10 More “Inconvenient” Questions for Al Gore and His Fellow Man Made Global Warming Believers
GrassTopsUSA Guest Commentary
By Gregg Jackson
09-14-071. Al, you asserted in your movie “An Inconvenient Truth” that 9 of the 10 hottest years on record occurred after 1995. According to NASA’s most recent data, the ten hottest years on record in the U.S., beginning with the hottest year, are: 1934, 1998, 1921, 2006, 1931, 1999, 1953, 1990, 1938 and 1939. Not only is 1998 not the “hottest on record” as you claim in your “documentary,” but only 4 of the “hottest years on record” occurred after 1995 — quite a stretch from “9 out of 10.” We also know that according to the U.S. National Climate Data Center, the world in 2006 was only .03 degrees Celsius warmer than it was in 2001 — which is in the range of temperature error and not statistically significant. We now know that Michael Mann’s infamous “hockey stick” theory purporting to demonstrate a sharp increase in “warming” in the 1990s has been debunked and discredited by the National Academy of Sciences and the U.N.’s IPCC. Why then do you still continue to cite the incorrect “9 out of 10” figure and debunked “hockey stick” figure?
2. Al, you claim in your movie, “A survey of more than 928 scientific papers in respected journals show 100 percent agreement (that man is responsible for global warming).” Is it not true however that this information that you cite in your movie was originally published in a non-peer reviewed essay section of Science Magazine by a social scientist from UCSD named Nancy Oreskes which was highly flawed and has been subsequently discredited in that only 13 (or 2%) of the 928 articles she cited as supporting the consensus view of anthropogenic global warming explicitly endorsed the “consensus view” and that several of the studies actually opposed it?