Scientists Gore Goes Too Far in An Inconvenient Truth

 AP

Feb. 25: Former Vice President Al Gore, left, and Davis Guggenheim, director, hold the Oscar for best documentary feature for ‘An Inconvenient Truth.’

Several experts on climate change, including both proponents and skeptics of the man-made global warming theory, question former Vice President Al Gore’s assertions in his Academy Award-winning documentary film “An Inconvenient Truth.”

“I don’t want to pick on Al Gore,” said Don J. Easterbrook, a geologist at Western Washington University, told an annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, according to a report in The New York Times. “But there are a lot of inaccuracies in the statements we are seeing, and we have to temper that with real data.”

In the slideshow presentation that is the central part of “An Inconvenient Truth,” Gore lays out what most researchers consider to be the worst-case scenario for global warming, with total melting of polar ice caps, a sea-level rise of 20 feet and catastrophic flooding and droughts.

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“He’s a very polarizing figure in the science community,” Roger A. Pielke Jr., an environmental scientist at the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, told the Times. “Very quickly, these discussions turn from the issue to the person, and become a referendum on Mr. Gore.”