Las mentiras incómodas de Gore

Continuando el tema del Premio Nobel de la Paz obtenido por Al Gore, HACER publica esta semana dos excelentes artículos de Christopher C. Horner y Marcus Baram que hablan de las mentiras incómodas de Gore. Así es, la tortilla está vuelta. Anteriormente se posicionó como la cara que desenmascaraba las verdades incómodas del cambio climático, y ahora, un día antes de recibir el premio, un tribunal británico declaró que su documental, aunque presenta exactitudes ampliamente, tiene 9 errores significativos.

Un golpe más bajo no pudo haber tenido este político. Cabe preguntarse si lo ético no sería devolver el premio que se le otorga por razones que legalmente se han establecido como mentiras o imprecisiones (y devolver el premio de $1.5 millones!!!). Claro, pero sigue considerándose políticamente incorrecto cuestionar la "sabiduría y buenas intenciones" de Gore y los defensores a muerte del cambio climático. Y curioso que el mismo Gore no está dispuesto a abiertamente debatir los hallazgos de su documental.

A continuación los links de estos artículos y las mentiras que presenta el documental de acuerdo a la corte alta británica:

http://www.hacer.org/current/US443.php

http://www.hacer.org/current/US442.php

1.) The sea level will rise up to 20 feet because of the melting of either West Antarctica or Greenland in the near future. (This "Armageddon scenario" would only take place over thousands of years, the judge wrote.)

2.) Some low-lying Pacific islands have been so inundated with water that their citizens have all had to evacuate to New Zealand. ("There is no evidence of any such evacuation having yet happened.")

3.) Global warming will shut down the "ocean conveyor," by which the Gulf Stream moves across the North Atlantic to Western Europe. (According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, "it is very unlikely that the Ocean Conveyor will shut down in the future&")

4.) There is a direct coincidence between the rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the rise in temperature over the last 650,000 years. ("Although there is general scientific agreement that there is a connection, the two graphs do not establish what Mr. Gore asserts.")

5.) The disappearance of the snows on Mount Kilimanjaro is expressly attributable to global warming. ("However, it is common ground that, the scientific consensus is that it cannot be established that the recession of snows on Mount. Kilimanjaro is mainly attributable to human-induced climate change.")

6.) The drying up of Lake Chad is a prime example of a catastrophic result of global warming. ("It is generally accepted that the evidence remains insufficient to establish such an attribution" and may be more likely the effect of population increase, overgrazing and regional climate variability.)

7.) Hurricane Katrina and the consequent devastation in New Orleans is because of global warming. ("It is common ground that there is insufficient evidence to show that.")

8.) Polar bears are drowning because they have to swim long distances to find ice. ("The only scientific study that either side before me can find is one, which indicates that four polar bears have recently been found drowned because of a storm.")

9.) Coral reefs all over the world are bleaching because of global warming and other factors. ("Separating the impacts of stresses due to climate change from other stresses, such as overfishing and pollution, was difficult.")

Alejandro Beeche Van der Laat