More than 400 scientists challenge claims by former Vice President Al Gore and the United Nations about the threat of man-made global warming, a new Senate minority report says. (See full Story by Washington Times by clicking on headline)
"I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting — a six-meter sea level rise, 15 times the IPCC number — entirely without merit," said Dutch atmospheric scientist Hendrik Tennekes, one of the researchers quoted in the report by Republican staff of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. " .."Others were less circumspect-in a piece at Bloomberg.com Claude Allegre, a former (French) education minister and a physicist by profession....calls Gore a ``crook'' presiding over an eco-business that pumps out cash. As for Gore's French followers, the author likens them to religious zealots who, far from saving humanity, are endangering it. Driven by a Judeo-Christian guilt complex," ( Full story found here-http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aVvwX1RTVGr8&refer=muse)
Keep this in mind while you drive into the mountains today and tomorrow. If you were hoping Al's ideas might keep you from having to buy snowtires you are out of luck.
