An Incovenient Truth, right or wrong?

Question

For anyone who has seen 'An Incovenient Truth', do you agree or disagree with the film or global warming? Personally, I thought the film was quite compelling. The film has been properly vetted by the scentific community and the only scientific controversy might be within the ice cores used to date temperature back hundreds of thousands of years. However, the ice cores do not play that big a role in the film and are not used to prove any aspect of global warming. Is there anyone out here that does not see global warming as a problem? Or, see it as a vast left wing conspiracy? Should this be a Democrat vs. Republican issue?

The science clearly supports global warming. However, we don't know what the future holds, and what effects of global warming might come back to haunt us. The effects could be catastrophic. If you deny the science, then please, cite references. Do not include links to your favorite political pundit, but to researchers at universities and/or insitutions that have published papers on the matter. I don't mean to turn this into a scentific debate, but the global warming camp has undergone a Congressional review and all of its finding have been upheld.

"Did you take 9th grade science?

We have had ice ages, they were cooling periods, between them were the warming periods! This has been going on for ALL the Earths 4 billion years. It happened before the tech, and nothing we stupid puny humans do will stop a natural cycle of the Earth!"

Superman, using your 9th grade science education to dispute published scientific papers by professional researchers does little to prove your point. As an 'armchair scientist', could you hold court with Ph.D's from our nation's top institutions on this subject? Or, would you classify your statements more as 'my unfounded opinion' than anything else?

Answer 1

Actually it is a science vs. non-science issue.

Ignore the politics of the current main spokesman for the issue. You have hundreds of top scientists around the world speaking from decades of extensive research on one side.

On the other side, you have politicians who have a financial interest in the fossil fuel technologies that a major contributing factor to the problem. It doesn't matter what political party they are.

So, do you want to believe the preachers and the politicians, who are telling you what THEY want to hear? Or do you listen to ever major scientific organization in the world providing you with thousands of pages of verifiable documentation?

Your call.

Answer 2

First it should be called a 'twisted truth"

scientist don't even agree there is global warming, many beleive it is just a natural occuring issue, like what caused the ice age and what caused the ice age to melt.

Next even those that beleive it is happening, most only beleive it will be a few degrees over the next 100 years.

So yes, a good part of the scientist who are not paid by the government to do the research don't see it as an issue,

Next if it is a problem, without the US going to war to control China, Japan, Korea and the rest of the world, we will not get them to do anything, There is no world control

But throw him his pics of the hanging chads, and other political agenda, this was nothing more than a political film you pay to go see. My only great comment, at least I did not have to waste my money to go see it.

he took the very worst possible maybe, and if this and if that,
it was not realistic at all.

Answer 3

I am completely baffled by peoples reactions to global warming.

Republicans call global warming a left wing conspiracy.
Democrats try to inform the public and are shouted down.
Religious figures side with the Republicans and call global warming a myth.

We all live on this planet. We all breathe the same air, drink the same water, and until we invent star-ships, we're not going anywhere.

What's the worst thing that can happen from trying to protect the environment? What's the worst thing that can happen from reducing pollutants? God forbid we do anything to clean up.

And speaking of God, what's going on with the Religious people? If they believe that the earth is a creation and gift from God, I would think that they would be motivated to protect and keep clean and unpolluted Gods gift. Yet they are either indifferent or contemptuous of any environmental activity.

Yes I've seen An Inconvenient Truth. I think Al Gore has a keen grasp of environmental issues, and is doing his best to make people aware and motivated to do something to help protect the planet.

Answer 4

Gee when will people think first and engage their brain before their mouth!

Did you take 9th grade science?

We have had ice ages, they were cooling periods, between them were the warming periods! This has been going on for ALL the Earths 4 billion years. It happened before the tech, and nothing we stupid puny humans do will stop a natural cycle of the Earth!

We are going through a pole shift now, that's when the magnetic poles swap polarity. During pole shifts the magnetosphere is weaker and more of the Sun's rays strike the Earth. This causes extra heating to occur.

If the Earth heats up to much the methane frozen under the ocean will thaw and the greenhouse effect will go ballistic. The methane will dissipate and a cooling period will begin.

To think we puny humans can stop a natural cycle of the Earth is beyond arrogance! It's irrational stupidity, and that fits Al Gore to a tee! His irrational flaming stupidity is beyond any realms of believe ability!

Answer 5

Global warming is a Liberal fabrication. We have not collected enough accurate temperature data over a long enough time period to be certain nor alarmed about anything.

Never trust any scientific theory that will take longer to prove than the life span of the scientist declaring that theory. I always find it a bit suspicious when the scientist wont be alive to answer for a claim he made in the past.

I heard theories in 1990 in a PBS Documentary called "Race to Save the Planet" that the Earth's oceanic water levels would be 20 feet higher in the year 2000. Guess what? They were completely wrong.

Liberals like to modify people’s behaviors and opinions with fear. Be your own scientist, find your own facts, and most of all do not fear.

Answer 6

I don't think this is an "it’s not happening to us" issue or it shouldn't be. I believe that it is accurate. This is not a left-wing conspiracy; in fact most on the right believe it to be true. But remember there are also people who believe we never landed a man on the moon. This should not be paraded around as a democrat or republican issue, heck it isn't even an American only issue. This is an issue for Earth, the whole planet of Earth. If you do not believe it is a problem, please move to the Florida coast and let me know how the next few summers work out for you. Don't forget your floaties!

It is a very simple issue, and it does not need to be analyzed, it needs to be solved. The only issue and or hurdle, change the entire economy of a planet before something more happens. Sounds easy. Good luck.

Answer 7

I think his stats on how the ice ages make it perfectly clear that the changes in climate are happening too fast in a siginifigantly small block of time...We've seen more change within the past hundred years than numerous, predictable, 1 million year periods have seen!

Simple math, people.


p.s.: Any sources listed here that were from the earily 1980's or 1990's are considered obsolete. We didn't know as much back then, so there was more discrepency.

Answer 8

Global Warming is possible, however, recently, the Earth's average tempture has actually gone down. Furthermore, if you hear something like "50 of the world's top scientists..." you cannot trust it for all it's worth because that 50, can be 50 out of 1,000 scientists who participated in the study. Al Gore is pretty serial about global warming....and manbearpig

Answer 9

No, the environment should not be an issue that takes sides...and people who are so definitely on one side of the issue, like Al Gore..I just can't take what they say to heart, because I know they are biased. There are scientists that say that global warming is not occuring...who to believe? I haven't seen the movie...I think it's like a Farenheit 9/11, or listening to Rush Limbaugh..you only get one side of the story. And frankly, Al Gore kind of lost credibility with me when he said he invented the internet.... :)

Answer 10

If it becomes "partisan" we are even more stupid than I could have imagined! And I'm sick & tired of this "Gore-bashing;" at very least this man has integrity and he means well! But back to your question:
Most would concur, if they are thinking, and somatically "in-tune" people, that climate around the world IS changing... we've experienced it almost everywhere: I spent some time in Australia (5 years) over 25 years ago and since my return stateside, it seems that Australian "bushfires" have increased in frequency... due to summer drought. With the alternating episodes of El Nino & La Nina patterns, it seems to me that CO2 levels are definately on the rise; for this space, nevermind the "culprits" or contributing sources. The REAL question for me is: "Are we willing to do whatever it takes to change this?"

My big fears center on the destruction of rainforest... are we friggin' mad or what! Why hasn't the UN stepped in with a number of resolutions that shows some teeth in this regard??? Countries like Brazil are just gonna have to accept that they have an obligation to the rest of humanity to stop the madness, or we'll be forced to stop it, ourselves! The world's plant-life are the real scrubbers of CO2 on this planet, and we need to get real about the deforestation that goes on, even in our country. It's time for real sensibilites to prevail... I'd rather "error" on the side of caution than to hand over our collective power to the myopic idiots "out there " who couldn't give a rat's a$$ about the environment!