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In the years since you lost the election, former Vice President Al Gore has been hard at work

touring the world with a PowerPoint presentation on global warming that he has now adapted

into a feature film.

While we wait for an inconvenient truth to open in theaters,

let's talk to Cato Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies,

Pat Michaels.

A Washington Post article last January summarized the movie's lesson.

I quote, Earth's glaciers are melting, the polar bears are screwed.

Each year sits new heat records, and Al Gore sometimes flies coach.

What lessons do you think audiences should take away from this movie?

Well, first of all, somebody with a lot of money who flies coach can't be the brightest person in the world. But seriously,

Goris quoted on his movie as saying, quote, I believe it is appropriate to have an

over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous global warming is.

Let's hear that again, folks.

He said, I believe it's appropriate to over-represent how dangerous global warming is, quote, as a predicate for opening up the audience.

In other words, he misrepresents the issue in order to project his agenda. He has a history of this. He's been doing it since

Earth in the Balance in 1992, or maybe since he ran for president. This leopard is one whose

spots are surely indelible.

But isn't Al Gore's film full of scientific facts and complicated charts that present

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