Al Gore and Bill Nye (Science Guy) busted for falsifying results for film
Very fun doings from
Anthony Watts -- impossible to excerpt so just visit the link and spend the 20 minutes to read and watch.
Here is the first paragraph:
Replicating Al Gore�s Climate 101 video experiment shows that his �high school physics� could never work as advertised
Readers may recall my previous essay where I pointed out how Mr. Gore�s Climate 101 Video, used in his �24 hours of climate reality�, had some serious credibility issues with editing things to make it appear as if they had actually performed the experiment, when they clearly did not. It has taken me awhile to replicate the experiment. Delays were a combination of acquisition and shipping problems, combined with my availability since I had to do this on nights and weekends. I worked initially using the original techniques and equipment, and I�ve replicated the Climate 101 experiment in other ways using improved equipment. I�ve compiled several videos. My report follows.
Anthony provides the original video from Al Gore and narrated by the Science Guy Bill Nye and then proceeds to duplicate the experiment down to the exact components and then to dismantle it piece by piece.
He also shows the image of the two thermometers (one in a standard atmosphere and one in a CO
2 enhanced atmosphere) showing a few degrees difference. He then shows the two images as run through the Photoshop difference tool which highlights the difference between two images -- the only difference here is where the temperature difference was changed. All other aspects of the two thermometers are identical -- lighting, reflection on the glass, differences between the two scales and position in the photo frame. Impossible.
Fun stuff -- of course, the explanation from Gore and Nye are forthcoming.
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Posted by DaveH at October 19, 2011 12:53 PM