Gore Warns of 'Climate Emergency' While Promoting Disaster Film

CNSNEWS.com ^ | 5/12/04 | Marc Morano

[johniegrad]

Here is Al Gore, totally irrelevant as usual.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Let's hope Algore does for this movie what he did for Howard Dean.

[Elsie]

What can I say, other than.....

COOL!

[GeorgeW23225]

The only Global Emergency here is Al Gore!!

[ex-Texan]

Al Gore is a "has been" jerk jumping on media publicity -- on a movie that is based on a best selling book -- written by Whitley Stieber and famous radio personality Art Bell. The book has been a best seller and Al Gore is a famous, albeit proven loser.

'Nuff said, feel free to flame away.

[alloysteel]

The whole concept of the movie "The Day after Tomorrow" is based on something that is thermodynamically impossible. The earth and ocean would have to first absorb a fantastically huge amount of latent heat (no plausible source identified), and almost as suddenly, lose this added latent heat plus an even greater amount of the residual energy (also no plausible means identified). Ocean depths are at a relatively steady 38 degrees Fahrenheit, and it would take a very powerful current to stir this colder water at great depths to a point near the surface where it could be warmed. What drives this current? And what provides the huge input of energy needed to raise the temperature of the chill water from the depths?

There is a very elegant economy in the rate of heat transfer in vast bodies of water, as water has a very high degree of heat retention compared to most other liquids or solids (any compound or element in gaseous form gains or loses heat VERY quickly). For water, there is a vast amount of energy that must be given up before the liquid becomes ice, and for the liquid to become a vapor, a really enormous amount of heat must be absorbed.

Of all the liquids that may have been used as a solvent, as a means of heat moderation, as part of the cycle of life, water is truly unique. A chemist or physicist could spend a lifetime and not explore all the qualities that water has.

One suspects that the writers of the script are almost totally ignorant of the physical limitations of the nature of water that makes their tale nothing more than a fantasy.

[greasepaint]

Frogs, hail, locusts, darkness...
ok, Gore ,,,whatever

[G.Mason]

Who was that?

[Lawgvr1955]

'Nuff said, feel free to flame away.

No flame here. I will probably go see this movie, doubting that President Bush cares whether I do or not. Let Gore and Move.on bill it however they wish. I would think that it will have little effect on the election. The left keeps looking for "Hail Marys" and knock-out punches. Few elections are decided by such devices.

As most pundits have observed, the environment is the last issue on the mind of most voters. Terror and the economy are the top issues that will decide the election. Most people that go to the movie will do so for entertainment, not a political statement. Ask yourself, how much effort has the public put forth to deter comets or asteroids from striking the Earth since the two recent disaster movies "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon"? Answer: None.

Gore is a loser, most people acknowledge that and his association with the movie proves he is out of touch.

[Lawgvr1955]

One suspects that the writers of the script are almost totally ignorant of the physical limitations of the nature of water that makes their tale nothing more than a fantasy.

Interesting information regarding water. Your post highlights the addage that "bad science makes good movies". There aren't any light swords or warp drives, but the movies are entertaining. Few people go to movies for the science and this movie is no exception. It will have no effect on the election. Gore is the fool most think he is by associating this with his pet issue. By politicizing everything, he continues to sound like Chicken Little and becomes less and less effective as an environmental "warrior". The public grows weary.

[aardvark1]

Appropriate that Gore would choose fiction to promote this concept and try to revive his fictional political life.

[onyx]

He is truly pathetic isn't he?

[kb2614]

Hollywood continues to help me save money by crapping out one barf inducing movie after another.

[aruanan]

Gore Warns of 'Climate Emergency' While Promoting Disaster Film

Hey Algore, there's a big difference between a "climate emergency" and a "climate of emergency." The latter is what you and others like Barry Commoner have been trying to create since the 60s.

[tuvals]

Yes, Al Gore is pathetic and causes a Climate Emergency anywhere he goes. He reminds me of a roasted duckling, cooked and basted! A rather Chilling individual (IMHO).

[onyx]

LOL!
He's always out of step.
Truly pathetic.
I wish he'd go away.
He's an embarrassment.

[searchandrecovery]

Gore is also heading up a new group that will take aim at the root cause of Global Warming, called Flatulence Is Bad (or FIB). Look for a new movie exploring this theme later this year - Silent But Deadly.

[toomuchcoffee]

I saw the movie Van Helsing and am convinced, now, that there is a monster crisis and we must divert all time, money & energy to the eradication of monsters, or we will all die. And magic too. I saw Harry Potter and now know the dangers. I applaud the movie industry for these fine, educational tools.

[You Dirty Rats]

He calls this an EMERGENCY, when we are in the middle of a war?

When I think of how close we came to this pathetic man being President, I shudder.