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d. Fortunately, this claim was eventually dismissed due to the nonfactual grounds upon which it was based. This Newsweek article simply illustrates why people need to be skeptical of “common knowledge” and reassess the reasons underlying their beliefs.

 

Today's Consensus

Similar to the growing consensus in the 70's, our team of analysts has concluded that the modern consensus has lead to an inaccurate hypothesis that global warming is a human-made crisis deserving drastic attention. A recent example of the media attempting to divert the audience's attention away from the hard facts is illustrated by Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth. The main thrust of the video is to prove that global warming is a man-made crisis. However, the information presented by the movie is in question. Dr. William Gray, a meteorologist renowned by Capitalism Magazine and the Washington Post for his accurate predictions and brilliant studies in weather patterns and hurricanes, analyzed Gore's film. Gray calls it “a slick movie.” He also says, “if I hadn't been 50 years down in the trenches doing meteorological research and climate studies I might be a bit taken by it too. I would say if I were to summarize the movie, half of his facts are inaccurate, and then the rest of it he exaggerated” (John Herron).

  

The fact is that Al Gore's movie is very inaccurate, as he has intentionally twisted many facts. Joseph Paul Watson points out that “antarctic ice core samples show that the rise in carbon dioxide levels lags behind temperature rise by 800 years, (and) therefore (CO2) cannot be the cause of it (temperature). …Al Gore, in his film An Inconvenient Truth, deliberately reverses these figures to claim CO2 causes temperature change, when in fact the opposite is the case” (Watson, 2007).

 

Al Gore's credentials are also not very convincing. Not only is he not a scientist, but while he was at Harvard, he received a D in his Natural Sciences 6 class during his sophomore year, followed by a C+ in Natural Sciences 118 during his senior year (Herron). It is also true that Gore's transcript was filled with C's (Braceras, 2000). Scientists like Dr. Gray are much more credible. For example, as the Washington Post states, he “is often called the World's Most Famous Hurricane Expert. He's the guy who, every year, predicts the number of hurricanes that will form during the coming tropical storm season” (Achenbach, 2006).

 

Capitalism Magazine also affirms that “Meteorologist Dr. William Gray may be the world's most famous hurricane expert. More than two decades ago, as professor of atmospheric science and head of the Tropical Meteorology Project at Colorado State University, he pioneered the science of hurricane forecasting” (Glassman, 2005). In speaking in reference to Gore's work, Gray said, “(h)e's one of these guys that preaches the end of the world type of things. I think he's doing a great disservice and he do本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。