I am so happy that we have people like Al Gore who care so much for the environment. I just finished his book.

Question

I would like you guys who have not been open to the reality of global warming to do your research not just try to diffuse the argument by saying it in not happening, that would fly in the face of all nobel scientists climate scientists who have documented that this is occouring, I will take their position before any naysayer who has not done his or her homework or who chooses to believe one or two scientists who practice pseudoscience int he name of special interest groups, The reality is that this is happening and I challenge all of you to do something about it. And for the record I have been studying Global Warming for over 10 years and the reason I mention Al Gore is he is the one who has layed it out so simply, please dont use the old excuse that this is not real and do something about it.

Yes I think he wrote that and he travels in a caravan due to security, clinton does it and so do all ex presidents and vice, and to further that, Atleast he is doing something, dont blame a man for past mistakes, atleast he is trying to fix his.

Xir, you seem to be a man who thinks he knows something but infact you are someone who knows nothing, the majority of climate scientists agree this is happening, the fact that you try and act smart shows how you are weak

O yeah retards, al gore is donating his profits to the cause he is not making money, Do you fcin homework

Answer 1

I think that in this day and age, it is not practical to avoid doing anything that might harm the environment. I consider myself a true environmentalist but I still drive my mom's minivan. Al Gore never said in his movie that we should all pound our cars into whatever, maybe bury them and and walk everywhere or get horses. He said, "If you can, by a hybrid."

It is our duty to ourselves and to our children and to God and to his creation to do what we can that is also practical to not harm the Earth. And so I do.

I went to the theatre and bought a ticket and admired Gore for getting back up after losing the election and fighting for what he believes in. Yes, he had to be driven around in a car. What would you expect him to do? Walk or ride on horseback all over the U.S.? I, however, personally don't agree that he should have flown when he could have driven, maybe his own car. But that may have taken too long. I think flying expends too much fuel. As for charging admission for the movie, I went on the website about the movie and it said that at least a portion of this goes to the cause. I forget how much. I think it was worth every penny, anyway.

I walk to the store, instead of driving because it is only 7 blocks away from my house. When I go to the store, I bring cloth bags with me to avoid using their plastic bags. When they put my groceries in their plastic bags before I can put them in my bags, I then take them out, put them in my cloth bags and then hand the plastic bags to them. I buy distilled water because it is healthier than tap water but I have bought 2 of the gallon jugs of it from our stores "Water Island" and when we run out, I simply go and refill it at the Water Island for only 35 cents. I never buy spring water or mineral water. It is true like it says in Gore's movie, that this makes the springs, etc., smaller and hurts the wildlife that lives there. I support, instead, distilling and recycling the water we use locally.

I am saving up for a hybirid but I cannot afford to buy one right now. I try to cut down on the elctricity that we use in the house. In the summer, many times, I use the grill with charcoal instead of our electric stove. We don't have lights on during the day.

And when we go somewhere and are going to meet friends there, going to church, etc, we carpool, meaning we pick them up or they pick us up so we can save on gas.

At work, I am the one saving the empty boxes our merchandise comes in and taking them home to be recycled at the end of the day, that they were simply going to throw out.

I am a memeber of a group called Freecycle, which is www.freecycle.com. They have chapters all over the world and in many cities of the United States. On this website, people give things away that they don't want anymore without having to throw them away or find a resale shop to drop them off at. The person who answers your post simply comes and picks it up. How many of you know someone who throws out a perfectly good pair of shoes that are only mildly worn? I know lots of people.

I recycle everything that can be. When I am walking and I find an empty plastic bottle laying on the ground, I pick it up and take it home with me to be recycled. The garbage bags I am using right now are from recycled plastic and it is taking me months to use them up because between the two of us in my house, we throw out very little, and recycle or compost the rest. Our local recycling plant only accepts #1 #2 plastics, so we save all the other plastics, yogurt containers, etc. that are #3- #7 plastics and mail them to a plant in Romulus, MI about and hour's drive from us.

When I go to church and they always have bulletins for us and music sheets to read, a lot of people leave these in the pews or they pile up on a shelf outside the santuary or even in the garbage and I stay after and gather all these things, even out of the garbage if they are clean and take them home with me to be recycled.

We grow our own vegatables in our orgainic garden.

These are only a few of the things I myself do on a regular basis.

See? If everybody pitches in, it can be done and I think that is basically what Al Gore was trying to say.

What I have to say specifically to Stvargo is, was the book as good as the movie? When do you think the movie is going to come out on video?

Answer 2

It is a glorious thing that Al gore has swayed you to his side. just by publishing a book and making a movie.
How many trees were destroyed to print his book? Were all copies printed on recycled paper?
How many barrels of oil had to be processed to make the celluloid that his movie is etched upon. how much fuel had to be burned to provide electricity to show the movie, not to mention the paper products to advertise the movie IE: posters, placards etc. It seems to me that he is part of the problem. Although, he did create the internet!!! He is like a god!!!!
The climatologists you speak of might be partially right, although If you did your research, you would find just as many climatologist that would tell you that the earth goes through natural cycles of heating and cooling. Have you ever heard of the ice age? What killed off the dinasaurs? Fred Flintstone farting as he was peddling his car to the quarry?
we might be in a cycle of climate change, but many notable scientist will tell you that it is most likely a natural occurance.
What are your doing to help stop the global warming problem. Are you walking or biking to work? Do you recycle all of your trash? Do you use the most efficient light bulbs available at home Depot? Have you unplugged your fridge and turned off the tv? Have you set your thermostat to eighty in the summer and freexzing in the winter. Do you heat your house with a wood burning stove? Do you buy your clothes at the second hand store? Producing the materials for your new tennis shoes causes a lot of pollution, most very toxic. I could go on and on. The point is, don't cut down others, just because they think Al Gore is a fruitcake, which happens to be all natural.
And when your computer dies, will you just throw it in the trash, or will you take it to a recycle center where they will dismantle it and distribute the pieces to the appropriate places for recycling?

Answer 3

James Howard Kunstler lays it out more realistically. The problem is, if you put the two together (one thinks people should focus on living in cities because the oil supply won't continue to support suburbia, and the other tells us that the cities are going to be flooded), there isn't a lot of hope for most of the people in the world. The happy-shiny alternative energy/green space people will blow smoke up each other's a**es until they all drown or freeze to death in the dark.
"Any true environmentalist would commit suicide." There is more truth to this simple statement than all the pundits and movies will ever know.
We need to realize that we don't have to do anything differently than we already are: our economy will implode under the overconsumption debt load, thereby reducing our oil consumption and changing how people view their wasteful lifestyles. The suburbs will be magnets for raiders and pirates who go back and forth between the farms and the cities. China will own what is going to be left of our corporations, because they already have most of our cash and machine tools, and they already implement population reduction to meet resource supplies.
Global Warming is a problem, a big problem, but it isn't going to concern us in the near future since we will all be fighting each other for jobs and food and water.
Al Gore is the same behind-the-times pandering politician that all the rest of the 'leaders' in this country are.

Answer 4

If u go to any non govermant GLOBAL climatologist they would say its all BS. Local climatologists cant judge the world. THe earth ahs natraul cycles liek anything else the world is ntoa perfect stable system. U CANNOT measure jsut 1 or 2 degrees change in the world. Thats nto enough to eb accurate. A solar flare could change i that much. ANd C)2 this greenhosue gas? During the last iceage we had ALOt higher levels of CO2 levels. An iceage not a world burning up age. by drilling out ice cores in old glaciers and whatnot they ahve deteced natral variations in earths Average temperature up too 20 degrees. Even if there is global warming there hasnt been anything change enough to detect it. So shut up because global warming is all jsut BS. i could go on for days but im tired of explaining to people who know nothing of the worlds climate that say I KNOW EVERYTHIGN ABOUT GLOBAL WARMIGN AND ITS HAPPENING! because its not and u have noidea what ur talking about

Answer 5

Oh it's very true that we should do something about it. It will have to start with the consumer though, because we live in a free capitalistic society. Will you give up your car? I would if I lived close to my work.
It IS funny though that Gore talked at about 1000 seminars on the environment but travelling in a caravan of big SUVs. He made a lot of money doing it too.

Answer 6

Gore probably made AT LEAST $500 million through Google stock.

He doesn't need any more money from film sales.

If Gore was REALLY concerned about the environment, he would make his movie available for free on the internet, and his book available at no charge on line.

This would reduce the amount of fossil fuel people have to use to go to and from the movie theater. It would stop the killing of millions of trees printing his book.

But he didn't. He chose to make even more profit from people spewing pollution into the air traveling to see his movie, and from people chopping down trees to make the paper in his p.o.s. book.

Typical liberal hypocrite.

Answer 7

Oh, me too!!!! Thank God that his family made their money from Occidental Petroleum and tobacco and that they never contributed to their belief in the controversial idea of global warming. Maybe he just feels guilty or maybe he's getting his bid ready for the next election.

Answer 8

Ha the only thing ol' AL cares about is selling a book! Do you really think he wrote that? ( right after he invented the Internet i bet!) He just put his name on it after some one else did all the work...... WAKE UP!

Answer 9

Yes, and I'm so glad his wife, Tipper, honked until the music industry put warning lables on albums. We need wise people like the Gores to tell us what to think! I mean, *I* sure as heck don't want to make MY own decisions. That's, like, work. *rolls eyes*

Answer 10

Me too...it shows us that there really are CRAZY people out there (besides Daryl Hannah and Barbra Strizand) that have really lost touch with reality. And your just as crazy for buying that book...