NSTA likes Exxon better than Gore

[Sethomas]

Having seen the movie, I failed to see any of what could be called "junk science". The only questionable figures were economic, not environmental. By this I'm referring to the point that the best-selling vehicle models are those that are more environmentally sound than those built by America's lack of standards. While this seems to be true, it probably just has more to do with their respective markets than their love of low CO2 emissions.

A great part of the movie is spent debunking the idea that there is a large amount of scientific debate on the subject. Something like 740 academic journal articles were chosen at random. 740 showed unequivocal support of the global warming theory, 0 opposed. I've read articles elsewhere supporting the idea that "scientists are AFRAID to write against what's taken as fact by the stupid bullying of everyone else!!", but that's pretty naive. If there was any sign of a large-standing fraud that represents the greatest scientific error since aether or even geocentrism, every grad student in the world would want to be on top of it. This was conveyed in contrast with virtually every media outlet covering the subject as if it had no foundation whatsoever, or was part of a natural cycle (which the movie debunks).

The evidence is presented in two stages. First, they establish that in global history, elevated CO2 levels are always coupled with raising temperatures. Secondly, they tie this to human influence in the modern era by showing that CO2 levels have never in history accelerated as rapidly as they are right now. Plus, proponents of the "natural cycle" theory have absolutely nothing to say why their models based on the past millennium of the medieval ice age and so on correspond not in the slightest bit to what we are actually seeing.