Global Warming: Any bookmarks that Al Gore is wrong in saying we have less than 10 years to turn round?

Question

You can see a free video of Gore's view at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-724338986
We are delighted to list others for or agin at http://www.frappr.com/itruth and http://inconvenienttruth.blogspot.com

Answer 1

It seems like he may have been right about something.

Answer 2

It seems to me that Al Gore does a good job of explaining how we talk about words like globalisation that have emerged over the last 20 years or so without clarifying what they mean. One relevant definition is precisely that for the first time in history the technology we use is scaling to have an impact that is global. That impact may be harmonious or catastrophic. So when the first respondent all but censors the discussion by denying the human freedom to question why global may be a crisis we have never previously experienced, she sounds as if she is appealing to the same faith (with a small f) criteria that Bush used to justify the war with Iraq, and how unpatriotic it would be for any American to question this. I take a doubly opposite view. First, any parent must raise this question on behalf of their children because they will suffer most should history show we failed to take prevantative action while there remains time. Second, I don't wholly understand the transparency of motivations of someone whose answer to a question is: I don't like the question and believe nobody should want to ask it.

So my overall suggestion for a search combines a choice of keywords. Like the second questioner, I feel Greenland is critical to observe. Is there a web anywhere that pulls together all measurements different scientists may be recording for this region? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=%2Bgore+%2B%22first+time+in+history%22+%2Bglobal+%2Bconsequences+%2Bgreenland&btnG=Search

Answer 3

The inconvenient truth is that Al Gore is an alien/robot/idiot. If he honestly thinks that we are capable of destroying a planet that has been living, breathing and evolving long before we were here, then he must have powers from another planet because each day that the earth ALLOWS us to exist is a gift. We don't decide if this planet survives. This planet decides if WE survive. God, I hate stupidity and arrogance!

Answer 4

I don't need "bookmarks" only common sense. The Earth goes through warming and cooling cycles. I find it arrogant to even consider that humans have the ability to start or stop such a process.

Answer 5

Read what David Suzuki has to say: http://www.davidsuzuki.org/about_us/Dr_David_Suzuki/Article_Archives/weekly06090601.asp

These ideas are nor Al Gore's ideas. He just happened to be the narrator of a documentary.

Answer 6

YES having seen greenland we have less than 5!!

Answer 7

I don't know and neither does he, but if you frighten people enough you might just get re-elected. Can you ever trust power mad politicians?