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Al Gore's global warming movie: is the science accurate?

Salon.com: As Al Gore, the former Vice President's new movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," is receiving critical attacks from the Competitive Enterprise Institute over the quality of the science in the movie. salon.com asks some leading climatologists to review the movie for scientific accuracy.

Their biggest surprise: that Gore could present the science in an accurate way without putting everyone in the audience to sleep. The scientists only dispute one technical point on Gore's use of ice core samples but on the whole, "Given the fact that this was a film intended to bring the message to the lay public, I think it was excellent," says John Wallace, a climate scientist at the University of Washington.

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A review of the movie at realclimate.org

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