Al Gore: Liar, plain stupid, or both?
An unexpectedly cool reception for Presidential wannabe Al Gore, here to promote his global warming doomsday movie in a very cold September....
Is it just coincidence that in the very year Gore's film is released warning of imminent warming, that we should experience some of the coldest days on record?
2006 will be remembered as the year Perth recorded its lowest temperature since European settlement, Adelaide had its coldest June ever, Forbes had its lowest temperatures for 133 years, and Melbourne recorded its lowest May since 1970.
By no means is the rejection of the Gore hypothesis limited to Australia - June in Rotorua was the coldest in 42 years, in Anchorage the coldest in 24 years, and in the French Alps for 50 years.
A lot of hot air accompanies Al Gore, but that has little to do with fossil fuel consumption, greenhouse gasses or environmental devestation. Check out these Gore classics:
"A zebra does not change its spots." - Al Gore, attacking President George Bush in 1992.
"I certainly learned a great deal from 3,000 town hall meetings across my home state of Tennessee over a 16-year period" in Congress, the vice president told NPR’s Bob Edwards. Do the math. That’s 187 town hall meetings per year, or a meeting in Tennessee every other day for 16 years, including weekends, holidays, vacations, and time spent running for president in 1988 and for vice president in 1992.
Finding himself talking to the controversial rock star Courtney Love at a Hollywood party, Mr. Gore attempted to charm her by telling her he was a fan. Rather than just accepting the easy compliment, Love cross-examined him."He goes 'I'm a really big fan'," said Love. "And I was like 'Yeah, right. Name a song, Al'." The answer came limply back: "I can't name a song, I'm just a really big fan." Mr. Gore and his wife, Tipper, were the driving forces behind the campaign to make record companies put stickers on records that contained lyrics with sexually explicit content.
And this really takes the cake:
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet" Gore said when asked to cite accomplishments that separate him from another Democratic presidential hopeful, former Sen. Bill Bradley of New Jersey, during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN on March 9, 1999.
Australians might think they are saddled with a bunch of bullshit artists in politics, but what we have is peanuts compared to the likes of Gore.
Edit 16/01/07: Bono sucks arse, too.
posted by shillard at 3:15 AM
1 Comments:
You should read a book. Any book would do in your case. Before you critize someone read up on the subject!
Warming trends lead to cooling trends. This is how it happens - warming leads to the melting of glaciers/icecaps, which empty into rivers that empty into the oceans. More and more fresh water in the ocean decreases its salinity. When the salinity decrease, it affects ocean currents. And in case you didn't know ocean currents helps create the temperate climate that we have experienced since the last ice-age (and also the little ice age of the 1700s). Therefore, we experience warmer summers and at the same time colder winters. This may not always hold true, but for a fact we see and will continue to see "abnormal" whether. While small temperatures will not affect us humans immediately, they do affect our crops and therefore the rest of the foodchain in our ecosystems.
However, the real problem is in assigning all the blame to human activity. These periods of heating and cooling have occured several times before the advent of humans. It is difficult to say how much of the effect is caused by humans and how due to other natural cycles such as earth's orbit around the sun or even solar flares.
Does that may sense to you? You truly are an idiot and should try not to contaminate the web with your small-minded drivel!!!
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