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Too gentle on Gore by half
November 6 2009
The ABC's Leigh Sales gently, very gently tests the monumental hypocrisy of
Al Gore, whose corpulence belies his protests:
LEIGH SALES: Lord Stern also said that people ought to become vegetarians to
deal with climate change because meat is a wasteful use of water and it
creates a lot of greenhouse gases. Is that something you've given thought
to? Becoming a vegetarian?
AL GORE: I'm not a vegetarian but I have cut back sharply on the meat that I
eat, and it's absolutely correct that the growing meat intensity of diets
around the world is one of the issues connected to this global crisis. Not
only because of the CO2 involved but also because of the water consumed in
the process. You could add in the health consequences as well. I've made
those changes and though I don't go quite as far as Nick in saying everybody
should become a vegetarian, partly because I think that's a difficult ... it's
difficult enough to get the agreement without adding that on top of it, in
my view.
But it's a legitimate point of view.Nick Stern is a very able advocate for
whom I have enormous respect.
Er, so demands that we become vegetarian must wait until ... later?
And please note that Lord Stern hasn't given up meat, either.
Which makes two preachers who won't take their own medicine.
And I just wish Sales had prepared better, to catch out the old fraud:
LEIGH SALES: Professor Sir David King the former chief scientist in Britain
recently told "The Times" newspaper that he wasn't impressed with
exaggeration regarding climate change. That he feared that non-governmental
organisations were causing great damage and playing into the hands of
sceptics by linking events such as storms or heatwaves to global warming,
when normal climate variations were a large part of it.
What do you think about the argument that there's too much scaremongering
going on?
AL GORE: Well, I certainly count David King as one of my closest allies and
friends within the effort to stop global warming and he and I have always
agreed on the particulars of this. That's why I've always been careful to
say that the scientists caution against linking an individual storm as being
caused solely by global warming. But over-linking a single event to a single
cause does cause the scientists to say, "Wait a minute, you have to be
careful in the way you present that." I always have been and I think that's
an important caution.
In fact, hurricane activity is near 30 year lows. So how does Gore explain
his use of the Hurricane Katrina storm to market his wildly exaggerating An
Inconvenient Truth:
How does he explain the nine errors and exaggerations identified in his film
by a British judge, whose findings included this:
"In scene 12 Hurricane Katrina and the consequent devastation in New Orleans
is ascribed to global warming. It is common ground that there is
insufficient evidence to show that."
And how does Gore account for this shameless linking of two other storms to
global warming:
"Last year a catastrophic storm . . . hit Bangladesh. The year before, the
strongest cyclone in more than 50 years hit China, and we're seeing
consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated with
continued global warming."
Leigh, the man is a fraud, in my opinion, and his record is littered with
such examples.
I appreciate your attempt to confront him with the evidence I put up last
week, but that wasn't nearly enough of an attempt to hold him accountable.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/too_gentle_on_gore_by_half/
Warmest Regards
Bon z0
"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps
US$50 billion since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists
worldwide, no human climate signal has yet been detected that is distinct
from natural variation."
Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville |
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