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For point 5, wtf are you on about. Read about the IPCC, I think its their 6th report thats the most recent and important one. Its approved by over 100 governments and hundreds of scientists.Harijan wrote:Now that A.G. has completely raped and destroyed one of the most sacred awards on the planet, I expect that any day he will throw his hat in the presidential ring. Lets pause for a moment and take a look at Big Al.
1. Despite being the "environmental champion", the Gore mansion in Tennessee uses as much power as 10 average homes each year. Big Al claims that he offsets this by buying energy credits. However, he buys the energy credits from a company that he owns.
2. Al Gore recently declared Global Warming a "settled science". It is nice that the laws of physics are still being questioned; evolution is not widely accepted; even gravity is still a theory, but we know for sure that global warming is for sure, 100% a closed issue.
3. A recent book "Cool It" was written calling into question the impact of global warming and whether or not the world should spend trillions of dollars to stop carbon emissions. The author of Cool It has been scheduled to debate Big Al 3 times. All 3 times Big Al has backed out of the debate.
4. The errors and flaws in Big Al's documentary "An Inconvient Truth" have been well documented.
5. Big Al suggested that thousands of scientist got together at the U.N. and decided that Global Warming is, in fact, happening. When was the last time a 1,000 scientist agreed on anything? The actual vote that was taken on the Global Warming issue included 12 people, some of which are not actually scientist, but politicians.
6. But hey, he did invent the internet.
Don't be duped. Global warming is an issue, but no one knows just how big of an issue it is, how bad it is going to get, or even whether or not this warming trend is a historical anomoly. Big Al is just playing on world environmental sympathy for when he throws his hat in the ring this time around.
No, the errors and flaws in Big Al's documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" have not been well documented.Harijan wrote:4. The errors and flaws in Big Al's documentary "An Inconvient Truth" have been well documented.
I've never heard the term Global Climate Change, but Global Warming and Climate Change are generally replaceable with each other because they refer to the same thing.silvanricky wrote:I've noticed lately that the people who kept saying there's Global Warming are now slowly transitioning to the phrase Global Climate Change.
I don't keep up on this issue as much as I should. Does anyone know why the term 'climate change' is being substituted for 'warming'?
let us elaborate.Harijan wrote: 1. Despite being the "environmental champion", the Gore mansion in Tennessee uses as much power as 10 average homes each year. Big Al claims that he offsets this by buying energy credits. However, he buys the energy credits from a company that he owns.
so, with math, he uses as much as 24 american homes a year?wikipedia wrote:In 2007, Gore came under criticism from the conservative think tank Tennessee Center for Policy Research.The organization issued a report which said that during August 2006 Gore's household consumed 22,619 kilowatt-hours — more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year.
Close, the real problem is that while global warming is anticipated to raise average temperatures worldwide by approximately 4 degrees F. This is not a universal 4 degree temperature increase. There are different models that suggest different warming patterns. The one I am most familiar with suggest that the farther you move from the equater the more temperature increase will be observed. So hypothetically the Arctic will warm up 16 degrees while the equater will not see observable temperature increases.Titanic wrote:I've never heard the term Global Climate Change, but Global Warming and Climate Change are generally replaceable with each other because they refer to the same thing.silvanricky wrote:I've noticed lately that the people who kept saying there's Global Warming are now slowly transitioning to the phrase Global Climate Change.
I don't keep up on this issue as much as I should. Does anyone know why the term 'climate change' is being substituted for 'warming'?
Richard S. Lindzen, an atmospheric physicist at MIT and anthropogenic global warming skeptic, wrote in a June 26, 2006 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that Gore was using a biased presentation to exploit the fears of the public for his own political gain. [67] Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the Earth System Science Center of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, wrote an open letter to Gore criticizing his presentation of climate science in the film, asserting that the Arctic had a similar temperature in the 1930s before the mass emissions of carbon dioxide began.[68] Former University of Winnipeg geography professor Dr. Timothy F. Ball rejected Gore’s claim that there has been a sharp drop-off in the thickness of the Arctic ice cap since 1970, stating that the data was taken only from an isolated area of the Arctic and during a specific cooling period.[69]sully800 wrote:No, the errors and flaws in Big Al's documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" have not been well documented.Harijan wrote:4. The errors and flaws in Big Al's documentary "An Inconvient Truth" have been well documented.
Do you like the support I have provided for my argument?
Cool It Chapter 1 or 2 (loaned out my copy so i can't give a page number)Titanic wrote:For point 5, wtf are you on about. Read about the IPCC, I think its their 6th report thats the most recent and important one. Its approved by over 100 governments and hundreds of scientists.
I dont have that book and dont intend to loan or buy it. Any chance you could tell us what he has to say on the IPCC?Harijan wrote:Cool It Chapter 1 or 2 (loaned out my copy so i can't give a page number)Titanic wrote:For point 5, wtf are you on about. Read about the IPCC, I think its their 6th report thats the most recent and important one. Its approved by over 100 governments and hundreds of scientists.
Written by Bjørn Lomborg
And to be fair, here is a link to Lomborg's critics:
http://www.esquire.com/features/esquire ... arming1007
JESUS SAVES!!!PLAYER57832 wrote:Too many of those who claim they don't believe global warming are really "end-timer" Christians.
jay_a2j wrote:GLOBAL WARMING MYTH Read it and weep.
Just once I would like to see an unbiased page. Just once.jay_a2j wrote:GLOBAL WARMING MYTH Read it and weep.
you really need better sources xtraxtratabasco wrote:jay_a2j wrote:GLOBAL WARMING MYTH Read it and weep.
I get my info from http://www.prisonplanet.com and http://www.infowars.com and it says the same thing.
but the facts dont matter, more taxes are coming and you and me and everyone knows it.
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bend over...this government is gonna have some ASS TIME with YOU
Here's why:Titanic wrote:What I dont get it why he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
nobelprize.org wrote:The Nobel Peace Prize for 2007
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.
Indications of changes in the earth's future climate must be treated with the utmost seriousness, and with the precautionary principle uppermost in our minds. Extensive climate changes may alter and threaten the living conditions of much of mankind. They may induce large-scale migration and lead to greater competition for the earth's resources. Such changes will place particularly heavy burdens on the world's most vulnerable countries. There may be increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states.
Through the scientific reports it has issued over the past two decades, the IPCC has created an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming. Thousands of scientists and officials from over one hundred countries have collaborated to achieve greater certainty as to the scale of the warming. Whereas in the 1980s global warming seemed to be merely an interesting hypothesis, the 1990s produced firmer evidence in its support. In the last few years, the connections have become even clearer and the consequences still more apparent.
Al Gore has for a long time been one of the world's leading environmentalist politicians. He became aware at an early stage of the climatic challenges the world is facing. His strong commitment, reflected in political activity, lectures, films and books, has strengthened the struggle against climate change. He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted.
By awarding the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 to the IPCC and Al Gore, the Norwegian Nobel Committee is seeking to contribute to a sharper focus on the processes and decisions that appear to be necessary to protect the world’s future climate, and thereby to reduce the threat to the security of mankind. Action is necessary now, before climate change moves beyond man’s control.
Oslo, 12 October 2007