Thursday, June 15, 2006

An Inconvenient Truth

Al Gore's movie
Al Gore's movie is in a theatre near you . Will you go to see it ?
I will wait until someone puts it on video or it shows on TV , mostly because I just don't go to movies , but also because I am not interested in his theories .
I have read some reviews , from both perspectives , and think it is a blatant distortion of facts and use of "junk science" , and is a scare tactic of the Liberal and Progressive factions of politics .
About the "science" ; he says "The evidence is overwhelming and undeniable ." But read from Junkscience.com :
"Well, I heard that carbon dioxide is bad -- it's pollution, isn't it?
There seem to be a few things that your informant forgot to tell you -- like carbon dioxide being an essential trace gas that underpins the bulk of the global food web. Estimates vary, but somewhere around 15% seems to be the common number cited for the increase in global food crop yields due to aerial fertilization with increased carbon dioxide since 1950. This increase has both helped avoid a Malthusian disaster and preserved or returned enormous tracts of marginal land as wildlife habitat that would otherwise have had to be put under the plow in an attempt to feed the growing global population. Commercial growers deliberately generate CO2 and increase its levels in agricultural greenhouses to between 700ppmv and 1,000ppmv to increase productivity and improve the water efficiency of food crops far beyond those in the somewhat carbon-starved open atmosphere. CO2 feeds the forests, grows more usable lumber in timber lots meaning there is less pressure to cut old growth or push into "natural" wildlife habitat, makes plants more water efficient helping to beat back the encroaching deserts in Africa and Asia and generally increases bio-productivity. If it's "pollution," then it's pollution the natural world exploits extremely well and to great profit. Doesn't sound too bad to us. "

There is plenty more info in the above article , and I think some reading of it and some further study of real science might be "inconvenient truth " for Gore and his followers .Read it here

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