Posted on 06/22/2006 3:58:40 PM PDT by SJackson
We MUST ACT NOW!! Gore needs some serious mental therapy! It would be a crime not to heed his obvious cry for help!!
The old tax me more concept. Bet even the pukin' liberals aren't signing up for this scam. I think I'll set my thermostat to 68 now, it's hot outside so it will be nice inside. Global warming is just another plot to separate you from your money.
Try 102 here today. But at least we finally got some rain after 43 days without.
I have no doubt whatsoever that the author is clueless.
"Of nearly 1,000 peer-reviewed scientific articles about global warming, not one takes a contrary view of the growing risks we face from the continued warming of our atmosphere due to our fossil fuel use."
Interesting... that they call this "Science". This is "Politics" nothing more. There is no scientific proof of the above statement, only conjecture, computer model data, and convenient omission of any facts that collide with this socialistic power grab. Of course there are numerous articles, that "take a contrary view", by climatologists, in particular.
"The brutal reality is this: If we don't stem the carbon dioxide emissions, we will see nations' entire coastlines under water from the rise in sea levels due to melting glaciers, other nations with such severe droughts that their populations risk starvation, and the extinction of millions of species that cannot adapt to radical temperature changes in their habitats."
She knows! She saw it, it was right there on the movie screen! Movies are all true, right?
"Some scientists say the severity of Hurricane Katrina, which powered up from a category 1 to a category 5 storm while passing over the warm Gulf of Mexico, can be linked to global warming and signals more catastrophic hurricanes to come."
Not the ones who know what they are talking about.
"The moral imperative to make big changes is inevitable," Gore says of the need to face global warming seriously. "It is deeply unethical if we allow this to happen."
So, let's reduce America to an overtaxed 3rd World, basket case nation, sacrificing our economy, property rights, and sovereignty, to assuage the hysterical fears of a few international leftist proto-totalitarians who hate us all anyway.
"Two hundred western U.S. cities set high temperature records last year. Just last week, the Western Governors Association, whose states contain major coal and oil reserves, passed a resolution acknowledging the need to reduce global warming."
Every city in the country sets high temperature records at some time of the year, on one day or another. This statement is so pedestrian in its guilelessness as to be laughable.
Sorry hun, but hysterical emotionalism isn't going to motivate entire nations to commit economic and social suicide and return to the 19th century or earlier, on the promise that it might just avert a disaster that no one can prove will happen.
No. The argument is not over the cause but of the magnitude of the anthropogenic contribution. It is buried in the noise. See my tagline...
Variations in solar output aren't going to be offset by anything you or I do. Feel free to leave your SUV running while you shop.
I'm way ahead of Gore. I have moved into a den where several bears hibernate in winter, comfortably warmed by their body heat, while in summer it is cooled by their absence.
Life is good!
ROFL!!!!
The argument is not over whether or not there is global warming. The argument is over determining the cause.
I agree. I'm no scientist, but I say the cause is probably an increase in the output of the sun. Only slightly, but something the size of the sun doesn't have to change its output but slightly to be felt on earth to a great degree.
This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000. -- Lowell Ponte The Cooling, 1976
Where's the pseudo-religion alert?
Where's the pseudo-religion alert?
Exactly right. This is further evidence of an idea that seems increasingly clear - that anti-religious secular leftists try to fill the hunger for God written into the human heart with pseudo-religions : socialism, activism, environmentalsim, whatever.
They even have "conversion" stories. And Al Gore says that he is grateful that our generation has been given the "moral mission" of fighting global warming. Sorry, I already have a moral mission, Al. And it's hubris to pretend your "mission" should even be mentioned in the same breath.
Why don't they ever wonder if the sun has to do with the heating and cooling of the planet?
I am reminded of a story from the book, Three Flags at the Straits, by Walter Havighurst.
In it he sites how the Father Marquette met up with the Huron on Lake Huronin 1669. They implored him to stay.
They showed him their encampent, and pointed back 100 yards to where their ancestors used to camp. When he asked them why would they set up so much farther back from the shoreline, the Huron told him that the waterline used to be so much further back.
Things go in cycles. The ebb and flow continues, except in the mind of Algore.
The sky is falling, the sky is falling...
They were saying the same damned thing back in the 197o's. By now California was suppose to be underwater.
And I believe I'll have a beer.
Has anyone sent ABC their stories about how 'global warming' is affecting or has affected their lives? If we put our minds to this, we could have a ball!
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