We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change (Mega Barf Alert!)

New York Times ^ | February 28, 2010 | Al Gore

[raptor22]

It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.

Of course, we would still need to deal with the national security risks of our growing dependence on a global oil market dominated by dwindling reserves in the most unstable region of the world, and the economic risks of sending hundreds of billions of dollars a year overseas in return for that oil. And we would still trail China in the race to develop smart grids, fast trains, solar power, wind, geothermal and other renewable sources of energy — the most important sources of new jobs in the 21st century.

But what a burden would be lifted! We would no longer have to worry that our grandchildren would one day look back on us as a criminal generation that had selfishly and blithely ignored clear warnings that their fate was in our hands. We could instead celebrate the naysayers who had doggedly persisted in proving that every major National Academy of Sciences report on climate change had simply made a huge mistake.

[Trillian]

It’s part of the whole quote..

My fellow Americans. As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball, but tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.

My favorite THOH :)

[ripley]

“We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change.”

Maybe not. But, we sure can vote out the left wing schmucks who want to tax the population at ninety percent
in order to “change” the climate to “normal”.

IMHO

[mylife]

It is also worth noting that the panel’s scientists — acting in good faith on the best information then available to them — probably underestimated the range of sea-level rise in this century, the speed with which the Arctic ice cap is disappearing and the speed with which some of the large glacial flows in Antarctica and Greenland are melting and racing to the sea.

Then...4 paraghaphs later he doubles down..

Almost all of the ice-covered regions of the Earth are melting — and seas are rising.

[mylife]

Seriously funny stuff!

[truthguy]

Al is feeling the heat.

Yes I get the sense that many more people are starting to recognize the fraud of AGW. But that's not going to stop the politicians and others who have a vested interest in perpetuating this fraud. There are so many powerful people who have set themselves up to make a fortune off this junk science of Global Warming/Climate Change. The MSM is in on the fraud. Has anyone noticed that all the news about Climategate and the collapse of the Global Warming argument is coming from Newspapers in the UK? Why no (or few) US Newspapers or new networks?

[truthguy]

Yes Al you seem to be very sure of this. Why not give this issue even more publicity by going out and debating it in a public forum? This would be a big help to we ignorant few who don't have as much brainpower as you.[extreme sarcasm]

No big Al you won't debate because you know that you will lose and that you would lose any credibility you have. In fact you would be exposed for the charlatan you are. No Al you are a joke. You have always been a joke and you always will be a joke.

[veritas3]

I tried to read the entire article, and couldn’t make the end. Painful read. Pure garbage & lies throughout. Looks like big Al is worried his business ventures are at risk. Maybe he’ll have to sell his hybrid Gulfstream that runs on recycled shoes, or his Nashville home that uses 10 times more energy than the average U.S. home. Sad, he my have to fly commercial like the rest of the minions. I saw there were complaints at the Apple meeting about reelecting him to the board. He finally was reelected to their board, so I put off my future Iphone purchase for at least another year.

[Steven Tyler]

With respect to dependence on foreign oil
Drill baby, Drill
Clean Coal
Unlock the Bakken Field supplies
Nuclear
Open the taps of the West coast oil fields, if only to stop the enornmus seepage into the Pacific

[mylife]

we would still trail China in the race to develop smart grids, fast trains, solar power, wind, geothermal and other renewable sources of energy — the most important sources of new jobs in the 21st century.

China, now the world’s largest and fastest-growing source of global-warming pollution, had privately signaled early last year that if the United States passed meaningful legislation, it would join in serious efforts to produce an effective treaty.

I thought you said then Chinee had it all under all under control and that we should emulate them. STFU AL!

[DPMD]

Well, we can certainly wash away this human skid mark. That’d be good enough for me.

[mylife]

The lags in the global climate system, including the buildup of heat in the oceans from which it is slowly reintroduced into the atmosphere, means that we can create conditions that make large and destructive consequences inevitable long before their awful manifestations become apparent: the displacement of hundreds of millions of climate refugees, civil unrest, chaos and the collapse of governance in many developing countries, large-scale crop failures and the spread of deadly diseases.

OMG this guy is a nut.

"Climate refugees"

[mylife]

It’s important to point out that the United States is not alone in its inaction. Global political paralysis has thus far stymied work not only on climate, but on trade and other pressing issues that require coordinated international action.

Stymie? That's Racist!

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Pelosi: 'A bill can be bipartisan without bipartisan votes'...
Al Gore: What's a few mistakes?

Liberals. Don't ya just love 'em?

[WilliamofCarmichael]

State controlled American media (SCAM) Headline?

Climate Change orthodoxy set to attack deniers
Green Grand Wallah Issues Fat Wad
Al Gore to attack critics of climate change

[mylife]

Simultaneously, changes in America’s political system — including the replacement of newspapers and magazines by television as the dominant medium of communication~

Hoo Boy! you would think that Albore "the inventor of the internet" would toss it a bone as the new media source.

[Touch Not the Cat]

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[mylife]

Some news media organizations now present showmen masquerading as political thinkers who package hatred and divisiveness as entertainment. And as in times past, that has proved to be a potent drug in the veins of the body politic. Their most consistent theme is to label as “socialist” any proposal to reform exploitive behavior in the marketplace.

Butthead is on the ropes.

[mylife]

I hope that it will place a true cap on carbon emissions and stimulate the rapid development of low-carbon sources of energy.

Hey Butthead... all life on this planet is based on CARBON.

[mylife]

Winston Churchill is widely quoted as having said, “Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes, you must do what is required.” Now is that time. Public officials must rise to this challenge by doing what is required; and the public must demand that they do so — or must replace them.

Let's replace them.

[visually_augmented]

Mylife: “Of course, we would still need to deal with the national security risks of our growing dependence on a global oil market dominated by dwindling reserves in the most unstable region of the world

Yo! Al, yo wanna see some pissed of muslims? Take away the one thing they have of worth.”

VA: The interesting thing about Al Gore’s concern about our “reliance” on Persian Gulf oil is that it is also a huge hoax. We get less than 20% of our oil from the Persian Gulf and I believe that number is getting closer to 15% recently. We get twice as much oil from Canada than we do from the entire Middle East. Just more myths perpetuated by the far left wingers and a man (Gore) who has a personal motivation to keep mistating the facts...