With the aggregate age of first-time parents continually rising, 34 years is roughly the span of a generation these days. This June marks the 34th anniversary of Al Gore’s bestseller, Earth in the Balance. Gore deserves credit for raising consciousness about the importance of preserving our environment. Yet, the years have shown that his approach was questionable.

While many climate criticisms focus on Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth (for which he won an Oscar!), his seminal 1992, internationally acclaimed book, Earth in the Balance, has since faced strong rebukes. Scientists, researchers, and even economists contend that Gore resorted to alarmism rather than more balanced perspectives and measured policy solutions. Here are but a few instances where he was off the mark.

Historical and Scientific Claims

Gore asserted that retreating glaciers were a new phenomenon, while ignoring wholesale, voluminous historical records that indicate that glaciers have been receding since at least 1850 and even earlier. This process began long before industrial emissions were a significant factor.

He overemphasized the potential for rises in sea level. Melting snows in Antarctica and Greenland, he claimed, would raise sea levels by as much as 20 feet in the near future. Scientists have since clarified that this would occur in centuries, not merely years. He also said that Arctic........

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