The Gore Effect

Originally posted by Nemesio
How come every time you bring up global climate trends, you continue
to misrepresent what scientists have observed by saying that it's not
hot outside where you live right now?

And yet the fact remains, every time the Goracle calls one of his "global warming" press conferences, they break all records for temperature, snowfall, ice, etc. Surely even you can see the irony here?

Originally posted by MrHand
First, it is not the VP's responsibility to set policy. Second, Gore has lobbied hard for enivronmental issues throughout his career.

Yet he uses more energy than the rest of us! 😵

Originally posted by no1marauder
At the rate we're going, in a hundred years they'll be nice beachfront property close to Big D (I assume you're talking about Denver or Dallas).

The "rate we're going?" Alas, the Goracle's pronouncements have all been dismissed as crazy as the ravings of a syphallitic madman whose brain was fried on opium:

Al Gore's documentary on climate disaster has been ruled a work of fiction by a British judge. In legal terms, his global warming hysteria has been assuming facts not in evidence, says Investor's Business Daily.

According to Justice Michael Burton of the High Court in London:

* Gore's claim of a 20-foot rise "in the near future" was dismissed as "distinctly alarmist," and in reality, a rise could occur "only after, and over, millennia."
* On Gore's claim that the loss of Mount Kilimanjaro's snows was due to climate change, the judge said the scientific community had been unable to find evidence of a direct link.
* Gore's suggestion that the Gulf Stream that warms the North Atlantic would shut down was contradicted by the IPCC's assessment that it was "very unlikely" to happen.

Burton also ridiculed Gore's claim that polar bears were drowning while searching for ice melted by global warming. The only drowned polar bears the court said it was aware of were four bears that died following a storm.

As has been noted before, the scientific consensus is that sea levels might rise anywhere from 7 inches to 23 inches, but it would take a century for that to occur, says IBD. Even the latest IPCC report suggested that it would take a thousand years of higher-than-historic temperatures to melt the Greenland ice sheet, the basis of Gore's claim.

Source: Editorial, "Some Inconvenient Truths For Gore," Investor's Business Daily, October 11, 2007.

For text:

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=276995581156478

For more on Global Warming Science:

http://eteam.ncpa.org/issues/?c=science

For more on Global Warming:

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_Category=32

Originally posted by MrHand
Throwing your hands up in the air is not helpful. I agree that the problem is daunting, but the least we can do is try. Mileage standards, cap and trade pollution credits, etc. Regardless of the other global actors, we are still very significant. We can lead by example rather than being and obstacle.

What you can do is support these sorts of things.

Why? The hypocrites who propose all this gobblety goop have no intention of practicing what they preach. Also, the world has been cooling for the past nine years and the ice sheets in Antarctica are expanding. If "global warming" isn't real, but politicians and whacko environmentalists keep pushing it, this can mean only one thing: They want to control us by controlling energy usage.

Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
Why? The hypocrites who propose all this gobblety goop have no intention of practicing what they preach. Also, the world has been cooling for the past nine years and the ice sheets in Antarctica are expanding. If "global warming" isn't real, but politicians and whacko environmentalists keep pushing it, this can mean only one thing: They want to control us by controlling energy usage.

You have had way too much of the cool aid DSR.

Whacko environmentalists that are trying to protect the planet from pollution.

Indeed, it is such a crazy idea. We don't really need clean air, water and a temperate climate to survive.

Originally posted by MrHand
You have had way too much of the cool aid DSR.

Whacko environmentalists that are trying to protect the planet from pollution.

Indeed, it is such a crazy idea. We don't really need clean air, water and a temperate climate to survive.

That's a logical fallacy: Having clean air and water and the regulatory agencies to look after them have nothing to do with making the entire planet go back to living the way they did during the Civil War era when there is no proof that man is causing "global warming."

Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
That's a logical fallacy: Having clean air and water and the regulatory agencies to look after them have nothing to do with making the entire planet go back to living the way they did during the Civil War era when there is no proof that man is causing "global warming."

The fact that there is an overwhelming consensus in the scientific community is good enough for me.