Jake posted this over on the Lyons family website yesterday, so I thought I would share it here.
His comment was "I thought I would beat my dad to the punch on this one."
To which I added: Prov. 22: 6"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. "
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What a prestigious award! He must be so proud to have now joined the illustrious pantheon inhabited by the likes of Yasser Arafat.
And in further praise of former Vice President Chicken Little, I would simply add the following:
From the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/science/13gore.html)
"[P]art of his scientific audience is uneasy. In talks, articles and blog entries that have appeared since his film and accompanying book came out last year, these scientists argue that some of Mr. Gore’s central points are exaggerated and erroneous. They are alarmed, some say, at what they call his alarmism."
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" 'Nowhere does Mr. Gore tell his audience that all of the phenomena that he describes fall within the natural range of environmental change on our planet,' Robert M. Carter, a marine geologist at James Cook University in Australia, said in a September blog. 'Nor does he present any evidence that climate during the 20th century departed discernibly from its historical pattern of constant change.'
"In October, Dr. Easterbrook made similar points at the geological society meeting in Philadelphia. He hotly disputed Mr. Gore’s claim that 'our civilization has never experienced any environmental shift remotely similar to this' threatened change.
"Nonsense, Dr. Easterbrook told the crowded session. He flashed a slide that showed temperature trends for the past 15,000 years. It highlighted 10 large swings, including the medieval warm period. These shifts, he said, were up to'20 times greater than the warming in the past century.' "
And from the Sydney Morning Herald (http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/gore-gets-a-cold-shoulder/2007/10/13/1191696238792.html):
"One of the world's foremost meteorologists has called the theory that helped Al Gore share the Nobel Peace Prize 'ridiculous' and the product of 'people who don't understand how the atmosphere works'.
"Dr William Gray, a pioneer in the science of seasonal hurricane forecasts, told a packed lecture hall at the University of North Carolina that humans were not responsible for the warming of the earth.
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" 'We're brainwashing our children,' said Dr Gray, 78, a long-time professor at Colorado State University. 'They're going to the Gore movie [An Inconvenient Truth] and being fed all this. It's ridiculous.'
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" 'We'll look back on all of this in 10 or 15 years and realise how foolish it was,' Dr Gray said.
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" 'The human impact on the atmosphere is simply too small to have a major effect on global temperatures,' Dr Gray said.
"He said his beliefs had made him an outsider in popular science.
" 'It bothers me that my fellow scientists are not speaking out against something they know is wrong,' he said. 'But they also know that they'd never get any grants if they spoke out. I don't care about grants.' "
Troy,
Gotcha!
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