An Inconvenient Truth.

[metirish]

Interesting to watch and Al Gore seems to have a real passion for the subject and I was surprised to find out that he has a long history of caring about the enviroment.

Smart fella is Gore.

[nymr83]

Didn't Gore make money in oil?

[metirish]

Nymr83 wrote: Didn't Gore make money in oil?

How did I know you would be the first to post here..

no idea where Gore made his moola but he sure has a huge electrical bill for his mansion.

[smg58]

Gore's family was in tobacco, which he alludes to in the movie. He talks about how they were in denial about the health effects of tobacco until his sister became terminally ill with lung cancer, and makes the analogy with global warming in that we'll regret it if wait too long to acknowledge the truth and act.

[metirish]

smg58 wrote: Gore's family was in tobacco, which he alludes to in the movie. He talks about how they were in denial about the health effects of tobacco until his sister became terminally ill with lung cancer, and makes the analogy with global warming in that we'll regret it if wait too long to acknowledge the truth and act.

Bingo,that part was just on...it's on Showtime right now.

[Frayed Knot]

Nymr83 wrote: Didn't Gore make money in oil?

Not oil, tobacco.

[nymr83]

sorry, mixing up my sleezy politicians who got rich off things before they started condemning them.

[Guest iramets]

"Isn't Gore that sleazy politician who never smoked, didn't know squat about the tobacco industry, had never met a tobacco farmer, yet had the colossal gall to attack an entire industry he didn't understand just because it was a convenient target for his liberal bullshit politics? Typical fucking polit--what? You don't say? I did not know that. Okay, so Gore's a sleezy politician who betrayed his own roots, having been raised in a family that trafficked in tobacco for centuries..."

[nymr83]

a truth thats inconvenient for Al Gore:
http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/G/great_global_warming_swindle/index.html

sadly the video itself is no longer on google video as it was a few months ago.

edit- heres part 1 (of 8) on youtube, sadly it is not available in its entirety in one video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f8v5du5_ag

[dgwphotography]

Am I the only one who remembers that we were in the beginning of an ice age 30 years ago?

[Frayed Knot]

Iubitul wrote: Am I the only one who remembers that we were in the beginning of an ice age 30 years ago?

There was a "Scientists Warn' story on that in Newsweek some time in the '70s.

Gore at least got some good news this week ... his kid proved that, despite being a gas-saving hybrid, a Prius can still go 100 MPH.

[Edgy MD]

a truth thats inconvenient for Al Gore: http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/G/great_global_warming_swindle/index.html sadly the video itself is no longer on google video as it was a few months ago. edit- heres part 1 (of 8) on youtube, sadly it is not available in its entirety in one video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f8v5du5_ag

There's a lot of sadness in that post.

[smg58]

Iubitul wrote: Am I the only one who remembers that we were in the beginning of an ice age 30 years ago?

We know more now than we knew in the early seventies. The people who published that particular paper were looking at one facet of human pollution, namely the addition of aerosols (suspended airborne particulates) and the ability of these aerosols to reflect sunlight back into space. They never factored the addition of greenhouse gases into the equation. The most that can be said for the paper is that scientists started to take a closer look at what was going on in the earth's atmosphere because of it, but their analysis was seriously incomplete.