Tale of Two Sciences
Al Gore and Global Warming
By Daniel Muniz

Al Gore certainly sang a different tune at the House Select Committee when he was asked to explain the lame 2006 hurricane season with the assertion that climate change would cause more deadly hurricanes. Not only did Gore backpedal on the assumption that global warming causes hurricanes, he even claimed that he never said such a thing or ever given anyone that impression even though the cover of his movie poster, An Inconvenient Truth, shows a smokestack blowing out a hurricane from its funnel. It is pretty hard to miss that correlation.

So which is it? Does global warming cause “more” hurricanes as depicted on your movie posters or does your testimony at Congress now take precedence of what you previously stated?

Too bad Gore wasn’t under oath.

In 2005, the press and Hollywood were hysterical about Hurricane Katrina since they were absolutely certain that this destructive storm could have only been spawned by global warming. Celebrities and Democrats were foaming at the mouth at the eminent destruction of our coastline from these ferocious storms that they demanded draconian legislation be enacted to prevent future disasters. In fact, even lawsuits were filed against oil companies on the assumption that they were solely responsible for Hurricane Katrina.

Of course there was no implementation of a national carbon tax in 2006 but something amazing never happened. In our supposed global warming emergency, the 2006 hurricane season barely produced any severe storms even though all the alarmists predicted that such catastrophes would become commonplace from 2005 onward. In 2006, the media became deathly silent and they even pretended that they never hyperventilated about climate change causing hurricanes. And that was why Al Gore was under the gun to sweep such allegations under the rug.

The 2007 hurricane season was also a lame season but it produced nowhere close to the devastation that was on the scale of Katrina. There were a few times that the alarmists got excited in 2007 but their enthusiasm quickly ended when there wasn’t enough death and destruction.

Now here is another whopper by Al Gore:

Okay, so carbon dioxide causes global warming. Let’s just take a look at somewhere else. The atmosphere of the planet Mars is comprised of about 95 percent carbon dioxide yet the average temperature is -81 degrees. Mars is an extremely cold planet with an atmosphere consisting of 95 percent carbon dioxide while the Venus is a blazingly hot planet with an atmosphere containing 96 percent carbon dioxide. So again, which is it? Does CO2 make a planet unbearably hot or bitterly cold or does it do both?

Every time the Nobel Peace Prize recipient invokes science, he only uses scraps of data to make erroneous assertions. As a result, there are the masses that stand in awe with gaping mouths every time the former vice-president makes dubious predictions about the imminent destruction of our planet even though such forecasts are scientifically inaccurate.

But what is interesting is that much of the scientific community makes almost no attempt to correct his obvious falsehoods. There are a few scientists who whole-heartedly support global warming alarmism that have quietly criticized Gore for some of his whoppers and questionable worst case scenarios. And some of these scientists are even embarrassed by either his blatant dishonesty or patent ignorance (some cannot decide which is which) but they are not about to rock the boat because there is a lot of government funding on the line.

It is time to hold real scientific debate about global warming instead of the half-truths and misrepresentations that is always splashed in the press. There is too much bogus science and paranoid hysteria that passes off as legitimate news and that is harmful to the scientific method and to the integrity of science.

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