Golden Screw Up Award

It is time for another Golden Screw-Up Award.

This week's nominees are:

Al Gore, for not telling the truth in An Inconvenient Truth. Oops.

But part of his scientific audience is uneasy. In talks, articles and blog entries that have appeared since his film and accompanying book came out last year, these scientists argue that some of Mr. Gore’s central points are exaggerated and erroneous. They are alarmed, some say, at what they call his alarmism.

“I don’t want to pick on Al Gore,” Don J. Easterbrook, an emeritus professor of geology at Western Washington University, told hundreds of experts at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America. “But there are a lot of inaccuracies in the statements we are seeing, and we have to temper that with real data.”

Polar explorers Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen
for their wonderful, albeit cancelled, trek across the Arctic to highlight the devestating effects of global warming and the tradegy of melting polar ice.

One night they measured the temperature inside their tent at 58 degrees below zero, and outside temperatures were exceeding 100 below zero at times...

"They were experiencing temperatures that weren't expected with global warming," Atwood said. "But one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability."

Uh huh. The North Pole was really, really cold because of global warming.

James Cromwell, Jack Bauer's daddy on 24, for his recent patriotic comments in the UK.

"I can't handle living in the United States of America when I know the last two elections were rigged, and that we were denied our right to vote, where we live in a country where 32 percent of the people vote and even those people's votes don't count, and the people who should really have a stake, kids, don't have any say at all – people of color, very little to say, unions, practically nothing any more … we're losing our jobs. …"

The envelope please...

Congratulations to our Global Warming celebrities. No, sit down Al. This week's award goes to our polar explorers who blamed -100 degree temperatures in the Arctic on global warming. Congratulations, Ann and Liv.


Bancroft/Arnesen photo © www.thepoles.com
Al Gore photo © www.lonestartimes.com
James Cromwell photo © World Net Daily