{"id":503,"date":"2007-02-25T08:09:34","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T14:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/02\/25\/and-the-oscar-for-best-fictional-documentary\/"},"modified":"2007-02-25T08:09:34","modified_gmt":"2007-02-25T14:09:34","slug":"and-the-oscar-for-best-fictional-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=503","title":{"rendered":"And The Oscar For Best Fictional Documentary&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Climatologist Patrick Michaels on <a href=\"http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/?q=YjI4NTc0YWMzNTA3ZjRmYmJiMDRjNmI5MGEwZTFhM2E=\">the inconvenient facts <\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The main point of the movie is that, unless we do something very serious, very soon about carbon dioxide emissions, much of Greenland\u2019s 630,000 cubic miles of ice is going to fall into the ocean, raising sea levels over twenty feet by the year 2100.<\/p>\n<p>Where\u2019s the scientific support for this claim? Certainly not in the recent Policymaker\u2019s Summary from the United Nations\u2019 much anticipated compendium on climate change. Under the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\u2019s medium-range emission scenario for greenhouse gases, a rise in sea level of between 8 and 17 inches is predicted by 2100. Gore\u2019s film exaggerates the rise by about 2,000 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Even 17 inches is likely to be high, because it assumes that the concentration of methane, an important greenhouse gas, is growing rapidly. Atmospheric methane concentration hasn\u2019t changed appreciably for seven years, and Nobel Laureate Sherwood Rowland recently pronounced the IPCC\u2019s methane emissions scenarios as \u201cquite unlikely.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll wait for the book.<\/p>\n<p>But the movie&#8217;s got a good shot at the Oscar on pure Bush-bashing points alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climatologist Patrick Michaels on the inconvenient facts : The main point of the movie is that, unless we do something very serious, very soon about carbon dioxide emissions, much of Greenland\u2019s 630,000 cubic miles of ice is going to fall into the ocean, raising sea levels over twenty feet by the year 2100. Where\u2019s the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}