Dymphna the hyper link you gave to Roger Revelle is broken. It links to a page that says that the article cannot be found. As a result I spent a couple of hours looking for any references to the accusation that you made. I couldn't find any. After a couple of hours I went back to the broken link. I noticed that it was a search page for a local cable TV station. So I searched KUSI news which is a wholly owned subsidiary of McKinnon Broadcasting. McKinnon Broadcasting is a right wing media group - a little Fox News almost - that controls a number of local cable news channels and newspapers. I finally found a reference to Roger Revelle which might be the source of your accusation against Al Gore.
The accusation was made by the weather forecast presenter of the channel. To give everyone some idea of the quality of the accusation I will quote part of Coleman's Video presentation.
I have learned that in 1991 Roger Revelle made a speech at the high powered, very private Summer enclave of powerful men and politicians at the Bohemian Grove in Northern California, where he apologized that his research sent so many people in the wrong direction on global warming.
He worried about the political fallout from the UN IPCC and Al Gore. A man named Donn Michael Schmidtman who lives in the San Francisco area was there that day and remembers the Revelle speech very well. He has told about it in some detail.
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So, your claims are based on unsubstantiated claims of secret meetings and a named individual who we are not told anything about. Who is Donn Michael Schmitman? I suspect that the fact that Roger Revelle is dead is the only reason Coleman can get away with his comments.
Coleman's Video Report 3/6/09 .
Much more typical is this report from
Nasa . Nasa seem totally unaware of Revelle's 'conversion.'
In November 1990, Roger Revelle received the National Medal of Science from President George Bush. He remarked to a reporter: "I got it for being the grandfather of the greenhouse effect."
Now Claude Allege was a highly regarded geophysicist, although he has never published any scientific papers on climate change which probably means that he hasn't done any research on the subject. The thing is the man is also a politician. He made a statement 20 years ago about climate change. It was not a scientific paper. At the time he was lobbying in the French Parliament on behalf of the Nuclear Industry. So, he used climate change as a stick to beat his critics and argue for the building of Nuclear Power Stations. He is now working for the French Coal Industry and is lobbying heavily for them. Strangely, now his paymasters have changed he's changed his tune! It seems the man is more worried about his political career than his scientific reputation.
In the very brief magazine editorial the man manages to:
1.Screw up the name of a scientific journal*
2.Claimed the glacier melt over the last few decades was due to the movement of multi-million year old mountains. An argument that Georg Hoffman calls an "obvious error" due to dramatically different time scales.
3.Misrepresent the state of the science to such an extent that the French scientific community wrote an open letter in protest
4.Misrepresent scientific literature to the point that even the authors of the very papers Allegre cited were crying foul.
5.Claim climate models predict warming on the South Pole when in fact they do not.
6.Leave clues about a possible political motive
The fact is the oil industry spends a lot of money trying to discredit the scientific consensus on Climate Change. They support lobbying groups, plant stories in the media through men like Coleman at KUSI News and even pay people to put propaganda on Forum postings.
That aside, its too convenient to dismiss the science. Dymphna, is there anything that you are prepared to do to reduce your carbon footprint? Would you consider turning the thermostat down on your central heating? Would you use the train rather than flying when you're travelling?
Thinking about the original question, I do care about my Carbon Footprint and beyond that I want to see a future that is sustainable. Although I also want that to be a future with gadgets and a high standard of living. Yes I know, I want to have my cake and eat it!
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