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Global warming is no commie plot Phillip Adams The Australian
Climate sceptics on the Right never let inconvenient truths cloud their propaganda, writes Phillip Adams
September 19, 2006
IS there finally a change of climate on climate change? Are the CO2 sceptics who see global warming as a commie plot suffocating in their own silliness? If so, it's tantamount to the flat-earthers belatedly conceding a certain planetary curvature. Or the creationists confessing that Charles Darwin wasn't the Antichrist.
For decades people living in a greenhouse effect have been throwing stones at the science that seeks to save them. Now one senses a hasty retreat in the face of the Himalayan heap of hard facts presented in a host of refereed journals; in An Inconvenient Truth, where Al Gore's graphs soar as steeply as the south col of Everest.


Global warming: time for a heated debate Al Gore's dogmatic documentary An Inconvenient Truth embodies the worst possible response to climate change.

In An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore presents himself as prophet rather than politician. The former American vice-president uses the documentary to preach what he believes is the only legitimate view on climate change. He implies that anyone who deviates from The Truth According to Gore is – literally – corrupt, insane or possibly hates their children.
Gore’s gospel on global warming rests on two related key claims. On the science he says the debate about humanity’s impact on the climate is over: ‘The scientific consensus is that we are causing global warming.’ To the extent there are any heretics, he argues that they are either the oil industry’s paid lackeys or its stooges in the Bush administration.
His second claim is that climate change is a moral rather than a political issue. By this he means that there is no room for debate about solutions to the problem. The only appropriate measures involve curbing emissions of greenhouse gases and reducing the human impact on the planet. The credits at the end of the film are interspersed with suggestions for human action, including driving less, recycling more and using less hot water. Those who want to know more are referred to www.ClimateCrisis.net. The backing track to this peculiar ending is Melissa Etheridge’s ‘I need to wake up’.