will slow and perhaps stop the thermohaline cycle (the oceanic heat 'conveyor' which, among other things, keeps the U.S. east coast warm).
When this cycle slows/stops, the planet will cool again and begin to enter another ice age.

It's been happening for millions of years.

The worrisome and brutal predictions of drastic climate effects are based on computer models, NOT CLIMATE HISTORY.
As you probably know, computer models are not the most reliable of sources, especially when used to 'predict' chaotic systems such as weather.

Global warming/cooling, AKA 'climate change':
Humans did not cause it.
Humans cannot stop it.

Answer 3

Yes he is telling the truth about global warming being the biggest threat to our existance. His science is off and he is missing critical data but so is the link you supplied.

With all due respect, this is what happens when the science isn't accurate.

Go to http://www.thermoguy.com/globalwarming-heatgain.html and see the science that was missing. The domino effect of the missed science impaired all the calculations beyond that.

When I showed a professor working on pine beetle infestation the information above, he replied " the greenhouse gas theory is seriously flawed ".

In saying that, Al Gore deserves the respect of the world for being a responsible administrator. He now needs to improve on the science before he spends 100s of millions in advertising his theory. When I as a professional look at buildings generating heat close to boiling temperature and every new one doing the same, this is a global emergency.

If China, India or anyone else develop as North America has? Our children's children are in lots of trouble if they can reproduce because of the 100% toxicity ratio.

Answer 4

Why do people put these questions up? Why does everyone want to prove Al Gore and the IPCC's life long efforts down the drain. He is telling the truth because they have spent their whole life scientifically proving that global warming is real. And plus there is so much scientific evidence to prove global warming could occur that its impossible to leave alone now.

So your saying that a whole organization is making this stuff up? The IPCC doesn't go around lying to people and Al Gore works with the IPCC so they are telling the truth. the IPCC is a very admired organization and why would they lie just to make everyone believe them?

And news flash everyone. Al Gore is an EX politician and doesn't want to run for president.

Answer 5

Personally I think people go to see Al Gore for the same reason they go to church - to be reassured about their faith. People feel bad about atmospheric CO2, but intuition doesn't always lead people to the truth.

It wouldn't surprise me if SPPI have a vested interest in discrediting AGW. Almost every source on the internet is either pro-AGW or pro-sceptic. The arguments presented on that link seem to be a lot more logical than the articles I've seen on sites like realclimate.org.

Answer 6

The Gorester in Grist magazine> "I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis."

Lying and exxagerating aint nothing new to Al. As he states, its all right if you mean well.

Answer 7

Not the SPPI and Viscount Blenchley!!! The SPPI is funded by ExxonMobil (see their annual accounts) and Viscount Blenchley isn't a scientist but a controversial and failed politician who was voted out of office by his own party for making wild and unsubstantiated claims. Neither have much credibility or qualifications that allow them to objectively consider the science of global warming.

Al Gore is also a politician, or rather - an ex-politician. He too isn't a scientist and is not much more than a mouth-piece for real scientists but at least what he says has scientific credibility to it and can, in the main, be substantiated by documented and provable facts.

There were errors in the movie, no-one (apart from maybe Gore) is attempting to claim otherwise. The article by the Viscount appears to be a response to the British High Court's ruling regarding Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth in which the Judge dismissed the plaintiff's claim to have the movie banned, ruled that it could be shown in UK schools and declared it to be based on fundementally accurate science. There were provisos imposed by the Judge, the crux of which was that schoolchildren be presented with the opposing facts and made aware of the errors in the movie so as to prevent political indoctrination (banned in UK schools).

At the end of the day it makes no difference what the SPPI, Viscount Blenchley or Al Gore are saying. The only thing that matters is the science and if we paid attention to facts instead of opinions I think we'd all do a lot better.

Answer 8

Al Gore is the first politician to actually listen to scientists and researchers and not people who ignorantly believe that their lifestyle can be perpetuated forever into the future.

So Al Gore said sea level is rising by 6m according to the research present in peer reviewed, highly respected literature. Some guy who writes something on the internet (not peer reviewed, not a scientific method) says otherwise. Hmmm....

What about the IPCC? Are they making "errors" too? Seriously, stop avoiding the issue. A study was done to see what proportion of SCIENTIFIC papers disagreed that climate change is occuring and that its causes are anthropocentric. The result: none. All this controversy is purely in the media.

Answer 9

Yes, Al Gore got the basic science right.

"The nation's top climate scientists are giving An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's documentary on global warming, five stars for accuracy."

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2006-06-27-gore-science-truth_x.htm

There are a few minor details wrong. The British judge concluded that of the hundreds of points in the movie, 9 were wrong. Recent studies on polar bears bring that number down to 8 at most.

Answer 10

Al Gore is a fat pig. He needs to shut up.