Al Gore on the slide
Former presidential candidate and globetrotting green Al Gore has removed a contentious slide from his presentation on climate change after it was found that it did not, as he stated, depict a sharp rise in 'weather related' disasters.
The data from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters shows that the rise is attributable in large part (but not exclusively) to better reporting. After being challenged by Andrew C Revkin of the DotLife blog ('Gore Pulls Slide of Disaster Trends'), Gore's office confirmed that the slide would go.
It's not the first time the Nobel Peace Prize laureate has been in trouble for iffy science. In 2007, a high court judge criticised nine significant scientific errors in Gore's Oscar-winning film 'An Inconvenient Truth' and labelled it a 'political film'
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