Sunday, November 01, 2009

Al Gore's Climate-Change Evolution | Newsweek Environment | Newsweek.com
[Gore] "I trained 200 Christian ministers and lay leaders here in Nashville in a version of the slide show that is filled with scriptural references. It's probably my favorite version, but I don't use it very often because it can come off as proselytizing."
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"Gore bothers to come talk to us," says climatologist Gavin Schmidt of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. "Most other politicians are too busy..."
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...biofuels were the subject of his worst political mistake on the environment. As vice president, he cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate in 1994 to institute an ambitious federal ethanol program even though, he admits in the book, "there were already ample warnings" that production of corn ethanol is responsible for more greenhouse gases than the gasoline it displaces.
I wonder if Gore bothers to "come talk to" non-fraudster scientists as well, people like Richard Lindzen, Willie Soon, or Roy Spencer?

Newsweek Editor Calls Al Gore 'An Eco-Prophet' | NewsBusters.org
Fortunately for the Goracle's loyal followers, Begley didn't ask him how the planet could possibly have cooled the past eleven years despite his warnings about the plague "carbon dioxide."

As for all those powerful hurricanes Prophet Al hath foretold, tropical cyclone activity has been at 30-year lows for the last three years.

Even New York Times environmental writer and true believer Andrew Revkin recently noticed that Arctic ice levels have actually been on the rise lately.

But Begley, although being a "science editor," wasn't concerned about anything so mundane as -- ahem -- science in this article. Heavens no.
Climate Change and Malaria in Africa - WSJ.com
Limiting carbon emissions won't do much to stop disease in Zambia.
BBC NEWS | Final round for UN climate talks [Picture of cracked mud included!!]
The latest round of UN climate talks opens in Barcelona on Monday with major divisions remaining between countries.

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