New Age Science and An Inconvenient Truth
QUESTION: New Age Science – An Inconvenient TruthANSWER:“With wit, smarts and hope,” trumpets the film’s website,
An Inconvenient Truth (2006), “ultimately brings home [Al] Gore’s persuasive argument that we can no longer afford to view global warming as a political issue[;] rather, it is the biggest moral challenge facing our global civilization.” However, according to UPI science writer, Hil Anderson, “the Washington lobbying machine isn’t taking this cinematic exercise lying down. News releases from various think tanks have begun flying around that pan the movie not so much for its cinematic merits, but rather for giving credibility to global warming.
New Age Science – What’s the Truth about Climate Change?‘The complexity of the climate and the limitations of data and computer models mean all projections of future climate change are unreliable at best,’ wrote David Legates, director of the University of Delaware’s Center for Climatic Research and author of a new study on global warming for the National Center for Policy Analysis... ‘The campaign to limit carbon dioxide emissions is the single most important regulatory issue today,’ summed up CEI Senior Fellow Marlow Lewis. ‘It is nothing short of an attempt to suppress energy use, which in turn would be economically devastating—all to avert an alleged catastrophe whose scientific basis is dubious.’ Critics of global warming argue that modest increases of a degree or two may constitute a change in the climate, but hardly one that will KO the world as we know it.”
1Notes:Rendered with permission from the book,
Understanding the Times: The Collision of Today’s Competing Worldviews(Rev. 2
nd ed), David Noebel, Summit Press, 2006. Compliments of John Stonestreet, David Noebel, and the
Christian Worldview Ministry at
Summit Ministries. All rights reserved in the original.
1 Hil Anderson, “Gore churns up warming debate,” May 16, 2006, http://news.monstersandcritics.com /northamerica/article_1164438.php/Analysis_Gore_churns_up_warming_debate)
