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N.Y. Times Reports Truth on 'Alarmist' Al Gore
The New York Times is being praised for a "fair and measured article” that questions Al Gore’s alarmist line on global warming. Following the hoopla over Gore’s Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth,” William J. Broad writes in the Times that "part of his scientific audience is uneasy.” These scientists "argue that some of Mr. Gore’s central points are exaggerated and erroneous. They are alarmed, some say, at what they call his alarmism.” Criticism of Gore has come from not only conservative groups but from rank-and-file scientists, the Times notes. Some see natural cycles as a more significant factor in global warming than greenhouse gases.
Story Continues Below The Times cited a 2006 report by the National Academies questioning Gore’s assertion that current temperature are the highest in the past millennium, and instead said current highs are unmatched only since 1600, at the end of a temperature rise known as the medieval warm period. The Times quotes Benny Peiser, a social anthropologist in Britain who heads the Cambridge-Conference Network, an Internet newsletter on climate change: "Hardly a week goes by without a new research paper that questions part or even some basics of climate change theory.” Geologists have documented many periods of climate change over time, and some accuse Gore of ignoring these natural rhythms, the Times article notes. Myron Ebell, director of Energy & Global Warming Policy for the Competitive Enterprise Institute and a critic of manmade global warming theorists, commended the Times article for covering the "other side” of the global warming controversy: "I think this is an extremely fair and measured article,” he said. "It shows clearly that Gore exaggerates and that scientists are uneasy. It’s particularly good in treating as reputable and mainstream those scientists who have been wrongly demonized and marginalized as kooks and paid stooges.”
Ebell himself is one of those who have been "demonized” for having the temerity to express his views against man-made global warming warnings. Greenpeace included him in "A Field Guide to Climate Criminals” distributed at a United Nations climate meeting in 2005. The Clean Air Trust in March 2001 named Ebell its "Villain of the Month.” And seven members of the British House of Commons introduced a motion in November 2004 to censure Ebell "in the strongest possible terms.”
© 2007 Associated Press.
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