http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/opinion/28gore.html

Op-Ed Contributor
We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change
By AL GORE
Published: February 27, 2010

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It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.

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It is true that the climate panel published a flawed overestimate of the melting rate of debris-covered glaciers in the Himalayas, and used information about the Netherlands provided to it by the government, which was later found to be partly inaccurate. In addition, e-mail messages stolen from the University of East Anglia in Britain showed that scientists besieged by an onslaught of hostile, make-work demands from climate skeptics may not have adequately followed the requirements of the British freedom of information law.

But the scientific enterprise will never be completely free of mistakes. What is important is that the overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged. It is also worth noting that the panel’s scientists — acting in good faith on the best information then available to them — probably underestimated the range of sea-level rise in this century, the speed with which the Arctic ice cap is disappearing and the speed with which some of the large glacial flows in Antarctica and Greenland are melting and racing to the sea.

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Unfortunately, Al has made a LOT of money being “Mister Global Warming”. Without any academic credentials in the “global warming” field, he certainly has a lot ot say about it.

I find it interesting that this is a “watermelon” issue. The answer is always more gooferment control, higher taxes for gooferment spending, and a spectacular loss of freedom.

Sorry, but I’m a “climate skeptic”.

And, as Judge Judy says, “I wouldn’t believe you if your tongue came notarized!”

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