Hot Bubbling Gore ☀
The conservative media sphere has been ablaze the past week over a Al Gore gaffe on the earth’s interior temperature. Yes, Gore blundered — it’s thousands of degrees, not millions. Social networking organs and conservative talk radio bastions are gleefully roasting Gore and deriding his “scientific blunder” and bolstering their climate change denial talking point chest.
Though I’m fairly certain that Gore, if queried about his misspoken cite and presented with the prevailing scientific pronouncement, would renounce the erroneous claim. Or at the very minimum, cease from repeating the error in future public speaking events.
Which makes it even more riotous that most of the conservative critics chiding Gore are outright deniers of science. Many believe the earth’s age is measured in thousands of years not billions, most reject evolution and deny the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change. Indeed, there has been a conservative war on science waged that’s had an impact, driving a wedge between scientists and the public.
We live in a remarkable age. A time when so many are blessed by the aid and comfort of technology, yet so anti-rational in clinging to beliefs that should only be prevalent in pre-enlightenment epochs.
