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Thursday, January 15, 2004

Gore accuses White House of ignoring global warming

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Former Vice President Al Gore delivered a speech on the theory of global warming yesterday, the coldest day in New York City in decades, calling President Bush a "moral coward" for adhering to policies that put the planet in catastrophic peril of overheating.

The speech, sponsored by the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org, came when the mercury was expected to dip to minus 1 in New York City, shattering a record low temperature that has stood for 47 years, and notching just a few degrees higher than the coldest day ever recorded there.

Mr. Gore asserted, "I don't think there is any longer a credible basis for doubting that the Earth's atmosphere is heating up because of global warming," and accused the Bush administration of ignoring the threat at the behest of the energy industry and "wealthy right-wing ideologues" that contribute heavily to the president's re-election campaign.

"While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward," Mr. Gore said. "[Mr. Bush] is so weak that he seldom, if ever, says 'no' to them on anything -- no matter what the public interest might mandate."

Chris Horner, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, mocked Mr. Gore's speech, saying, "There is not a part per million of truth in his talk."

Mr. Horner said the former vice president erred in saying the atmosphere is warming, citing evidence collected by satellites and weather balloons that show the atmospheric temperature actually is falling.

"The theory says that the atmosphere will warm, then the earth will warm," Mr. Horner said. "That is demonstrably false."

Amy Ridenour, president of the National Center for Public Policy Research, said, "Time constraints forbid one from commenting on all the speech's inaccuracies."

"From a scientific and environmental perspective, Al Gore's speech today should be ignored," she said. "No serious policy person could give the speech Al Gore gave today."

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