Science vs. Gore
Wednesday, June 14th, 2006Scientists are responding to Al Gore’s alarmist movie “An Inconvenient Truth.”
Scientists respond to Gore’s warnings of climate catastrophe
“The man is an embarrassment to US science and its many fine practitioners, a lot of whom know (but feel unable to state publicly) that his propaganda crusade is mostly based on junk science.”
And checkout this JunkScience.com analysis.
Richard Lindzen, Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT, writes that there is a climate of fear and intimidation present:
Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their grant funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves libeled as industry stooges, scientific hacks or worse. Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science that supposedly is their basis.
Hopefully the movie will stimulate debate, rather than stifle it.