Ten grim (but highly profitable) years ago, Al Gore gave us all a deadline. Now we have to live with what we?ve done. Or, more precisely, what we haven?t done. At least we won?t have long to live with our regrets as a species.
Former Vice President Al Gore is not all that comfortable being a star of the Sundance Film Festival. He?s far more concerned that the celebrity watchers hear what he has to say. The former vice president came to town for the premiere of ?An Inconvenient Truth,? a documentary chronicling what has become his crusade since losing the 2000 presidential election: Educating the masses that global warming is about to toast our ecology and our way of life? And politicians and corporations have been ignoring the issue for decades, to the point that unless drastic measures to reduce greenhouse gases are taken within the next 10 years, the world will reach a point of no return, Gore said.
Wait, hold on.
Ten years? Hang on a sec. [GRABS PEN AND PAPER] 2006? plus 10? equals?
Oh no. No, no, no. What?s today?s date? What?s? [LOOKS UP AT CALENDAR, FREEZES, BUT NOT LITERALLY, OF COURSE]
?This can?t be happening. No. Nuh-nuh-no. Th-this can?t be the end. I had so much left to live for. I had so much left to do. I never even got a chance to watch the ?ManBearPig? episode everybody?s always talking about!
As we all know, the first step to achieving ?climate reality? is to make everybody forget how math works. Assuming they knew in the first place. After that, just keep scaring the hell out of them until they throw money, either their own or, preferably, somebody else?s.
How many climate disasters do you hot rodding tackling dummies have to see before this is no longer some political debate like all your other constant arguments?
How many disasters could have been eased if you had listened to Gore then, and how many more could be not as severe if you got off your high horses now.
You impress only yourselves.
Global Warming is not going to be good to slave drivers, and that's good.
I hate to break it to you, but every "disaster" that you attribute to global cooling, I mean warming, I mean Climate Change, Or is it Climate disruption this week, or whatever you want to call it occurred long before we had cars.
Question: Do you believe that there was an Ice Age prior to mankind? If yes, do you believe that this ice age ended prior to mankind? If you answer yes to both of these, then we agree that the climate changes naturally.
Since, you seem to know what you are talking about, then I would like to ask you where the accurate predictions are. As I'm sure you are aware of, per the Scientific Method, we need to have accurate predictions that are proven time after time before an hypothesis can become a Theory. I've found plenty of predictions, like the frequency of hurricanes, etc., but the predictions are always incorrect.
Since the early 80's we have been told that you cannot look at the local weather patterns. Whatever you are calling it this week manifests itself in the global climate, not local weather. But over the past few years, every time it snows, rains, doesn't rain, there is an earthquake (that's a stretch), or any other type of local weather occurring, it is proof. Even though no one ever predicted that this weather would occur before it began. I even heard someone try to blame the murder rate in Chicago on Global Warming... LOL
The only time Democrats won't use children as a prop is at a Pro-Choice Rally. -Greg Gutfield
"Question: Do you believe that there was an Ice Age prior to mankind? If yes, do you believe that this ice age ended prior to mankind? If you answer yes to both of these, then we agree that the climate changes naturally."
Another question: Do you believe that there were wildfires prior to mankind? If yes, do you believe that wildfires burned themselves out prior to mankind? If you answer yes to both of these, then we agree that bushland catches fire naturally.
I better explain this analogy: Yes, the climate has been known to change naturally. But anyone who's been paying attention will have noticed that in the last couple of hundred years, since the time when coal began to be burned in large quanties, the earth has been warming at an unnaturally rapid pace.
A bushfire can happen naturally, but there are also bushfires that have been started by a firebug with kerosene. The intentional burning of fossil fuels, pumping excess CO2 into the atmosphere, can be equated to the firebug pouring kerosene over dry bushland and lighting a match.
It's unfortunate that a voter's view on climate change is determined by which political party they side with. Climate change has no interest in the petty divide between republicans and democrats.
I don't have a problem with people believing in global cooling or whatever. I do have a problem when people want to legislate their beliefs without solid proof.
I noticed you didn't post a link to the accurate predictions that are required according to the scientific method. The scientific method is designed to weed out science from other factors, be it personal beliefs, financial benefits, or anything else. If you cannot make accurate predictions about what is going to happen, then you cannot claim to understand what is happening. And therefore your hypothesis is incorrect. Come back when your predictions are accurate and repeatable.
The only time Democrats won't use children as a prop is at a Pro-Choice Rally. -Greg Gutfield
"If you cannot make accurate predictions about what is going to happen, then you cannot claim to understand what is happening."
When you say "accurate predictions", do you mean 100% accurate? Because that's impossible in every field of science. That's why scientific papers are published with an error bar.
Then again, IMDb isn't the ideal place to get the most reliable and up-to-date information about climate change. You would have to talk to actual climate scientists. Preferably in person.
If we had listened to Gore? Problem is even the people who are listening aren't really listening. For all the talk about how stupid the deniers are, I see mostly hot air coming from the believers. Guilting, more taxes, but not true self reform. So even if every denier believed tomorrow, the huge "now what?" begins. The problem has always been beyond whether or not the science says this and more about the hypocritical ways "reform" is attempted. Believers seem to be utterly useless to their own cause, kind of like the Christian fundies.
"Problem is even the people who are listening aren't really listening."
No, the real problem is that "special interests" - i.e. the coal industry - keep obstructing any attempts to ween us off fossil fuels. If we equate the coal industry with drug dealers, the public are the addicts. It's very difficult for a government to put effective reforms in place if they're obliged to compromise and water down those reforms at the behest of the coal industry.
"You can't turn on your television without seeing these advertisements about clean coal, clean tar sands and the claim that there's more jobs associated with fossil fuels than other industries. That's of course not true. But they're hammering that into the voters' heads." - James Hansen
James Hansen has said "clean coal" is an oxymoron. reply share
You old men must be blind with Carter Acts from all that oil you throw from that speeding rod of yours, when it's not stuck in traffic with the rest of the PPM in the oil smeared sty.
This will NEVER end up as a "hoax".
more like people will say "What were people thinking back then"
and they think whatever the fat man farts before the center snap I guess. , and that's what most of these posts here are: Fat Man Farts
While Mr. Gore will have a SEQUEL film to this one at this time next year
You'll just have to see "Before The Flood" to keep you up to date on cleaner air drunkards-
most sane people pay NO ATTENTION to your sh!t anymore- the problems have grown and will only continue to do so, gas hogs.