Gore's Sunburn
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2007 4:20 PM PST
Environmentalism: Even green-friendly media are daring to ask if higher temps are really just part of a natural cycle that could peak before all the forecast doom and gloom. Has Al Gore oversold man-made global warming?
The New York Times, seeing a chance the debate could shift in favor of alternative sources for recent warming, cautiously threw some cold water on Gore's overheated rhetoric.
In Tuesday's issue, it opened the possibility that some of his central claims are 'exaggerated and erroneous,' and deigned to recognize scientists who have challenged him.
'A few see natural variation as more central to global warming than heat-trapping gases' produced by cars and factories, the Times reported.
A few? Hardly a week goes by without a new research paper questioning the assumption that carbon-spewing humans are the cause of global warming. Many blame solar activity instead. Because such reports don't fit with the left's anti-industry agenda, they've been buried in the debate.
Most recently, National Geographic News cited new NASA data showing that ice caps near Mars' south pole have been melting due to milder temps on that planet, too.
As far as we know, no Martians drive SUVs. Or run factories. Or do anything else that could produce evil 'greenhouse gases.' So what could be warming the two planets simultaneously?
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2007 4:20 PM PST
Environmentalism: Even green-friendly media are daring to ask if higher temps are really just part of a natural cycle that could peak before all the forecast doom and gloom. Has Al Gore oversold man-made global warming?
The New York Times, seeing a chance the debate could shift in favor of alternative sources for recent warming, cautiously threw some cold water on Gore's overheated rhetoric.
In Tuesday's issue, it opened the possibility that some of his central claims are 'exaggerated and erroneous,' and deigned to recognize scientists who have challenged him.
'A few see natural variation as more central to global warming than heat-trapping gases' produced by cars and factories, the Times reported.
A few? Hardly a week goes by without a new research paper questioning the assumption that carbon-spewing humans are the cause of global warming. Many blame solar activity instead. Because such reports don't fit with the left's anti-industry agenda, they've been buried in the debate.
Most recently, National Geographic News cited new NASA data showing that ice caps near Mars' south pole have been melting due to milder temps on that planet, too.
As far as we know, no Martians drive SUVs. Or run factories. Or do anything else that could produce evil 'greenhouse gases.' So what could be warming the two planets simultaneously?
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