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Textcritic · 05-31-2006, 05:10 PM

I am curious, has anyone read the book or seen the film yet?
http://www.climatecrisis.net/

Personally, I am skeptical about the doom and gloom claims of the environmental movement. There are ample reasons cited by Bjørn Lomborg in his The Skeptical Environmentalist, and by Michael Chrichton and others for me to wonder if Al Gore's manifesto is much more than alarmist propoganda. I am at a disadvantage because I lack the scientific training to properly engage with much of the evidence for climate change, but there are many professionals who question the validity of global warming, rising sea levels, extreme weather, etc.
Thoughts?

05-31-2006, 05:10 PM	#1
Textcritic Acerbic Cyberbully Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: back in Chilliwack Exp:	"An Inconvenient Truth": Al Gore, Environmentalists and the State of the Planet I am curious, has anyone read the book or seen the film yet? http://www.climatecrisis.net/ Personally, I am skeptical about the doom and gloom claims of the environmental movement. There are ample reasons cited by Bjørn Lomborg in his The Skeptical Environmentalist, and by Michael Chrichton and others for me to wonder if Al Gore's manifesto is much more than alarmist propoganda. I am at a disadvantage because I lack the scientific training to properly engage with much of the evidence for climate change, but there are many professionals who question the validity of global warming, rising sea levels, extreme weather, etc. Thoughts?