Reflective
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DESPITE "An Inconvenient Truth"? Considering the howlers, exaggerations, and just plain errors in "An Inconvenient Truth", I can understand why Al Gore probably made a lot of thinking people very skeptical of his Global Warming hypothesis. So did many of you have to consciously ignore the personalities and ignorant rants in order eventually to process the underlying data and science of the subject to reach your confusions?
Indeed, do you think Al Gore has done more to keep climate change issues both partisan and political rather than about objective science?
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1) The biggest and comically ironic error in Al Gore's movie was his citing the old myth about the frog in the slow heated water. Zoologists around the world grimaced on that one. (Indeed, in the biology building across from mine the reception room door to the Zoology Dept office got covered with cartoons lampooning that one.)
2) His claim that one could see with the naked eye the ice core sample changes at the point where the Clean Air Act was passed was startling. Gore's people tried to say he never said that but notice that his voice-over corresponded with a photo from the core lab where a dark ring seemed to indicate something bad in the ice just before the law was passed. That defied common sense -- and I remember that I stopped the movie and Googled the claim at the time because it sounded so ridiculous.
Those are the two biggest errors that struck me at the time. The UK court judge identified between nine and 11, depending upon how you count them
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CHEMAQUA: You might want to work on the reading comprehension skills.....because I am a strong believer in global climate change. (Or do you believe that someone who accepts global warming science MUST refuse to admit that Al Gore said a number of stupid things in his movie?? It sounds like you are confusing those who believe in SCIENCE with those who chose to believe in Global Warming as some kind of RELIGION.) So working on the reading skills and then try to decide if you are criticizing a foe or an ally or neither. (When you graduate from high school and find yourself in the big world, it will help you considerably.)
Indeed, do you think Al Gore has done more to keep climate change issues both partisan and political rather than about objective science?
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1) The biggest and comically ironic error in Al Gore's movie was his citing the old myth about the frog in the slow heated water. Zoologists around the world grimaced on that one. (Indeed, in the biology building across from mine the reception room door to the Zoology Dept office got covered with cartoons lampooning that one.)
2) His claim that one could see with the naked eye the ice core sample changes at the point where the Clean Air Act was passed was startling. Gore's people tried to say he never said that but notice that his voice-over corresponded with a photo from the core lab where a dark ring seemed to indicate something bad in the ice just before the law was passed. That defied common sense -- and I remember that I stopped the movie and Googled the claim at the time because it sounded so ridiculous.
Those are the two biggest errors that struck me at the time. The UK court judge identified between nine and 11, depending upon how you count them
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CHEMAQUA: You might want to work on the reading comprehension skills.....because I am a strong believer in global climate change. (Or do you believe that someone who accepts global warming science MUST refuse to admit that Al Gore said a number of stupid things in his movie?? It sounds like you are confusing those who believe in SCIENCE with those who chose to believe in Global Warming as some kind of RELIGION.) So working on the reading skills and then try to decide if you are criticizing a foe or an ally or neither. (When you graduate from high school and find yourself in the big world, it will help you considerably.)