Al Gore Continues to Promote Fear
Al Gore Continues to Promote Fear
20th anniversary of the release of Al Gore’s alarmist global warming movie, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’. Gore has surfed the movie and climate alarmism to a net worth estimated at $300 million and a Nobel Peace Prize;
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Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ has been conveniently forgotten 20 years after it made a series of very specific predictions that—to no one’s surprise –have yet to come to pass. Within months, the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz were explaining climate science on chat shows, journalists were treating them like experts, and anyone who raised doubts was waved off as selfish or backwards. (1)
Al Gore's Failed Predictions
Looking back now, it is hard to overstate how much of the early climate movement was driven by this dynamic. Gore provided the script. Celebrities provided the megaphone. The media provided the reverence. And politicians, particularly in Europe, eventually provided the policy.
In the 20 years since Gore accepted his Nobel Prize, not a single apocalyptic climate prediction has come true.
Christopher Moncton itemized 35 ‘inconvenient truths’ in the documentary. As the result of a lawsuit in England, teachers have to make clear that the film is a political work and promotes only one side of the argument. (2)
Here are some examples of Gore’s predictions:
Kilimanjaro was meant to lose its snow within a decade. It didn’t.
Glacier National Park in Montana was meant to lose its glaciers by 2020. Gore tells a story about how he personally climbed it with his daughter in 1998, then shows pictures of less glacier activity in the mountains. Then, the kicker. A concrete prediction of what would happen to the park. “Within 15 years this will be the park formerly known as Glacier,” he says. Here’s........
