Canada's
National Post features a must-read series on climate change. Put simply, Al Gore's "consensus" on anthropogenic warming is as controversial among scientists as the big-bang theory:
"Only an insignificant fraction of scientists deny the global warming crisis. The time for debate is over. The science is settled."
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVT4KpstIXQ2hza9jFqeoC2s3Pw_zIowjFsYPUFo6BSFbllKAZOl3t752NBv7AottgRh-4ouf5B56Snn9XBAnv2S3rgk8aJfW7jcu1EIIc6OQdwj5wpcwuaUqPniQcLP2CbOhbTw/s400/070604-gore-glacier2.jpg) So said Al Gore ... in 1992. Amazingly, he made his claims despite much evidence of their falsity. A Gallup poll at the time reported that 53% of scientists actively involved in global climate research did not believe global warming had occurred; 30% weren't sure; and only 17% believed global warming had begun. Even a Greenpeace poll showed 47% of climatologists didn't think a runaway greenhouse effect was imminent; only 36% thought it possible and a mere 13% thought it probable.
Today, Al Gore is making the same claims of a scientific consensus, as do the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and hundreds of government agencies and environmental groups around the world. But the claims of a scientific consensus remain unsubstantiated... |
Financial Post:
They call this a consensus?
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