That's because Hansen is one of the top climate scientists who accurately conveys the factual information about the current state of knowledge in that field and Vice President Gore is someone working to alert the public about the scientific facts. The media should be giving them even more coverage.
It is only very deluded and brainwashed denier cultists who, for political reasons, imagine that "An Inconvenient Truth" is not factual and accurate. That is one of the many crackpot myths of the cult. Many of the world's foremost climate scientists have affirmed the validity of the facts presented in that movie.
Does Al Gore get the science right in the movie An Inconvenient Truth?
The National Snow and Ice Data Center
07 July 2006
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We know that a lot of people wonder if the science presented in An Inconvenient Truth is correct. NSIDC scientists Dr. Walt Meier and Dr. Ted Scambos answered some Frequently Asked Questions about the snow and ice science presented in the movie.
As a scientist who studies the climate, what do you think of the movie?
TED: I think An Inconvenient Truth does an excellent job of outlining the science behind global warming and the challenges society faces in the coming century because of it.
WALT: I agree. I think Gore has the basic message right. But we thought we could clarify a few things about the information concerning snow, ice, and the poles.
Scientists OK Gore's Movie for Accuracy
By SETH BORENSTEIN
The Associated Press
June 27, 2006
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WASHINGTON -- The nation's top climate scientists are giving "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore's documentary on global warming, five stars for accuracy.
The former vice president's movie _ replete with the prospect of a flooded New York City, an inundated Florida, more and nastier hurricanes, worsening droughts, retreating glaciers and disappearing ice sheets _ mostly got the science right, said all 19 climate scientists who had seen the movie or read the book and answered questions from The Associated Press.
But those who have seen it had the same general impression: Gore conveyed the science correctly; the world is getting hotter and it is a manmade catastrophe-in-the-making caused by the burning of fossil fuels.
"Excellent," said William Schlesinger, dean of the Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University. "He got all the important material and got it right."
Robert Corell, chairman of the worldwide Arctic Climate Impact Assessment group of scientists, read the book and saw Gore give the slideshow presentation that is woven throughout the documentary.
"I sat there and I'm amazed at how thorough and accurate," Corell said. "After the presentation I said, `Al, I'm absolutely blown away. There's a lot of details you could get wrong.' ... I could find no error."
Gore, in an interview with the AP, said he wasn't surprised "because I took a lot of care to try to make sure the science was right."
While some nonscientists could be depressed by the dire disaster-laden warmer world scenario that Gore laid out, one top researcher thought it was too optimistic. Tom Wigley, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, thought the former vice president sugarcoated the problem by saying that with already-available technologies and changes in habit _ such as changing light bulbs _ the world could help slow or stop global warming.
"They are quite literally afraid to know the truth," Gore said. "Because if you accept the truth of what the scientific community is saying, it gives you a moral imperative to start to rein in the 70 million tons of global warming pollution that human civilization is putting into the atmosphere every day."
If that were true, one good reason would be that it's because deniers are anti-science crackpots and stooges for the fossil fuel industry. Unfortunately the media all too often gives denier cult nutjobs with no scientific evidence to back them up equal time with the real climate scientists who actually know what they're talking about.
The lies, deceptions and corruption are all on the denier's side, part and parcel of your whole anti-science, deny-reality craziness.