From a Rapt Audience, a Call to Cool the Hype

Al Gore's film on global warming depicted a bleak future.

Hollywood has a thing for Al Gore and his three-alarm film on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth," which won an Academy Award for best documentary. So do many environmentalists, who praise him as a visionary, and many scientists, who laud him for raising public awareness of climate change.

But part of his scientific audience is uneasy. In talks, articles and blog entries that have appeared since his film and accompanying book came out last ... Full Story »

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Kyle Klipowicz
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by Kyle Klipowicz - Oct. 1, 2008

This story does not give examples of the 'incorrect claims' other than a hypothetical situation that Gore presented that shows what would happen if both polar icecaps melt completely, and the fallacy that since there were no "killer hurricanes" in 2006 implies that the horrible ones in 2005 are not connected to global warming in any way. This is a bit of insidious word-wrangling to make small discrepancies look large. Smells like fish to me.

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