"Yet the fact that Gore et al are locked into a **liberal** viewpoint makes them paragons of fairness??? "

Gore doesn't work for an instuitution which is specifically organized to promote 'liberal' viewpoints. He has been following and writing on environmental issues for a couple of decades **as** an amateur scientist.

You simply can't compare their 'fairness' by their general political orientation. I HAVE read some opinions by conservatives that I thought were honest and 'fair', whether I agreed with all their conclusions or not.

The point now is that **WATTENBERG** was being suggested as a trusted researcher on THIS topic...not whether you can find another way to claim 'double standard'. Let's for once debate a point on the point, not on whether you can find some vague counter-example.