Over at Real Clear Energy:
Twenty years ago, in 2006, former Vice President Al Gore released his film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” which included ominous and even hysterical warnings about a coming climate apocalypse if mankind did not dramatically change its ways. In the two decades since its release, the film’s most dire warnings have proven to be inaccurate.
I have nothing good to say about Al Bore and his boiling oceans. What caught my eye, pedant that I am, is the author’s confusion of truth and accuracy, a distinction I explain in the appropriately appellated Substack article, Truth and Accuracy.
The confusion is very common, yet another sign of the Decline of the West. (Or am I exaggerating, just for fun? It is 2:55 AM local time, the coffee is coming in, the adrenalin is surging, and the old man is having a blast. I’ve been up since midnight; finished reading a short story by the underappreciated Richard Yates, cleaned up cat vomit, meditated from 1:17 to 2:10, and will now do some serious writing on my book, if I don’t play a blitz chess game first. And then at 4:00 to the mountain bike! The strenuous life is best by test.)