It implodes, no matter where anyone starts to look at it beyond just quick glances into it. The slur itself is the second of just two pillars of support holding up the climate issue, namely 1) “the science is settled on how burning fossil fuels is the main driver of catastrophic global warming” and 2) “therefore, nobody has any obligation to listen to industry-paid shill scientists who’ve been directed to deceive the public through efforts to reposition global warming as theory rather than fact.” Al Gore’s 2006 “An Inconvenient Truth” movie exemplifies that, he spent the first 72 minutes of the film with his ‘the science is settled’ claims, wrapping up all of that with a reference to Naomi Oreskes’ December 2004 Science magazine 100% consensus figure, which is not true in the least. Then he used that as a segue to imply a tiny handful of skeptic climate scientists were paid industry money to “reposition global warming as theory rather than fact” – he spelled out that exact phrase full screen in red letters, comparing it to a tobacco industry memo title. The late Washington Examiner columnist / “Undue Influence” book author writer Ron Arnold proved at his June 2016 LeftExposed piece how the ‘leaked memo directive’ containing that phrase was never implemented by anybody.
The elemental problem here, is that few people are aware of how vulnerable that second pillar is to total collapse, and how it not only imperils Vice President Gore’s legacy as a ‘climate crisis truth-teller,’ it imperils the entire climate issue. The key to getting the fatal crack started in that second pillar is to put Al Gore under oath and begin by asking him two questions: first, where did he get that ‘leaked industry memo’ phrase, and second – more importantly – did he ever make any efforts to check the veracity of it? Continue reading