Confirmation

A few different things going on, so a couple of other notes from the Crisis before going back to the Al Gore article:

A previous post mentioned Manhattan Project workers going skiing. Although it doesn't include the specific photograph referenced there, Nuclear Secrecy has a post that is probably related to it. It points to local television coverage of film footage found in early 2012.

Guardians of the Galaxy had a very good opening weekend: 94 million dollars worth. Evidently Star-Lord is a late Gen-Xer, born in 1979 or close to it, and the film goes primarily with the Nomad story. As might be expected based on the "bad" attributes of the title characters.

There were occasional showers in the Los Angeles area today. It is supposed to be a Mediterranean climate, so summer humidity and showers are not at all common. This could be because of global warming, or could be short-term variation - detailed weather records based on direct experience only go back about one hundred years. While there is evidence that climate change is real and is human caused and is based on the burning of fossil fuels, there is that concern that confirmation bias is not limited only to the deniers.  It can seem like everything that happens is taken as evidence for Anthropogenic Global Warming... unless everything that happens is evidence against it.

Really, it's probably part of the Crisis itself that there will be disagreement - over the real problem(s), over the appropriate solution(s), over who is engaging in ad hominem and who is ignoring obvious evidence  - until such time as the options collapse to the specific problems that can be fixed, the specific solutions that can be implemented, and the evidence can be generally accepted.