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[INHABITAT] Needless to say, those two inaccuracies sent climate change skeptics into a frenzy, causing a reaction from Gore. Gore admits that science is seldom totally free from mistakes, but that the overall consensus in the scientific community remains the same: Climate change is occurring, and most of it is the result of human activities. Climate change skeptics are nit-picking these two inaccuracies and ignoring the larger picture –
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[NewsDaily: Top Headlines] NewsDaily: Al Gore takes aim at climate change skeptics: "Because the world still relies on leadership from the United States, the failure by the Senate to pass legislation intended to cap American emissions before the Copenhagen meeting guaranteed that the outcome would fall far short of even the minimum needed to build momentum toward a meaningful solution," Gore wrote.
[Earth Matters News] Al Gore takes aim at climate change skeptics | MNN - Mother Nature ...: "Because the world still relies on leadership from the United States, the failure by the Senate to pass legislation intended to cap American emissions before the Copenhagen meeting guaranteed that the outcome would fall far short of even the minimum needed to build momentum toward a meaningful solution," Gore wrote.
[Net Green News] NGN Daily: Climate Change Skeptics | Net Green News: The former vice president said, “I, for one, genuinely wish that the climate crisis were an illusion. But unfortunately, the reality of the danger we are courting has not been changed by the discovery of at least two mistakes in the thousands of pages of careful scientific work over the last 22 years by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.”
[Environment | The Independent UK] Environment | The Independent UK - Gore takes aim at climate ...: I agree that politics and science should be left apart, but it is the "skeptics" that have involved themselves in a campaign of misinformation. Just as the "smoking is good for you" campaign delayed regulation of the tobacco industry, "climate change isn't happening" morphing into "climate change is natural" morphing into "climate change is debatable, but lets smear the scientists who dare to resort to 'facts'" are fighting to delay the inevitable.
[Climate Change Fraud] Climate Change Fraud - Al Gore returns to the spotlight; Says ...: Gore says the “science has become clearer and clearer” and yet never before has the debate been more vigorous. Is the science really clear and we just arent seeing it or is the public seeing through the veneer of possibly questionable science?
[Technology News Blog] Technology News Blog » Al Gore takes aim at climate change skeptics: Climate change skeptics have pointed to errors in the panel’s landmark 2007 report — an overestimate of how fast Himalayan glaciers would melt in a warming world and incorrect information on how much of the Netherlands is below sea level —
[Newses Japan - Politics] Al Gore takes aim at climate change skeptics : newses Japan: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Vice President Al Gore took aim at skeptics who doubt the reality of human-caused climate change, saying he wished it were an illusion but that the problem is real and urgent.
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[The Breakthrough Institute] The Breakthrough Institute: Why Joe Romm Won't Debate Roger Pielke Jr.: In an effort to turn this episode into something constructive and educational, I'd like to formally challenge Joe Romm to a public debate on climate policy to be held in Fall, 2010 in his home town at a date convenient for him, so that he does not have to travel and the timing can be made to fit his schedule.
[Climate Progress] Foreign Policy's “Guide to Climate Skeptics” includes Roger Pielke ...: I’m not really up on Pielke’s oeuvre, but since reading Andy Revkin’s (latest) peon to RPJr., I have been trying to make sense of his 2008 article in Natural Hazards Review (Normalized Hurricane Damage in the United States: 1900-2005, Roger Pielke, Jr., et.al.) He (et.al) doesn’t seem to know that regression analysis is a technique for differentiating the relative effects of relevant variables.
[Larry T. Doughty's Story] Larry T. Doughty's Thoughts EXCELLENT ARTICLE ON AL GORE'S GLOBAL ...: Undaunted, Gore now claims that the blizzards that have walloped the Northeast in recent weeks are also proof of global warming. “Climate change causes more frequent and severe snowstorms, he posted on his blog last month.
[Go Green Toolshed] Go Green Toolshed » Blog Archive » Sorting through the conflicting ...: After snow blanketed Washington for several days last month, political opponents of efforts to address climate change pointed to the blustery weather as evidence that global warming is a hoax. an Australian physicist who writes the popular blog and iPhone application Skeptical Science, which catalogues peer-reviewed climate change studies.
[Walter Russell Mead's Blog] How Al Gore Wrecked Planet Earth - Walter Russell Mead's Blog ...: The service the movement now needs (but likely won’t get) from its close friends in the mainstream media is a harsh and unsparing review of exactly who screwed up and why. What dodo-brained foundation executives streamed money to groups committed to a suicidally unrealistic political strategy? Have they been fired yet? Why not? Who were the ignorant, self-righteous ‘leaders’ who shouted down anybody with doubts about this disastrous course? Why haven’t they resigned yet? When will they? Whose brainchild was the brilliant idea that the IPCC didn’t need a full time chair? What hare-brained funders failed to provide Phil Jones and the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia with enough clerical help to comply with the freedom of information act? And why was there no one available to counsel Jones when, apparently, he realized that some of the requests couldn’t be satisfied because key data was lost? How did the climate of carelessness at the IPCC develop —
[Knight Science Journalism Tracker] Knight Science Journalism Tracker » Blog Archive » NYTimes, then a ...: I am guessing, but Fox may have been what Gore had in mind when he wrote that, in today’s tottering old-media world, “Some news media organizations now present showmen masquerading as political thinkers who package hatred and divisiveness as entertainment…Their most consistent theme is to label as “socialist” any proposal to reform exploitive behavior in the marketplace.”
[Climate Shifts] Climate Shifts » Blog Archive » We Can't Wish Away Climate Change ...: What is important is that the overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged. It is also worth noting that the panels scientists ” acting in good faith on the best information then available to them ” probably underestimated the range of sea-level rise in this century, the speed with which the Arctic ice cap is disappearing and the speed with which some of the large glacial flows in Antarctica and Greenland are melting and racing to the sea.
[The Enterprise Blog] Everything That's Wrong With Al Gore in a Single Sentence « The ...: I think Al Gore failed the climate change movement and that his negligence and blindness has done it irreparable harm. That's exactly why I hope Big Al keeps talking: he's the best weapon climate skeptics have going for them.
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