Who would you believe on the topic of global climate change: The Competitive Enterprise Institute or Al Gore?
Trick question. Those aren't your only two choices. You could do some research, read some journals, scan some less formal periodicals, and make up your own mind.
Or you could find out who really is an expert on climate change. Again, there's more than one. Some consider it a critical problem. Others believe the change in temperature measured so far is largely the result of natural cycles. Yet more think that the causes are both artificial and natural.
Al Gore, former vice president and presidential candidate, apparently is convinced that corrective action must be taken immediately.
Then there's the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Al Gore and his movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," drives them up a wall. Who is in the CEI? Check it out. No one you've ever heard of, and certainly no scientific experts on climate.
Yet the CEI has prepared point-by-point rebuttals for claims made in the movie.
So here's the decision: Cut greenhouse gases (no down side) and see if the temperature drops, or refuse to do anything and wait to see if the sea level starts to rise (all down side).
Al Gore may not be an expert, but at least you know who he is and where he's coming from. You don't have to accept his movie. Read some books and decide for yourself.
Or don't let facts get in the way and let the CEI make up your mind for you.
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