Post by DEERTRACKS on Mar 21, 2007 6:08:02 GMT -5
Gore to take global warming message to Capitol Hill
Jim Brown
OneNewsNow.com
March 20, 2007
An expert on global warming and energy policy is urging lawmakers to be listening with skeptical ears to the "alarm and energy rationing agenda" being promoted by Al Gore when the former vice-president testifies Wednesday before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
Marlo Lewis, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), says Gore's Oscar-winning film An Inconvenient Truth is a "sci-fi disaster film in the guise of a documentary." Lewis contends Americans should be skeptical of Gore's global warming claims because nearly every statement he makes about climate science, policy, and politics is "either one-sided, misleading, exaggerated, speculative, or just plain wrong."
According to Lewis, the film does not answer a critical point.
"The real inconvenient truth that I think Al Gore never addresses anywhere in the film is that we just don't know how to meet the world's energy needs today, much less over the next 30 years when energy demand is going to grow dramatically worldwide," says the CEI fellow. "According to our Energy Information Administration, it's going to grow by 71 percent by the year 2030."
And by claiming that global warming is a moral issue, Lewis says the former VP actually means that "anyone who disagrees with [Gore] and [his] agenda is not being a good person."
Still, says Lewis, there is real moral issue in the debate -- "which is, what assurances can Mr. Gore give us that in the pursuit of de-carbonizing the world economy, he isn't going to trap millions or even billions of people in perpetual energy poverty?"
Lewis describes An Inconvenient Truth a "scare-you-mentary" because among other things, it claims global warming caused Hurricane Katrina, and warns of an impending mini-Ice Age in Europe and a catastrophic sea-level rise of 20 feet. He also notes that Gore argues the world has become a much more dangerous place because of global warming, yet provides no mortality rates or actual numbers of deaths to back up his claim.
Jim Brown
OneNewsNow.com
March 20, 2007
An expert on global warming and energy policy is urging lawmakers to be listening with skeptical ears to the "alarm and energy rationing agenda" being promoted by Al Gore when the former vice-president testifies Wednesday before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
Marlo Lewis, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), says Gore's Oscar-winning film An Inconvenient Truth is a "sci-fi disaster film in the guise of a documentary." Lewis contends Americans should be skeptical of Gore's global warming claims because nearly every statement he makes about climate science, policy, and politics is "either one-sided, misleading, exaggerated, speculative, or just plain wrong."
According to Lewis, the film does not answer a critical point.
"The real inconvenient truth that I think Al Gore never addresses anywhere in the film is that we just don't know how to meet the world's energy needs today, much less over the next 30 years when energy demand is going to grow dramatically worldwide," says the CEI fellow. "According to our Energy Information Administration, it's going to grow by 71 percent by the year 2030."
And by claiming that global warming is a moral issue, Lewis says the former VP actually means that "anyone who disagrees with [Gore] and [his] agenda is not being a good person."
Still, says Lewis, there is real moral issue in the debate -- "which is, what assurances can Mr. Gore give us that in the pursuit of de-carbonizing the world economy, he isn't going to trap millions or even billions of people in perpetual energy poverty?"
Lewis describes An Inconvenient Truth a "scare-you-mentary" because among other things, it claims global warming caused Hurricane Katrina, and warns of an impending mini-Ice Age in Europe and a catastrophic sea-level rise of 20 feet. He also notes that Gore argues the world has become a much more dangerous place because of global warming, yet provides no mortality rates or actual numbers of deaths to back up his claim.
