Gore's Big Chill

I've been waiting for the pro-global warming crowd (kind of a misnomer since they are against warming, but want us to believe so much that it is happening) to come up with their response to the climate scientists that panned the movie first. The Associated Press is always so helpful. I immediately read between the lines about the scientists actual response to An Inconvenient Truth. They contacted 100 climate scientists, only 19 responded favorably, and then only 5 of those were quoted. Hmm... Only 20% of the scientists gave Al Gore's "documentary" a positive review. Of course, those are the ones that actually took the time to see the movie too. Take a look at how much the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works likes the AP's story:

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.

Gee, tell us how you really feel. Well, one of those skeptical scientists does: "The man is an embarrassment to US science and its many fine practitioners, a lot of whom know (but feel unable to state publicly) that his propaganda crusade is mostly based on junk science." – Bob Carter as quoted in the Canadian Free Press, June 12, 2006. Ouch. And this guy is from Australia, not necessarily a hot bed of rabid non-environmentalist industrial types.

Well, surely the uninformed masses will flock to this film like they did to Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. Um, maybe not. There might be a mistake in this story at the end of the story, because the UPI says that the most successful documentary was Bowling for Columbine, instead of Fahrenheit 9/11, unless that's an editorial that the film was not a "documentary." Heh.