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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (7440)	9/27/2006 2:40:02 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

A Republican senator this week blasted former Vice President Al Gore and his new film, "An Inconvenient Truth," which he labeled "one of the slickest science propaganda films of all time." In a lengthy floor speech, Oklahoma Sen. James M. Inhofe, chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, said he was "almost at a loss as to how to begin to address the series of errors, misleading science and unfounded speculation that appear in the former vice president's film." He began by quoting Richard Lindzen, a meteorologist with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who wrote: "A general characteristic of Mr. Gore's approach is to ignore the fact that the earth and its climate are dynamic; they are always changing even without any external forcing. To treat all change as something to fear is bad enough; to do so in order to exploit that fear is much worse." Mr. Inhofe presented a summary of "science" that Mr. Gore promotes in the film, including "the now-debunked 'hockey stick' temperature chart" and "a link between increased hurricane activity and global warming that most scientists believe does not exist." As for the North Pole melting and polar bears drowning, the senator argued that "the vast bulk [of the Arctic] has been cooling and gaining ice." And whereas Mr. Gore asserted the Arctic is experiencing unprecedented warmth, he ignored "temperatures in the 1930's were as warm or warmer." For the record, Mr. Inhofe said he did not see Mr. Gore's movie.