"GORE LIED, PEOPLE CRIED!!!!"
Funny, yet serious observations by James Toranto from Best of the Web:
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'An Over-Representation of Factual Presentations'
After our item yesterday on scientists critical of Al Gore's "global warming" alarmism, a reader called our attention to an interview with Gore that appeared last May in a publication called Grist:Q: There's a lot of debate right now over the best way to communicate about global warming and get people motivated. Do you scare people or give them hope? What's the right mix?"An over-representation of factual presentations of how dangerous it is." Isn't that what people accused President Bush of offering vis-à-vis the erstwhile Iraqi regime? Didn't this lead a certain former vice president to thunder, "He betrayed this country! He played on our fears!"?
Gore: I think the answer to that depends on where your audience's head is. In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. And the Category 5 denial is an enormous obstacle to any discussion of solutions. Nobody is interested in solutions if they don't think there's a problem. Given that starting point, 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.
And it's not as if Gore's "over-representations" don't have harmful effects. They've caused a lot of people to get really sad and stressed out. Consider this report from BusinessWeek:In recent years, the TED conference has gained a reputation for blissfully big ideas buoyed by unrelenting optimism. So few conference goers were prepared for venture capitalist John Doerr to choke up with emotion as he kicked off the second day of talks on Mar. 9.And this one from the Post-Chronicle, about someone called Jennifer Garner:
"I'm scared," he told the audience, looking down at his 15-year-old daughter in the front row. "I don't think we're going to make it."
Doerr issued a passionate call to action for everyone to make environmental concerns their "next big thing."Jennifer has also confessed she cries more now she is a mother. The actress believes the experience has made her more caring.GORE LIED, PEOPLE CRIED!!!!
She said: "Since I became a mother, I cry more because I care about things more.
"I can't watch a movie where something happens to a child. And I've always cared about global warming and breast cancer, but now there seems to be an urgency about them."
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- Ohio State Professor of Atmospheric Sciences reports that Antarctic temperatures disagree with climate model predictions
- Shining a little Sunshine on Global Warming Claims
- "Chicken Little may claim the sky is falling. A journalist's job is to check it out."
- "Global Warming is not due to human contribution of Carbon Dioxide"
- Global Warming Consensus, Schmensus: A must read ten part series in the Canadian National Post
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- Must See TV: Senator Inhofe to hold hearing on Climate Change and the Media
- Global Warming Gag Order Senators to Exxon: Shut up, and pay up.(HT: BizzyBlog: Quote of the Day: Bjorn Lomborg on the Global Warming Hysteria)
- Renowned Scientist Defects From Belief in Global Warming – Caps Year of Vindication for Skeptics
- See You at the Global Warming Nuremberg
- Senator Inhofe Fisks the Media on Global Warming Coverage
- New York Times is conveniently incomplete in reporting sources of greenhouse gases
- 60 Minutes on melting ice caps on Earth...let's see if they cover Mars' melting ice caps as well
- More evidence of global warming...but probably not where radical environmentalist expected it
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- Coyote Blog: A Skeptics Primer for "An Inconvenient Truth"
- Gore's Hot Air: Flaky Flick Suffers from 'Truth' Decay
- Robert Samuelson: Global Warming's Real Inconvenient Truth
- Greenhouse theory smashed by biggest stone
- Sunshine on Global Warming claims
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