Jordan Times and Al Gore

 I thought that the opinion piece in the Jordan Times was interesting concerning the movie, An Inconvenient Truth starring Al Gore. While I haven’t seen it yet I have heard rave and not so good reviews. I like checking newspapers online from places I have been and the Jordan Times is one of them.

“Gore shows that glaciers have receded for 50 years. But he doesn’t acknowledge they have been shrinking since the Napoleonic wars in the early 1800s — long before industrial CO2 emissions. Likewise, he considers Antarctica the canary in the coalmine, but again doesn’t tell the full story. He presents pictures from the two per cent of Antarctica that is dramatically warming, while ignoring the 98 per cent that has largely cooled over the past 35 years. The UN climate panel estimates that Antarctica’s snow mass will actually increase during this century. And, whereas Gore points to shrinking sea ice in the Northern Hemisphere, he fails to mention that ice in the Southern Hemisphere is increasing.”