I tell you, my husband says the same thing. Though every once and while he'll bark, "I don't know why I even bother talking to you! You never listen..." and then goes stomping off.
(See,guys, we chicks got you pegged.)
Posted on 03/06/2009 11:40:08 AM PST by NCDragon
The Goreacle has spoken–again.
Its “kind of silly” to keep debating the science, Mr. Gore said (AP)
Former Vice President Al Gore repeated his message that climate change is a planetary emergency at the WSJ’s Eco:nomics conference in California. The Nobel-prize winner declined to take any questions from reporters, but he did receive a couple of challenges from attendees, including Bjorn Lomborg. But don’t expect Mr. Gore to debate the merits of how best to tackle climate change anytime soon.
Mr. Gore stuck to his prepared script about the urgency of taking action to curb global greenhouse-gas emissions, down to well-worn phrases he trots out at conferences across the country: America is at “a political tipping point” on climate change, and even if Washington has failed to address the energy challenge in the last 35 years, “political will is a renewable resource.”
But he was challenged by Mr. Lomborg, the Danish skeptical environmentalist who thinks the world would be better off spending more money on health and education issues than curbing carbon emissions.
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What I would like to see is a government funded accounting on the amount of carbon offsets that are required for the AlGore “Liar, liar. Pants on fire!” expulsions into our atmosphere.
I, personally, would be willing to head the investigations for, oh, say a billion dollars, to start. We could adjust the amount based on a consensus of opinion gathered at my testing facilities in my back yard where I regularly test the environment’s ability to cope with the smoke generated by my stainless steel testing device made by Char-Broil.
Are there any ‘scientists’ available to assist in the research?
bah.
I think it conceivable for him to stake out a position on math where someone convinces him that 5 + 5 = 11, and he would accept it as gospel and argue about it until his dying day.
I can. I'd be REEEYATCH BEEEYATCH! Gimme my Gulfstream V and I'll pay the carbon offsets (to myself, of course) from my pocket change.
But the difference between me and Gore is that I have a conscience that would be eating at me for having gained my fortune through fraud.
I tell you, my husband says the same thing. Though every once and while he'll bark, "I don't know why I even bother talking to you! You never listen..." and then goes stomping off.
(See,guys, we chicks got you pegged.)
Actually Newton’s theories were ‘extended’ and not changed. Newtonian physics still stand on a larger physical scale but are not applicable to the atomic scale or to scales involving velocities approaching the speed of light.
Scientists debate theories but hardly ever draw conclusions until measurements clearly reject a theory. Even when measurements support a theory they are reluctant to declare the theory as ‘truth’ (dogma) because there are always details that are not explained or do not fit. So they try to ‘extend’ the theory to fit the data.
But ‘extending’ a theory can also lead to problems such as in ‘evolution’ where the theory becomes so ensconced in scientific circles as to become ‘dogma’. Since the ‘dogma’ is thought to be irrefutable, any unexplained phenomena requires that the dogma be ‘extended’ to include the new unexplained observations. This leads to a fine line with astrology.
Astrology as a system can never be proven false; it is not falsifiable whereas Science is falsifiable. Astrology’s failings must be the fault of the astrologer’s shortcomings in not considering other signs and phases, etc. Not so with science where a failing is not in the scientist but in the hypothesis. However, dogma lies between the two and becomes so adherent that it is considered by some as unfalsifiable, closer to astrology. This is where Gore sits with respect to his dogma of man-made global warming, climate change, whatever.
Not many will challenge scientific dogma unless a disruptive technology permits viewing new data and old data through a different lens. Such was the case with the DNA dogma that has now fractured in to a whole set of new theories, hypotheses and explanations.
Unfortunately we do not yet possess a disruptive technology that allows us to effectively reject permanently the dogma of Gore. There will be warm years head, droughts and skewed data that will allow him to regain lost influence. It does not mean he will be any closer to the truth, in fact barring the necessary technology he will never approximate the truth.
So his is a political stand and he is of course misusing science to gain a political advantage.
That’s why I coined here on FR some years ago the description of Gore as the ‘American Lysenko’.
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"Chapter and verse"? He's referring to his global warming hoax as if it's the Bible? He needs to debate the issue - it has not been settled by God.
Well, he did flunk out of divinity school....
He needs to debate the issue - it has not been settled by God.
God has proven time and time again to Algore by making sure Al is giving speeches or having meetings on the coldest, nastiest days ever.
Al just can't get the hint....
bttt
I thought everyone knew how to do that already? If you don't know and want to learn I will be glad to teach you at a fraction of the cost Gore would charge. What you have to remember is that it takes, oh, say, 30 years before the farts actually turn to gold. So, just hang in there and don't come looking for your money back until the 30 years is up,ok?
You're right! Good one.
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