AL GORE sez we have 10 years. Do you believe him?

Question

http://media.www.brockpress.com/media/storage/paper384/news/2007/04/03/News/Al.Gore.Graduates.From.Concordia-2820594.shtml

FTA: He espoused that the media should play a more central role in the way it informs the public, saying, "Over half of all Nobel Prize winners are telling us we could have as little as 10 years to avoid a catastrophe and this is pronounced by our media as 'not newsworthy'.


Who thinks he is lying?

Answer 1

remember that al gore is the one responsible for casting the tie breaking vote to tax social security breaking a fifty year promise to the nations elderly...and this is a man of compassion and understanding???? puhlease...if this man said its dark out..id go out to check....i dont beleive him at all.

Answer 2

I don't know about 10 yrs but we are really screwing up the environment daily.
Look back 10 years ago. We are having major hurricanes, tsunamis, the weather is just plain wicked compared to 10 years ago. Ice bergs are melting, the oceans are flucuating. We have dead parts in the ocean where nothing can live or grow. We have some major trash problems just in our own country not counting other countries. There are droughts, too much rain in other parts of the land.
I tend to think that global warming is real. Otherwise, we wouldn't have all these problems going on. If the human race doesn't wise up a bit, we may be the next near extinction animal on the planet.

Answer 3

Al Gore's assertions are based on pseudo-science, awkward assumptions, and most of all unbridled hyperbole. Not only does the percentage of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere due to human activity amount to 3%-5% depending on the literary source, but a certain percentage of any increase carbon dioxide is due to responsive release from the oceans due to temperature increase whatever the cause, be it solar activity, variations in the Earth's orbit, etc. so even the entire increase proposed is not due to increased human activity. Even assuming 4% and a generous figure of 20% generated in the U.S., that leaves less than 1% due to the entire output of the country, and even if we could achieve a massive 20% reduction in output due to some Draconian measures certain to damage the economy, we are talking a minuscule 0.04% reduction in total carbon dioxide concentration, something possibly swallowed up by the next large volcanic event. Perhaps most telling, global warming has been documented on Mars and Pluto, and I doubt SUV's have any bearing on that. Follow the money for research grants, speaking fees, book deals, political activity etc. and there are no shortage of motivations for stirring the mass hysteria. Not that we shouldn't do what we can to be prudent stewards of our home planet, but we need not create a crisis where none exists.

Answer 4

I don't believe Al Gore. I believe the science and the data. Al Gore has nothing to do with that, other than making a movie.

Here's the data and the science I believe.

Short version:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png

Longer version:

http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf

Global warming is real and caused mostly by us. If we ignore it for another ten years it will get to be very bad (coastal flooding and serious damage to agriculture) no matter what we start to do then. It won't have gotten really bad in ten years, but then it will be too late to stop it from being a disaster. In that sense we do have only ten years.

Even the scientists who disagree with Gore on the details believe he has the basics right. The vast majority of scientists agree about global warming:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686

Answer 5

regardless of whether or not he is a good person or has done all the right things....global warming is happening. Whether you believe that it is occuring cause of the way we live as humans or just happening cause of some other reason people need to understand that we have to try and change. Being ignorant about it is not a good answer. Maybe those people should read a book ....and not just think everyone is cooky for saying it

Answer 6

Al Gore like the rest of us is not sure exactly when the byproducts of our industrialization will come back to haunt us. What experts agree on is the fact that IT IS affecting the world and that it will eventually cause a catastrophe (what and to what degree are all insinuations) if things go unchanged.

Answer 7

I don't think he is lying, I think he just joins a long list of misguided alarmists who love shrieking about the latest catastrophe. Does anyone remember when this same group was hollering about the coming Nuclear Winter?...or overpopulation of the globe...or global thermonuclear war...or the danger of letting people plug in their own telephones.

Answer 8

He is misinformed. lol How's that for political correctness.

30 years ago they said we had 10-15 years before we were thrown into an ice age due to the pollution. That is how C.A.R.B. (the emission police) got started. Now they are telling us we have 10 years before we burn up.

I live in the Midwest and it looks to as if things are just now getting back to normal. They used to say "If you don't like the weather here, just wait five minutes". That saying started before the industrial revolution and is now starting to make sense again.

Answer 9

Well, after all the power that was used at the Gore Mansion today we only have 9 1/2 yrs now.......

Answer 10

it is not that he's mendacity, that's that he does not understand the scientific technique. Mr. Gore strongly implied that technology replaced into specific that what he replaced into saying replaced into reality. in spite of the fact that, respected scientists refuse to speak in terms of reality. A weatherman might say, "we've a 40% possibility of rain this evening". i could say that Mr. Gore has a 20% possibility of being incorrect in ten years, a 20% possibility of being stunning in ten years and a 60% possibility of being someplace in between.