Al Gored

By Andrew Bolt

TonyfromOz prefaces …..

Al Gore has recently been in Australia, selectively appearing only with people who agree with what it is he has to say. The one televised ’sit down’ interview that he did give was with Australia’s ABC Network, for their current affairs program. The interview was a typical ‘puff piece’ where only the easy questions were asked, allowing him to speak to his own agenda. The one attempt at a difficult question was brushed off with a brief shrug from Al, carefully deflecting away from it, and with no follow up. Almost like, (from the interviewer) ….. ‘There, now that’s out of the way, let’s get back to the grovelling’. Here, Andrew details the truth behind that one ‘tough’ question.

WHAT a shame Al Gore has left town, trailing gassy contrails, without us again catching up.

But, alas, I see the old fraud has got wilier since the days he still took unscripted questions from the floor.

What a mistake that was, as he found one day in California when the question he took was from . . . me. What fun.

These days the former US vice-president and now Nobel Prize-winning guru of global warming no longer lets just anyone ask him tricky questions, if he can help it, and he avoids debates.

For instance, he never did find the time he said he’d look for in his diary when Family First Senator Steve Fielding asked after his Melbourne speech for a quick briefing on why the world had cooled over the past eight years, rather than warmed.

I guess there were just too many sponsors Gore had to chat to instead – the green carpetbaggers of wind power, solar schemes and carbon trading who’d paid for him to come scare up more business of the kind that’s made Gore so rich.    

So when the Great Green Profit sat down on Tuesday with the 7.30 Report’s Heather Ewart, he must have figured he’d get yet another easy ride.

She was from the with-the-faith ABC, wasn’t she? Her request for an interview had been vetted, right? All sweet.

And for the first half of the interview Ewart indeed buttered Gore on both sides. But suddenly she switched the topic to scaremongering, with a question on Gore’s Oscar-winning movie, An Inconvenient Truth.

Ewart: There was also, though, a British judge who ruled that there were in fact, I think, nine errors (in the film) when it was challenged in court?

Gore: Well, the ruling was in my favour.

Pardon? In Gore’s favour?

Mr Gore, I don’t think you have quite told the truth. Not all of it, at least.

Two years ago Stuart Dimmock, father of two and school governor, asked England’s High Court to stop education authorities from giving Gore’s film to schools as a teaching aid, since it was political indoctrination and not the mere teaching of science.

True, Justice Michael Burton did technically rule in Gore’s favour by letting the film be sent out, albeit with advice to teachers on its many errors. But Gore deceived the ABC audience by implying the judge ruled “in my favour” on the errors Ewart mentioned.

Here, in fact, are those nine errors or exaggerations the judge listed which, to me, damn Gore as a loose-with-truth fear-monger – or, as the judge said, a man whose “errors” are made “in the context of alarmism and exaggeration”.

1 GORE’S claim that melting of Greenland or Antarctica could cause seas to soon rise seven metres was “distinctly alarmist”, said the judge, and “not in line with the scientific consensus”. It would take “millennia”.

2 GORE’S claim that Pacific Islanders were already evacuating to New Zealand to flee rising seas was false, since “there is no evidence of any such evacuation having yet happened”.

3 GORE’S claim that the “Ocean Conveyor” that warms Europe’s winds could shut, icing the continent, was “very unlikely”.

4 GORE’S claim that past warming had been caused by rising carbon dioxide was based on “two graphs (which) do not establish what Mr Gore asserts”.

5 GORE’S claim that global warming was melting the snows of Kilimanjaro “cannot be established”.

6 GORE’S claim that global warming was drying Lake Chad was not backed by the evidence, and the drying was “far more likely to result from other factors, such as population increase and over-grazing, and regional climate variability”.

7 GORE’S claim that global warming was causing polar bears to drown was backed by no study, other than one that noted that “four polar bears have recently been found drowned because of a storm”, which “plainly does not support Mr Gore’s description”.

8 GORE’S claim that global warming caused Hurricane Katrina had “insufficient evidence”.

9 GORE’S claim that global warming is already causing reefs to die and species to become extinct “at a rate 1000 times greater” was at odds with the mainstream science, which said this could happen, and not that it had.

So the next time Gore says he has evidence “in my favour” on global warming, know it could actually show the opposite of what he claims.

And know why he takes few questions from people who might prove that.

Andrew Bolt is a journalist and columnist writing for The Herald Sun in Melbourne Victoria Australia.

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