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To: JakeStraw who wrote (6)	4/6/2006 5:18:34 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 9

More from the famous Clinton apologist: Gore addresses flaws of TV Sarah Crotzer Posted: 4/6/06 "Democracy is a conversation," said former Vice President Al Gore, speaking Tuesday in the James Union Building, but in the present domination of television news media, "some extremely important elements of American democracy have been pushed to the sidelines." Gore's address, "Media and Democracy," opened this week's Seigenthaler Chair of Excellence lecture series, "Self-Inflicted Wounds: Journalism's Lost Credibility." Gore, a frequent speaker on the MTSU campus, chose to focus his presentation on television's one-way dispersal of news to the public, and the now-apparent flaws of the form. "Americans now watch television an average of four hours and 39 minutes per day," Gore said. Despite every other medium, including the Internet, "it is television that still completely dominates the flow of information in modern America." ... "It is difficult to overstate the extent to which modern pervasive electronic advertising has reshaped our public forum," he said. "Instead of the easy and free access individuals had to participate freely and fully…by means of the printed word, the world of television makes it virtually impossible for individuals to take part in what passes for a national conversation today." In addition, Gore said, "our public discourse has recently taken on a quality of strangeness that is no longer possible to ignore." ... "For a short time [there was] a quality of vividness and clarity of focus in our public discourse, that reminded some Americans, including some journalists, that vividness and clarity used to be far more common in the way we talk to one another about the problems and the choices that we face," he said. "But then, like a passing summer storm, the moment faded." "The public forum," he said, "has been grossly distorted and restructured beyond all recognition. It is the destruction of that…marketplace of ideas that accounts for the quality of strangeness that now continually haunts our efforts to reason together about the choices we must make as a nation." Gore said that he sees an independently owned television network, accepting specialized news content from amateur, on-the-spot journalists, as one possible solution to the problem. He also views the Internet as a positive avenue for video-based journalism, envisioning a situation where individuals could both submit and select content to fit their interests. However, he said, it must be safeguarded to ensure such two-way journalism isn't blocked by the need for commercialization. Following the address, Gore took additional time to meet and answer a number of questions from his audience. When asked what measures can be taken to change the kind of television news that viewers receive, he said, "I think the kind of important dialogue taking place at this forum, among journalists, is one of the ways…to try to get the upper hand once again for journalistic standards." The Seigenthaler lecture series "Self-Inflicted Wounds" continues throughout today on the MTSU campus. To listen to the audio version of Gore's address, please subscribe to the Sidelines podcast at www.mstusidelines.com/podcasts.

To: JakeStraw who wrote (6)	2/25/2010 11:07:58 AM
From: Peter Dierks	1 Recommendation Respond to of 9

Al Gore's Nine Lies Posted 02/23/2010 06:54 PM ET Climate Fraud: The godfather of climate hysteria is in hiding as another of his wild claims unravels — this one about global warming causing seas to swallow us up. We've not seen or heard much of the former vice president, Oscar winner and Nobel Prize recipient recently as the case for disastrous man-made climate change collapses. Perhaps he's off reading how scientists were forced to withdraw a study on a projected sea level rise due to global warming after finding two "technical" mistakes that undermined the findings. The study, published in 2009 in Nature Geoscience, allegedly confirmed the conclusions of the 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that sea levels would rise due to climate change. The IPCC put the rise at 59 centimeters by 2100. The Nature Geoscience study put it at up to 82 centimeters. Many considered the study and the IPCC's estimates too conservative in their warnings. After all, Al Gore, in his award-winning opus, "An Inconvenient Truth," laughingly called a documentary, foretold an apocalyptic vision of the devastation caused by a 20-foot rise in sea levels due to melting polar ice caps "in the near future." Now Mark Siddall, from the Earth Sciences Department at England's University of Bristol, has formally retracted the study. "One mistake was a miscalculation; the other was not to allow fully for temperature change over the past 2,000 years," he said. According to Siddall, "People make mistakes, and mistakes happen in science." They seem to be happening a lot lately, and more than just mistakes. We are talking about outright fraud, the deliberate manipulation and destruction of data. Last November, Al Gore was hailed by Newsweek as "The Thinking Man's Thinking Man." Since then we and he have been given much to think about, starting with the damning e-mails from researchers associated with the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Britain. The e-mails revealed an organized attempt to "hide the decline" in global temperatures, to manipulate data to fit preconceived conclusions, and to discredit and shun reputable skeptics. A key finding of the IPCC, which along with Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, was revealed last month to be utterly bogus. The IPCC claimed glaciers in the Himalayas would likely disappear by 2035. The only thing they had to back it up was a 1999 non-peer reviewed article in an Indian mass-market science magazine. It's been revealed that researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have been systematically eliminating weather stations, with a clear bias toward removing colder latitude and altitude locations. The number of reporting stations in Canada dropped from 600 to 35, with only one station used by the NOAA as a temperature gauge for Canadian territory above the Arctic Circle. The past is prologue. Two years ago, Justice Michael Burton of London's High Court ruled Gore's film could be shown in British schools only if material explaining its errors were included in the curriculum. Burton documented nine significant errors in Gore's film and wrote that some of Gore's claims arose from "alarmism and exaggeration." The first error Gore made, according to Burton, was in his apocalyptic vision of the devastation caused by a rise in sea levels caused by melting polar ice caps. Burton wrote that Gore's predicted 20-foot rise could occur "only after, and over, millennia" and to suggest otherwise "is not in line with the scientific consensus." One by one, Gore's prophecies of doom and those of the climate charlatans he inspired are being exposed as the work of con artists. From the CRU to the IPCC, the climate dominoes are falling one by one. His silence speaks volumes. Goodnight, Mr. Gore, wherever you are. investors.com