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Al Gore says in the video that we're witnessing an unprecedented level of atmospheric carbon dioxide that is driving global temperatures higher. But expert climatologists .- including Syun-ichi Akasofu, Tim Ball, Ian Clark, Piers Corbyn, Patrick Michaels, Nir Shaviv and Frederick Singer - say there is no evidence carbon dioxide drives global temperature change."
"We'll see what the public thinks after both sides make their case on a specific and narrow point," said Milloy. "Global warming alarmists didn't fare so well last time that happened," he added.
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For the seven climatologists cited here, there are several hundred from 50+ countries that were part of the IPCC reports (several thousand scientists contributed to the report, but were not part of the final evaluation process) that concluded that human activities contribute to (not the sole cause of) global warming...supported by the national academies of sciences from the largest industrial nations.
Thats why it is called consensus and not unanimity. But I guess to some,
7 = several hundred + 11 national academies of sciences.
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Gore's work on global warming is much like the work of the environmental movement that sprouted up in the late 60s. It raised public awareness.
It took 5-10 years for governments to catch up and take action through legislation in the mid 70s (that i cited above) that resulted in the environmental successes that ngdawg rightly noted have occurred over the last 30 years:
In the past 30 years, rivers once considered dead have been brought back, natural animal sanctuaries have sprouted across the country, old growth forest destruction has ebbed and industry as a whole has cleaned up its act, literally.
Unless ngdawg and others believe those "corrections" occurred naturally or that industry would have implemented those "corrections" voluntarily.