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December 28, 2006
I finally watched An Inconvenient Truth
Since I received An Inconvenient Truth for Christmas, I watched it, and came away with some useful insights.
As anyone who reads this blog knows, I am firmly convinced that climate change is upon us, and that the effects will worsen - probably with increasing speed - over the coming years.
One of Al Gore's points related to the "balance" that the non-scientific press brings to the debate. This balance is truly out of kilter. Gore cites a sampling of nearly 1000 scientific articles (out of a pool of many thousands of articles), noting that not a single one of them suggested that the earth is not undergoing climate change brought about by human activity.
But in the popular press, 53% of a sample noted that the matter remained uncertain.
This "balance" seems much like the free pass the press gave the Bush administration in the build-up to the Iraq invasion (which persists to this day among some popular press sources).
Posted by aquacura.com at December 28, 2006 09:21 AM