“Why would a committee award such a prestigious prize right on the heels of his documentary [An Inconvenient Truth] being proven inaccurate and prone to exaggerations?”

Et tu, Gorus? http://wattsupwiththat.com/2007/10/12/et-tu-gorus/, October 12, 2007.
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