by Dr. Arthur Robinson
Al Gore’s movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," includes some very remarkable revelations including:
1. A “computer calculated” temperature prediction curve with predictions beginning in 1938 -- when neither Al Gore nor the computer had yet been invented.
2. Photos of South Sea islanders being washed from their islands by rising seas -- sea level having risen 3 inches during the past 50 years.
3. Drawings of species driven to extinction by human use of hydrocarbons -- including the Wooly Mammoth, which has been gone from the Earth for thousands of years.
4. A little girl’s ice cream cone melting before she can eat it -- as a result of the current 0.5 degree centigrade per century increase in temperature.
5. 650,000 years of Earth temperature fluctuations, including 6 ice ages – all caused, according to Al Gore, by carbon dioxide fluctuations of entirely unknown origins.
Al Gore’s other popular offering is his book appropriately entitled The Assault on Reason -- a subject for which he obviously has readily demonstrated expertise.
George Washington was at Valley Forge during the coldest period in 1,500 years, with Earth average temperatures dipping as low as 1 degree centigrade below the 3,000-year average. Since then, temperatures have gradually recovered. If the current rate of increase continues, about 2 centuries from now the temperature of the Earth will be back to that of the medieval period 1,000 years ago -- when Greenland was green and warmer weather brought increased growing seasons and general rises in comfort and prosperity in many cooler climates.
Meanwhile, in the United States, rainfall is increasing, tornados are becoming less frequent, glaciers have been receding for 200 years -- back to their more normal average lengths, and hurricane frequency and severity has been unchanged for the past century.
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