B,

Because climates have been changing for millions of years on this planet. It's been a lot hotter, and a lot colder. As such, to negatively impact the global economy, and potentially starve millions nay billions of people in developing nations, because the planet has possibly seen a 0.7 degree rise in temperature in the past 100 years is a crime against humanity.

And if you can't see it, you're blind.  ns

Do some research, something Al Gore never did. Why do you think Greenland is called "Greenland?" The Vikings had thriving farming communities there perhaps 1000 years ago. In the same period England had a thriving wine industry. I don't think there were many SUVs in medieval Europe, do you?

Gore has absolutely no scientific credentials. Much of his so-called "documentary" is filled with errors, misinterpretations of facts, and just plain stupid nonsense. For example, there was the report revealing that a number (four, I believe) of drowned polar bears were found. Gore uses this as proof that polar bears are drowning because their ice flows have melted and they must swim longer and longer distances. Turns out the actual cause was more likely a severe storm.

In another example, he shows large chunks of glaciers falling off into the sea. His explanation: the glaciers are melting! Actual cause: glacier calving. The glaciers grow (read that "get larger") into the sea and break off.

The earth's climate is indeed probably getting warmer at the present. Mankind almost certainly has very little to nothing to do with this. Scientists qualified to comment on the phenomenon point to the sun as the most likely culprit.

Gore is either incredibly stupid or incredibly evil. What is really troubling is that otherwise reasonabe people capable of cogent thought fall for this nonsense. I can understand Hollywood giving him the Best Documentary oscar, that town is populated largely by ignorant high school dropouts. These are the same morons that gave an oscar to Michael Moore. I don't understand how otherwise sensible people fall for it, however.

I hope Gore lives long enough to experience the intense ridicule he so richly deserves.

Funny, Bal, the Mars-data totally sealed it for me. How come I had to learn that particular factoid on a mediabias busting site, instead of learning it from the media itself? I can think of only one answer...And even if the Mars data doesn't seal it for you, would you at least agree that it's a pretty strong argument for the sun causing these changes rather than man?
JMR

Here're a few reasons to suspect Gore, if not outright accuse him of fraud.

1.  Gore's biggest GW catastrophe is the melting of polar ice caps, raising sea levels 20 FEET by 2100.  Yet, the final 2007 IPCC report due to the UN in May, is reducing the IPCC's 2001 forecast for sea level rise in 2100 by about half to 17 INCHES.  Gore insists that the science is in and the debate is over, yet his scary sea level number, accompanied by computer graphics of ports and lowlands covered by oceans, isn't anywhere close to the science.  A 17" rise in sea level over the next 100 years is about the same as the rise in past 100 years.

2.  As for the debate being over, it's only because Gore won't debate his bogus data.  He was invited to debate Prof. Bjorn Lomborg of Denmark by a leading Danish newspaper, but declined.  Has anyone ever seen Gore debate a GW skepctic and stand by the supposedlyh irrefutable "science?"  Why is Prince Albert afraid?  Does he fear that someone who understands real science and real data will make him look like an idiot?  I suspect so.

3.  Gore himself isn't serious about GW.  He defends China's 'by' under the Kyoto Treaty by explaining that China's economy ---- which is spewing untreated pollutants all over East Asia --- needs to catch up, and therefore can't be hampered by Kyoto restrictions.  So, much for the crisis.  And wasn't Al the guy accepting the illegal Chinese campaign $$$ at that Buddhist temple.  Gthat was a smart investment for China, no?

captionfest see Gore pic above : " Gnow mhine Iron Cross shall rule de Verld ! "

I heard he was taking Nancy's personal military jet with Caprio and Degenerous for a night over the town, then home.

Amen.

You both need to keep thinking. First neither of you are moderate or independent just two more liberals who can't admit it what they are.

As far as saying screw science - Republicans don't say that - only extremist far left liberals would say that they do. What they say is science doesn't answer everything. The embryonic stem cell issue has nothing at all to do with science; it has to do with human life as did the Terry Shivo issue. If Terry Shivo's family had wanted her tube removed - it never would have even been an issue.

In the case of Global warming - again they are saying that science doesn't answer everything. There are conflicting scientific theories. If you were moderate and independent you would know that

jserve - how do you expect someone to respond when you call them a hater? Noel is far from being a hater of anyone. We don't hate Gore - we just don't respect him - especially as a scientist - because he is not.

I don't have my mind completely made up either but I can tell you for sure that what Al Gore says is discounted as partisan blather so is what Hollywood and the MSM say.

Don't call people haters - especially the bloggers on here who are all very professional and none of them have shown any hating that I've seen and I've been coming here almost since the beginning.

OK, so here's jserve - an unabashed Liberal trying to think.

First thing he does is declare an 'open' mind.  Taking care that it is not so open that anything falls out of course.

jserve:  "I've an open mind about that, you seem to have made your mind up."

Capitalist Running Dog Imperialist American Right Winger:  "Um, well, I haven't accepted the 'consensus', if that is what you mean."

jserve:  "Of course that is what I mean.  Here you argue from the position that maybe Al Gore is full of it; and I have an open mind.  After all the messenger is not the message."

Capitalist Running Dog Imperialist American Right Winger:  "Um, OK, so by questioning the message and attaching it to the messenger, I am therefore prejudiced against the message to start?"

jserve:  "Well of course.  If you just ignored the twit who was telling you that you had to completely change your lifestyle; alter the economics of energy; reduce the American Wealth Generating Economy to a redistribution scheme to help the 'poor' children in the world, then you would have an open mind."

Capitalist Running Dog Imperialist American Right Winger:  "Um... thinking here...Uhhhhh.... OK, you don't believe any of this crap this twit is saying, do you?"

:-)

ACA

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Quoted from:  'Acaiguana Notes from the Bomb Shelter' (soon to be a movie at theaters near you)

ACA,

Yes, but the polling data also shows GW as a perfect wedge issue. Democrats and liberals are buying this nonsense almost universally, whereas Republicans and conservatives are the skeptics. As such, with him as the real antiwar candidate, and the spokesperson for GW, he is tailor made.

And, with Hollywood firmly behind him, along with Branson, he's got funding as far as the eye can see.

I stick with my previous point: by not announcing last night -- unless this is a strategy to let Obama, Clinton, and Edwards beat each other up for a while before he enters -- Gore has shown himself to not have the stomach for a fight with Hillary and Billary.  ns