Scary
I've always believed the science behind global warming and really just can't understand why there are so many people out there (including the president of this country) who just cover their ears like little children because they just don't want to hear it.
Al Gore's been talking about this to anyone who will listen. As others have reported, he seems very comfortable in this role and has actually taken this upon himself to educate and make a difference in this area. But if you're actually listening to what he's saying, it's pretty damn scary. If you ask me, we should be waging a global war against global warming, because in the long term, this will end up devastating us in more ways than what we'd like to imagine.
Al Gore's been talking about this to anyone who will listen. As others have reported, he seems very comfortable in this role and has actually taken this upon himself to educate and make a difference in this area. But if you're actually listening to what he's saying, it's pretty damn scary. If you ask me, we should be waging a global war against global warming, because in the long term, this will end up devastating us in more ways than what we'd like to imagine.
posted by elanit | 12:27 PM
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Hmmm...
So why exactly are the doom-criers right this time, when they've been wrong so many others? In the 60's and 70's, the climatologists were convinced that we were on the verge of another ice age. There were lots of great doom & gloom predictions about the coming famine in Europe due to advancing glaciers.
In the early 70's, Malthus and his cronies (led by Paul Erlich) made an appearance, claiming that we would have had a massive population crash by now, and we should be on the verge of mass starvation due to lack of food production.
(Aside: no starvation anywhere in the world is due to lack of production or production capacity - starvation is a concious political tool used by horrible governments to control populations.)
Consider also that the Martian icecap is melting. Hardly the result of human actions, eh?
No, Gore is a chicken-little environmentalist, who makes up for his own poor understanding of science with lots of hysterical predictions.
For a saner view, acknowledging the various components, check out Cecil Adams' response.
Oh, I forgot one more thing. As a Republican, I beg you: please, oh please, make Gore your candidate in 2008. I can think of few things which are more likely to end up with a Republican winning...
(R. Cohen is dead wrong about the public perception of Gore - he has no credibility with moderates on the issue of national security whatsoever due to his comments from 2003-2005).
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