Scientific response to Gore's alarmist theories

Al Gore isn't getting a free pass from the scientific community.

The Canadian Free Press ran a piece today that challenges his reckless predilection that global warming is caused by modern man (ie white heterosexual, conservative Christian, capitalistic males living in the United States).

Here's the data I prefer to believe because I have never thought Gore was the least bit believable:

Scientists have an independent obligation to respect and present the truth as they see it," Al Gore sensibly asserts in his film "An Inconvenient Truth", showing at Cumberland 4 Cinemas in Toronto since Jun 2. With that outlook in mind, what do world climate experts actually think about the science of his movie?

Professor Bob Carter of the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University, in Australia gives what, for many Canadians, is a surprising assessment: "Gore's circumstantial arguments are so weak that they are pathetic. It is simply incredible that they, and his film, are commanding public attention."

But surely Carter is merely part of what most people regard as a tiny cadre of "climate change skeptics" who disagree with the "vast majority of scientists" Gore cites?

No; Carter is one of hundreds of highly qualified non-governmental, non-industry, non-lobby group climate experts who contest the hypothesis that human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are causing significant global climate change. "Climate experts" is the operative term here. Why? Because what Gore's "majority of scientists" think is immaterial when only a very small fraction of them actually work in the climate field.

It's a good piece. Read it, digest it and file it for future reference. We're going to be inundated by the Algore minions professing the gospel of global warming and how we must share our wealth with the rest of the world to atone for our capitalist sins of consumption.

Now is the time to arm yourself.