Thread: Climate Change is real!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by gunnut

Only a fellow true geek would recognize my paraphrasing.

Oh, I'm afraid my geekiness knows no bounds.

I am literally fidgeting in anticipation of the arrival of this.

Gonna be yummy.

-dale

Originally Posted by Bulgaroctonus

You are incorrect in your assessment of Al Gore's hypocrisy because you imply a false dilemma: that prevention of global warming demands cessation of modern society and the forfeiture of all material comforts. This is neither the position of Al Gore nor the position of conservationists. As the below excerpt form the Guardian shows, Gore has been reluctant to divorce Americans from their lifestyles:


Interview: Al Gore on his mission to save the planet | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited

The recommendations in An Inconvenient Truth were reasonable things like having properly inflated tires and insulated houses. These are hardly the rantings of some anarcho-primitivist.

Furthermore, Al Gore does take steps to reduce his load on the environment. It is true that he is not a saint. However, he is doing more than you or I to lessen global warming. This comes from the same Guardian article:



From a CNN Larry King Live interview with Al Gore (Aired June 13, 2006):

CNN.com - Transcripts

I saw your most recent post about global warming not passing any tests. How many documents do you want me to get to support global warming? Ten, a hundred, a thousand? I can easily do that to counter your mistaken claim. Let's settle for ten to start off. By Sunday, I will find ten good articles on global warming. You can find ten articles, preferably not from the American Petroleum Institute, that claim that global warming is not happening or is not due to human activity.

I know that you and many other conservatives view global warming as a hoax spawned by the amorphous 'left'. I ask you to put aside that for our debate, as hard as it may be. I don't mean this condescendingly. I think it is essential to stop viewing Al Gore and all the IPCC as adversarial.

I believe the climate crisis is not a political, but a moral issue.

What happened to the great debate? I was all ready for the show and now it's feels like leaving the theatre after the previews. I feel so... unsatisfied.

Originally Posted by Wooglin

What happened to the great debate? I was all ready for the show and now it's feels like leaving the theatre after the previews. I feel so... unsatisfied.

Maybe he saw through the hoax?

Originally Posted by gunnut

Maybe he saw through the hoax?

Bulgy's a bright guy, I wouldn't doubt that interpretation for a second.

-dale

Anecdotal more than scientific, but funny as heck and it shows one of the deeper weaknesses of the whole "global warming" religion:

Article here.

"LAST month Australians endured our coldest June since 1950. Imagine that; all those trillions of tonnes of evil carbon we've horked up into the atmosphere over six decades of rampant industrialisation, and we're still getting the same icy weather we got during the Cold War."

-dale

Originally Posted by dalem

Anecdotal more than scientific, but funny as heck and it shows one of the deeper weaknesses of the whole "global warming" religion:

Article here.



-dale

I asked someone who believes in global warming about the colder winters. Do you know what the answer was? She was totally serious "global warming makes for more extreme weather patterns, therefore colder winters."

The earth gets hot and the earth gets cold. Ain't nothing we can do about it.

But climate change is like Michael Moore's tracksuit - it can fit anyone

Tee hee.