From a reader:
[Iain Murray writes] “This is about as accurate as his other claims.” I’m not sure if you realize how precise and profound your observation is. This level of “expertise” is precisely what Al Gore is all about; grabbing a “truth” from here and a “truth” from there, taking on faith whatever fits his fancy, with no recourse to fact-checking or attempt at fundamental understanding. This is exactly how deep his scientific knowledge goes as well, and it’s a bit scary that he will be publishing a treatise on the “creation of an environment dangerously hostile to reason” without citing himself and his level of “reasoning” as the prime example of the problem. It’s even scarier that we are being asked to bank our nation’s future on this level of “reasoning.”
I have a 7th grade daughter whom I am curing of the habit of saying that she has “researched” this or “researched” that. “Dear,” I say, “you read up on it. That’s not research.” Al Gore probably believes he (himself, personally) has “researched” aspects of global warming. No, he hasn’t. He’s read what others (who have actually researched) have said (and probably only in layman’s translations * I can’t imagine him puzzling through the dynamical systems models, or even the statistical correlations, much less balancing a single chemical reaction); but he’s never, himself, “researched” anything. Of course he also claimed that he and Tipper “experimented” with marijuana; I’m guessing it involved a similar level of scientific rigor as his “researches” into global warming, or into Mandarin Chinese, for that matter.