Must Read: Gore Wins; Facts Lose
As I read the piece, I couldn't help but recall a recent headline in the local Sarasota Herald-Tribune: "Gore Vindicated". The SH-T has become increasingly liberal over the years, especially since they were bought by the Mother Ship, the New York Times. They used to have a single conservative editorial writer (Rod Thomson) among their liberal throng, but he left (or was asked to leave, I don't know which) and now they have no conservative writers at all.
Blankley shreds the notion that Gore was in any way vindicated, and so did Dr. William Gray, the famed meteorologist in a story carried by the Sydney Morning Herald, in which he says Gore winning a share of the Nobel Peace Prize is "ridiculous" and the product of "people who don't understand how the atmosphere works". Other highlights from the article:
"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."
..."We'll look back on all of this in 10 or 15 years and realise how foolish it was," Dr Gray said.
..."The human impact on the atmosphere is simply too small to have a major effect on global temperatures," Dr Gray said.
..."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."
What's interesting is that the SH-T hangs on Dr. Gray's every word when he makes his hurricane predictions for the upcoming season or revises his predictions as the season progresses. But they, along with almost all of the mainstream media, did not carry a story on Dr. Gray's comments at all, even though they took place the day after Gore was given his prize. Did the SH-T think that its Florida readers would not be interested in the renowned hurricane forecaster's viewpoint concerning Gore's doomsday predictions?
I guess Dr. Gray's comments were too inconvenient for the liberals at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.