LTTE alert--support Al Gore's movie!

[CoolOnion]

Check your local papers, everybody, for "experts" writing letters and editorials refuting the facts of "An Inconvenient Truth."

Last week, Mark Davis (Dallas Morning News) wrote a ridiculous rant against the movie, (hold your nose and check out his article "Gore's 'Inconvenient Truth' is more like science fiction" at http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/columnists/all/stories/DN-davis_07edi.ART.State.Edition1.18745172.html)

Now, Davis, of course, is no "expert," just a right-wing talk radio talk show host. Several letters were published in Sunday's letters against his article. But one came out in support of Mark Davis, someone by the name of H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow, National Center for Policy Analysis. His letter, "Only one side of 'debate'" may be found at this link:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/letters/stories/DN-3pwarming_0611edi.ART.State.Edition1.8fee6e0.html

Among other things, his letter says, "An Inconvenient Truth downplays significant debate within climate science and jettisons realistic predictions for extreme scenarios in order to be politically effective – and by the way the paper framed the interview, The Dallas Morning News is complicit in promoting this propaganda."

I did a Google search of National Center for Policy Analysis and found this link at ExxonWatch:

FACTSHEET: National Center for Policy Analysis, NCPA
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=55

Not surprisintly, NCPA got a $75,000 grant from ExxonMobil last year. This LTTE writer is paid to refute scientific evidence of global warming.

The nerve of that propagandist calling the movie "propaganda." I wrote the following letter to DMN:

"In Sunday's letters to the editor, there was only one in support of Mark Davis' rant against Al Gore's documentary "An Inconvenient Truth, from H. Sterling Burnett. According to his byline, Mr. Burnett is "a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis." I did a Google search to find out more about the organization, and discovered National Center for Policy Analysis regularly supplies "experts" to refute scientific evidence of global warming. NCPA opposes the Kyoto Protocal, as well as regulation of greenhouse gasses. Last year, NCPA received a $75,000 from ExxonMobil. Gee, what a surprise."

If you'd like to write a letter telling the Dallas Morning News that we're onto their "expert," send your comments to:
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fax: Metro 972-263-0456
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