{"id":14219,"date":"2026-06-27T03:08:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T10:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=14219"},"modified":"2026-06-27T03:20:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T10:20:45","slug":"truth-accuracy-and-the-delusional-al-gore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/truth-accuracy-and-the-delusional-al-gore\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth, Accuracy, and the Delusional Al Gore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearenergy.org\/articles\/2026\/06\/26\/even_einstein_admitted_he_was_wrong_we_apparently_cant_expect_as_much_from_al_gore_1190596.html\">Over at<\/a> <em>Real Clear Energy<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Twenty years ago, in 2006, former Vice President Al Gore released his film, \u201cAn Inconvenient Truth,\u201d 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\u2019s most dire warnings have proven to be inaccurate.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have nothing good to say about Al Bore and his boiling oceans. What caught my eye, pedant that I am, is the author&#8217;s confusion of truth and accuracy, a distinction I explain in the appropriately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesaurus.com\/browse\/appellated\">appellated<\/a> <em>Substack<\/em> article,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/truth-and-accuracy?sd=pf\">Truth and Accuracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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&#8217;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\u00a0 some serious writing on my book, if I don&#8217;t play a blitz chess game first. And then at 4:00 to the mountain bike! The strenuous life is best by test.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Real Clear Energy: Twenty years ago, in 2006, former Vice President Al Gore released his film, \u201cAn Inconvenient Truth,\u201d 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\u2019s most dire warnings have proven &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/truth-accuracy-and-the-delusional-al-gore\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Truth, Accuracy, and the Delusional Al Gore&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[386,380,6,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-and-weather","category-distinctions","category-language-matters","category-logica-docens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14219"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14222,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14219\/revisions\/14222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}