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<div>'''"An Inconvenient Truth"''' is a documentary about [[global warming]] by former Vice President [[Al Gore]]. It is an entirely one-sided account which gives all the left's arguments in favor of supporting the sort of "[[greenhouse gas]]" reductions required by the [[Kyoto Protocol]]. <br />
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According to the Madison, Wisconsin ''Capital Times'', [[Reid Bryson]], founding chairman of the department of meteorology at the [[University of Wisconsin-Madison]] and of the Institute for Environmental Studies, now known as the [[Gaylord Nelson]] Institute for Environmental Studies and also known as the father of scientific climatology considers global warming a bunch of hooey. Reid said, "Don't make me throw up...it's not science..." <ref>[http://robertsteely.townhall.com/Default.aspx?mode=post&g=abc72f45-f361-42a9-b73c-c01a506f1437 Father of Climatology Throws Up at the Thought of Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth'], Noel Sheppard, June 18, 2007. Retrieved from Townhall.com June 20, 2007.</ref><br />
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{{Cquote|There is a lot of money to be made in this," he added. "If you want to be an eminent scientist you have to have a lot of grad students and a lot of grants. You can't get grants unless you say, 'Oh global warming, yes, yes, carbon dioxide. <ref>''Local scientist calls global warming theory hooey'', Samara Kalk Derby, The Capital Times, 6/18/2007. </ref>}}<br />
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Author Noel Sheppard cites a new study in ''Science Magazine'' <ref>[http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/313/5786/452 Climate Change: Can We Detect Trends in Extreme Tropical Cyclones?], Christopher W. Landsea, Bruce A. Harper, Karl Hoarau, John A. Knaff, ''Science'', 28 July 2006: Vol. 313. no. 5786, pp. 452 - 454.</ref> written by a group of scientists including two members of the [[National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration]] that refutes this central contention in Al Gores "[[schlockumentary]]" that the "apparition called global warming is responsible for an upsurge in hurricane activity and intensity," including the [[Hurricane Katrina]] disaster. <ref>[http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/12/michael_moore_issues_iraq_with.html The Inconvenient Truth: Hurricanes and Global Warming], By Noel Sheppard, ''American Thinker'', August 02, 2006.</ref><br />
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== Awards ==<br />
The film has received several awards:<br />
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*Academy Awards (The Oscars) 2007 <br />
*Chicago Film Critics Association<br />
*Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association<br />
*Florida Film Critics 2006 <br />
*Kansas City Film Critics Awards 2006 <br />
*Las Vegas Film Critics Circle 2006 <br />
*National Board of Review<br />
*New York Film Critics Online<br />
*New York Film Critics Society <br />
*Ohio Film Critics Awards 2006 <br />
*Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards 2006 <br />
*Online Film Critics 2006 <br />
*Phoenix Film Critics Circle 2006 <br />
*Satellite Awards (Nominated) 2006 <br />
*St. Louis Film Critics Awards 2006 <br />
*Toronto Film Critics Circle (Nominated) 2006 <br />
*Utah Film Critics Awards 2006 <br />
*Washington D.C. Film Critics Association 2006<br />
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==References==<br />
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==See also==<br />
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*[[Runaway greenhouse effect]]<br />
*[[Anthropogenic global warming theory]]<br />
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