Is Al Gore right about climate change?

Answer 1

What do you think because every year the ocean is steadly rising and the government is not doing anything about it.

Remember the movie Waterworld well it is slowly going to become a reality in about 500 years from now.

Answer 2

Al Gore is leading the latest eco-alarmist fad.

Alarmists fail to explain why temperatures began warming about 1850, long before man-made CO2 emissions could have had an impact. Then about 1940 as man-made CO2 emissions rose sharply, the temperatures began a decline that lasted until the 1970s. Temperatures got COLDER AFTER C02 emissions increased.

There was a Medieval Warm Period from about 900 AD to 1300 AD and the Little Ice Age from about 1500 to 1850. Both of these periods occurred long before the invention of the SUV or human industrial activity could have possibly impacted the Earth’s climate. The Earth was warmer during the Medieval Warm Period, when the Vikings grew crops in Greenland. The Little Ice Age resulted in harsh winters which froze New York Harbor.

The one degree Fahrenheit rise during the 20th century coincided with the greatest advancement of living standards, life expectancy, food production and human health in history, so it is hard to argue that the global warming we experienced in the 20th century was somehow negative or part of a catastrophic trend.

Here are some headlines warning of climate changes:

New York Times: “Geologists Think the World May be Frozen Up Again.” February 24, 1895.

New York Times: "Prominent Professor “Warns Us of an Encroaching Ice Age.” October 7, 1912

Los Angeles Times: “Human race will have to fight for its existence against cold.” October 7, 1912

Washington Post: “Ice Age Coming Here.” August 10, 1923

Chicago Tribune: “Scientist Says Arctic Ice Will Wipe Out Canada.” August 9, 1923

Then, in the 1930s:

New York Times; “America in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776; Temperature Line Records a 25-year Rise” March 27, 1933.

Time Magazine: "weathermen have no doubt that the world at least for the time being is growing warmer.” January 2, 1939.

Time Magazine in 1951 pointed to receding permafrost in Russia as proof that the planet was warming.

In 1952, the New York Times noted that global warming has been melting glaciers.

Shifting gears again:

New York Times: “the facts of the present climate change (cooling) are such that the most optimistic experts would assign near certainty to major crop failure in a decade.” December 29, 1974

New York Times: “A major cooling is widely considered to be inevitable.” 1975

Answer 3

I wouldn't trust Al Gore any longer than I can throw him, but I do trust the scientists that he is quoting.
I don't know why people put trust in a politician, instead of listening to scientists, who know a hundred times more about this than he does.

Answer 4

Well lets see, where I'm at last Monday and Tuesday it was in the 90s. Right now it's only 28 degrees F. I just might have to agree.

Answer 5

Yes, and he has been paid a lot of money to make people like you take notice because you don't listen to the people who do the research and have been warning us for many, many years. Perhaps you should read something more that yahoo answers.

Answer 6

I haven't been watching the news lately, so I have no idea what he's saying. But, read "The Weather Makers" by Tim Flannery. He explains the recent changes in weather and why its happening.

Answer 7

Al Gore's right out of his tree.

The Transformation of.....Al Gore
http://www.thejohncleese.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=711

Answer 8

If you're referring to "global warming", the "jury is still out" on this one. Since the history of weather record-keeping is relatively new as far as modern man goes, we may just be in a "warm" cycle in the global weather pattern. But as to what man is doing to the planet that may EVENTUALLY cause global warming, yes, he is.

Answer 9

Yes. This is something scientists have been saying for 20-30 years now.

Answer 10

Yes. Just ask the Alaskan tribe that is relocating becuase the sea is now encroaching on thier village.