As I said in my earlier post on the subject, there's less than meets the eye to the story of the British judge that found nine "errors" in An Inconvenient Truth. Turns out they weren't errors, just points the judge deemed different enough from the IPCC view to warrant explanatory materials -- and the judge was off about most of them anyway.
That hasn't stopped the media from making a total hash of it. Read Tim Lambert's two posts on the Washington Post's war on Gore, and weep.
Anyway, some updates:
Shortly after Gore won the Nobel, the WaPo ran a hit piece on the movie that uncritically passed along the judge's objections. Yesterday, Kalee Kreider -- Gore's spokesperson and environmental advisor -- responded on Gore's behalf. It's pretty devastating, well worth reading.
The Guardian has now confirmed that Stewart Dimmock, the faux-concerned parent behind the lawsuit, was a pawn of the UK's far-right New Party, which is funded almost entirely by fuel and mining interests.
A few days ago, the RealClimate crew weighed in on the brouhaha:
First of all, "An Inconvenient Truth" was a movie and people expecting the same depth from a movie as from a scientific paper are setting an impossible standard. Secondly, the judge's characterisation of the 9 points is substantially flawed. He appears to have put words in Gore's mouth that would indeed have been wrong had they been said (but they weren't). Finally, the judge was really ruling on how "Guidance Notes" for teachers should be provided to allow for more in depth discussion of these points in the classroom. This is something we wholehearted support - AIT is probably best used as a jumping off point for informed discussion, but it is not the final word. Indeed, the fourth IPCC report has come out in the meantime, and that has much more up-to-date and comprehensive discussions on all these points.
Their overall verdict "is that the 9 points are not 'errors' at all (with possibly one unwise choice of tense on the island evacuation point)." They go on to provide their own set of guidance notes.
Lambert also has another comprehensive update with lots more reactions.
Serial distractions, on and on.
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dinosaur Posted 6:23 am
21 Oct 2007
<img src="http://marginalizedactiondinosaur.net/wordp/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/hurricaine-chart.jpg" alt="Hurricaines" style="width: 323px; height: 191px" title="Hurricaines" height="191" width="323">
Not sure the image tag will work so, Cat 3 or better to hit the USA. Via NOAA,
0's 6
10's 8
20's 5
30's 8
40's 8
50's 10
60's 6
70's 4
80's 5
90's 5
If anything to me it looks like the numbers of severe ones are dropping to me. Hard to blame Katrina on warming when theres 1/2 as many in the 90's as there were in the 50's.
http://marginalizedactiondinosaur.net/?p=1403
2) Then theres the sea level thingy where IPCC says it will go up a foot and a half and historically it's gone up a foot every hundred years anyway.
If you can find somewhere that shows it's gone up a foot since the 50's pls let me know. Anything that looks like we might hit 20 feet in 100 years.
3) Plus he claims countries have evacuated please provide a list of them, Al doesn't, wonder why. At best there is one that has contacted New Zealand because Al got them scared but no one has left yet.
4)The Southern Hemisphere sea ice area narrowly surpassed the previous historic maximum of 16.03 million sq. km to 16.17 million sq. km. The observed sea ice record in the Southern Hemisphere (1979-present) is not as long as the Northern Hemisphere. Prior to the satellite era, direct observations of the SH sea ice edge were sporadic.
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/index.noshade.htm ...
The Guardian has now confirmed that Stewart Dimmock, the faux-concerned parent behind the lawsuit, was a pawn of the UK's far-right New Party, which is funded almost entirely by fuel and mining interests.
LOL yeah me to when do I get my $$$$$.
Ever known someone to do a press release saying they believe in woman made global warming who wasn't getting grant money from big government to say they believe in it.
Count the Hurricanes, is NOAA bought off by big oil?
Al should provide a list with his additional hurricanes in the 90's to prove people like me wrong.
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inel Posted 9:12 am
21 Oct 2007
BBC Messes Up Again on Gore Story
Revealed: The Hidden Agenda Behind Al Gore Attack
Now, going way back in time--six whole years--when this was just a twinkle in the eye of Durward, here's an article on the genesis of that anti-environmental corporate front group known as the Scientific Alliance:
Hard rockers: Challenging the green lobby
The views of the green lobby should be challenged, according to a new alliance
Andy Rowell
Wednesday July 11, 2001
The Guardian
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