WASHINGTON (AP) - America’s top climate scientists are giving five stars for accuracy to An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore’s documentary on global warming.
The former vice-president’s movie mostly got the science right, said all 19 climate scientists who had seen the movie or read the book and answered questions from The Associated Press.
It tells of the prospect of a flooded New York City, an inundated Florida, more and nastier hurricanes, worsening droughts, retreating glaciers and disappearing ice sheets.
AP contacted more than 100 top climate researchers by e-mail and phone for their opinion. Among those contacted were vocal skeptics of climate change theory. Most scientists had not seen the movie, which is in limited release, or read the book.
But those who have seen it had the same general impression. Gore conveyed the science correctly - the world is getting hotter and it is a manmade catastrophe-in-the-making, caused by the burning of fossil fuels.
Excellent, said William Schlesinger, dean of the Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University. “He got all the important material and got it right.”
Of course, the oil industry shills can’t be bothered actually seeing the movie. They just “know” it’s wrong.
I saw the movie last night. One of the things I thought was handled really well was the demonstration of how dissent about global warming isn’t coming from the scientific community at all. It’s all coming directly from the fossil fuel interests.