Apr 20, 2008

Zealotry: the real inconvenient truth

Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth has enraged some who claim it is inaccurate propaganda.

If the film is fact, why does Mr. Gore (pictured) refuse to debate any part of the movie? Also, why does Mr. Gore ban the media from his lectures on the environment?

The quotes below are from an article in the Daily Mail (found at the link below) claiming that zealotry over global warming could damage our Earth far more than climate change.

Over the past half-century, we have become used to planetary scares. In the late Sixties, we were told of a population explosion that would lead to global starvation.

Then, a little later, we were warned the world was running out of natural resources. By the Seventies, when global temperatures began to dip, many eminent scientists warned us that we faced a new Ice Age.

But the latest scare, global warming, has engaged the political and opinion-forming classes to a greater extent than any of these.

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