Ya gotta figure if the NYT mentions it it must be pretty bad.
“Nowhere does Mr. Gore tell his audience that all of the phenomena that he describes fall within the natural range of environmental change on our planet,” Robert M. Carter, a marine geologist at James Cook University in Australia, said in a September blog. “Nor does he present any evidence that climate during the 20th century departed discernibly from its historical pattern of constant change.”
In October, Dr. Easterbrook made similar points at the geological society meeting in Philadelphia. He hotly disputed Mr. Gore’s claim that “our civilization has never experienced any environmental shift remotely similar to this” threatened change.
Nonsense, Dr. Easterbrook told the crowded session. He flashed a slide that showed temperature trends for the past 15,000 years. It highlighted 10 large swings, including the medieval warm period. These shifts, he said, were up to “20 times greater than the warming in the past century.”
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Hmmmm, did these guys watch the movie? If so, they misrepresent it.
What is it with Clippingers and questions? Anyway, that one would be a good one for the NYT.
I thought that Gore showed a graph of the CO2 level in the atmosphere for the past x years, and in the end it skyrocketed up. But admittedly I don't know any more than that; time to do some research.
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