Not everyone is onboard when it comes to former Vice-President Al Gore’s award of the Nobel Peace Prize last week. Mike Simonson talked to local meteorologists about it.

The weather forecasters all agreed global warming is happening. But they didn’t all agree on whether Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth” is part of the answer. WDIO-TV’s Kyle Underwood questions some of the information in the Academy Award-winning film. “We need to be careful about where we get our information on global warming, and this debate unfortunately is driven by politicians.” He and KBJR-TV Meteorologist Carl Spring agree the topic is important to get on people’s radar screens. But Spring hasn’t seen the movie. “And I wouldn’t pay a dime to see it for many reasons. (Why?) Politically. He’s a left-wing nut. And he does things for other agendas.” Spring says Gore exaggerates the impact of global warming. Even so, Fox 21 Forecaster Todd Nelson says the movie was important. “Before the movie, people were kind of talking about it but now that the movie is out there in the mainstream media, people are talking about it every single day.” National Weather Service Warning Coordinator Carol Christianson agrees. She says global warming is a fact since the beginning of the industrial revolution. “Whether you like Al Gore and his politics or not, he probably has skewed a lot of the statistics quite a bit but maybe that’s a good thing to get people to act.” As for Gore’s politics, his political advisors say winning the Nobel Peace Prize will not increase his chances of running for President.

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