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

No

Answer 2

i don't understand approximately 10 yrs yet we are incredibly screwing up the ambience daily. look back 10 years in the past. we are having considerable hurricanes, tsunamis, the climate is merely easy wicked while in comparison with 10 years in the past. Ice bergs are melting, the oceans are flucuating. we've ineffective areas interior the sea the place no longer something can stay or strengthen. we've some considerable trash problems merely in our very own u . s . a . no longer counting different international locations. There are droughts, too plenty rain in different areas of the land. I actually have a tendency to think of that international warming is genuine. otherwise, we does no longer have assorted those problems happening. If the human race does not sensible up slightly, we may be the subsequent close to extinction animal on earth.

Answer 3

It's not that he is lying, it is that he doesn't understand the Scientific Process. Mr. Gore strongly implied that science was sure that what he was saying was fact. However, reputable scientists refuse to speak in terms of certainty. A weatherman might say, "We have a 40% chance of rain tonight". I would say that Mr. Gore has a 20% chance of being wrong in ten years, a 20% chance of being right in ten years and a 60% chance of being somewhere in between.

Answer 4

No I do not believe him. Let me educate you all:

The primary argument in support of man made global warming is that there is a correlation in the rise of CO2 and the global temperature. This was most famously pointed out by Al Gore in his movie “An Inconvenient Truth”. Al Gore was correct in this assessment, and during his presentation he showed the correlation of CO2 and temperature over the last 650,000 years. However, his claim is that CO2 causes the temperature to rise and that is incorrect. In reality the temperature causes the level of CO2 to rise and fall. If you were to take a closer look at Al Gore’s timeline, you would see that the rise in CO2 lags behind the rise of temperature by roughly 800 years. That consistency has existed for at least 650,000 years. Al Gore chose to leave out that vital piece of information. How is it that CO2 trails behind temperature? As the temperature rises the result is that the world’s oceans emit more and more CO2. As the temperature decreases, the oceans emit less CO2. The reason for the lag time is that the world’s oceans are so big and deep that it takes hundreds of years for them to heat and cool. In fact, oceans are the world’s largest source of CO2.
CO2 is not a pollutant, and is required for most things to live. Both you and I are composed of CO2! Of all the gases in the atmosphere such as oxygen, nitrogen, etc., CO2 makes up only .054%. Of that percentage, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere as a result of humans is a mere single digit percentage of the .054. It is an astronomically small number. Still, those who support the concept of man made global warming use non sequitur logic to insist humans are the cause.
In the last 150 years, the temperature has risen just over half a degree Celsius. Most of the increase took place prior to 1940. In the post war economic boom when humans were putting all time high levels of CO2 into the atmosphere, the temperature dropped until 1975. After that it began to increase again. If you take a look at only the last 150 years, CO2 levels do not correlate to temperature as some would have you believe.
Now take a look further into the past. About 1000 years ago the temperature was significantly higher. It then dipped into a “mini ice age” and has since then increased. Did the world come to an end 1000 years ago because the temperatures were so low? Of course not, so why all the doom and gloom talk? Polar bears adapted just fine to the changes the mother Earth was experiencing. Humans survived too along with just about every other species.
Every year supporters of man made global warming point to articles showing the edge of the ice caps melting, and icebergs melting away. They fail to acknowledge that it happens every single year as seasons change, just as leaves fall off of trees every year during the fall. The Earth goes through periods of warming and cooling. It is perfectly natural. We should not and can not change this fact. The ice caps will increase in size when the Earth cools again.
Clearly the current temperature trend is an increase, but it is not a result of human activity. What then causes it? You need look no further than the bright orange ball in the sky, our sun. There is a stunning correlation between solar activity and the temperature on Earth. Many scientists believe that as the sun goes through phases of increased activity and an increase in sun spots, the result is the heating and cooling of our planet. Isn’t that a far more likely possibility than the flimsy argument that my opposition sets forth?
We can not afford to drastically reduce or prevent the usage of coal and oil as a precautionary measure just in case man made global does exist. There are over two billion people who don’t have electricity, or 1/3 of the Earth’s population. In Africa there is an abundance of coal and oil that could be utilized, but currently is not due to political pressures to save the planet from harmful man made global warming. The result is that countries in poverty are unable to develop into industrialized nations at a sufficient rate, and at this pace may never be able to. Hundreds of thousands of people are dying as a result of poverty. My critics will say that wind and solar energy should be used instead of coal and oil, but that technology costs three times as much as the conventional methods we use to power our homes, and it is not nearly as reliable. Why should the most impoverished people in the entire world have to pay the most just to have mildly reliable electricity? The thought is unfair and disgusting.
The concept of man made global warming is so popular because it is now a political movement. The explanation of how we got to this point will have to be saved for another time.

Answer 5

Those snake-oil salesmen said that over ten years ago . The oceans didn't dry up yet . Not only is algore a hypocrite who won't sign the same pledge he asked of Americans - he is ignorant and couldn't even occupy the standard VP office away from Hillary Clinton after the Inaugural . He didn't invent the Internet either ..

Answer 6

Hmmmm.....there are also quite a few believers that say the year 2012 is it for mankind. Al Gore also believes he invented the internet. Are you going to place your faith in the God of Carbon Footprints? Al Gore is a legend in his own mind.

Answer 7

Al Gore has 10 years to make a lot of money is what he is really saying.

Answer 8

I feel sorry for those people so oblivious to whats going on on this planet. We have more droughts, More soil errosion, More Deseases, More extreme weather, Rising sea levels, Less rain, Temperature fluctuations and the list goes on. If this all happened in a space of 130 years since the industrial revolution and the effects are exponential. I hate to see where we will be in 10 years time.

Answer 9

I doubt that Al Gore is lying, instead feel that he believes we are threatened with serious consequences unless our government and the rest of the world takes action.

Answer 10

I don't think that he is lying; I do think that he is mistaken. In any event, global warming could be a cause, rather than a result, of increasing CO2 levels, and the cost of actually trying to do something serious about it is prohibitive.

Answer 11

The Mayans have only given us 5 more years.