tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8433953.post-82658026880797429422007-02-23T15:33:00.000-05:002007-02-24T05:30:02.196-05:00All of the emphasis placed below is mine; you're clever enough to figure it out.<br /><br />Roger Ebert, alone at the keyboard, on <span style="font-style:italic;">An Inconvenient Truth</span>:<br /><br /><blockquote>"This film reflects the truth <span style="font-weight:bold;">as I understand it</span>, and it represents, <span style="font-weight:bold;">I believe</span>, <span style="font-weight:bold;">agreement</span> among the world's experts.<br /><br />"'There is <span style="font-weight:bold;">no controversy</span> about these <span style="font-weight:bold;">facts</span>,' [Gore] says in the film. 'Out of 925 recent articles in peer-review scientific journals about global warming, there was <span style="font-weight:bold;">no disagreement. Zero.</span>'<br /><br />"Gore says that…there is '<span style="font-weight:bold;">100 percent agreement</span>' among scientists.<br /><br />"Am I acting as an advocate in this review? Yes, I am. I believe that to be 'impartial' and 'balanced' on global warming means <span style="font-weight:bold;">one must take a position like Gore's</span>. There is <span style="font-weight:bold;">no other view</span> that can be defended." </blockquote><br /><br /><br />Charlie Rose interviewing <span style="font-style:italic;">State of Fear</span> author Michael Crichton, February 2007:<br /><br /><blockquote>"<span style="font-weight:bold;">Every good scientist</span> that I talk to says to me, '<span style="font-weight:bold;">90 percent</span> of the scientists agree on this…. <span style="font-weight:bold;">Most </span>of the scientists say '<span style="font-weight:bold;">We all agree</span> on this, you know, that it is catastrophic.'<br /><br />"Do you disagree with <span style="font-weight:bold;">the idea</span> that <span style="font-weight:bold;">the majority</span> of scientists who are experts in this area have a different conclusion than you?"</blockquote><br /><br /><br />Whoa, slow down Charlie! Let me get a notepad to write down all these big numbers!Saint Kansashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00312692500387833900noreply@blogger.com