Team Gore Update:

Journalist Christopher Booker of theTelegraph in the UK has owned two members of Al Gore's team of global warming alarmists:

Dr. James Hansen - head of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) and chief scientific supporter of Al Gore's weather forecast: Booker reports that last week Hansen's group announced that this October was the warmest on record.  Independent researchers, not part of the global warming propaganda campaign, found this somewhat suspicious in light of unprecedented cold weather reports from around the globe during the month.  They investigated the GISS data - and shock!  It was defective.  Seems that all the data for Russia in the October report was rolled forward from the previous months(s).  An astronomer by training, it appears that Dr. Hansen is somewhat challenged by terra firma data.  (Comic irony footnote:  Hansen's GISS outfit in New York City occupies the building whose first floor tenant is the diner used in the TV comedy Seinfeld.  Apparently, some of the elaborate deception schemes cooked-up by George Constanza in the famous eatery may have been able to ride the local thermals at least as far as the upper floors of the building.  Life imitates art.  Who said Team Gore wasn't working off a script?)

Dr. Rajendra Pachauri- head of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):  The IPCC is the outfit that promoted Al Gore's movie Inconvenient Truth to the point where the committee that hands out Nobel Prizes for Peace decided he just had to be given one; a ridiculous choice, but unfortunately not unprecedented.  At the end of his article, Booker notes that Dr. Pachauri himself was recently caught in Australia claiming that in the last decade global temperatures have recently been rising "very much faster" than ever.  While Dr. Pachauri may also be working off of data produced in Russia, even global warming fans know that global climate data over the last several years is mixed and not capable of justifying such a statement.   Like Dr. Hansen, Dr. Pachauri is not a climatologist by training.  He started out his professional career in India as a manager in a diesel locomotive firm.  He then went on to pick up a masters and PhD in industrial engineering from North Carolina State University.  (Disclaimer:  Editor has one son at NC State and another at UNC Chapel Hill so he can't elaborate on the prowess of NC State graduates.)

With Dr. Hansen's group having slipped up on the data being produced in Russia and Dr. Pachauri having to manage beyond his areas of expertise, we thought it would be good time to recap the background of other Team Gore members that made Inconvenient Truth the scientific wonder that it is.  From a review of the movie in January 2007:

[A] telling aspect of the Gore film:  An entire documetary on a scientific issue with not a single scientist speaking on camera to support Gore's arguments.  OK, so the directors maybe used artistic license there.  Watch their credits at the end of the film.  Under image acknowlegements, because Gore displayed a picture of the Earth taken from space, you can be impressed by a credit for NASA, ditto for some other image-source combinations.  What you will not find is a single acknowlegement of thanks to any scientist or scientific organization.  No, not even a single scientist as an advisor to the director or editor.

You can note that the film had six [obscure] researchers  [Here are the closest matches for a web search of their names in January 2007]:

Lynda Hayden - other research credits include Surf Girls and Sorority Life III.

Keith Relkin - If [this is] the right guy, being a Scientologist makes him the closest thing to a scientist on the Gore team.

Marianna Yarovskaya - cut her investigative journalist teeth with Russian State Televison. Also worked on the documentary KAL007

Stephen Ruskowski - ranks no more than a below the line credit for [the movie's] Director Guggenheim

Gwen Cassidy - noted on only one other production: Travel Channel's Made in America.

Carey Ann Strelecki - one generic reference: "production supervisor - broadcast media"

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