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 Gore: Change Laws and LightbulbsPosted on Apr 21, 2008
After “An Inconvenient Truth” hit theaters, Al Gore may have won a couple of trophies for his work in fighting climate change, but the former vice president doesn’t believe enough has changed where it counts—in national and international laws. According to Gore, we might be five years away from losing the whole North Polar ice cap and the U.S. needs to lead the way in making crucial legislative changes.
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By Paracelsus, April 22 at 2:59 pm #
Some of the same patterns of climate change have appeared in other parts of the solar system.
Report thisBy Dr. Knowitall, PhD, PhD, April 22 at 1:33 pm #
Just like a fat cat from America, which consumes a hugely disproportionate share of the world’s natural resources, to go about preaching conservation to the rest of the world.
The thing is, no matter what, the oil is there and it will be taken out of the ground, burnt or made into plastic by someone because there’s money in it. The population of the world is increasing exponentially. This can not be stopped. Dream on. You can thank science for this mess, science and greed.
Let’s all march over to China and tell all billion of them they can’t do what we did and do. Dream on!
Report thisAnother Bush type someday will invade China to stop them from consuming because their consuming is killing us. Then we’ll take out India, and then Africa. I’ll be dead.
By Ed, April 22 at 11:15 am #
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Compact fluorescent lights are a hazard therefore we should ignore the whole man-made global warming issue altogether?
Report thisBy Hemi*, April 22 at 9:07 am #
From the same family that made their fortune selling tobacco. This f*cknut has everyone in need of a hazmat detail for a broken light bulb. The “Truth” doesn’t get any more “Inconvenient” than that. Get aboard your Learjet Al and go back to inventing the web.
What’s next, a former Nixon lackey trying to tell us that the Earth was formed only 6,000 years ago?
Report thisBy Paracelsus, April 22 at 6:47 am #
“Mr. Gore needs to convince the people...not the politicians, because the politicians are loathe to write laws that might hurt their corporate constituencies.”
What makes you the judge that the “people” really need to be convinced? That seems like a statement someone on high would make to get the peasants in line for the latest horrific idea. When Newt Gingrich and Nancy Pelosi agree on the same issue that worries me. Have you ever really looked into the science of the Manbearpig movement? Granted that sulfur, fluorine, NOx,ozone, and CO, carbon monoxide are pollutants to worry about, but CO2? Besides for the last 8 years we have had global cooling.
Report thisBy jackpine savage, April 22 at 3:55 am #
Mr. Gore, in the fashion typical of a lifelong politician, goes about environmentalism in the wrong way.
He was right in Oslo, the Earth has a “fever”. But he was wrong to not explain that a fever is a symptom. You could die from a fever, but you could also get the fever down and still die from whatever caused the fever. Global warming is a symptom, not the disease. The disease is waste.
Show me “waste” in Nature; you can’t because it doesn’t exist. The cow eats the grass; craps all over the grass; and then the grass eats the crap...to feed the cow again. (that example is infinitely more complex in reality, but that’s the basics)
Our industry is only about 20% efficient in terms of energy use/waste production. That is our problem. But it is never addressed.
Besides that, laws are made to be broken. Mr. Gore needs to convince the people...not the politicians, because the politicians are loathe to write laws that might hurt their corporate constituencies.
It is quite simple: whatever you “throw away” must - necessarily - be breathed, eaten, or drunk. It may be you, it might be someone half a world away, and/or it might be your grandchildren...but it will be someone’s air/water/dinner.
Report thisBy weather, April 22 at 12:59 am #
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There is nothing theoretical about rising temps. Capturing ambient sources of surface heat by instruments is only but one measurement and those results then calibrated by algorithims to address anomalies of refraction/reflection.
Fear doesn’t motivate what the Oceans are telling us. You just don’t like what the say. eom
Report thisBy DennisD, April 21 at 11:13 pm #
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“According to Gore, we might be five years away from losing the whole North Polar ice cap”
The operative word is “might”. The only thing I’m sure of is that Al is desperately trying to get into everyone’s wallets again and that the rich will become just that much richer because of it.
I refuse to sign up for Al’s guilt/fear trip. Why is it I don’t hear from Al in the middle of a freezing winter. I guess a warming scare doesn’t sell particularily well then does it.
I’m sure global warming is right at the top of the list for people who’ve lost their homes, jobs and have no health care. You know the real time problems that should be solved before Al’s current fantasy. Oh, and lets not forget our little old WARS either.
Report thisBy scott thomas, April 21 at 9:00 pm #
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Why should we trust Gore? A man whose daughter married into the Jacob Schiff family. The same Jacob Schiff that funded the Bolshevik Revolution. The same Jacob Schiff tied to the Federal Reserve and Wall Street. Food for thought.
Report thisBy Paracelsus, April 21 at 7:34 pm #
http://www.friesian.com/crichton.htm
I am tired of the fear, and the thing I fear most is paying some tax for the respiration of our civilization. There is a term that is little used now called the climatic optimum. We have had many climatic optimums, the most recent was during the medeval age around 1100 AD. For Goshen’s sake you could graze cattle in Greenland, and grow wonderful wine grapes in England. That is much, much warmer than it had been reported during the 90’s. As for the temperatures recorded in the US, vast numbers of the measuring instruments were located near the hot parts of buildings and parking lots. There had been temperature gages located near air conditioner vents. Ask yourself why Gore has so much money invested in carbon credit markets, and yet he has a foundation to promote this panic?
Think about how many times bipartisan support has been equivalent to rape for the common people. For donkey’s years we have had bipartisan support for the big military expenditures. For donkey’s years we have had bipartisan support for free trade. Now we have bipartisan support for the Patriot Act, and the Iraqi War. Now we are going to have bipartisan support for this carbon tax flim flam.
Gore is nothing but charlatan for the gloablists who seek to immobilize you and starve you. I wish I could cool out Al Gore by putting his head up his cloaca.
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