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Forgive a bit of sarcasm, but Gore deserves it for these 3 false claims - which he surely KNEW were false BEFORE he made them
Richard Lindzen wrote:
Richard Lindzen wrote:
:Perhaps more important are the pressures being brought to bear on scientists to get the "right" results. Such pressures are inevitable, given how far out on a limb much of the scientific community has gone. The situation is compounded by the fact that some of the strongest proponents of "global warming" in Congress are also among the major supporters of science (Sen. Gore is notable among those). [http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv15n2/reg15n2g.html]
:Perhaps more important are the pressures being brought to bear on scientists to get the "right" results. Such pressures are inevitable, given how far out on a limb much of the scientific community has gone. The situation is compounded by the fact that some of the strongest proponents of "global warming" in Congress are also among the major supporters of science (Sen. Gore is notable among those). [http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv15n2/reg15n2g.html]
===Al Gore's assault on science===
*Gore claims that Himalayan glaciers are shrinking and global warming is to blame. Yet the September 2006 issue of the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate reported, "Glaciers are growing in the Himalayan Mountains, confounding global warming alarmists who recently claimed the glaciers were shrinking and that global warming was to blame." [http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/450392,CST-EDT-REF30b.article]
*Gore claims the snowcap atop Africa's Mt. Kilimanjaro is shrinking and that global warming is to blame. Yet according to the November 23, 2003, issue of Nature magazine, "Although it's tempting to blame the ice loss on global warming, researchers think that deforestation of the mountain's foothills is the more likely culprit. Without the forests' humidity, previously moisture-laden winds blew dry. No longer replenished with water, the ice is evaporating in the strong equatorial sunshine." [http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/450392,CST-EDT-REF30b.article]
*Gore claims global warming is causing more tornadoes. Yet the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated in February that there has been no scientific link established between global warming and tornadoes. [http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/450392,CST-EDT-REF30b.article]
== Scientists ==
== Scientists ==