According to James M. Taylor, who is a senior fellow at the Heartland Institute, Al Gore’s claim is wrong that the earth is going to experience another “ice age” and that everyone of us must reconsider our use of transportation and use of fuel.

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         James Taylor's column, which appeared in the magazine Environment News, he notes that according to new data from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and studies appearing in two respected scientfic journals, raise serious doubts about the science underlying the alarmist predictions of global warming.

        In his book, “The Assault on Reason,” Mr. Gore states: ''We must stop tolerating the rejection and distortion of science.  We must insist on an end to the cynical use of pseudo-studies known to be false for the purpose of intentionally clouding the public’s ability to discern the truth.”

       James also adds that Gore repeatedly asks that science and reason displace cynical political posturing as the central focus of public discourse.

       As an example of his claim of global warming, the former vice president states that Himalayan glaciers are shrinking and global warming is to blame.  But according to the September 2006 issue of the American Meterological Society’s ''Journal of Climate'': “Glaciers are growing in the Himalayan Mountains, thus confounding global warming alarmists who recently claimed the glaciers were shrinking and that global warming was to blame.”

        Gore also claims that the snowcap atop Africa’s Mount Kilimanjaro is shrinking and that global warming again is to blame.  Yet, according to the November 23, 2003, issue of Nature Magazine: “Although it is temtpting to blame the ice loss on global warming, researchers think that deforestation of the mountain's foothills is more likely the culprit.  Without the forests’ humidity, previously moisture laden winds blew dry.  No longer replenished with water, the ice is evaporating in the strong equatorial sunshine.”

        Al Gore also wants us to believe that global warming is causing more tornadoes, yet the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated in February that there has been no scientific link established between global warming and tornadoes.

        In the March 13, 2004 edition of ''Journal of Climate,'' Ken Minschwaner of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and Andrew Dessler of the University of Maryland reported on atmospheric research that was conducted for NASA.  The report said: “In most climate models, an initial warming caused by additional CO2 (carbon dioxide) and other greenhouse gases leads to enhanced evaporation a the surface and a general moistening of the atmosphere.  Since water vapor is a strong infrared absorber, the added moisture causes further warming by about seventy to ninety percent.”

         The National Aeronautics and Space Administration says this is simply not true, that water evaporation has not increased nearly as much as alarmists have predicted and have factored into their computer models.

          In an article written by Tom Swiss for the magazine Heartland Perspectives, and published on June 29, 2007, he writes: “On June 28, in an historic move, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released the expert review comments and responses to its latest assessment of the science of climate change.  The IPCC report is the primary source of data for Al Gore’s movie and book entitled 'An Inconvenient Truth.' ”

          Mr. Swiss goes on in his column by adding that “many of the comments by the reviewers are strongly critical of claims contained in the final report, and they are directly at odds with the so-called ‘scientific consensus’ touted by Al Gore and others calling for immediate government actions.”

        Tom Swiss also adds that Mr. Gore refuses to debate Lord Christopher Monckton, who is a prominent global warming “skeptic, ”and also refuses to debate Dennis Avery, who is an economist and co-author of a book on global warming that is on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list.''

         Is the former vice president telling the truth about global warming, or by refusing to debate Lord Monckton and Mr. Avery, is Mr. Gore avoiding his own inconvenient truth?