A top hurricane forecaster called Al Gore "a gross alarmist" Friday for making an Oscar-winning documentary about global warming.
"He's one of these guys that preaches the end of the world type of things. I think he's doing a great disservice and he doesn't know what he's talking about," Dr. William Gray said in an interview with The Associated Press at the National Hurricane Conference in New Orleans, where he delivered the closing speech.
From NewsMax here.
I think we should take it from a Man of Science (who has been studying the climate for almost 50 years) knows what he is talking about. And not some snake oil preacher type standing on a box calling the End of the World.
Update*** I got a comment that my quote from NewsMax was unbiased. Like when was CBS, ABC, NBC, PBS, CNN, and even Fox unbiased? (or Reuters, AP or UPI?) News is News and the journalist will always be biased on his or her upbringing or political belief.
Blogs for Bush has the same quote from AP here.
I admit to being biased and conservative and when I find a quote I will give the source. If it is from NewsMax or AP or even KOS (God forbid!) The reader is the one who deciphers the information as to being 'biased' or 'unbiased.' My whole concern for the Global Warming or Climate change debate is that there is no consensus on the green house gas is the the cause of it. I tend to believe more in a person who has studied the climate for 50 years verses a guy who was VP.
The debate continues at AccuWeather's Global Warming blog here.
Remember, science is not a democracy; the majority is not always correct. Remember, the scientific consensus used to be that the Earth is flat and that the sun revolves around the Earth.
In these modern times of zero-second sound bites and rapid global communication, it has become standard for there to be two categories of people in the global warming debate: those who believe that humans are responsible for global warming and everyone else. If you are a skeptic and aren't quite convinced that we know all the answers, you are considered a heretic by the believers.
But, it can be argued that scientists must be skeptics. A scientist may have a theory; however, in order for the scientific method to be honored, the scientist needs to be emotionally unattached to the results. The data will prove whether the theory is correct. Scientists cannot start an experiment with the goal of reaching a particular conclusion. They cannot root for specific results. They cannot change the data to fit any preconceived idea of what the results should be. They need to analyze each piece of data in order to arrive at a conclusion.
In other words, they need to be skeptics.
So I am a skeptic and will present articles that are skeptical especially if they are about AL GORE and his claims that GW is going to ruin our planet. Even if the articles are from the Evil Biased NewsMax, Fox etc and sometimes from the liberal biased AP, CBS, CNN etc. As I was trying to say at the beginning of my post we should take the word of Scientists rather than a former VP on GW. I believe the climate is ever changing but am a skeptic to the Man-Made part of Green-house gasses will send the Planet into oblivion.
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