Has anyone else viewed Al Gore's presentation on global warming? What do you think can be done about it?

Question

This is a very serious and controversial topic becuase by the year 2080 if conditions do not improve our children will suffer greatly. Scientist beleive that the world will suffer due to our lack of respect towards earth and natural resources.

Answer 1

An Inconvenient Truth is an excellent film. He discusses what can be done on the personal level at the end of the film.

One solution that might work is called the Geritol solution. One of the limiting factors in ocean growth is the amount of available iron in the ecosystem. If more iron was added, the ecosystem there would bloom, hopefully absorbing CO2. There is some real debate about whether this will work or not.

Answer 2

This is quite a hotly debated issue. I personally beleive that humans are only partly responsible for global warming. Volcanoes also give off immense amounts of CO2. Besides, the Earth has gone through so many major climate shifts that something else will probably happen even if we do manage to stop global warming.

Answer 3

About the only thing that can be done about Al ('I invented the Internet') Gores 'presentation' on Global Warming is to ignore it.

Like it or not, he's entitled to his opinion, no matter how stupid, silly, and scientifically unsupported it may be.

I think we *should* clean up the messes we've made in the environment, but I don't for an instant believe that it will cause more than a barely noticeable change in weather patterns.

Doug

Answer 4

millions of people doing little things like changing light bulbs to floresecent and driving one trip less a day will be a good start and then a goverment smart and brave enough to have a new commuter transportation system using light weight vehicles and covered walkways for pedestrians and bikes in the center of the city would be a miracle solution.
All we need is the will and we can find the way.

Answer 5

I have watched this movie for science class. disturbing isn't it? especially to us (Americans,) who use up a quarter of the world's natural resources, yet all we care about are terrorists. Sure, they are a big problem, but they have been happening for years, and still we haven't helped any nations, yet we don't do anything about global warming. And when (not if, when) our glaciers and icecaps melt. Millions of people will have to find new places to live, and us as a population will act like we had no idea what was going on....

Answer 6

I think if there's global warming, it's caused by the hot air the politicians are blowing.

Answer 7

No one is going to control the world. it would take a world dictator to stop it as developing countrys will always continue to pollute like china now, God there awful they killed off the white river dolphin last month
God will have a virus soon to kill us off I pray

Answer 8

Boycott the movie.

Answer 9

Here is a link that will tell you everything you need to know!!
http://video.google.com/url?docid=-4520665474899458831&esrc=sr2&ev=v&q=Global+warming+swindle&vidurl=http://video.google.com/videoplay%3Fdocid%3D-4520665474899458831%26q%3DGlobal%2Bwarming%2Bswindle&usg=AL29H211315vkBsvVwxwbq_e5R7qaV9yvA

Answer 10

Before you buy into man made global warming, please watch this documentary!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9005566792811497638&q=global+warming+swindell&hl=en


I hope you're not falling for all the media and political hype about global warming. Most of this could be due to increased solar activity. There are a lot of hypocrites pushing this notion. Just look at Al Gore, inventor of the internet & man made global warming. The hypocrite spends $1,200 per month on his 10,000 square foot home. The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average.

While many are asked to live "green" lifestyles, he goes through hundreds of gallons of fossil fuels with cars, toys, houses, planes, you name it. He doesn't even try to cut down even a little bit........ What a hypocrite!

Ask Al why the ice on Mars is also melting...... Could it be increased solar activity Al? Or are there Martians producing green house emissions on Mars? (see link below)

Before you go to the bank with this whole man made Global warming know that the jury is still out about climate change and man's role if there is one, but one thing we do know for certain is that there are political agendas to promote socialistic politics. Even if man was partially responsible, if humans changed entirely, there would only be a slight difference of a degree or two in temperature change. I think we should get off fossil fuels because it makes us dependent upon unstable nations for our energy supply, not because of global warming.

Top scientists have refuted man's affect on the climate such as Astrophysicist Nir Shariv who stated, "Solar activity can explain a large part of the 20th-century global warming. Particularly because of the evidence that has been accumulating over the past decade of the strong relationship that cosmic-rays have on our atmosphere."

"The sun's strong role indicates that greenhouse gases can't have much of an influence on the climate."

Even doubling the amount of CO2 by 2100, for example, "will not dramatically increase the global temperature."

Oregon state climatologist, George Taylor said that "the global warming seen in the past century is caused largely by natural events, including cyclical climate patterns and solar fluctuations linked with cosmic rays and changes in cloud cover." Mr Taylor was recently fired by the Oregon governor for his "scientific" views.

I don't think there is a debate about whether global warming is occurring, but the idea that it is man made is a myth. Remember, the UN that came out with a recent report about climate change is a political entity that has done many things to prove it is not a credible, un-biased source. A recent example is the oil for food scandal that diverted millions of dollars to UN members and others. Also, even if there was man made climate change, China (the world's second-largest greenhouse gas emitter) and India are not going to embrace fossil fuel consumption.

Additionally, many scientists disagree about climate change and 17,000 signed a petition against the Kyoto treaty. Unfortunately, the sales focussed media who know little about this, spin it to suit their own opinions. So, its highly debatable whether humans are influencing global warming. Another thing to consider is that every 11,500 years, the earth goes through a major extinction with a global warming and cooling phase (ice age.) Paleontologists are able to track this through soil samples. We may actually be headed into an ice age because we are coming to the tail end of the current cycle. The problem is that the media and politicians get focussed on a piece of the puzzle and try to simplify this issue. Don't be fooled. There is probably nothing humans can do. Even if we could, there is no way you can control China who is becoming a major world polluter. Humans will need to adapt to climate change. Where I live there are small changes in our weather pattern, but nothing major. A lot of the media is hype to sell newspapers. The only caution is that some past climate changes have been more radical, swinging wildly from hot to cold. Others have brought on instant and severe cold conditions. I know the area that I live used to be buried in hundreds on feet of ice, but temperatures are mild today... Humans will just need to wait and see what mother nature brings and adapt as necessary.

And as for Al, I think his mouth and utility bills are a main cause of green house emmisions....

Source(s):
Mars warming
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming.html

One of France's leading socialists and among most celebrated scientists
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=2f4cc62e-5b0d-4b59-8705-fc28f14da388

Documentary Refutes Man Made Global Warming
http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory.asp?story=CZ434669U&news_headline=global_warming_is_lies_claims_documentary

Against the grain: Some scientists deny global warming exists
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=156df7e6-d490-41c9-8b1f-106fef8763c6&k=0

Dr. Tim Ball, former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/global-warming020507.htm

Weather Channel Climate Expert Calls for Decertifying Global Warming Skeptics
January 17, 2007:
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=32abc0b0-802a-23ad-440a-88824bb8e528

Global warming 'just a natural cycle'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/18/nclimate118.xml