An inconvenient truth... about Gore!

The U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works has issued a press release criticizing the Associated Press for bias.

According to the press release, the AP contacted about more than 100 top climate researchers to review Al Gore's movie, "An Inconvenient Truth". They claim 19 scientists viewed the movie and gave it "five stars for accuracy", named and quoted five in the article. That's all normal enough, except that there are plenty of reputable scientists who have come out very publicly to call the science bunk. The AP's article doesn't talk much about the other scientists, but is careful to describe them as "skeptics".

Unfortunately, this is standard stuff. If you're in the press, and you have an agenda to push, you interview people until you find someone to say what it is you want said, then you quote them. You can't easily be accused of bias, because you're quoting the person and what they actually said. Never mind that the first 81 people you talked to said something different - that wouldn't suit your purpose.

Professor Bob Carter, of the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University in Australia, on Gore’s film:

"Gore's circumstantial arguments are so weak that they are pathetic. It is simply incredible that they, and his film, are commanding public attention."

"The man is an embarrassment to US science and its many fine practitioners, a lot of whom know (but feel unable to state publicly) that his propaganda crusade is mostly based on junk science." – Bob Carter as quoted in the Canadian Free Press, June 12, 2006

He's not just an embarrassment to US science, I'm afraid. It's scary to think what this country would be like if he had been elected President.

[via Drudge Report]