Do you think that Al Gore is correct?

Question

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/eibessential/enviro_wackos/algore10yearstodoom.guest.html

Answer 1

What Mr limbaugh is trying to twist is A leading U.S. climate researcher says the world has a 10-year window of opportunity to take decisive action on global warming and avert catastrophe.

NASA scientist James Hansen, widely considered the doyen of American climate researchers, said governments must adopt an alternative scenario to keep carbon dioxide emission growth in check and limit the increase in global temperatures to 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit).

“I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change ... no longer than a decade, at the most,” Hansen said Wednesday at the Climate Change Research Conference in California’s state capital.
If the world continues with a “business as usual” scenario, Hansen said temperatures will rise by 2 to 3 degrees Celsius (3.6 to 7.2 degrees F) and “we will be producing a different planet.”

On that warmer planet, ice sheets would melt quickly, causing a rise in sea levels that would put most of Manhattan under water. The world would see more prolonged droughts and heat waves, powerful hurricanes in new areas and the likely extinction of 50 percent of species.


Hansen, who heads NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has made waves before by saying that President Bush’s administration tried to silence him and heavily edited his and other scientists’ findings on a warmer world.

He reiterated that the United States “has passed up the opportunity” to influence the world on global warming.

The United States is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, most notably carbon dioxide. But Bush pulled the country out of the 160-nation Kyoto Protocol in 2001, arguing that the treaty’s mandatory curbs on emissions would harm the economy.

Hansen praised California for taking the “courageous” step of passing legislation on global warming last month that will make it the first U.S. state to place caps on greenhouse gas emissions.

He said the alternative scenario he advocates involves promoting energy efficiency and reducing dependence on carbon burning fuels.

“We cannot burn off all the fossil fuels that are readily available without causing dramatic climate change,” Hansen said. “This is not something that is a theory. We understand the carbon cycle well enough to say that.”

Most scientists believe global warming is due in some measure to the greenhouse effect, which occurs when so-called greenhouse gases are emitted into the atmosphere. These gases trap in Earth’s heat like the glass walls of a greenhouse. Greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, are byproducts of the burning of fossil fuels.

Answer 2

It's outrageous to hear the arrogance that is on display here. You should care about the state of the world ten, twenty, a hundred years from now. Your children and grand-children are going to inherit this problem if nothing is done. Obviously you have not seen the movie. Padagonia has never been in the shape that it is in now. And, no terrorists are not our biggest problem, it's the right wing that incited the terrorists and caused them to gain more support than they have ever had. If those of you right wing Christians were really Christian you would understand that God made us responsible for earth, and we are killing her.

By the way the "I invented the internet" comment was just another attempt by right wing spin doctors to discredit Al Gore. This is exactly what he said from the transcript of the Wolf Blitzer show:"...During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet....."
Here is what he did in Congress to help create the Internet. And every one of these facts can be checked in the congress.org archives.

Find it in this link: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200009/msg00052.html

Answer 3

Well global warming is a real issue, and the fact that pollution is exacerbating the warming is a real issue.

However, he has lost much of his credibility and every time he opens his mouth everyone remembers him as an ultra liberal politician, not a concerned ombudsman for the environment.

Concern for the environment has traditionally been a liberal cause, and with Al spearheading the issue in the US it has turned into a political debate questioning the existence of global warming instead of how to address the situation.

Answer 4

I didn't need Al Gore to tell me that global warming is real, and that the theory behind it is solid. Still, it's good to see a dedicated public servant taking up the cause.

Answer 5

With legitimate threats to the US in terrorism and the economy and fuel prices and the war and and and..... nobody cares about the enviorment right now. So all is just uping the stakes by creating "possible" scenarios with results people will care about hoping people will listen to what he has to say.

Nobody cares that the Rainforrest will be two degree's warmer in ninety years, they've got bigger problems right now, so he's trying scare tactics to get people interested again... I thought they said Republicans are the fear party.

Answer 6

On global warming, yes.
If anyone else can explain how we have used fuels and polluted the air with misusing electical current and everything else, and it doesn't make a difference, then go ahead.
I think Limbaugh's a whackjob !

Answer 7

Maybe if that idiot knew that we were still coming out of our last ice age then maybe he wouldn't look so stupid...poor al gore just can't take defeat.

Answer 8

Hard to say. I think he is correct about warming, but I don;t know about ten years

Answer 9

If it was true I would say bring all the troops home, stop all foreign aid, I would still throw the illegals out, and spend my retirement.

Answer 10

Yes ,Gore is correct, we will all die, one day from one thing or another.