In the North
Have just returned to Wellington from a four day trip around the North - Orewa, Whangarei, Keri Keri and Kaitaia. In Whangarei the Greens sold tickets to a completely packed out showing of Al Gore’s movie (200+ people) and I spoke afterwards and answered questions. In Whangarei they are now in the invidious position of the Minister for Climate Change saying that Marsden B coal fired power station is unlikely to proceed but he is not doing anything to decisively stop it so the locals have no option but to continue with expensive litigation. So community activists with limited resources have to do the work of the gutless government.
I spoke at smaller public meetings in Orewa and Keri Keri. The message around human induced climate change is really reaching into the country which is great. I did an interviews in various local media but my especial favourite was on Te Hiku TV in Whangarei because they’d had a climate change denier on their show in the previous week so it was good to give Maori in the north an opportunity to hear some climate science.
November 21st, 2006 at 5:11 pm
After being disgusted by the quality of the Inconvenient Truth movie, I had a look around for rebuttals. Here’s an interesting one, 125 pages long, that “finds that nearly every significant statement Gore makes regarding climate science and climate policy is either one sided, misleading, exaggerated, speculative, or wrong.”
full article
Now before you go and knee-jerk and attack the issuer of the report rather than addressing the points, bear in mind that I turned up a decent number of attacks on the movie from Scientists working in Universities around the world - Auckland, Sweden, Canada, several in the states, etc.
November 21st, 2006 at 6:45 pm
Problem is, Mugwump, as you have correctly prediced, neither I nor anyone else with more than a fraction of a braincell will bother to read the article you link to, as it’s from the CEI. The CEI, you will recall, told us via some TV adverts, that CO2 is not pollution, but is life, helpfully still available here, for anyone who missed them. CEI are an industry pressure group, and as such entirely unbelievable, even if they happen to be right.
I don’t know how right Gore is, but the CEI will form no part of my evaluation.
November 21st, 2006 at 7:31 pm
Mugwump: what exactly about the quality of the movie disgusted you?
(please use this opportunity to waste your own time writing a long winded answer… just don’t expect anyone to read it)
The world, as well as the scientific community, has moved on.
Sorry.
If you don’t like it, your only remaining option is to write hundreds of peer-reviewed articles, rise to a position of status amongst climate scientists, and use your influence to convince politicians of the madness of this ‘climate change’ nonsense. Good luck!
November 21st, 2006 at 8:30 pm
Mugwump
You are wasting your time, did you not know that anybody who dares question the global warming theory is funded by Exxon.
November 22nd, 2006 at 5:46 pm
Tom: in particular, the cartoons lifted straight from Futurama and the like. “CO2 traps more heat than oxygen and this heats the atmosphere/oceans”. I’m sorry, but that’s not an ‘inconvenient truth’ - in fact it’s not a truth at all, it’s not even what the IPCC model says. The actual effect of CO2 solar absorption is minor compared to water vapour - the theory is that there is a knock-on effect from one to the other, and he lost the chance to portray truth by oversimplification to the point of inaccuracy. Is that long-winded enough for you?
As for the CO2 is life thing - well, CO2 is a proven fertiliser and necessary for plant growth. That is a fact. By comparison, CO2 climate forcing is a disputed theory.
There are plenty of peer-reviewed articles that dispute the CO2 climate forcing theory - perhaps you’d like to read the study from the this university professor who tried to duplicate the findings of this study cited in the movie that found a “consensus” of 0 articles out of 928.
And big bruv, it sure would be nice if Exxon were funding University research.