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A I haven't bet on it, but I figure the odds are about 50-50. <br />Tf you look at the temperature record for the globe over the last six years, it's gone <br />no place. That's usually the way it behaves before it goes down. In fact, I suspect <br />that's why you have this tsunami of exposure the last two years, with Gore's movie <br />and so on. I think that this issue has been around long enough to generate a lot of <br />agendas, and looking at the temperature records there must be a fear that if they <br />don't get the agendas covered now, they may never get them. <br />Q Did you watch Al Gore get his Academy Award? <br />A No! Bad enough I watched his movie. <br />Q He would appear to have the support of the majority of your scientific colleagues. <br />A Not really. This is an issue that has hundreds of aspects. The very thought that a <br />large number of scientists all. agree on everything is inconceivable. Among my <br />colleagues, I would say, almost no one thinks that Gore's movie is reasonable. But <br />there will be differences. Some believe it is possible that warming could be a <br />serious problem. Others think it's very unlikely. People are all over the place. <br />Q Some suggest that Roger Revelle, Gore's scientific mentor, would not have <br />agreed with the movie? <br />A Well, he's dead. <br />Q Yes. So that makes it harder for him to speak out. <br />A It's a horrible story. Before he died, Roger Revelle co-authored a popular paper <br />saying, 'We know too little to take any action based on global warming. If we take <br />any action it should be an action that we can justify completely without global <br />warming.' And Gore's staffers tried to have his name posthumously removed from <br />that paper claiming he had been senile. And one of the other authors took it to court <br />and won. It's funny how little coverage that got. <br />Q How cynical do you think Gore is? <br />A It's hard for me to tell I think he's either cynical or crazy. But he has certainly <br />gashed in on something. And'cash in' is the word. The movie has cleared $50- <br />million. He charges $100,000-$150,000 a lecture. He's co-founder of Global <br />Investment Management, which invests in solar and wind and so on. So he is <br />3 <br />