Raining on Al
Meanwhile, Robert Balling, professor of climatology at Arizona State University, and Joseph D'Aleo, former chairman of the American Meteorology Society's committee on weather forecasting, have screened Mr. Gore's film. They find it foggy.
"Through alarmist rhetoric and dire predictions, the film attempts to portray man as the culprit behind global climate change," Mr. Balling said. "But in typical Gore fashion, many of his facts are drawn from hand-picked science that overstates what is happening in climate change."
But hey, a few boo-boos shouldn't get in the way of some more alarmist speechifying.
"I even believe that there is a chance that within the next two years even Bush and Cheney will be forced to change their position on this crisis," Mr. Gore told an audience in Cannes, France, yesterday, saying that we were now in a "planetary emergency." |
