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Al Gore And The Coming Ice Age...No Wait...Global Warming
- November 13, 2009 14:08:20
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As Al Gore is pushing his new book, “Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis,” one has to ask: Whatever happened to global warming?
It was a popular term for many years. But now we have “climate change”. Perhaps “global warming” lost its sex appeal once people realized that it’s not 99 degrees in January.
But both terms need to be put on the extinction list, and common sense put on it.
Because there are many extreme environmentalists who want to cause a panic over wild predictions made by some scientists.
For example, does anyone remember that in the summer of 2008, scientists were predicting that the North Pole would be ice free because of global warming by September of that year? Does anyone remember how wrong they were?
We need a scientist level headed enough to tell us that we’re not in any immediate danger of the Earth spontaneously combusting because someone is driving an SUV. Because no one is really sure what is causing the Earth to warm up.
Because no one, despite what a certain former vice president has said, can point a finger to any one thing and say, “Ah ha, that’s it right there. That’s causing the Earth to heat up faster than a high school boy looking at his first Playboy.”
And it’s true. We have many scientists who are saying that volcanoes and solar flares are contributing to warming temperatures.
I admit I’ve never been a fan of the man-made global warming theory. But that makes people foolishly believe that I’m for dumping trash in park streams and making my own yellow stream in the ocean.
I’m for common sense and a cleaner Earth. I’m all for alternative, reliable (and I can’t stress that last word enough) sources of energy. We must kick the oil habit. If anything, we shouldn’t have foreign countries holding us by our collective oil drums every time we want a little oil and having them squeeze a little harder just to price gouge us to death.
But until a reliable, cleaner solution can be found to give us the same type of energy output that oil provides, we should drill for oil, whether it’s off our coasts or in Alaska. If Greenpeace doesn’t like it, then they can suck it up and deal with it. I don’t think Americans should suffer just because a few people don’t want to inconvenience some mating caribou.
And after 10 years of drilling and we only have only a million barrels to show for it, well, that’s just a million less that Saudi Arabia can’t use to make us into their oil whores.
Listen, we had scientists back in the 1970s who were claiming that by the 1990s all of America would be in the middle of an ice age. Guess what? The 1990s came and went and no ice age.
So it’s a little hard to get all excited over global warming with that type of track record.
It was a popular term for many years. But now we have “climate change”. Perhaps “global warming” lost its sex appeal once people realized that it’s not 99 degrees in January.
But both terms need to be put on the extinction list, and common sense put on it.
Because there are many extreme environmentalists who want to cause a panic over wild predictions made by some scientists.
For example, does anyone remember that in the summer of 2008, scientists were predicting that the North Pole would be ice free because of global warming by September of that year? Does anyone remember how wrong they were?
We need a scientist level headed enough to tell us that we’re not in any immediate danger of the Earth spontaneously combusting because someone is driving an SUV. Because no one is really sure what is causing the Earth to warm up.
Because no one, despite what a certain former vice president has said, can point a finger to any one thing and say, “Ah ha, that’s it right there. That’s causing the Earth to heat up faster than a high school boy looking at his first Playboy.”
And it’s true. We have many scientists who are saying that volcanoes and solar flares are contributing to warming temperatures.
I admit I’ve never been a fan of the man-made global warming theory. But that makes people foolishly believe that I’m for dumping trash in park streams and making my own yellow stream in the ocean.
I’m for common sense and a cleaner Earth. I’m all for alternative, reliable (and I can’t stress that last word enough) sources of energy. We must kick the oil habit. If anything, we shouldn’t have foreign countries holding us by our collective oil drums every time we want a little oil and having them squeeze a little harder just to price gouge us to death.
But until a reliable, cleaner solution can be found to give us the same type of energy output that oil provides, we should drill for oil, whether it’s off our coasts or in Alaska. If Greenpeace doesn’t like it, then they can suck it up and deal with it. I don’t think Americans should suffer just because a few people don’t want to inconvenience some mating caribou.
And after 10 years of drilling and we only have only a million barrels to show for it, well, that’s just a million less that Saudi Arabia can’t use to make us into their oil whores.
Listen, we had scientists back in the 1970s who were claiming that by the 1990s all of America would be in the middle of an ice age. Guess what? The 1990s came and went and no ice age.
So it’s a little hard to get all excited over global warming with that type of track record.
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Al Gore is a liberal fool and a menace to societyView thread
All one has to do is to replicate the practices of the government scientists carefully to get the same results they did.
Just stand on your head and watch the thermometer go upwards relative to your point of reference. No problem!
Second, the various scientific theories surrounding global warming do suggest that because of its effects on heat distribution, especially in the oceans, global warming may indeed cause a new ice age, especially in the northern hemisphere.
Learn about the science behind the theory, and then say exactly why you think it's wrong. To anyone who simply says, "Global warming is a hoax!" but hasn't learned or understood the science, and to all those who stubbornly refuse to listen to the message simply because they hate the messenger (Al Gore) your words are just empty, valueless declarations based on ignorance.
The point here you seem to miss, is, that whatever the Science suggests to the conclusion you say has been marketed with a Politicised, Profitised Chicken Little message!
If science concluded that there were stars in the sky, and conservatives said no, that the conclusion was "too liberal" a view of the cosmos, there would nevertheless still be stars in the sky.
So my arguments and opinions are not ideological and not influenced by religious beliefs. I'm not a scientist, but nor does anyone have to be a scientist in order to educate themselves in these issues and understand, in layman's terms, what the data and theories are and what it all may mean.
The global warming and climate change information is not some occult, arcane knowledge available only to a few brilliant scientists. Anyone can educate themselves on these issues if they wish to.
So, essentailly in your laymans opinion anyone of a more conservative nature who see's the poorly done message and the possible over reaction & may have done as good a job comprehending the data or the solutions to it is worthy of scrutiny? Because what you claim is it's not a political issue for you, yet you take issue with that message and make no mention at all of potential liberal missuse of said data! Lol......you don't find that odd?
If science concluded Dick Cheney was a Pompous Self Serving A** it would not negate AL Gore being in that very same Cosmos!
Oh & in the end the "Conservatives" bought into Galileos Claims!
No. Instead, the conservatives at the time of Galileo, the Catholic religious authorities, made Galileo recant and renounce his theories ("confess" that he had lied when he said that the Earth revolved around the Sun) and then imprisoned him in his own living quarters for the rest of his life.
We are attempting to assist FUTURE generations by thinking ahead to come up with ways to conserve resources, maintain air quality, while still providing the luxury class items we love so much. That is why it is not 99 degrees in January. But you know what, here in Western Canada we don't have any snow yet. It's 18C in November. Kinda odd.
And I'd like to see a source for the the claim of scientists crazy predictions from the seventies for an ice age. Nice try there.
You made an interesting point: How do we know the correct temperature of the Earth? We've only been taking temperature readings for the last 150, 200 years? That's nothing compared to a planet that's supposed to be 6.4 million years old.
Whether the Earth is going through a natural cycle, sun spots or someone driving an SUV, I'm just saying we shouldn't hit the panic button just yet and scare the hell out of people. Predictions have been made before and haven't come true.
I remember reading how after Hurricane Katrina hit, that because of global warming, the following summer will have a record number of hurricanes. It didn't happen.
Now, if you noticed in my column, I was urging for a cleaner Earth and to find alternative solutions to oil.
Now here is a Newsweek article that mentioned how the publication and even TIME magazine ran articles in the 1970s about ice ages. If you watch the History Channel, sometimes they run a special on the topic too.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/72481
Governments, Kings and wealthy people poured the fortunes of Empires into alchemy. Too bad it was not much better than Climate Change.
Also, for all the intellectually challenged. You are confusing WEATHER with CLIMATE. There actually is a difference.
Finally, think people. Just take a moment and think. There is no disagreement that we are creating life threatening pollution. This planet is an island in a vast, limitless Universe. This planet is the only place we know of in the entire limitless Universe that will sustain our form of life. If we kill this island, this sanctuary that supports our life form then we kill ourselves.
It's that simple a discussion.
Recycling is a great idea - cleaning up the mess from discarded plastics isn't Global Warming - it is called be a good steward of the land. Cutting emissions does reduce pollution and smog in cities and that is a good idea.
My office is paperless. I use a canvas grogery bag and a cooler just because I am too lazy to want to haul all that trash to the county land fill and then pay the taxes to pay the county workers to be there. It is just easier and cheaper to not bring the plastic bags home in the first place.
Paying Al Gore for imagined injury to countries who see themselves as missing out on the gravy train just doesn't seem to be in the same class.