Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize, and even more surprising, the IPCC also shares the award.
Why?
Why would a committee award such a prestigious prize right on the heels of his documentary being proven inaccurate and prone to exaggerations? Coming in the same week that Marion Jones is asked to return medals to the olympics, one has to wonder if such a fate will befall Gore in the future.
Al Gore’s documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, is being shown in schools in England. But a recent High Court ruling stated the film must be distributed with caveats to prevent “promoting partisan political views”, citing 9 inaccuracies:
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Claims of 20 feet sea level rise from Greenland and Antarctica – Evidence is that will not melt for millennia.
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Rising sea levels causing inundation of Pacific islands – Court observed that this was a false claim.
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Gore claims global warming will “shut down the Ocean Conveyor” – the judge said this was “very unlikely”
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Graphs showing CO2 versus temperature over 650,000 years were claimed to be an exact fit – The judge said that, “the two graphs do not establish what Mr Gore asserts”.
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Snowmelt on Mount Kilimanjaro evidenced global warming – deforestation reducing moisture into upslope winds is the cause.
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The film showed drying Lake Chad, claiming caused by global warming – Court determined that this was false.
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Hurricane Katrina was caused by global warming – Court determined it was “not possible” to attribute singular events to global warming.
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Polar bears drowned due to disappearing arctic ice – Gore misread the study: in fact four polar bears drowned due to a particularly violent storm.
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Global warming caused species losses including coral reef bleaching – Court found this claim difficult to support.
In light of these inaccuracies, there are now calls emerging for the producers of Gore’s film to return the Oscar for “best documentary”.
Most of these “inaccuracies” in themselves seem very controversial still. Judging by the raw scientific data presented that I have double checked, and its alignment with other sources, Gore and “Inconvenient Truth” do have a truly alarming message. I take it as a measure of progress in awareness that there are only NINE contested points out of the hundreds of examples that are cited in the feature length piece.
— Arf.
Get a load of this:
http://nzclimatescience.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=155&Itemid=1
One advantage that may come out of this travesty is a more public demand for data and methods!
Here’s Gray’s complete letter.
http://nzclimatescience.net/images/PDFs/157%20evt.sci.fraud.pdf
Note the comments on the surface statons, Rev. Your work has not gone unnoticed!
You know what , Rev?
The judge left out the claim by Gore that American cars can’t be sold in China, due to not meeting their strict environmental standards.
That was a rather obvious goof.
Also his claim that his science teacher who taught that South America and Africa never fit together in the dim past, he is not President Bush’s science advisor, but that was mostly told to his nutroot hand picked studio audience to get a cheap laugh, and break the tension of an hour of the full bore goracle in his bully pulpit.
There’s only so much fire and brimstone, even an acolyte can stomach.
Not a brainy broad, this subject is a passion of my husband’s and he sent me here. Hope this lifts some of your spirits…our 9 year old daughter had a science paper to present ( any subject ). Out of 22 other children she presented her findings that global warming is a bunch of hype. At least 11 of the class made presentations decrying the possible extinction of the polar bears. Hope that you are as proud as I am that there are some children that have parents that are paying attention. ( mainly her Dad )
This “global warming” hype is not helping the education of our young ones. One day it is this and the next it is that. Pardon my ‘ domestic-like’ comments into this forum . Fear is a mind killer especially when most of our public is glued to the “boob tube”. I am not brainy but I do indeed love the TRUTH of true science. Nerds have always been cool in my book ! Ha !
Interesting. I am gratified and yet not terribly surprised.
And maybe this is not so bad a lesson for the kiddies, either. They have been presented with a piece of advocacy shot through with very serious, and easily auditable errors. Throw in large and equal servings of surety and sanctimony, and this is bound to produce an intellectual counterreaction.
I think, overall, I am pleased that the kids are witness to this spectacle.
In later years, they will remember their trepidation, the somber, angry, or near-tearful attitude of their instructors. They will remember the abrupt intrusion of the political debate into their classrooms.
And if, as I suspect, the base measurement data is badly off-key and scandalously adjusted, they will, in later years, cast a jaundiced eye when some as-yet-unknown, similarly poorly supported end-of-the-world scenario is introduced and say, “Oh, yeah? Show me.”
I only hope that the wealth destroyed or never produced as a result of this intellectual-faith-based meltdown will not result in the deaths by disease and malnutrition of too many thousands of nine-year-old girls in poverty-stricken areas of the world. That is the tragedy which brings out my own sanctimony, but I can’t and won’t help it.
Tell, me, how did the teachers react to your daughter and the other kids? How did the other kids react?
The reaction from her fellow students was amazing !! They wanted to know more so much that the questions came in too quickly, so much that the teacher had to “calm” them down. Her time allotment went over 15 minutes . Her science teacher did not discredit her theory. ( Paideia school ) All in all , I think a seed was planted in those children’s minds ….hope that all TRUE science teachers actively search for the TRUTH to spark the growing, expanding brains of our future….our children.
And let the chips fall where they may! That’s Science.
On the face of it, I’d be surprised if there weren’t some degree of warming in the 20th Century as a result of bounceback from the nadir of the Little Ice Age, some 300 years back.
I also fully agree that the temperature rose during the 1980s and 90s. But a good part of those measurements may have been a result of the exurban creep (ACs, asphalt, buildings, malls, other heat sinks) and that hasn’t been accounted for.
Besides, this is, itself, “bounceback” from the “Eenie-Weenie Ice Age” from 1940 to the earlly 80s, exactly the point when CO2 output took off.
And, of course, in the last 10 years, the temperature has been “jig-jag flat” in spite of a 5% increase in CO2 output.
The graphs your daughter sees don’t show this because they use multi-year averaging, a method that makes “it goes up-and-then-down” look like “it goes up and stays there”. Or “it-goes-up-and-stays-there” look like “it-just-keeps-going-up”
Multi-year averaging IS important. It smoothes the outliers, and can indicate longterm (past) trends. But not to the exclusion of the year-by-year data. All the IPCC stuf that shows a continually increasing trend line over the last decade is a mere stitistical artifact .
Conclusion? Maybe temeperatures are up, maybe they are not. The Margins of Error and Statistical Snow dwarf the half-a-degree delta we all squawk about. In this sense, I am a “true denier”. Not only do I question man’s role, but I actually question the measurements themselves. Until the surface stations in the US AND the rest of the world have been CAREFULLY audited, I will remain skeptical. (No true liberal could do otherwise.)
Not until the audit is complete will we know how much of 20-century GW is “real” and how much is an artifact of continually increasing exurban creep and (astounding) microsite violations.
Your daughter will be told that oversampling cures all ills. But, oversampling won’t feed the bulldog, here, because the adjustment skew is all in one direction–to the warm.
Keep up the good work. All we want is the truth. If it’s warmer, it’s warmer. But if it ain’t, it ain’t! Answer still To Be Determined . . .
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