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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: Rock_nj who wrote (6712)6/19/2006 11:29:21 AM
From: longnshort  Read Replies (1) of 36921
 
Calamity Al
"To his credit, Al Gore sheds the wooden persona of the 2000 presidential campaign in his newly released documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth.' In making the case for immediate action to stop global warming, the former vice president is articulate, concise, and even winsome, at times.
"But Mr. Gore's radical political agenda and tendency for half-truth have undergone no such makeover.
"In what amounts to a filmed slide show, interspersed with indulgent autobiographical footage and voiceovers, Mr. Gore employs stage tricks, straw men, and well-rehearsed rhetoric to contend that opposition views on climate change are rooted in callous profiteering. The dissents of such distinguished climatologists as hurricane expert Bill Gray of Colorado State University and former NASA scientist Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama in Huntsville are provided no airtime.
"Conflating the undisputed fact that the earth is warming with more controversial speculation that such warming is human-induced and will destroy civilization, Mr. Gore claims scientific consensus for his doomsday scenarios. Mr. Gore explains with solemn certainty that the threat of flooding in downtown Manhattan poses greater potential for calamity than the terrorist acts of September 11. Few scientists would endorse such an extreme contention."
-- Mark Bergin, writing on "Convenient spin," in the June 17 issue of World
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