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GW Commentary

This is not sophisticated commentary, but matches some of my own comments:

Al Gore's recent docu-film, "An Inconvenient Truth," made a splash at theaters and tried to present the phenomenon of a warming Earth in an easy-to-digest fashion.
But quickly the armchair assessments began.

Gore is an alarmist trumpeting fiction as fact. He's using this issue as a jumping-off point for a 2008 presidential bid. He's still Gore the Bore.

[Gore] brings attention to an issue that sorely needs it, but his political history threatens to obscure it.

That's a shame, because this discussion isn't about Gore.

It's about evaluating the impact 6 billion of us have on the planet. That population is projected to reach a breathtaking 9 billion by 2050.

Exactly. It is not about Gore, but Gore has made it that way and the conservative "right" has jumped all over him. The liberal left has too.

There are others, such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Richard Lindzen, who find "no substantive basis for the warming scenarios being popularly described."

What's the average person to do?

No doubt some of the problem stems from news articles and columns like the one you're reading. Non-scientists, like yours truly, seek to understand and explain something that is anything but black-and-white.

In other words, we try to put things into the aforementioned "nutshell."

Rather than listen to me, or CNN or FOX News or any other media outlet, do your own research. Be willing to be swayed. And then make your decision.

Skeptics are good for debate. They serve to slow the train and force us to closely examine what we believe to be true. But when the train grinds to a halt, healthy discourse ceases.

Once again. Exactly correct. Do your own research, be willing to be swayed, make your own decision. Skeptics are not only good for the debate, but essential in a free, secular and scientific society that is interested in truth over convenience (or inconvenience for that matter).

Unfortunately, your intrepid blogger has been unable to devote much time to researching the claims beyond reading a few scientific papers and finding some interesting CO2 and temperature data. Hopefully, I will have time in the weeks ahead to consolidate my viewpoint based upon that research and present it here.

posted by Jim VAT @ 8:47 PM