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Scientists Respond to Gore on Global Warming
ArthurDent writes "For quite a while global warming has been presented in the public forum as a universally accepted scientific reality. However, in the light of Al Gore's new film An Inconvenient Truth many climate experts are stepping forward and pointing out that there is no conclusive evidence to support global warming as a phenomenon, much less any particular cause of it."
It's easy to be bold when you're paid by Exxon Mobile to be that way.
And then manbearpig magically appeared.
Yeah yeah... Gore is a nut. A big whiny attention starved nut. A big whiny attention starved nut who may or may not declare for the 2008 election. A big whiny attention starved nut who may or may not declare for the 2008 election and who most definitely did not have sexual relations with that woman.
But I did.
with these "free" websites and the "Ultimate Fitness Program" banners? Whenever I see that, I know which direction the flag waves.
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
Al Gore played absolutely no role whatsoever in creating what people knew as "The Internet" when he made his completely BS comment. He knew exactly what he was trying to make people think.. and most people who knew exactly what the Internet was and how it came into being called him on it, and he lost miserably.
If you want to say Mr. Gore played a significant role in the creation of what we know today as TCP/IP. Fine.. but that ain't the Internet. That's not what it was when he did his thing. That's not what the Internet was when I started using it in 1991, and that most certainly not what the Internet was when he tried convincing the voters he played a major role in the creation of the biggest commercial boon this country has ever seen.
If you disagree... fine. But you are not going to convince me or the majority of people that called him out for the BS he spewed that he played any sliver of a role in the creation of what everyone knew as "The Internet" when he tried taking credit for it.
Slashdot.. where people join together in deliberate ignorance.
How do you know that Exxon is in charge of Congress? Show us proof.
I think the article's viewpoint is simply against. Against the truth, and against Bush. Being right half the time is not so bad, these days.
-I like my women like I like my tea: green-
That's exactly what the Dinosaurs said.
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
I love how people can assume that pumping killotons of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere every day
Respiring lifeforms have been doing so for billions of years to the glory of all plant life. 6 billion people on earth will have an effect. As a Kyotoist you should be able to scare me better than that.
We know there is a hole in the ozone layer - we've seen it, photographed it.
And we've watched it shrink, most likely as part of a natural cycle. But that wouldn't serve political ends. The ozone holes have always been there. It just happened that as soon as we started to launch spacecraft and balloons we saw it. There have always been Chlorine compounds in the atmosphere, and they have always been activated by low temperature to reduce ozone. I am just thankful I can use the present facts to refute Kyotoists.
As an aside note, the space shuttle ET insulation system never exhibited a catastrophic failure when the insulation was applied with CFC's. It did when engineers started using a green substitute. Therefore I blame Kyotoists for bringing down the Columbia. Let that be a lesson of unexpected consequences of green engineering.
Changes of that variety will have cascading changes all over - the butterfly effect on the environment.
Your implicit assumption is that we can steer climate in some kind of positive way by manipulating CO2 emissions. Yet you appeal to the fact that climate is a chaotic system. Chaotic systems vary unpredictably with small changes of input. If you manipulate CO2 emissions (at huge cost) what kind of benefit can those who invested expect to get? Don't deceive yourself or others by thinking you can favorably manipulate climate.
an ill wind that blows no good