What Al Gore Doesn’t Know

Global-warming skeptics are a dwindling species. Even Newt Gingrich, a conservative hero, is calling for a new era of environmental stewardship.

Skeptics don’t argue that the planet is getting warmer. They’re just not ready to fault human activity, and they tend to equate a sense of urgency with hysteria.

Olathe resident Mike Sturdivan laid out the unbelievers’ case in one of those “Midwest Voices” columns that appear occasionally in The Kansas City Star. Sturdivan, a cost estimator at Black & Veatch, took the requisite cracks at Al Gore (“just a snake-oil salesman searching for relevance”) before pulling out the hard data: a 2006 survey of the National Registry of Environmental Professionals.