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Gore poised to win for "Truth" SciFi flick

While the “useful idiots” in Hollywood seem poised to honor former VP Al Gore with a Best Documentary Oscar for his science fiction film, An Inconvenient Truth, Cato Institute environmentalist Patrick J. Michaels has posted a column which eviscerates the film’s plethora of fictional “scientific facts.” Not that lying is a barrier to winning a documentary, these days, as Michael Moore proved a few years ago with Bowling for Columbine.

Among the highlights of falsehoods, Gore’s film claims that global warming could melt most of the ice in Greenland, raising the ocean’s water level by “20 feet” by the year 2100. That’s dramatically at odds, even with the panic-stricken U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, who estimate the ocean’s water-levels to rise only by eight to 17 inches, not 20 feet.

Michaels’ column is full of other facts that completely render Gore’s film irrelevant in a discussion of facts – even facts touted by the most virulent global warming fanatics. Yet Hollywood is prepared tonight to embrace it and honor it more dearly than a Catholic Bible.

Guess it just goes to prove the old truism: there’s no fixing stupid.

Antarctic temps slap Hollywood saps!

Even as Al Gore plans his little “global warming WeFest,” dragging plenty of “useful idiot” celebrities along with him, a new report by real climate scientists report results from a 50-year study of Antarctica, the world’s southern-most continent, indicate it’s all bull.

According to a report on EurekAlert.org, “A new report on climate over the world’s southernmost continent shows that temperatures during the late 20th century did not climb as had been predicted by many global climate models … a similar finding from last summer by the same research group showed no increase in precipitation over Antarctica in the last 50 years. Most models predict that both precipitation and temperature will increase over Antarctica with a warming of the planet.”

The lead scientist behind the report is David Bromwich, professor of professor of atmospheric sciences in the Department of Geography, and researcher with the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University, reported on this work at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at San Francisco.

Prof. Bromwich goes to great lengths in trying to justify that global warming still works, even though all evidence in Antarctica denies such a “reality.” Yet in this case, facts speak louder than a conference in Paris… the factual basis for a global warming hypothesis is looking like a person taking too many diet supplements… it’s getting smaller every day.