From a Rapt Audience, a Call to Cool the Hype

The New York Times has run a piece that casts Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth in a light that it should have always been cast.

“I don’t want to pick on Al Gore,” Don J. Easterbrook, an emeritus professor of geology at Western Washington University, told hundreds of experts at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America. “But there are a lot of inaccuracies in the statements we are seeing, and we have to temper that with real data.”

Mr. Gore, in an e-mail exchange about the critics, said his work made “the most important and salient points” about climate change, if not “some nuances and distinctions” scientists might want. “The degree of scientific consensus on global warming has never been stronger,” he said, adding, “I am trying to communicate the essence of it in the lay language that I understand.”

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Criticisms of Mr. Gore have come not only from conservative groups and prominent skeptics of catastrophic warming, but also from rank-and-file scientists like Dr. Easterbook, who told his peers that he had no political ax to grind.

Of course, those of you that even give my web site a cursory view have known these real truths for quite a while. And while I don’t expect that this will make much of an impact in this money-making scheme called “global warming,” it is nice to read.

If you want to see one page with a plethora of links to other articles, check out my ongoing global warming piece here.