Posted by antimedia:
Al Gore is not going to be happy....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1173154045.shtml
....[1]about this.
Claude Allegre, one of France's leading socialists and among her
most celebrated scientists, was among the first to sound the alarm
about the dangers of global warming.
"By burning fossil fuels, man increased the concentration of carbon
dioxide in the atmosphere which, for example, has raised the global
mean temperature by half a degree in the last century," Dr.
Allegre, a renowned geochemist, wrote 20 years ago in Cles pour la
geologie.." Fifteen years ago, Dr. Allegre was among the 1500
prominent scientists who signed "World Scientists' Warning to
Humanity," a highly publicized letter stressing that global
warming's "potential risks are very great" and demanding a new
caring ethic that recognizes the globe's fragility in order to
stave off "spirals of environmental decline, poverty, and unrest,
leading to social, economic and environmental collapse."
In the 1980s and early 1990s, when concern about global warming was
in its infancy, little was known about the mechanics of how it
could occur, or the consequences that could befall us. Since then,
governments throughout the western world and bodies such as the
United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have
commissioned billions of dollars worth of research by thousands of
scientists. With a wealth of data now in, Dr. Allegre has recanted
his views. To his surprise, the many climate models and studies
failed dismally in establishing a man-made cause of catastrophic
global warming. Meanwhile, increasing evidence indicates that most
of the warming comes of natural phenomena. Dr. Allegre now sees
global warming as over-hyped and an environmental concern of second
rank.
His break with what he now sees as environmental cant on climate
change came in September, in an article entitled "The Snows of
Kilimanjaro" in l' Express, the French weekly. His article cited
evidence that Antarctica is gaining ice and that Kilimanjaro's
retreating snow caps, among other global-warming concerns, come
from natural causes. "The cause of this climate change is unknown,"
he states matter of factly. There is no basis for saying, as most
do, that the "science is settled."
My goodness. Dr. Allegre must have lost his mind. Surely he's insane?
How else to explain his departure from the true religion?
The fact is that the most eminent scientists in the field, the ones
who really know what they're talking about, almost to a man, say that
the alarmist rhetoric of the Gore-crowd is pure hype and not
science-based at all.
But then, you already knew that, right?
References
1. http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=2f4cc62e-5b0d-4b59-8705-fc28f14da388