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Turning Up the Heat on Gore is an article by NRO Editor Jonah Goldberg that ends up calling Gore’s environmentalist mission a faith-based initiative. Ha! That’s really quite amusing and so appropriate at the same time.

After hearing scientist after scientist dismiss Gore’s notion of man’s significant role in global warming and CO2 being a prime culprit of the same, you really do have to have “faith” (and a little old Appalachian Stubbornness) in Al Gore’s message to dismiss the dissenting opinions that have been backed up by scientific deduction that is, at the very least, as sound as the science Gore touted in Inconvenient Truth.

Goldberg is right-on-the-money when he says that Gore wants to change attitudes more than he wants to solve problems. Some folks say that politics is all about compromise. Well, nowadays, politics has become hyper-polarized and is more about persuading the masses than compromise where if you don’t believe a certain politically correct way your labeled stupid, dumb or an heretic at worst… and ignorant at best. And that is exactly what is happening — a changing of the masses’ minds where friendships and relationships are broken because one might not go along with the prevailing wisdom on global warming or at least not subscribe to the notion that although it’s clearly evident the world is warming slightly, there’s no evidence to suggest a truthful link to humans as the great contributor of this evil natural phenomenon.

Excuse me if I’m ranting but dung from horses and cattle contribute many multiples of 10 times more CO2 to the atmosphere than humans do. The falling and decomposing autumn leaves contribute many times more CO2 to the atmosphere than humans do. Volcanoes, every year, contribute more CO2 as well as many other greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere than do humans. In fact, as large as the human population has gotten (over 6 billion), as much dung is produced by animals on a global basis, and as many trees with leaves that fall and decompose in the Fall, and also as many volcanoes erupt every year, the earth’s oceans dwarf all of those as the greatest contributor of CO2 to the atmosphere. We are not the problem. Humans are not the problem. Do you hear me? On the grand scale, humans aren’t making much noise in global warming.

This rabid environmentalism has gone beyond asking us to reuse, reduce and recycle… this is more than a movement and more than a simple political struggle… it’s a quasi-religion with preachers of the gospel of environmentalism demanding from adherents their hearts and souls while insisting on compliance to their message as if compliance meant salvation or something. This makes televangelists seem innocuous.

Daily, we are seeing challenges and competent and quite exhaustive challenges to Al Gore’s assertions made in Inconvenient Truth. Here are two that I’ve noticed.

• Competitive Enterprise Institute’s 140 page PDF file
• The Great Global Warming Swindle (YouTube.com)
• The Reference Frame blogs about The Great Global Warming Swindle
• Stephen Hayward of the PRI weighs in with Gore on the Rocks
• Byrne’s Rightings has a nice round-up of Good Responses to Al Gore’s Testimony

The guys over at Verum Serum blog have done a nice job of listing 25 examples of One-sided statements, Misleading statements, Exaggerated statements, Speculative statements, and just flat-out Wrong statements. VS logically asserts that Inconvenient Truth is “ill-suited to serve as a guide to climate science and climate policy for the American people.”

-UPDATE- Michael Barone adds his 2¢ on the argument with Gore the Preacher Man: His faith is bad science