Gore full of hot air

Peace Prize for Gore like Lit Prize for comics

BY PETER BRONSON PBRONSON@ENQUIRER.COM

Here's an inconvenient truth: Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize thanks to a movie that needs more warning labels than a carton of unfiltered Camels.

This is puzzling. There are soldiers in Iraq who do more for peace on their day off than Gore does in a year of save-the-planet rock concerts. But I guess they gave him the Peace Prize because they didn't have one for Politically Correct Mendacity. His Oscar-winning movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," should be listed as Science Fiction.

When the British government decided to use it to educate children about global warming, school official Stewart Dimmock filed a lawsuit claiming that Gore's movie was inaccurate political "brainwashing" and "sentimental mush," according to the London Evening Standard. Last week, the High Court agreed. A judge ruled that Gore's film is "alarmist and exaggerated," and must have warnings to point out nine scientific errors. Among them:

Gore claimed polar bears have drowned because of global warming, and have been found swimming "up to 60 miles to find ice." Not true, the judge said. "Only four polar bears have recently been found drowned, because of a storm."

Gore said the sea level would rise 20 feet in the "near future" because of melting ice sheets. The judge said, "This is distinctly alarmist," and could only occur over thousands of years.
Gore claimed snow is melting on Mount Kilimanjaro because of global warming. The judge found no evidence.

Gore said Antarctic ice is melting. In fact, the court said, it is increasing.

Gore blamed hurricane Katrina on global warming. The court said that is not possible.

Again and again, the judge found "insufficient evidence," falsehoods or exaggeration. The court said the movie was mostly true. But even before the court case, dozens of whoppers and half-truths have been found in Gore's "sky is falling" propaganda. For some reason, though, that story is harder to find in the media than polar bears at Miami Beach.

Marlo Lewis Jr. of the Competitive Enterprise Institute has measured the hot-air emissions by Gore in his movie and book of the same title (www.cei.org/gencon/030,05821.cfm). Such as:
Gore claims CO2 in the atmosphere has increased "vastly" because of pollution. "The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is so small that CO2 is referred to as a 'trace gas,'" Lewis reports. "Over the past century and a half, atmospheric CO2 levels have risen from about 280 parts per million (ppm) to about 380 ppm - from roughly 3/100ths to roughly 4/100ths of one percent of the atmosphere."

Gore claimed that 928 scientific articles supported his theory of man-made global warming. Not true. Only 13 supported Gore's so-called "consensus." Several opposed it.

Gore said warming is accelerating. It's not. "It has been remarkably constant for the past 30 years, at 0.17 degrees Celsius per decade."

Gore "impugns the motives of so-called global warming skeptics," Lewis points out, "but never acknowledges the special-interest motivations of those whose research grants, direct-mail income, industrial policy privileges, carbon trading commissions, regulatory power, prosecutorial plunder or political careers depend on keeping the public in a state of fear about global warming."

In other words, people like Al Gore.

Gore said his mission was to "separate truth from fiction." Mission accomplished. His fiction-packed movie is almost entirely separated from truth.

Dimmock told the Evening Standard he was glad the court ruled in his favor. "The film contains blatant inaccuracies," he said. "It's a political shockumentary, it's not a scientific documentary." But it helped Gore win the Nobel. Which only shows that the credibility of the Nobel judges is melting a lot faster than the ice caps.

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