Al Gore wrote in a blog posting that, "the media has done a
particularly bad job covering the climate crisis." (AP Photo)
Public perception is everything in today’s fast-paced media world and purveyors of the manmade climate change theory have been taking a beating on that front over the past year. Former Vice President Al Gore lamented the state of affairs in a blog posting yesterday saying the media had done a ‘bad job’.
In recent years all of the momentum to stem the perceived threat of global warming was on the side of climate change alarmists. The global public became sold on the concept that the ‘consensus’ of scientists were sure of their conclusions and that the science was irrefutable. The mainstream media helped further sway the public with a fervor betraying its supposed unbiased reporting.
Cracks in the consensus surfaced last year as more prominent scientists voiced their doubts about the theory. Questions about the accuracy of the temperature record arose and then the Climategate email scandal broke and the wall began to crumble.
Early this year revelations about the work of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change came to light. Conflicts of interest by its head, Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, were discovered and showed that Pachauri stood to benefit financially from his work with the IPCC.
When things looked bad, along came revelations that the seminal report issued by the IPCC was rife with questionable citations. This supposedly ‘peer reviewed’ piece of literature meant to aid policymakers used data from over 1,000 questionable sources.
News media outlets that previously ignored contrary opinions have now been forced to cover the dissent – albeit reluctantly. A vigorous and robust debate has ensued but Nobel Laureate Gore does not approve.
In this blog Gore says that the debate within the scientific community does not exist and the media has failed to adequately inform the public about the ‘facts.’ He writes:
Much of the media has done a particularly bad job covering the climate crisis. Instead of informing the public about the facts, they have treated the issue as if the same political divisions they exuberantly cover also exist in the scientific community. They don't.
It is somewhat ironic that Gore says the ‘divisions’ do not exist in the scientific community however his blog posting is in response to a Wall Street Journal editorial by Dr. Richard Lindzen. Lindzen is an atmospheric physicist and Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and one of many scientists now questioning the manmade climate change theory.
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If those divisions don’t exist, then who was Gore responding to?
Gore himself has helped to feed the fires of skeptics by routinely making false statements. Claims of increased natural disasters, warnings that all Arctic sea ice would disappear within five years, and errors within his books and movies have all shown that Gore is perhaps doing more harm to the cause he supports than good.
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If Mr. Gore truly believes what he preaches shouldn't he lead by example instead of this "do what I say, not what I do" approach?
Why won't Gore EVER answer questions??? Why does he talk and then leave? Why does he only answer screened questions? Why won't he debate skeptics?
He's in it only for the money. He should be in jail for lying to Congress (although most of them should be in jail for lying to the American Public).
Gore is correct. The media did do a bad job! They failed to expose the fraudulent acts of those who attempted the largest financial con in history! I can think of a half dozen scientists and media who should go to jail over this.
Why won't Gore EVER answer questions??? Why does he talk and then leave? Why does he only answer screened questions? Why won't he debate skeptics?
He's in it only for the money. He should be in jail for lying to Congress (although most of them should be in jail for lying to the American Public).
Does Gore ever believe even half of what he says? Ed Begley, Jr., does--so he walks the walk as well as talks the talk. Gore doesn't.
Mr. Gore has much to explain. How does it benefit Americans for our government to loan a company in which he has an interest $500,000,000 to build an auto factory for electric cars ($89,000 ea) in Finland? And how did he get that? Additionally, how will he profit from cap and trade legislation? And besides which, there are legitimate questions about his research and conclusions. Do I know for sure? No, I don't, but he doesn't either, and he is asking us to change our way of life for ... what? His profit? No thanks. There are things we should do: Lessen our dependence on foreign oil, for example: Develop sources of energy, alternative to fossil fuel; make conservation of energy a habit; start getting smarter about our plastic throwaway society. None of that requires drastic change in American lifestyle, although it does mean change. And more to the point, the American public would understand it instead of the Gore mumbo jumbo.
Yeah, this guy is still out there trying his best to save face and to profit from it. But I thought he was a phoney quite a few years back and I guess I guessed right. This man can not find it within him to stay out of the spotlight no matter how sorry it looks.
When did global warming first get noticed by the mainstream press?
It was much earlier that you might think. In 1953 Time magazine and Popular Mechanics were running articles on the work of a physicist named Gilbert Plass.
Read: Al Gore was 5 Years Old at the Time
Harryhammer's Blog
Do you ever read the science, or do you just read the denialist blogs? Good lord people, wake up and read something with scientific authority.
Is Gore being intentionally clueless? The North American main stream media has been alarmist biased for decades. Only after climategate has the MSM - reluctantly - been covering some *skeptical* viewpoints. ("denialist" is a word used by Al Gore's blind zealots, not reasonable people). Now that there is an inkling of fairness in the media the actual debate about climate change can finally begin, but a real debate is not what Gore wants, because the salesman knows it can't be won by the alarmists. THAT is what he is lamenting about.
How about that new California home that Mr. Gore is purchasing. It doesn't sound environmentally friendly to me with six fireplaces! Another elitist do as I say not as I do progressive. When his carbon footprint is less than mine then he can preach, until then go back into hiding. "He played on our fears!"
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