2006-06-28 Senate Committee Launches Taxpayer-Funded Misinformation Campaign About Gore Movie

2006-06-28 Judd Legum Think Progress \global warming denial\An Inconvenient Truth\US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works http://thinkprogress.org/2006/06/28/senate-misinformation-gore/ Senate Committee Launches Taxpayer-Funded Misinformation Campaign About Gore Movie Senate Committee Launches Taxpayer-Funded Misinformation Campaign About Gore Movie  Your tax dollars are being used to fund a misinformation campaign about Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth. Yesterday, the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works issued a press release headlined "AP Incorrectly Claims Scientists Praise Gore's Movie." It doesn't substantiate the claim. The AP contacted 100 climate scientists, including noted "climate skeptics," and of the 19 that had seen the movie, all commended its accuracy. The Committee release faulted the AP for not cherry-picking the handful of scientists around the world who make a living questioning the scientific consensus on global warming. For example, an Australian scientist named Bob Carter told an obscure Canadian paper that Gore's arguments are "so weak that they are pathetic." How could the AP exclude this kind of incisive analysis? The release is also full of misinformation about global warming science. Further analysis of some specific misinformation follows.

&ldquo;Yesterday, the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works issued a press release headlined "AP Incorrectly Claims Scientists Praise Gore's Movie." It doesn't substantiate the claim.&rdquo;   