| Submit your comments on this article |
| Science & Technology |
| Al Gore rebuts Palin's climate change claims |
| 2009-12-10 |
| ... In a piece titled "Copenhagen's Political Science," the former Alaska governor charged that "leading climate 'experts'" have "destroyed records, manipulated data to 'hide the decline' in global temperatures, and tried to silence their critics by preventing them from publishing in peer-reviewed journals." Gore bit back during an interview with NBC's Andrea Mitchell to air Wednesday afternoon. The former presidential candidate said "the deniers are persisting in an era of unreality. The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our eyes ... what do they think is happening?" ... Gore said Wednesday that the scientific community has worked intensively on the issue for twenty years. "It's a principle in physics," he told Mitchell. "It's like gravity, it exists." ... Gore attributed the partisan divide over climate change to the leadership of the modern Republican party, which he feels has adopted a stronger stance on denying global warming. Gore emphasized that climate change should be a bipartisan issue. "It used to be," he said. He cited Lindsey Graham as one example of a Republican leader who accepts the science. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #15 Ya' beat me to it, John. Again. ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-12-10 18:55 |
| #14 Mr Gore is either ignorant and/or a liar. Since these two are not mutually exclusive, I will vote for both. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2009-12-10 16:07 |
| #13 Gore's response to the entirety of the CRU data dump was that "the emails were all over 10 years old". Mr Gore is either ignorant and/or a liar. |
| Posted by: Spanky Anginemble2380 2009-12-10 15:45 |
| #12 Gore continues to refuses to debate anyone on the topic. All he did was whine to a sympathetic reporter. In college, Gore got a D in Physics. So by all means, lets listen to him on the topic. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2009-12-10 14:50 |
| #11 Al gore refuses to debate with anyone who would have the intellectual advantage. Oh, you mean like anyone? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2009-12-10 11:17 |
| #10 The correct word is refute. Rebut is a synonym. Al Gore did neither. Which is what g(r)rom said. Gotta read the subtlety. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2009-12-10 10:13 |
| #9 Ice cap's there, Al. Number's a little low again for the season this month, but it's probably equipment failure again - they've been insisting on using a narrow set of squirrely satellites. Well, more like satellite, IIRC. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2009-12-10 09:57 |
| #8 The correct word is refute. Rebut is a synonym. Al Gore did neither. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-12-10 09:21 |
| #7 Shouldn't it be "rebuffs"? Yes, it should. Which means MSNBC is either hiring folks with poor English skills, or anything Mr. Gore says is accepted as fact. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2009-12-10 08:59 |
| #6 I thought there was no such thing as gravity, the world just sucks? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-12-10 08:57 |
| #5 |
| Posted by: ed 2009-12-10 07:10 |
| #4 "It's a principle in physics," he told Mitchell. "It's like gravity, it exists." Idiots, they are like liberals, they exist. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2009-12-10 07:02 |
| #3 Shouldn't it be "rebuffs"? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-12-10 03:08 |
| #2 Al gore refuses to debate with anyone who would have the intellectual advantage. as anyone with half a brain will easily out class the mental powers of poor Al by an order of magnitude they are to be avoided at all costs. notice his choice of venue... NBC news... he needed to rub shoulders with Andrea Mitchell and Brian Williams to prop up his flagging self esteem and look the part of (comparative) cognitive giant. |
| Posted by: abu do you love 2009-12-10 02:35 |
| #1 I suspect that algore thinks that Palin is an easy mark hence the response. algore remains unwilling to debate anyone with half a brain on the issues on which he presents himself as an authority. I would like Palin to challenge him to a debate and see if he will accept. If he did, it would be fascinating. |
| Posted by: Omoter Speaking for Boskone7794 2009-12-10 01:47 |
