HAHAHAHA.
I'm not looking to start a political debate-- I have an autographed copy of Earth in the Balance-- but I just couldn't NOT post this exerpt from an interview with Richard Linzen, respected physicist and tenured professor of meteorology at MIT.
Q: Some suggest that Roger Revelle, Gore's scientific mentor, would not have agreed with the movie?
A: Well, he's dead.
Q: Yes. So that makes it harder for him to speak out.
A: It's a horrible story. Before he died, Roger Revelle co-authored a popular paper saying, 'We know too little to take any action based on global warming. If we take any action it should be an action that we can justify completely without global warming.' And Gore's staffers tried to have his name posthumously removed from that paper claiming he had been senile. And one of the other authors took it to court and won. It's funny how little coverage that got.
Q: What do you find to be the attitude among your MIT undergraduates on global warming?
A: I find that they realize they don't know enough to reach judgments. They all realize that Gore's book was a sham. They appreciate that Michael Crichton at least included references.
Q: That's encouraging. Because I find the indoctrination at schools to be pretty relentless. On a recent Grade 7 test my daughter was asked something to the effect of, "How are you going to educate your parents about global warming?"
A: I know. It's straight out of Hitlerjugend.
Q: Having said that, are there any behaviours we should be changing, as a society, in order to protect our planet?
A: Yes. We should learn math and physics so we don't get fooled by this idiocy.
Q: Some suggest that Roger Revelle, Gore's scientific mentor, would not have agreed with the movie?
A: Well, he's dead.
Q: Yes. So that makes it harder for him to speak out.
A: It's a horrible story. Before he died, Roger Revelle co-authored a popular paper saying, 'We know too little to take any action based on global warming. If we take any action it should be an action that we can justify completely without global warming.' And Gore's staffers tried to have his name posthumously removed from that paper claiming he had been senile. And one of the other authors took it to court and won. It's funny how little coverage that got.
Q: What do you find to be the attitude among your MIT undergraduates on global warming?
A: I find that they realize they don't know enough to reach judgments. They all realize that Gore's book was a sham. They appreciate that Michael Crichton at least included references.
Q: That's encouraging. Because I find the indoctrination at schools to be pretty relentless. On a recent Grade 7 test my daughter was asked something to the effect of, "How are you going to educate your parents about global warming?"
A: I know. It's straight out of Hitlerjugend.
Q: Having said that, are there any behaviours we should be changing, as a society, in order to protect our planet?
A: Yes. We should learn math and physics so we don't get fooled by this idiocy.