Sunday, April 13, 2008

Gore jets off to Iceland

Here.

Note that this article gives some space to the skeptics:
Grímsson described Gore as a man who always sought the truth, though despite his scientifically-backed arguments, Gore certainly has his critics. Some argue that he has exaggerated some of the scientific facts that he often refers to in his presentations.

Icelandic journalist Audunn Arnórsson wrote an opinion piece on news website visir.is, in reference to Al Gore’s efforts, that alarmism should be avoided and that a balanced approach to climate issues should rather be applied.

Former British Chancellor of the Exchequer (Secretary of the Treasury) and fierce climate-change-theory critic Nigel Lawson is also skeptical of Gore’s message.

In an interview with state-run television station RÚV, following Gore’s lecture in Iceland, Lawson said that he does not believe that the issue of climate change is being “sufficiently, rationally discussed and argued about” and that environmentalism had become “almost a new religion.”

Al Gore is preaching a gospel which is false—worse—damaging,” Lawson told RÚV, adding that a High Court judge in the UK found “eleven major errors” in Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth.

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