Gore: "Over-Representation of the Facts" Necessary To Scare People About Global Warming
Ace of Spades
Right Wing News ledes this as saying Gore says it's okay to lie to alarm people about global warming.
He didn't quite say that. But I'd like to know, precisely, what an "over-representation of the facts" consists of. It does sound like a euphemism for "absurd hyperbole."
Update: Questions for Al Gore from a climate scientist.
Why did you make it look like hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, floods, droughts, and ice calving off of glaciers and falling into the ocean, are only recent phenomena associated with global warming? You surely know that hurricane experts have been warning congress for many years that the natural cycle in hurricanes would return some day, and that our built-up coastlines were ripe for a disaster (like Katrina, which you highlighted in the movie). And as long as snow continues to fall on glaciers, they will continue to flow downhill toward the sea. Yet you made it look like these things wouldn't happen if it weren't for global warming. Also, since there are virtually no measures of severe weather showing a recent increase, I assume those graphs you showed actually represented damage increases, which are well known to be simply due to greater population and wealth. Is that right?
Well, sometimes you need an "over-representation of the facts," you see.
ace.mu.nu
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May 25, 2006
David Broder Indiscreetly Raises Question of Bill Clinton's Indiscretions
He mentions a New York Times piece about the Clinton's marriage seems a bit incomplete.
It touched only lightly on the former president's friendship with Canadian politician Belinda Stronach.
"Friendship." Let's just say if Broder was a columnist at the New York Post he might say "galpal" or "canoodlemate."
The Observer's blogger thinks we're all just jealous:
But aren't we sick of the prurience? And isn't there a freedom in their choices of which others are envious? Maybe we can all learn from their experience.
Yeahhhhh, baby! Free love! Shagadelic!
I'm not sure the country is looking for Part II of the Austin Powers co-presidency.
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The Worst 5.3% GDP Growth Since Hoover
Slightly below the white-hot 5.7% growth predicted by economists, so obviously we're in a depression:
U.S. economy shot forward at an upwardly revised 5.3 percent annual rate in the first quarter, the fastest growth in 2-1/2 years, as companies built up inventories and exports strengthened, a Commerce Department report on Thursday showed.
First-quarter growth in gross domestic product was more than triple the 1.7 percent annual rate recorded in last year's fourth quarter, though still slightly below Wall Street economists' forecasts for a 5.7 percent pace.
Prices remained in check, with the core personal consumption expenditures price index that the Federal Reserve favors rising at a 2 percent rate compared with 2.4 percent in the fourth quarter.
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In addition, exports were stronger than originally reported, rising at a 14.7 percent annual rate rather than 12.1 percent.
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