Liberals love failed presidential candidate Al Gore, because he’s a liberal-leftist. He’s far to the right of Canadian liberals, but they think he’s just fine because he isn’t George Bush, conservative Republican.
He’s been featured on both CTV and the state-run CBC several times promoting his farcical pseudo-science/junk science “documentary” movie ironically named “An Inconvenient Truth”, which is naturally a sure bet to win an Academy Award a la Michael Moore’s ever-so-factual Bush-hating documentaries.
CTV.ca is now carrying an AP news article today about it, which is yet another a fawning liberal media story designed to promote Gore’s anti-American, anti-conservative, anti-corporate, anti-Bush, Bush-hating flick. However, perhaps unbeknownst to them (or they simply couldn’t care less about reporting all the facts), it is also today being discredited by a U.S. Senate Committee in their news release headlined “AP INCORRECTLY CLAIMS SCIENTISTS PRAISE GORE’S MOVIE”.
Newsbusters.com is reporting:
AP Wrongly Cites Scientists in Support of Al Gore’s Movie
Posted by Greg Sheffield on June 27, 2006 – 20:28.
The Republican majority on the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works released a joint press release about an AP article entitled “Scientists OK Gore’s Movie for Accuracy.”
The press release takes issue with the scientists the AP cited, as well as scientists it ignored.
The June 27, 2006 Associated Press (AP) article titled “Scientists OK Gore’s Movie for Accuracy” by Seth Borenstein raises some serious questions about AP’s bias and methodology.
AP chose to ignore the scores of scientists who have harshly criticized the science presented in former Vice President Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth.”
In the interest of full disclosure, the AP should release the names of the “more than 100 top climate researchers” they attempted to contact to review “An Inconvenient Truth.” AP should also name all 19 scientists who gave Gore “five stars for accuracy.” AP claims 19 scientists viewed Gore’s movie, but it only quotes five of them in its article. AP should also release the names of the so-called scientific “skeptics” they claim to have contacted.
The AP article quotes Robert Correll, the chairman of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment group. It appears from the article that Correll has a personal relationship with Gore, having viewed the film at a private screening at the invitation of the former Vice President. In addition, Correll’s reported links as an “affiliate” of a Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm that provides “expert testimony” in trials and his reported sponsorship by the left-leaning Packard Foundation, were not disclosed by AP. [See Steve Milloy’s column]
The AP also chose to ignore Gore’s reliance on the now-discredited “hockey stick” by Dr. Michael Mann, which claims that temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere remained relatively stable over 900 years, then spiked upward in the 20th century, and that the 1990’s were the warmest decade in at least 1000 years. Last week’s National Academy of Sciences report dispelled Mann’s often cited claims by reaffirming the existence of both the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age. See Senator Inhofe’s statement on the broken “Hockey Stick.”
Gore’s claim that global warming is causing the snows of Mt. Kilimanjaro to disappear has also been debunked by scientific reports. For example, a 2004 study in the journal Nature makes clear that Kilimanjaro is experiencing less snowfall because there’s less moisture in the air due to deforestation around Kilimanjaro.
The CTV story is exactly that one:
Al Gore’s new film gets thumbs up from scientists
Updated Wed. Jun. 28 2006 8:37 AM ET
Associated Press
WASHINGTON—The nation’s top climate scientists are giving “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore’s documentary on global warming, five stars for accuracy.
The former vice president’s movie—replete with the prospect of a flooded New York City, an inundated Florida, more and nastier hurricanes, worsening droughts, retreating glaciers and disappearing ice sheets—mostly got the science right, said all 19 climate scientists who had seen the movie or read the book and answered questions from The Associated Press. […]
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