Such consensus, says Spencer, “can only be claimed for the existence of warming-not its cause.” Spencer, a climatologist and a Principal Research Scientist for the University of Alabama in Huntsville, lauds Gore for “raising public awareness of the global warming issue,” but disparages Gore for the “irresponsible misrepresentation” of scientific consensus. That the probability is only 90 percent means skepticism persists.
According the NASA website, “In its recently released Fourth Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of 1,300 independent scientific experts from countries all over the world under the auspices of the United Nations, concluded there’s a more than 90 percent probability that human activities over the past 250 years have warmed our planet.” But in America, the will to act is a renewable resource. We have everything that we need to reduce carbon emissions, everything but political will. We just have to have the determination to make it happen. According to Gore:Įach one of us is a cause but each one of us can make choices to change that with the things we buy, the electricity we use, the cars we drive we can make choices to bring our individual carbon emissions to zero. Ultimately, much of the debate that lingers around this topic is the cause of the Global Warming, not whether it exists. The study found that the average global land temperature has risen by 1 degree since the mid-20 th century. In fact, a recent study by University of California, Berkeley has confirmed the actuality of Global Warming. Still, there are many who align themselves with Gore’s camp. Carter argues that “Gore’s circumstantial arguments are so weak that they are pathetic.” Kevin Carr, of 7m Pictures, warns audiences to not “be fooled by the word ‘Truth’ in the title.” According to Carr, “Gore’s presentation is speculation at best, using innuendo, association and supposition, along with conveniently chosen and highly crunched science data to make a new bid for his own career.” Research Professor of James Cook University Robert M. While Gore makes repeated concessions regarding the cyclicality of climate change (noting that some climate change is natural), he qualifies these by noting that the severity of such changes is unprecedented.ĭetractors of Gore assert that Gore’s facts are, wrdell, not facts at all, rather that they are political-agenda driven speculations. Gore casts a dire picture of the earth’s future should ecological trends continue unaltered. This film is a largely controversial (almost as controversial as the 2000 Presidential Election). This response centers on the 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which chronicles Al Gore’s Global Warming educational campaign.