What
follows is a very brief summary of the science that the former Vice
President promotes in either a wrong or misleading way:
• He promoted the now debunked “hockey stick” temperature chart in an
attempt to prove man’s overwhelming impact on the climate
•He attempted to minimize the significance of Medieval Warm period and
the Little Ice Age
•He insisted on a link between increased hurricane activity and global
warming that most sciences believe does not exist.
•He asserted that today’s Arctic is experiencing unprecedented warmth
while ignoring that temperatures in the 1930’s were as warm or warmer
•He claimed the Antarctic was warming and losing ice but failed to
note, that is only true of a small region and the vast bulk has been
cooling and gaining ice.
•He hyped unfounded fears that Greenland’s ice is in danger of
disappearing
•He erroneously claimed that ice cap on Mt. Kilimanjaro is disappearing
due to global warming, even while the region cools and researchers
blame the ice loss on local land-use practices
•He made assertions of massive future sea level rise that is way out
side of any supposed scientific “consensus” and is not supported in
even the most alarmist literature.
•He incorrectly implied that a Peruvian glacier’s retreat is due to
global warming, while ignoring the fact that the region has been
cooling since the 1930s and other glaciers in South America are
advancing
•He blamed global warming for water loss in Africa’s Lake Chad, despite
NASA scientists concluding that local population and grazing factors
are the more likely culprits
•He inaccurately claimed polar bears are drowning in significant
numbers due to melting ice when in fact they are thriving
•He completely failed to inform viewers that the 48 scientists who
accused President Bush of distorting science were part of a political
advocacy group set up to support Democrat Presidential candidate John
Kerry in 2004