very true. Although hard work... it's all so new no-one has a clue what will work and what won't. Most of us are running wild goose chases, only a few will shine.
AlBore's Inconvenient Lies
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I think for a research program in nanotech to be successful it is good to have a strong group of people. Everyone should be quite well rounded and cross trained but should also have there specialty. A few specialties I can think of are: quantum chemistry, quantum physics, manufacturing, material science, quantum computing, nano robotics, nano electronics.
Actually an Ice Age is coming when you really think about it. Then after that the earth will go into a warming phase and the glaciers will recede... then the glaciers will return once again.
It's all part of the Earth's cycles.
Dear Vice President Gore:
Americans from every corner of our nation are calling on you. Please listen to our plea and run for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States in 2008.
Never before has America needed a leader of your stature, vision and experience more than now. The next presidential election will be the most crucial one in our history, and you are the only Democrat who can unite the country and lead us to victory. And this country -- indeed, the entire world -- cannot afford anything less.
Our nation and the planet itself are entering “a period of consequences,” as you so well stated in “An Inconvenient Truth,” but in more ways than one. We are ruled by a government of the powerful and for the powerful -- a government that tramples our Constitution, wages unjust war in our name, sacrifices our economic future, and puts our very planet on the endangered species list.
America and the world need you now more than ever. Be our candidate. Run for president. And we pledge that we'll be there for you every day until the last vote is counted.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned,
Americans from every corner of our nation are calling on you. Please listen to our plea and run for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States in 2008.
Never before has America needed a leader of your stature, vision and experience more than now. The next presidential election will be the most crucial one in our history, and you are the only Democrat who can unite the country and lead us to victory. And this country -- indeed, the entire world -- cannot afford anything less.
Our nation and the planet itself are entering “a period of consequences,” as you so well stated in “An Inconvenient Truth,” but in more ways than one. We are ruled by a government of the powerful and for the powerful -- a government that tramples our Constitution, wages unjust war in our name, sacrifices our economic future, and puts our very planet on the endangered species list.
America and the world need you now more than ever. Be our candidate. Run for president. And we pledge that we'll be there for you every day until the last vote is counted.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned,
Not many signatures are there. I soooooooo hope he runs. Oh it will be so great to see him ripped to shreds and laughed out of the DNC.
Al Gore wouldn't even be a good wagon puller with a load of children in it for the local town summer parade. He was Mr. Misfit in the Army. When dad Sen. Gore found out the Army journalist kid was in areas where shooting was happening he ordered the Sec. of the Army to retrieve junior and fly his lazy butt home. It wasn't 24 hours after dad made the call that good old Al was on Philipine soil. He doesn't have the good sense to get off the tracks when the train is coming. His nickname should be Buffoon.
<sigh> And let me once again remind everybody that Al Gore's personal lifestyle choices have nothing to do with the truth or falsity of anything in the documentary An Inconvenient Truth. So maybe he doesn't practice what he preaches? So what? Doesn't mean he's wrong, at worst it means he's a bit of a hypocrite. If you want to attack the claims made in the documentary, fine, do so, that's certainly what the thread title suggests was going to be going on in here and that's perfectly legitjmate. Attacking Gore personally is just a way of avoiding dealing with the issues he raises, which is neither helpful nor useful. It's another fallacy that passes for reasoned argument, the ad hominem attack.
Why would anyone give credence to a hypocrite that exadurates sea level rises by a factor of 100?
That's the point. Provide the evidence that demonstrates he's guilty of such exaggeration, never mind what his personal lifestyle is, it's irrelevant to whether that claim is true or not.
Compare Al Gore's 40 feet to what the IPCC said. Moreover, the IPCC is an organization who's very existence depends on perpetuating the myth of a global warming catastrophe. Al Gore is either a liar or out to lunch.
As we all muddle our way to improve the health of our earth, ANYONE who writes ANYTHING that helps us move in the right direction, (including ourselves) could be called hypocrites, because until
we are ALL where we should be in respect to "the care of our earth", noone is in a position to
"name call". Instead of trashing Al Gore, or anyone , DO SOMETHING YOURSELF.
we are ALL where we should be in respect to "the care of our earth", noone is in a position to
"name call". Instead of trashing Al Gore, or anyone , DO SOMETHING YOURSELF.
Basically what Al Gore did was get a bunch of people with the same views and BADABING he has a documentary! Where are the decenting views? He put together a faux documentary a lot like "Spinal Tap". Entertainment at best.
What happened to the Scientific Method? I guess that method does not have any place in the politics of Global Warming.
one day it's healthcare...It's falling apart..no one cares there are old people dieing in the hallways...
Then it's global warming..it's falling apart..no one cares..all people are dieing
If we then have a ressession... we will hear..no body cares..it's all falling apart...people are dieing.
They are all true statements, however we all like bandwagons... when each one of these issues comes to the forfront the others disappear. No one has a word to say about healthcare at the moment. we are all too focused on the enviroment. Has the healthcare issue been fixed..no, but it's not in a politicians interest to talk about it now.
If our economy goes south, no one will be the least bit interested in greenhouse gas anymore...we will want cheaper gas, lower taxes and more jobs period!!! Most of these guys are just following the polls. What did Al gore do while Vice Pres.? Nothing..but know he's "found his podium" he's the great savior.
The science doesn't matter, facts don't matter and opposision is evil and satanic. It's all fact and you might as well kill babies if you question anything....
Then it's global warming..it's falling apart..no one cares..all people are dieing
If we then have a ressession... we will hear..no body cares..it's all falling apart...people are dieing.
They are all true statements, however we all like bandwagons... when each one of these issues comes to the forfront the others disappear. No one has a word to say about healthcare at the moment. we are all too focused on the enviroment. Has the healthcare issue been fixed..no, but it's not in a politicians interest to talk about it now.
If our economy goes south, no one will be the least bit interested in greenhouse gas anymore...we will want cheaper gas, lower taxes and more jobs period!!! Most of these guys are just following the polls. What did Al gore do while Vice Pres.? Nothing..but know he's "found his podium" he's the great savior.
The science doesn't matter, facts don't matter and opposision is evil and satanic. It's all fact and you might as well kill babies if you question anything....
Come on Eagle. Why don't you show us a bit of your "scientific method", and show us why it is wrong. . I've watched Al Gore's movie about four times and I can find nothing wrong with the science. You disagree with the movie's message, but you don't seem to know why.
Al Gore's faux documentary has been already shot full of holes by other scientist. Links, articles, videos, graphs have been posted all over this forum by folks showing how Gore's movie is an outright fabrication by him. This movie is about Al Gore. He got a consensus and that was it.
Who says I don't know why? I don't agree with it because I don't believe we are in a PLANETARY EMERGENCY. He's an egotistical blowhard. He could turn around and make a documentary saying GW is a farce.
The nation's top climate scientists are giving An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's documentary on global warming, five stars for accuracy.
The former vice president's movie — replete with the prospect of a flooded New York City, an inundated Florida, more and nastier hurricanes, worsening droughts, retreating glaciers and disappearing ice sheets — mostly got the science right, said all 19 climate scientists who had seen the movie or read the book and answered questions from The Associated Press.
The AP contacted more than 100 top climate researchers by e-mail and phone for their opinion. Among those contacted were vocal skeptics of climate change theory. Most scientists had not seen the movie, which is in limited release, or read the book.
But those who have seen it had the same general impression: Gore conveyed the science correctly; the world is getting hotter and it is a manmade catastrophe-in-the-making caused by the burning of fossil fuels.
"Excellent," said William Schlesinger, dean of the Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University. "He got all the important material and got it right."
Robert Corell, chairman of the worldwide Arctic Climate Impact Assessment group of scientists, read the book and saw Gore give the slideshow presentation that is woven throughout the documentary.
"I sat there and I'm amazed at how thorough and accurate," Corell said. "After the presentation I said, 'Al, I'm absolutely blown away. There's a lot of details you could get wrong.' ... I could find no error."
Gore, in an interview with the AP, said he wasn't surprised "because I took a lot of care to try to make sure the science was right."
The tiny errors scientists found weren't a big deal, "far, far fewer and less significant than the shortcoming in speeches by the typical politician explaining an issue," said Michael MacCracken, who used to be in charge of the nation's global warming effects program and is now chief scientist at the Climate Institute in Washington.
One concern was about the connection between hurricanes and global warming. That is a subject of a heated debate in the science community. Gore cited five recent scientific studies to support his view.
"I thought the use of imagery from Hurricane Katrina was inappropriate and unnecessary in this regard, as there are plenty of disturbing impacts associated with global warming for which there is much greater scientific consensus," said Brian Soden, a University of Miami professor of meteorology and oceanography.
Some scientists said Gore confused his ice sheets when he said the effect of the Clean Air Act is noticeable in the Antarctic ice core; it is the Greenland ice core. Others thought Gore oversimplified the causal-link between the key greenhouse gas carbon dioxide and rising temperatures.
While some non-scientists could be depressed by the dire disaster-laden warmer world scenario that Gore laid out, one top researcher thought it was too optimistic. Tom Wigley, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, thought the former vice president sugarcoated the problem by saying that with already-available technologies and changes in habit — such as changing light bulbs — the world could help slow or stop global warming.
While more than 1 million people have seen the movie since it opened in May, that does not include Washington's top science decision makers. President Bush said he won't see it. The heads of the Environmental Protection Agency and NASA haven't seen it, and the president's science adviser said the movie is on his to-see list.
"They are quite literally afraid to know the truth," Gore said. "Because if you accept the truth of what the scientific community is saying, it gives you a moral imperative to start to rein in the 70 million tons of global warming pollution that human civilization is putting into the atmosphere every day."
As far as the movie's entertainment value, Scripps Institution geosciences professor Jeff Severinghaus summed it up: "My wife fell asleep. Of course, I was on the edge of my chair."
Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
The former vice president's movie — replete with the prospect of a flooded New York City, an inundated Florida, more and nastier hurricanes, worsening droughts, retreating glaciers and disappearing ice sheets — mostly got the science right, said all 19 climate scientists who had seen the movie or read the book and answered questions from The Associated Press.
The AP contacted more than 100 top climate researchers by e-mail and phone for their opinion. Among those contacted were vocal skeptics of climate change theory. Most scientists had not seen the movie, which is in limited release, or read the book.
But those who have seen it had the same general impression: Gore conveyed the science correctly; the world is getting hotter and it is a manmade catastrophe-in-the-making caused by the burning of fossil fuels.
"Excellent," said William Schlesinger, dean of the Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University. "He got all the important material and got it right."
Robert Corell, chairman of the worldwide Arctic Climate Impact Assessment group of scientists, read the book and saw Gore give the slideshow presentation that is woven throughout the documentary.
"I sat there and I'm amazed at how thorough and accurate," Corell said. "After the presentation I said, 'Al, I'm absolutely blown away. There's a lot of details you could get wrong.' ... I could find no error."
Gore, in an interview with the AP, said he wasn't surprised "because I took a lot of care to try to make sure the science was right."
The tiny errors scientists found weren't a big deal, "far, far fewer and less significant than the shortcoming in speeches by the typical politician explaining an issue," said Michael MacCracken, who used to be in charge of the nation's global warming effects program and is now chief scientist at the Climate Institute in Washington.
One concern was about the connection between hurricanes and global warming. That is a subject of a heated debate in the science community. Gore cited five recent scientific studies to support his view.
"I thought the use of imagery from Hurricane Katrina was inappropriate and unnecessary in this regard, as there are plenty of disturbing impacts associated with global warming for which there is much greater scientific consensus," said Brian Soden, a University of Miami professor of meteorology and oceanography.
Some scientists said Gore confused his ice sheets when he said the effect of the Clean Air Act is noticeable in the Antarctic ice core; it is the Greenland ice core. Others thought Gore oversimplified the causal-link between the key greenhouse gas carbon dioxide and rising temperatures.
While some non-scientists could be depressed by the dire disaster-laden warmer world scenario that Gore laid out, one top researcher thought it was too optimistic. Tom Wigley, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, thought the former vice president sugarcoated the problem by saying that with already-available technologies and changes in habit — such as changing light bulbs — the world could help slow or stop global warming.
While more than 1 million people have seen the movie since it opened in May, that does not include Washington's top science decision makers. President Bush said he won't see it. The heads of the Environmental Protection Agency and NASA haven't seen it, and the president's science adviser said the movie is on his to-see list.
"They are quite literally afraid to know the truth," Gore said. "Because if you accept the truth of what the scientific community is saying, it gives you a moral imperative to start to rein in the 70 million tons of global warming pollution that human civilization is putting into the atmosphere every day."
As far as the movie's entertainment value, Scripps Institution geosciences professor Jeff Severinghaus summed it up: "My wife fell asleep. Of course, I was on the edge of my chair."
Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Of course they are juan, they have something to gain by it, shall I say agenda?
There are lies of omission, there are lies about timing.
Just because those with an agenda refuse to acknowledge them, does not make them any less real.
How do you become the nations "Top Climate Scientist"?
Easy... don't oppose GW.
How do you get shunned?
Easy... show evidence to the contrary.
There will be NO DEBATE.
CONFORM.
You will Accept Global Warming as your religion and Al Gore as your savoir!
Easy... don't oppose GW.
How do you get shunned?
Easy... show evidence to the contrary.
There will be NO DEBATE.
CONFORM.
You will Accept Global Warming as your religion and Al Gore as your savoir!