Title: Julian Simon "said it all" about this SILLINESS..
Review: The late Julian L. Simon who decimated (and won a bet) withPaul Ehrlich summed up Mr. Gore's effort quite nicely: "The bookis as ignorant a collection of cliches as anything ever published on the subject." And, "Just about every assertionin the book points in the wrong direction - suggesting thatconditions are getting worse rather than better, which they are." Mr. Simon then discusses the following subjects on whichMr. Gore was WRONG: soil erosion; hardwood trees; DDT; Agent Orange; Love Canal. Finally, Mr. Simon states: "And the entire book is filled with this sort of environmental gossip, backedby no sources, and contradicted by solid data."These quotes are from Mr. Simon's "Hoodwinking the Nation" whichhas some excellent chapters on "media shaped opinion" andthe mis-use of statistics, sampling techniques and data which every citizen should read.
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