Al Gore's Hero Dr. Revelle

And His Betrayal of Dr. Revelle

Al Gore’s hero Dr. Revelle a man that changed his life is described by Mr. Gore as a “a wonderful, visionary professor” who was “one of the first people in the academic community to sound the alarm on global warming”. In the book Earth in the Balance Al Gore referred to him frequently.

This attitude towards Dr. Revelle changes as the former VP found out later that he may have misunderstood the good Doctor.

Dr. Revelle contradicted Al Gores views on global warming at least 4 times after Mr. Gore became active in politics and ran on a environmental – global warming campaigns.

• In 1984 article in Omni Dr. Revelle said People are always saying the weather's getting worse. Actually, the CO2 increase is predicted to temper weather extremes”
• In July 14 1988 letter to Congressman Jim Bates he wrote: “My own personal belief is that we should wait another 10 or 20 years to really be convinced that the greenhouse is going to be important for human beings, in both positive and negative ways."
• Just days latter Dr. Revelle wrote to Senator Tim Wirth: “we should be careful not to arouse too much alarm until the rate and amount of warming becomes clearer."
• In 1991 Dr. Revelle and two eminent colleagues Chauncey Starr, a founder of Electric Power Research Institute and Fred Singer, the first director of the US Weather Satellite, wrote an article for Cosmos “What to do about greenhouse warming: Look before you leap”

Sadly, three months after this article was published Dr. Revelle died of a heart attack. In 1992 Al Gore running for VP with Bill Clinton, Mr. Gore defended his inconsistency with Dr. Revelle views on global warming by savagely attacking Dr. Revelle, saying that he had become senile and Dr. Singer had duped Dr. Revelle into writing the article. This attack on Dr. Revelle resulted in a defamation suit that resulted in an abject public apology in 1994 from Gore’s academic hit man, a prominent Harvard scientist, who revealed his unsavory role and that of Gore in the fabrications against the two Doctors.

Dr. Revelle was clearly concerned about the alarmist views of Mr. Gore and the global warming believers; would his view have changed if he was still alive? That is an answer sadly we will never have.