Another False Claim From Media Matters; This One on Global Warming
While attacking ABC News 20/20 host John Stossel, a July 10, 2006, post from Media Matters makes the following false claim:
The truth? It is flat-out, 100% false that there is a scientific consensus on the causes of global warming. There are "scores of scientists" who have criticized Al Gore and his fallacious movie.
In addition, Media Matters misleads their readers by citing a 2001 study that has been "discredited."
The bottom line: Gore and his Inconvenient Truth film have been flat-out debunked. The following two links are must-reads:
1. "AP INCORRECTLY CLAIMS SCIENTISTS PRAISE GORE’S MOVIE," U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, June 27, 2006:… "Gore’s film … cites a review of scientific literature by the journal Science which claimed 100% consensus on global warming, but [M.I.T. Prof. Richard] Lindzen pointed out the study was flat out incorrect."
… "Gore’s claim that global warming is causing the snows of Mt. Kilimanjaro to disappear has also been debunked by scientific reports."
… Professor Bob Carter, of the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University in Australia, on Gore’s film: "Gore’s circumstantial arguments are so weak that they are pathetic. It is simply incredible that they, and his film, are commanding public attention. 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."
2. "Gore Samples," Investor’s Business Daily, June 28, 2006:
… "[W]e look with skepticism at a National Research Council study that declares ‘recent warmth is unprecedented for at least the last 400 years.’ The study itself breaks no new ground but is a broad review of other studies. One of them, produced in 2001 by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has been discredited. That study introduced the ‘hockey stick,’ a chart showing a long period of temperature stability, followed by a sharp upward turn over the last 140 years. As we have noted, two Canadian researchers found grave errors in the study, including calculation errors, data used twice and a faulty computer program that produced a ‘hockey stick’ out of whatever data was fed into it."
… Richard S. Lindzen, professor of meteorology at M.I.T. [was] one of 11 scientists who prepared a 2001 National Academy of Sciences report on climate change for the Bush White House. Lindzen says the report made clear "that there is no consensus, unanimous or otherwise, about long-term climate trends and what causes them." One reason the debate is not over, Lindzen says, is that "the climate is always changing; change is the norm …"
See that "discredited" 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change study that I’ve put in bold above? It’s the same study that Media Mattters uses to promulgate their falsehood! LOL!
Quite simply, Al Gore, along his friends at Media Matters, have been debunked.
