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He won but HE SHOULD STOP jetting around the world on his private plane (you believers know that it causes CO2, right?!). Right now he is part of the problem (an environmental group did an audit on his supposed carbon-free lifestyle and he actually emits MORE CO2 than the Average American does). So if he wants to be a part of the solution he should just go up to the North Pole and live out the rest of his life there! He can preach all he wants from his place up there!
Not to mention the 221,000 kilowatt-hours Al Gore's house in Nashville uses in electricity every year (the average American home uses 10,656 kilowatt-hours in a year). And that doesn't include his heating bill since his house is heated by natural gas.
In August 2007, Al Gore's Nashville home used 22,619 kilowatt-hours in just one month. Since all this came out in the Nashville press, the Gores decided to pay a $432 premium every month to the Nashville Electric Service for "green" electricity. Note this doesn't mean they're using LESS electricity, they're just paying a premium (which most Americans can't afford) to get their electricity from a different source, supposedly.
Come on now folks...there is no such thing as global warming. If anything, we are simply still coming out of the last ice age. Another thing that Al Gore won't tell you is that last year there was more ice than ever recorded at the South Pole.
It seems that the meteorologist who's been in charge of NASA's eight weather satellites for 30 years agrees. In the past four years--the period corresponding to reduced solar activity--all of the rise in global temperatures since 1979 has disappeared. Here's what he found, which was published in the National Post in October:
This past winter in China was their coldest on record. It snowed in Brazil in September, their latest snowfall in recorded history and Brazil's coldest September in 100 years.
Man-made CO2 emissions equal only about 0.0168% of the atmosphere's CO2 concentration which results in a miniscule 0.00064% increase in the absorption of the sun's radiation. These are statistics that the Eco Police ignore while hysterically telling the rest of us how to live.
Besides, the earth's climate has been shifting and changing for thousands of years. Whoever decided that the temperatures in the 1970s were the ideal temperatures that the earth needed and would never and should never again change?
The earth has been hotter before (the Medieval Warm Period, for example), and the earth has been cooler before. We can't make it rain, we can't stop weather fronts, and we can't do anything to change the ebb and flow of the earth's many climates.
I don't disagree that Al Gore is being a hypocrite, but that doesn't have anything to do with global warming.
But it does have a lot to do with global warming. If global warming were so horrible, and if we humans are as responsible for it as Al Gore wants us to believe, then why isn't he practicing what he preaches? Clearly he doesn't believe his own words, so why should the rest of us believe him?
But it does have a lot to do with global warming. If global warming were so horrible, and if we humans are as responsible for it as Al Gore wants us to believe, then why isn't he practicing what he preaches? Clearly he doesn't believe his own words, so why should the rest of us believe him?
Global warming or climate change is not dependent on how Al Gore acts.
I want global cooling but the winters lately in Houston are way too warm. I haven't experienced freezing temperatures during the day the whole winter. Today, the wind has been blowing strong from the Gulf and the heat and humidity is creeping back. It's been 4 years since I experienced a chill in the middle of the day!
It seems that the meteorologist who's been in charge of NASA's eight weather satellites for 30 years agrees. In the past four years--the period corresponding to reduced solar activity--all of the rise in global temperatures since 1979 has disappeared. Here's what he found, which was published in the National Post in October:
This past winter in China was their coldest on record. It snowed in Brazil in September, their latest snowfall in recorded history and Brazil's coldest September in 100 years.
Man-made CO2 emissions equal only about 0.0168% of the atmosphere's CO2 concentration which results in a miniscule 0.00064% increase in the absorption of the sun's radiation. These are statistics that the Eco Police ignore while hysterically telling the rest of us how to live.
Besides, the earth's climate has been shifting and changing for thousands of years. Whoever decided that the temperatures in the 1970s were the ideal temperatures that the earth needed and would never and should never again change?
The earth has been hotter before (the Medieval Warm Period, for example), and the earth has been cooler before. We can't make it rain, we can't stop weather fronts, and we can't do anything to change the ebb and flow of the earth's many climates.
Yes, having cooler temperatures in the Plains would be beneficial to agriculture. Right now, some areas are on the precipice of not being able to grow some crops because of warmer temperatures leading to greater amounts of evapotranspiration during the summer.
I also take exception to your graph. It mentions tropospheric temperatures, but not land based temperature trends over that same period of time. Of course we are in a solar minimum right now, but that is relatively cyclical occurence. The exponential increase in CO2 emissions is a bigger long-term concern, and stabalization of CO2 must be a global priority. Technological advancements should mitigate much of this problem, but action is needed as soon as possible.
The number one greenhouse gas is water vapor. But politicians couldn't figure out a scam to tax steam. Carbon counting - now there's a clever idea. Why, you could even tax BAKING POWDER for its carbon dioxide emissions.
Al Gore should stop IHOP from selling those Global Warming pancakes!
why don't we EXILE AL GORE to the North Pole! Perhaps it can stop the ice caps from melting! Problem Solved!
Are you kidding? Sending Al Gore to the North Pole would cause the ice caps to melt...too much hot air.
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