They forgot to mention that there were Canadian climate scientists on the UN IPCC committee who shared the Nobel with Gore And those scientists don't believe as the National Post and Corcoran do that;
"Global warming theory has been in political and scientific trouble for some time."Nor would these Canadian scientists accept Corcoran's assertion that;
Onto this heap of forgotten causes and marginalia the Nobel has just tossed Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the UN's official climate science group. What a blow the award must be to the IPCC, self-proclaimed home of scientific rigour, to now be lumped in with Reverend Al and his Travelling Snake Oil Road Show and Climate Terror Machine.
The Post and Corcoran of course have engaged in junk journalism making political statements that they assert are facts. And in making Gore their straw man they forgot the Canadian Scientists, the guys who share the Nobel with him, who assert that their two decades of warnings about Global Warming are only in trouble because of lack of media and political attention to the problem. In other words because of articles like the Post published. Not only is it junk journalism it's failure to mention the Canadian scientists is sloppy journalism.
Unlike Al Gore, University of B.C. climate change expert John Robinson won't be going to Oslo, Norway, to pick up the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.The Post and Corcoran further slighted Canadians when they deliberately overlooked Sheila Watt-Cloutier, the Canadian Inuit woman who was in the running for the Nobel Peace Prize, and who has seen the real effects of the theory of Global Warming.But Robinson, who has been called "Dr. Sustainability," still felt like a winner when the award was announced early Friday.
"I've been in this area of research since the late '80s and it's been a long struggle to make the case that climate change really matters," Robinson, a professor at UBC's Institute of Resources, Environment and Sustainability, said Friday.
He is one of thousands of scientists in more than 100 countries who contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, including about two dozen Canadian scientists.
"It's unbelievable how climate change has risen to the top of the policy agenda and hopefully not in a flash-in-the-pan kind of way," he said.
The panel uses scientific reports and data to explore man-made climate change and ways to fight it.
Five Victoria scientists also contributed to the reports.
"It brings more awareness to the biggest issue facing humanity today. The consequences of global warming are huge," said Andrew Weaver, Canada research chairman in climate modelling and analysis at the University of Victoria.
The IPCC has been releasing regular reports on the state of climate change since it was established by the United Nations in 1988. In an IPCC report earlier this year, top scientists from 113 countries agreed unanimously that the mass burning of fossil fuels, land use and agriculture practices are melting polar ice caps.
"We are treating the atmosphere like a landfill and we're not paying for it," said Weaver.
University of Victoria senior scientist Ken Denman said the prestigious award raises climate change in the public consciousness.
"I hope it will help people and government take action. It makes the work worthwhile," he said. "If we accept collective responsibility for this it can be empowering. If we have created this, we have the capability of reversing it."
The Post front page 'news' was all about attacking Gore, and promoting the myth that Global Warming is not a fact. Hence facts would just get in the way of such partisan pontificating.
H/T to Mentarch
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2 comments:
Good job!
Friday night on (Montreal) CTV news concerning Mr. Gore's Nobel Peace Prize, they put forth a report where they actually grabed Tim Ball (I kid you not!) to comment on this, who (of course) was indignant and outraged at such a "travesty"!
They even went as far as to label Ball "a professor and international authority on climatology" (again - I kid you not).
This is the same thing as asking a thief found guilty in a court of law to comment on the stiff sentence he got.
Junk journalism indeed ...
Another good post is Dawgs Blog on the supposed errors in Gores movie.
I had seen the Post headline and read the article on line. Thanks to your link. This was the second screaming tabloid headline of the week for the Post the other being the one they did on Stelmach.
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