Posted on 04/16/2007 6:09:31 PM PDT by G8 Diplomat
I don't know how many FReepers have seen 'An Inconvenient Truth', but I had to watch in science class today (in AP BIOLOGY of all classes...), and boy do I have some comments.
So first off, my teacher says "I don't condone or condemn the political views presented in this video, I'm just showing it because we'll be studying ecology soon." Ummmm....this has nothing to do with ecology. This is global paleoclimatology.
And then the movie started... In his introductory speech, Gore kept making sour wisecracks geared at the Administration. Dude, learn how to behave in public. That stuff is supposed to be kept to the forums and your own home, NOT in a public video meant to be shown to the masses. He said, "Hello I'm Al Gore, I used to be the last president of the United States". Good grief, when did he make that film? 2005? The election was FIVE YEARS AGO. You LOST. GET OVER IT. Recount after recount doesn't lie. Yet another example of the classlessness of the Democratic party.
And then he got into the core of it all... In an attempt to show the 'pollution caused by greenhouse gases', he showed a picture of Mt. Kilomanjaro taken 20 years ago where the sky around the mountain was clear, and then another one "taken last year" that was all hazy, supposedly from the 'smog' of fossil fuel-burning factories and what not. What evidence do we have that this was not taken on a hazy morning? I've been to Hawaii three times--the volcanoes there look hazy in the mornings as well. Heck, even here in Maryland the sky is hazy in the summer because of the near-100% humidity we get every day in the hot months. And that 'smoggy sky' really proves a point since we all know there are lots of carbon-emitting industrial plants in the Kenyan serengeti.
And then he showed pictures of glaciers melting in Antarctica and on mountains, claiming it's the result of global warming from our greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. OK dude, in case you didn't know, the earth goes through periods where its surface temperature gets warmer, and then cools off, triggering an ice age. This has happened many times in the earth's 4.6 billion-year history. It got real hot in the Cretaceous period and killed off all the plants, then all the dinosaurs. There was the 'Little Ice Age' in the Middle Ages that was preceded by a warm period. El nino comes through cyclically and the ocean temperatures warm up and can cause glacial melting. Although carbon emissions may aggrivate global temperature, they are not the SOLE CAUSE of it. Oh, and the ice caps are melting on Mars too, where we all know there are lots of pollution-spewing factory towers. Good one Al.
And then he takes the "attack your enemy" route. He says "My opponent has pledged to control carbon emissions. That pledge has not been kept." That's all he says--"That pledge has not been kept". No examples, no explanation of when and how it has not been kept. He just goes right into the next subject without proving his point. And why is he blaming Bush when he lives in a huge mansion with SUVs that all together consume more energy than the house of the average American?
And we aren't even halfway done with the movie yet! I'll have more comments for sure tomorrow. In the meantime I'll spend another hour of my life doing yet another useless thing the public school system has to offer.
I actually watched it on HBO. It was probably the most boring movie I’ve ever seen.
You should bring ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’ and tell your teacher to play that too, since ‘you’re going to be studying ecology soon’. :D
You can download it on bit torrent...that’s how I got a copy of it. (shhh!)
Hello?
Which consumes as much as ten average American families is more like it.
What is the famous and appropriate line?
"All animals are equal.
Some are more equal than others".
Are you going to college? Where? You probably can expect a lot more of this if you go to a university.
Try a couple of stories from here for your classmates. Looks pretty real, like all good satire. :)
http://www.ecoenquirer.com
Instead of watching a political film about Global Warming, why don’t you watch the actual IPCC presentation of their latest findings? It is probably still up at C-span.org. It doesn’t match Gore’s film though.
Here’s the Internet Skeptic’s slide show rebuttal to Algore:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM1yuRVC2s0
Ohio State. I know colleges are liberal as crap, but at least I can avoid more political-science classes. (Biology/Russian double major).
Hang in there. You are near graduation, and haven’t been brainwashed. Young people like you, give me hope for the future.....
Kilimanjaros glaciers have been melting since 1880. The most likely culprit is the cutting down of local forrests for farming, an the subsequent reduction of humidity in local wind patterns.
Ice mass has been growing in Antartica overall, not decreasing.
Brinng up in your class that Gore never once avocated the most obvious solution to reduce CO2 emissions. Nuclear power.
Also, of all the greenhouse gasses, C02 is only 5% of the total. Some 90% is awater vapor, or clouds, one of the most influential factors on the global climate. It’s also not totally understood, so when you hear Gore say the science cannot be challenged he is full of crap.
From 1940 to 1970 global temperatures went down while CO2PPM went up.
Also, the famous scale ovr 450,000 years that Gore narrates from a cherry picker....he tries to show a correlation between Co2 and temperature. Looks imrpessive right? What he does not tell you is temperature changes lead the C02 changes, not the other way around as he spins.
Oh I’d love to bring that up. I probably will.
I told the kids sitting next to me that this movie was a fake and full of politics not science, and they sort of believed me, but y’know it’s Maryland, a blue state. But when I said Al Gore’s father was a communist with ties to the Soviet Union, that seemed to convince them.
.... even if Al lives in several mansions, flies in expensive jets, and wastes LOTS of carbon footprints or whatever...
..He is an asset because he inspires....(I kid you not, this is what Arnold said)...Al inspires us to do better, to be better to our planet.......
I have never in my life considered Al Gore to be an inspiration to me!
Oh I’d love to bring that up. I probably will.
I told the kids sitting next to me that this movie was a fake and full of politics not science, and they sort of believed me, but y’know it’s Maryland, a blue state. But when I said Al Gore’s father was a communist with ties to the Soviet Union, that seemed to convince them.
Park your big SUV out in a handicap parking space with the bumber sticker:
Visualize Global Warming!
I predict that, in ten years, that movie becomes a cult favorite laughingstock.
Me either! I don’t like his wife too much either. I find it odd that Arnold thinks its ok for “them” to live their jet setting energy consuming lives yet want the rest of us to do without. Screw them. I told my daughter’s teacher that my child is to be excused from any movie I don’t pre-approve. I don’t care if they think I am a nut at her school either. I send my child to be taught not to watch asinine movies made by A$$es. I have really had it with public school too. I plan to try home schooling all summer and show my husband it can be done.
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