An Inconvenient Truth
"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.
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..." [1]
Reid said,
| â | 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. [2] | â |
Author Noel Sheppard cites a new study in Science Magazine [3] 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. [4]
Awards
The film has received several awards:
- Academy Awards (The Oscars) 2007
- Chicago Film Critics Association
- Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association
- Florida Film Critics 2006
- Kansas City Film Critics Awards 2006
- Las Vegas Film Critics Circle 2006
- National Board of Review
- New York Film Critics Online
- New York Film Critics Society
- Ohio Film Critics Awards 2006
- Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards 2006
- Online Film Critics 2006
- Phoenix Film Critics Circle 2006
- Satellite Awards (Nominated) 2006
- St. Louis Film Critics Awards 2006
- Toronto Film Critics Circle (Nominated) 2006
- Utah Film Critics Awards 2006
- Washington D.C. Film Critics Association 2006
References
- â 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.
- â Local scientist calls global warming theory hooey, Samara Kalk Derby, The Capital Times, 6/18/2007.
- â 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.
- â The Inconvenient Truth: Hurricanes and Global Warming, By Noel Sheppard, American Thinker, August 02, 2006.