Al Gore’s 2008 President Bid: The Movie (aka An Inconvenient Truth) talks about the impending global disaster caused by excessive Carbon Monoxide in the air. He cited increased insurance claims for natural disaster as evidence of this occurring as we speak. Well not so fast:

Census Bureau figures suggest that between new houses built and rising prices, the total value of owner-occupied housing in the United States increased about 45 percent from 1990 to 2000. The Ceres study says weather-related property losses increased about 40 percent from 1990 to 2000. Hmmm, those numbers seem awfully similar

You gotta love Gregg Easterbrook, titanic god living among men.

Overall, I enjoyed the movie; I left happy and curious. He brings up many assertions (which I took for granted as facts) that I was unaware of and need answering. Chief among them: the amount of carbon dioxide in the air is increasing (dramatically). More carbon-dioxide means higher temperatures. This is a problem.

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