GORE'S BAD SCIENCE

by Timothy P. Carney (more by this author)

Al Gore's grasp of Earth science was dreadful in college and has gotten steadily worse, according to the embarrassing facts exposed in the "Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming," a book that declares: "Catastrophic Manmade global warming is not catastrophic, manmade, or global." It reveals that Gore's college grades were not anything to write home about:

NATURAL SCIENCES 6 (MAN'S PLACE IN NATURE): D
NATURAL SCIENCES 118: C+

Gore's favorite crusade of recent months, that global warming caused Katrina, is summarily dismissed in the book by the nation's top hurricane expert. "The degree to which you believe global warming is causing major hurricanes is inversely proportional to your knowledge about these storms," said Dr. William Gray, the leading Hurricane expert in the U.S.

"The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming" dismantles Gore's faulty science with hard facts ignored by the mainstream media:

• Gore's favorite animal, the polar bear, is thriving. Ten out of 12 polar bear populations are thriving, although the White House has recently said they are going extinct.
  
• Man is responsible for only 3% of all the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
  
• Methane is a naturally occurring greenhouse gas that comes from decaying plants, seeps from swamps, bogs, rice paddies, and leaks out the front and back ends of masticating animals.
  
• The Antarctic ice sheet is getting thicker and the South Pole is getting colder. The Southern hemisphere on the whole shows no appreciable rise in temperatures.
  
• Gore points out that the "snows of Kilimanjaro" are melting, but leaves out the fact that the temperature there is dropping.

Mr. Carney, a contributing editor to HUMAN EVENTS, is the author of "The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money," published by John J. Wiley & Sons. He is the Warren T. Brookes Journalism Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Read more of his work at TimothyPCarney.com.