Al Gore, Comedian: Media's Global-Warming Coverage Too Balan

By Mark Finkelstein | November 5, 2007 - 09:50 ET
Quick -- somebody check. Did Al Gore win his Nobel prize for "peace," or did it perhaps come in a new Nobel category: comedy? You really have to wonder in the wake of his side-splitting appearance on this morning's "Today." Al, that inveterate card, actually claimed that the MSM's coverage of global warming is . . . too balanced.

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[kickahippie]

If the world was in real trouble from Global Warming - Then why the asymmetric approach to resolve it?

Why are we not also considering covering portions of our oceans? Why not regulate who boils water, how much water they boil, and when? Why not regulate how hot showers can get? Why not regulate jacuzzis?

[kickahippie]

Why not regulate how much livestock we have, what type and where? Why not regulate how much rice is produced and where?

[kickahippie]

Am I to believe that climate models, which can't replicate the past, are reliable means to establish acceptable ranges for the future?

[kickahippie]

Scientific consensus used to be the world was flat.

- Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says - National Geographic News February 28, 2007

[RationalRat]

*Everyone* used to believe the world is flat, but that was during a pre-scientific age. When people started systematically studying the heavens, the evidence showed that it was a sphere, and the resistance wasn't from other scientists, but from the church.

I would also strongly recommend anyone that is interested google the article you mentioned. Because it will explain why his view is contradicted by the evidence.

[kickahippie]

But now since we know everything...

Scientific consensus is a term used to skirt what it really is - theory. Funding opportunities for theories are small, rare, and competitive compared to that of a consensus.

[demdanglibruls]

@kickahippie Obviously that would be very unpopular, and the way US politics work, people would not vote for people who strictly regulated emissions. I'm not sure what covering portions of the oceans will do to help, but think about not being able to boil ramen... man, that would stink.

[Mrkreepy555]

how does he keep a straigh face?.... what an actor?! lol

[pheil58]

Hey Green......wow i didnt realize my post was 11 months old !!!....lol....there is a livley thread on "climate change- is CO2 the cause?".......Bob Carter presents temperature data and asserts that what we have experiencd in this century is nothing out of the ordinary........he also says....if you don't like WARMING...try global COOLING!!!.....lol.....you won't like it!

[GreenRiver72]

Now that I've watched the video ... wow. I laud Dr. Christy for introducing new and better methods for analyzing the temperature data. Gore's denouncing of Dr. C's logical conclusion from the IR satellite dataset improvement (btw much better than global mean surface temp) is ignorant. There IS NO scientific consensus, the few that say this are peer-reviewing each other's work and looking for more grant money. Disgusting.

[GreenRiver72]

I you can't understand the Earth's temperature is dependent on the dozens of complex, multivariate, non-linear feedbacks that make up the climate system, then you can't make intelligent posts about the topic. The period of 'record' started as we were coming out of the mini ice age ~1870...which we are stil doing. Actually if you use a more accuate metric (IR sat) several years in the 1930s were just as warm. Earth has seen a cooling trend for the last 5-10 years. Scientific rebuttal welcomed.

[GreenRiver72]

Amen. As an atmospheric scientist currently active in research I am saddened and nauseated by friends and good professors I have seen lose grants by producing papers that clearly show this alarmism is fake.

[abandoned08]

You're totally right! In fact, our global warming has gone so far as to heat up the sun millions of miles away!!! Don't believe me, look up the temperature of the sun. It's been going up due to all this global warming.

[SonoftheRepublic1776]

All of your "graphs", even Gore's if you look closely, show CO2 going up only after the temp goes up. The IPCC is also fake. There was never a consensus or anything. Every scientist was only assigned one topic and one to two pages. Some poeple writing in it weren't even scientists! Now John Christy and about other scientists are suing the IPCC because they won't remove the pages they wrote. These scientists only agree with the part of the report that they wrote.

[nwoebcke]

If you can understand a graph showing the undeniable link between CO2 levels and temperature, then you can believe in global warming. The 10 warmest years ON RECORD have happened in the past 15 years. What more do you need as proof? People who want to do nothing are just LIVING IN DENIAL.