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AL GORE AND GLOBAL WARMING
Posted: (July 25, 2008 01:00 pm)
After watching Al Gore's appearance on Meet the Press I finally found the inspiration for my next blog.
If you had the pleasure of watching this interview, then you got to see a financially motivated politician at his best (or worst).
First off, Greenie Al suggested that we must find a way to get off fossil fuels within 10 years. Now anyone who has any clue about how the world works knows that we won't be able to do this in 100 years let alone 10. Still, it's a great 'sky is falling' tactic to push his agenda. Of course a drastic shift of energy policy would be devestating to poverty stricken areas that aren't financially equipped to change over (Oil is used to heat a large percentage of homes in the US). Here are a few other things to analize from his conversation.
" There`s enough solar energy that hits the surface of the planet in 40 minutes to provide a full year`s worth of energy for the entire world."
Really? Now all we have to do is figure out how to harness said energy. Of course that alone is impossible.
This is a twist on the argument that the wind and sun are free, but the problem is solar power and wind power are terribly expensive. In order to harness solar electricity you have to restring the entire power grid. By the way, this costs roughly $2 million per mile. I don't know about you, but I consider the United States a pretty big place.....In addition, to power the US, we'd need to solar panel 4.5 billion homes....ummm....that's a lot!
"There`s really not a debate in the mainstream scientific community. It is the most serious threat that our civilization has ever faced. Look at the fires out in California right now, look at the epic flooding in the Midwest."
Really? Wow, there had never been fires in the west and flooding in the Midwest prior to global warming SOUND THE ALARMS!!!! Afterall, this is the most serious threat to face humanity since the last most serious threat to face humanity. Remember the 'mainstream scientific communities' claims of global cooling in the 1970's? The problem is these floods come after very cold, very wet snowy winters and so you have a lot of stored frozen water that will melt. It does that in a period of time called summer. The fact is that the 1930's were actually a warmer period than this and there were FEWER fires during that period.
"The entire polar icecap, Tom, been there three million years, it`s the size of the lower 48 states and the scientists now say that there`s a 75 percent chance it will be completely gone during the summer in as little as five years. This is happening on our watch. We have got to respond"
Bad news Al (well, for you). He did this throughout his movie. This statement is based on a computer model the spin of which the author even ran away from; his name is Mark Sarees. It claims that there`s a chance that the North Pole could be ice free. Remember, greenhouse warming says both poles would be warming first. Well, the South Pole is cooling and gaining ice mass at a fairly rapid clip. The North Pole, of course, we have more than 10 percent more ice today than we did a year ago on this date. They`re relying upon 2007, really, when there was a Siberian high pressure anomaly and they`re still trying to scare you off of that. Also note that ocean temps over the last five years are actually DECREASING.
A few fun facts on Al Gore the hypocrite.
Gores home uses 20 times the national average of electricity consumption.
Gore argues that by buying so-called 'carbon credits' he offsets his energy use....One problem....the company those credits are bought from.....is owned by Al Gore.
Eleven known inaccuracies of 'An Inconvenient Truth'
If you had the pleasure of watching this interview, then you got to see a financially motivated politician at his best (or worst).
First off, Greenie Al suggested that we must find a way to get off fossil fuels within 10 years. Now anyone who has any clue about how the world works knows that we won't be able to do this in 100 years let alone 10. Still, it's a great 'sky is falling' tactic to push his agenda. Of course a drastic shift of energy policy would be devestating to poverty stricken areas that aren't financially equipped to change over (Oil is used to heat a large percentage of homes in the US). Here are a few other things to analize from his conversation.
" There`s enough solar energy that hits the surface of the planet in 40 minutes to provide a full year`s worth of energy for the entire world."
Really? Now all we have to do is figure out how to harness said energy. Of course that alone is impossible.
This is a twist on the argument that the wind and sun are free, but the problem is solar power and wind power are terribly expensive. In order to harness solar electricity you have to restring the entire power grid. By the way, this costs roughly $2 million per mile. I don't know about you, but I consider the United States a pretty big place.....In addition, to power the US, we'd need to solar panel 4.5 billion homes....ummm....that's a lot!
"There`s really not a debate in the mainstream scientific community. It is the most serious threat that our civilization has ever faced. Look at the fires out in California right now, look at the epic flooding in the Midwest."
Really? Wow, there had never been fires in the west and flooding in the Midwest prior to global warming SOUND THE ALARMS!!!! Afterall, this is the most serious threat to face humanity since the last most serious threat to face humanity. Remember the 'mainstream scientific communities' claims of global cooling in the 1970's? The problem is these floods come after very cold, very wet snowy winters and so you have a lot of stored frozen water that will melt. It does that in a period of time called summer. The fact is that the 1930's were actually a warmer period than this and there were FEWER fires during that period.
"The entire polar icecap, Tom, been there three million years, it`s the size of the lower 48 states and the scientists now say that there`s a 75 percent chance it will be completely gone during the summer in as little as five years. This is happening on our watch. We have got to respond"
Bad news Al (well, for you). He did this throughout his movie. This statement is based on a computer model the spin of which the author even ran away from; his name is Mark Sarees. It claims that there`s a chance that the North Pole could be ice free. Remember, greenhouse warming says both poles would be warming first. Well, the South Pole is cooling and gaining ice mass at a fairly rapid clip. The North Pole, of course, we have more than 10 percent more ice today than we did a year ago on this date. They`re relying upon 2007, really, when there was a Siberian high pressure anomaly and they`re still trying to scare you off of that. Also note that ocean temps over the last five years are actually DECREASING.
A few fun facts on Al Gore the hypocrite.
Gores home uses 20 times the national average of electricity consumption.
Gore argues that by buying so-called 'carbon credits' he offsets his energy use....One problem....the company those credits are bought from.....is owned by Al Gore.
Eleven known inaccuracies of 'An Inconvenient Truth'
- The film claims that melting snows on Mount Kilimanjaro evidence global warming. The Government's expert was forced to concede that this is not correct.
- The film suggests that evidence from ice cores proves that rising CO2 causes temperature increases over 650,000 years. The Court found that the film was misleading: over that period the rises in CO2 lagged behind the temperature rises by 800-2000 years.
- The film uses emotive images of Hurricane Katrina and suggests that this has been caused by global warming. The Government's expert had to accept that it was "not possible" to attribute one-off events to global warming.
- The film shows the drying up of Lake Chad and claims that this was caused by global warming. The Government's expert had to accept that this was not the case.
- The film claims that a study showed that polar bears had drowned due to disappearing arctic ice. It turned out that Mr Gore had misread the study: in fact four polar bears drowned and this was because of a particularly violent storm.
- The film threatens that global warming could stop the Gulf Stream throwing Europe into an ice age: the Claimant's evidence was that this was a scientific impossibility.
- The film blames global warming for species losses including coral reef bleaching. The Government could not find any evidence to support this claim.
- The film suggests that the Greenland ice covering could melt causing sea levels to rise dangerously. The evidence is that Greenland will not melt for millennia.
- The film suggests that the Antarctic ice covering is melting, the evidence was that it is in fact increasing.
- The film suggests that sea levels could rise by 7m causing the displacement of millions of people. In fact the evidence is that sea levels are expected to rise by about 40cm over the next hundred years and that there is no such threat of massive migration.
- The film claims that rising sea levels has caused the evacuation of certain Pacific islands to New Zealand. The Government are unable to substantiate this and the Court observed that this appears to be a false claim.
Comments On This Blog Article
Spell it ... Combustible
Posted: (July 26, 2008 10:49 pm)
It's really spelled Combustible, Sorry Al.. I agree our Planet should be Healthy and the Environment should be Fresh but Al's Approach is ''Playing on Our Fears'',to use a Familiar Term..
Took your advice.
Posted: (July 26, 2008 07:16 pm)
Glad you enjoyed the blog.
The Cumbustable Engine
Posted: (July 26, 2008 12:47 am)
If he was Elected President after he tried to Steal the 2000 Election, We would not be fighting terrorists after 9/11, he would have taken all of our Guns, and Confiscated our Vehicles and Declared War on America, and we would be Bowing at the Knuckles of BIN LADEN , Gore is our Real Threat, anything he has to say should be used as a Political Commercial with your references as the Retort ( you know, with a voice over and some pictures ).. While he was Spewing BS for 8 MEDIA FUELED FAVORABLE YEARS, Our Enemies were Plotting and Planning while He and His Accomplice were Stipping America and our Military... OF OUR DIGNITY AND HONOR around the World...... And I was just Wondering why I can't find your Blog on the General Blog Page over in the Forums Page ???? I stumbled on to your site after reading Robyn Stevens BLOG. You should Send this to the Mid Atlantic Region there are alot of people who Read those Blogs and it's very active with Bloggers...
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