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Saturday, June 24, 2006

Gore: Global Warming Skeptics “Will Seize On Anything To Say Up Is Down And Black Is White”...


Think Progress Faiz June 24, 2006 at 10:48 AM
READ MORE: 2006, Al Gore, Global Warming

As House Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) said, "There is nothing in this report that should raise any doubts about the broad scientific consensus on global climate change...or any doubts about whether any paper on the temperature records was legitimate scientific work." But science has never stood in the way of global warming skeptics. The NAS report is no exception.

On a conference call that Al Gore held with bloggers this afternoon, I asked him for a response to the claims made by Electricity Daily and Sen. Inhofe. He said that global warming skeptics "will seize on anything to say up is down and black is white." Gore explained that science, by nature, thrives on uncertainty and tries to eliminate it; politics, on the other hand, is vulnerable to being paralyzed by uncertainty. When science and politics converge, Gore argued, the chance for "cowardice is high."

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