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Inhofe heats global warming debate
Senator says 'Truth' encourages skepticism
By EPW Blog
Saturday, April 7, 2007
Excerpt: "If we were facing a man-made climate catastrophe and Hollywood, Gore and the United Nations were our only hope to solve it, we would all be doomed."
Inhofe heats global warming debate
Senator says 'Truth' encourages skepticism
By WILLIAM TRIPLETT
You'd think the popularity and success of "An Inconvenient Truth" might have silenced global warming skeptics.
Well, think again.
"When you have Hollywood and Al Gore involved, it's actually in many ways made it easier" to create more skeptics, says Marc Morano, communications chief for Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), who has led the political charge against theories of man-made climate change.
While Inhofe may seem to be a voice in the wilderness these days (critics label him "deluded"), Morano, the voice projecting that voice, is actually turning up the volume.
If anything, he's talking more since "Truth" hit big.
"With Al Gore as a spokesman for global warming, it makes it a partisan political issue," Morano says. Add in the Hollywood connection, he continues, and Americans become naturally suspicious.
For instance, new polling shows "consistent or growing" doubts about man-made global warming, and it's not unrelated to "Truth," Morano claims.
Indeed, the New York Times recently wrote that "scientists argue that some of Gore's central points are exaggerated and erroneous."
Like his boss, Morano calls allegations of man-made global warming "environmental alarmism" and says people know better than to look to a documentary "that offers no solutions" for what it claims is a crisis.
"If we were facing a man-made climate catastrophe and Hollywood, Gore and the United Nations were our only hope to solve it, we would all be doomed."
