Another brave soul speaks out against Gore

More and more people are beginning to challenge Al Gore-style climate hysteria. Professor Bob Giegengack of Penn's Department of Earth and Environmental Science gives sobering assessment of Al Gores doom-preaching documentary "Inconvenient Truth".

"The glossy production is replete with inaccuracies and misrepresentations, and appeals to public fear as shamelessly as any other political statement that hopes to unite the public behind a particular ideology."

Then Gore clicks again to dramatic footage of a collapsing polar ice shelf. "That's irresponsible," Gieg says. "What he's doing is no less than the scare tactics used by people like Karl Rove."

Is CO2 driving the climate or is climate driving the CO2?
the professor maintains, these core samples from the polar ice and ocean floor help show that the Earth?s temperature and the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have been in lockstep for tens of thousands of years.
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Of course, that was long before anybody was burning fossil fuels. So Giegengack tells his students they might want to consider that "natural" climatic temperature cycles control carbon dioxide levels, not the other way around. That's the crux of his argument with Gore's view of global warming - he says carbon dioxide doesn't control global temperature, and certainly not in a direct, linear way.

And this on the effectiveness of CO2 caps by the developed countries:
"the thing he doesn't mention is that there are 2.4 billion people in India and China who have launched a campaign that will increase their energy consumption by a factor of 10. No matter what we do. If we somehow cut our CO2 emissions in half, you wouldn't be able to measure the difference because of the role played by India and China.

"It's over. If CO2 is the problem, we've already lost."

There is plenty of good science in the article that challenges the global warming dogma. I suspect we will see more and more scientists with integrity speaking out in the future. Hopefully soon we'll see that the Emperor has no clothes...