Al Gore's upcoming movie, "An Inconvenient Truth", is full of scares and
untruths

By Gretchen Randall

Date: April 20, 2006

Issue: The movie "An Inconvenient Truth" is a "companion documentary" to
Gore's book of the same name.  According to pre-release information, Gore
claims global warming is one of the "biggest issues facing future
generations" and predicts one hundred million refugees from a twenty-foot
rise in sea levels if glaciers continue to melt.

Movie trailers show frightening scenes of hurricanes, floods, tornadoes,
drought and dams breaking.  Amid the scenes, Gore, who says he "used to be
the next president", spews many false and inaccurate statements.  Below,
we've debunked a few of them.

Accusation #1:  "If you look at the ten hottest years ever measured, they've
all occurred in the last fourteen years and the hottest of all was 2005."

Response: According to Bob Carter, a geologist at James Cook University,
Queensland, "the official temperature records of the Climate Research Unit
at the University of East Anglia, [show] that for the years 1998-2005 global
average temperature did not increase."  Global warming believers use the
statistics that the earth warmed between 1970 and 1998 but fail to mention
that temperatures also rose between 1920 and the 1940s when industrial
production was much lower than today.

Bob Carter, "Climate changes naturally all the time, partly in predictable
cycles, and partly in unpredictable shorter rhythms and rapid episodic
shifts, some of the causes of which remain unknown. We are fortunate that
our modern societies have developed during the last 10,000 years of benignly
warm, interglacial climate. But for more than 90 per cent of the last two
million years, the climate has been colder, and generally much colder, than
today. The reality of the climate record is that a sudden natural cooling is
far more to be feared, and will do infinitely more social and economic
damage, than the late 20th century phase of gentle warming."

Accusation #2: "Scientific consensus is that we are causing global warming."

Response:  Not true.  Look at all the quotes from scientists on this page.
However, it is becoming more difficult for scientists who disagree with the
conventional position on global warming to dissent.  Professor Richard
Lindzen wrote, "Climate of Fear"
( HYPERLINK "http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008220" \t "linkWin" http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008220) in which he says that
scientists who disagree with the alarmists predicting catastrophic global
warming risk loss of grants and being discredited in the media. He says
papers which question "accepted climate wisdom" are often refused at
scientific journals such as Science and Nature as "being without interest."

Accusation #3: "Temperature increases are taking place all over the world
and that's causing stronger storms."

Response: "All previous and current research in the area of hurricane
variability has shown no reliable, long-term trend up in the frequency or
intensity of tropical cyclones, either in the Atlantic or any other basin.
Moreover, the evidence is quite strong and supported by the most recent
credible studies that any impact in the future from global warming upon
hurricane[s] will likely be quite small."  Christopher Landsea, director of
historical hurricane reanalysis at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), January, 2005.

Accusation #4: "The Arctic is experiencing faster melting. If this [pointing
to part of Antarctica] should go, sea level worldwide would go up twenty
feet."

Response: "While data seem to indicate that temperatures over much of the
Arctic have increased over the past several decades (to levels last
experienced in the 1930s), data from Antarctica suggests just the opposite.
Not only have temperatures cooled a bit over Antarctica, but snow and ice
accumulation is increasing. . . . . Most news stories about Antarctica don't
report that the continent as a whole is not behaving like its northern
counterpart.  Instead, one hears reports on conditions along the Antarctic
Peninsula  a relatively small piece of the continent that juts northward
toward South America. Antarctic Peninsula temperatures have been warming.  .
. . What is taking place on the Antarctic Peninsula comprises less than two
percent of the total area of Antarctica. Conditions at the Peninsula no more
reflect what is occurring over the entire continent than those in Florida
reflect what is happening all across North America." Richard Lindzen,
professor of climatology at MIT.
( HYPERLINK "http://ff.org/centers/csspp/pdf/20060331_issues.pdf" \t "linkWin" http://ff.org/centers/csspp/pdf/20060331_issues.pdf)

Links: To check your carbon footprint or read more about the movie:
 HYPERLINK "http://www.climatecrisis.net" \t "linkWin" http://www.climatecrisis.net < HYPERLINK "http://www.climatecrisis.net/" \t "linkWin" http://www.climatecrisis.net/>
Link to a synopsis of the movie and a trailer:
 HYPERLINK "http://movies.aol.com/movie/main.adp?mid=24916" \t "linkWin" http://movies.aol.com/movie/main.adp?mid=24916
For Apple users, the trailer is at:
 HYPERLINK "http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount_classics/aninconvenienttruth/trailer" \t "linkWin" http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount_classics/aninconvenienttruth/trailer
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