"An Inconvenient Truth"
Posted on 10/11/2009 4:33:28 AM PDT by SamAdams76
I believe it.
This would be funny if is wasn’t true.
Now that was funny! Mr Adams, you are a comic of genius.
Ice ages are normal but warm periods are NOT???? What a pile of horsesh1t
Charlton Heston Speech on Global Climate Change:
You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There’s been life on it for nearly that long, 3.8 billion years. Bacteria first; later the first multicellular life, then the first complex creatures in the sea, on the land. Then finally the great sweeping ages of animals, the amphibians, the dinosaurs, at last the mammals, each one enduring millions on millions of years, great dynasties of creatures rising, flourishing, dying away — all this against a background of continuous and violent upheaval. Mountain ranges thrust up, eroded away, cometary impacts, volcano eruptions, oceans rising and falling, whole continents moving, an endless, constant, violent change, colliding, buckling to make mountains over millions of years. Earth has survived everything in its time. It will certainly survive us. If all the nuclear weapons in the world went off at once and all the plants, all the animals died and the earth was sizzling hot for a hundred thousand years, life would survive, somewhere: under the soil, frozen in Arctic ice. Sooner or later, when the planet was no longer inhospitable, life would spread again. The evolutionary process would begin again. It might take a few billion years for life to regain its present variety. Of course, it would be very different from what it is now, but the earth would survive our folly, only we would not. If the ozone layer gets thinner, ultraviolet radiation sears the earth, so what? Ultraviolet radiation is good for life. It’s powerful energy. It promotes mutation, change. Many forms of life will thrive with more UV radiation. Many others will die out. Do you think this is the first time that’s happened? Think about oxygen. Necessary for life now, but oxygen is actually a metabolic poison, a corrosive gas, like fluorine. When oxygen was first produced as a waste product by certain plant cells some three billion years ago, it created a crisis for all other life on earth. Those plants were polluting the environment, exhaling a lethal gas. Earth eventually had an atmosphere incompatible with life. Nevertheless, life on earth took care of itself. In the thinking of the human being a hundred years is a long time. A hundred years ago we didn’t have cars, airplanes, computers or vaccines. It was a whole different world, but to the earth, a hundred years is nothing. A million years is nothing. This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale. We can’t imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven’t got the humility to try. We’ve been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we’re gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.
http://nukegingrich.com/?s=charlton+heston
That is awesome, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a speech. It was Heston reading a passage from a Michael Crichton book, I'm pretty sure it was Jurassic Park. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong about the book.
You've been scooped...
by reality!
Cheers!
"An Inconvenient Truth"
Very good.
But...but...but...what about us?...
The coming Ice Age and Global Warming? Oxymoron anyone?
Didn’t Mt. Hood just have it’s earliest opening ever? And something about snow in Chicago...???
The sad part about that funny statement is that there are morons who will believe whatever gore says and throw money at him and still not hear al laughing on the way to the bank.
OK, thanks!
Actually, I don’t think it was State of Fear, because that one came out in 2004, and this reading of Charlton Heston’s was back in the 80’s or 90’s. I’m pretty sure it was Jurassic Park.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
