Al Gore Heckled By Tea Partiers During Climate Speech In Florida

Sun Sentinel:

Former Vice President Al Gore's global-warming speech Saturday night at Mizner Park drew about a thousand attendees, as well as more than 200 loud protesters.

Stationed outside the Mizner Park Amphitheater, the protesters jeered at Gore as he took the podium and at those walking into the open-air venue to listen to the speech.

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Comments

[derrickhoyle]

Anyone else find it interesting that one of the places that would be most affected by a modest sea level rise is so vocal against climate change?

[DocSkull]

Also many of the places which are most opposed from health care reform have the most to gain from it. I can only conclude that they'd rather hurt themselves than help someone they fear is undeserving.

[hhayden]

We are against bigger more oppressive and far more expensive government. That's the bottom line.

[hhayden]

In a couple of years it will be a global cooling scam and leftists will be warning of cities buried in ice.

[DocSkull]

We should be so lucky.

[derrickhoyle]

Everyone knows the truth leans towards the left.

[calibabe]

Let's ask the dinasours. They obviously had a problems with the global warming summit during their time. Was it the cap and trade they couldn't agree upon, or was it their rich ruling class driving the SUV's that eventually led to their demise?

[middleoftheroad]

cap and trade is dead right now!

[hhayden]

I'm sure they are still trying to breathe life into it. Any way they can get their hand in our pocket.

[DocSkull]

The CBO says that the current cap and trade plan will provide a savings for low and middle income families.

[ifitwereme]

and yet care nothing about the entire planet

[hhayden]

Forcing people to change there lives over a false premise does nothing for the planet.

[DocSkull]

How would cap and trade force you to change your life?

[ifitwereme]

it's funny so many claim to be protecting our children and their children from horrible debt while they try to derail health care,

[hhayden]

If this health care scam was so good they wouldn't need to demand it or else.

[chronic relatavism]

http://neithercorp.us/media

[CO2feedsPlants]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxzrXhcjAn8

[Tim303]

CO2 also warms the globe.

[CO2feedsPlants]

the sun warms the globe

[simpleperson]

Where is the uproar over the Goracle not allowing the press at this event?

[DocSkull]

You mean the press who wrote the article this thread is about? I'd say you were mistaken about them being barred from attending. Why is it that you thought they were? Did you fall for cable "news" word play which made it seem like he does the same thing as crazyPalin?

[hhayden]

You couldn't resist saying something dumb right at the end?

[phredralf]

While Gore passionately speaks of 'hot air,' all these protesters can do is make hot air of their own. There is more to life than higher taxes and when the time comes, taxes will be the least of our concerns. Besides, countries with the highest taxes, tend to rank higher on the freedom index, conversely, countries with the lowest taxes, Kuwait for example have a tendency to have greater restrictions on an individual's personal freedoms.

[hhayden]

Kuwait is a tiny country sitting on a sea of oil. like Brunri. Hardly a representative example.

[Tim303]

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/

Enjoy

[dfranz]

I appreciate emphirical data. I wish the Tea Baggers did, but these people are the same ones who deny evolution, believe the earth is flat and believe that man never was actually on the moon.

Their idea of freedom of speech is that their speech should be heard over yours.

[hhayden]

The left has been doing that for fourty years. Sounds like the pot calling the kettle black.

[DocSkull]

Forty years is a long time and there may be something somewhere, but based on your track record for being wrong I'm going to go ahead and ask you provide some examples of the "left" doing the same thing. One incident per decade is sufficient.

[StephenBP]

Here is the challenge. Look at the actual temperature data and give us your opinion about it. Not some screwy English Lord's viewpoint. Not George Will's. Or Al Gore's. Yours. Does the global temperature graph have a markedly upward swing, over the long haul, in your opinion? Or not?

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/

Note: You will have to scroll down and make some choices of what you want to look at. It shouldn't be a problem. You have a mind of your own, right?

[bigbluenat4]

UH-OH, your facts have chased the tr0//ies away. To actually believe that there are people who would believe some guy on a Street corner, basically, over ACTUAL TRUE SCIENCE, is just MIND BLOWING!

[hhayden]

Shall we explore the rich history of science and so calld experts being wrong?

[Joao Alvarez]

Thanks Stephen. These graphs are a great help.

[Tim303]

Snap!

[ThesagaciousOne]

Here is the challenge. Look at the actual Solar Activity and give us your opinion about it. Not some screwy English Lord's viewpoint. Not George Will's. Or Al Gore's. Yours. Does the Solar Activity graph have a markedly upward swing, over the long haul, in your opinion? Or not?

http://www.tmgnow.com/repository/solar/lassen1.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_Activity_Proxies.png

You have a mind of your own, right?

[hhayden]

Scientists disagree. We pick the ones we like.

[StephenBP]

PMOD, ACRIM, and IRMB data on solar irradiation show no correlation with the temperatures of the last 30 years.

[hhayden]

It's always trending up and dowm. Has since the Earth was formed. What a surprise. Did you notice the sun keeps coming up?

[GOPfreedSlaves]

CO2 = 1/25th of 1% of the atmosphere. if you really believe a trace compound is going to doom us all, i have beach front propoerty in arizona for sale. 168 billion tons of co2 is dumped into the skies every year, less than 10 billion tons can be attributed to man. so unless you greenies can stop the plankton in the sea and volcanoes, please stop peddling this insanely idiotic line of grabage to me.

what you have is at best a correlation. no increase in temperature since 1998 according to the UN's international panel on climate change.

the temperature of the planet is FAR FAR FAR more dependant on solar activity (flares, spots) than CO2. so go back to the drawing board, earase the picture of polar beats you drew, and come up with a way to beat the sun, the volcanoes, and plankton, and get back to me.

[bigbluenat4]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090817190638.htm

http://marinebio.org/Oceans/Conservation/global-warming.asp

THIS "Trace" element, can effect the WORLD, the chemistry in our atmosphere is very specific, we are lucky to have it. To believe that we can just throw anything at it is foolish and VERY un-scientific of you

[GOPfreedSlaves]

http://climatedepot.com/a/3826/Not-again-Another-10year-climate-tipping-point-warning-issued--Despite-fact-that-UN-began-10Year-Climate-Tipping-Point-in-1989

http://www.e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2210

http://www.climatechangefraud.com/green-affected/5595-climate-change-who-are-the-deniers-now

you think youre the only one who can post links? 1/25th of 1% is a trace element. the chemistry of our atmosphere is CONSTANTLY changing..it isnt constant. so to call it 'very specific' is not only scientificly wrong, it's borderline lunacy.

[Chipher]

OMG, it's the CO2liban and al-Climate ! Look out! We need more 'emergency funding'!!
I think Americans are sophisticated enough now to recognize pandering Madison Avenue attempts to induce hysteria driven government tax and spend programs....

[StephenBP]

You should try using a spell checker AND a fact checker before you post. And check your insults at the door.

[hhayden]

I had to look - it wasn't me being called on spelling for once. What a surprise.

[Pilate]

Injecting yourself with less than 1/25 of 1% of your body weight of heroin will kill you.

The effect of every poison is dose related, and lethal dose is different for every poison. Same goes for CO2 in the atmosphere.

[StephenBP]

If you think trace compounds can't doom one, think about what a trace of cyanide or arsenic can do to your day.

"The fact that CO2 increases in the past 150 years are due virtually entirely to human activities is so well established that one rarely sees it questioned." What is happening is that we are putting it in faster than it is being removed. So the last 25% of CO2 in the atmosphere is caused by humans. Go bite a teacher if you don't understand isotopic analysis or calculus.
Yes 1998 was warmer. Will you apologize for this diatribe in 2010 or 2011 or whenever the next hotter-than-ever year occurs? The statistical trend is up. Climate is something that is measured in decades. I am sorry for you if you can't grasp that.

If the sun is causing the warming, how come the Oceans reached their HIGHEST TEMPERATURE EVER THIS JULY 2009, but solar activity at the same time was low?

[GOPfreedSlaves]

are you really comparing cyanide and arsenic to CO2? which plant life requires cyanide to live? I will apologize in 2011 if you will apologize now for the last ten years of running around like chicken little screaming "the sky is falling, the sky is falling" yet no warming. but man continues to release CO2. CO2 is not a pollutant it is a naturally occuring compound in the atmosphere that is required for life on Earth to survive.

Climate is measure in decades... and the last decade shows no warming. explain why the 1930s were so much hotter than the 40s,50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s? did man-made global warming stop for those 50 years?

And you want an answer as to why the ocean is warmer.. natural fluctuations in current, el nino, la nina.... many thousands of reasons. but i guess you would rather believe those plankton have increased their CO2 output and have cause all this i guess....

read this, i dont have the time to explain it to you:
http://www­.21stcentu­rysciencet­ech.com/ar­ticles/oce­an.html

[GOPfreedSlaves]

also you realize that there are undersea volcanic activity that could be contributing to ocean warming too right? no it's the CO2 in water now? laughable.

[Tim303]

Steak is nice.

Do you like steak?

What happens when you eat too many steaks?

[ThesagaciousOne]

The earth heats up and dies because of all the methane gas the cattle create.

[hhayden]

At Arnies Steak Place, you win $100.

[lisaman]

This is what bothers me, they brought with them drums and bullhorns. Typical of the town hall meetings this summer, they don't really want the truth, they simply want to drown it out. What bothers me is that they scream about freedom and the constitution and rights, all while they continue to usurp the rights of others!

[hhayden]

Like leftist's did at the G20 and have since the sixties? Liberals wrote the book on shouting and disrupting.

[lisaman]

Even if that were true, which I don't agree it is, do you think that makes it right now? Is it the excuse of the day?

[StephenBP]

Lord Monckton? THE Lord Monckton? 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley? Now there is a real piece of work for you. If you really want to learn how to twist a graph to make it fit your conclusion, that is the guy to go to. If you want to find out the truth about something, not so much.

[BannedNBoston]

Lord Monckton exposes Al Gores lies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgQX3ndQQg4

[DocSkull]

Considering all the critiques of Al Gore, why should we believe Lord Monckton? Isn't he also a wealthy politician? Is it because of his conclusion?

[hhayden]

Yea, he's great.

[StephenBP]

To find out the truth about Lord Monckton, go here instead!

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/05/moncktons-deliberate-manipulation/

[bigbluenat4]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090817190638.htm

http://marinebio.org/Oceans/Conservation/global-warming.asp

You need research.

[alvdh1]

Lord Monckton is a leader of the most rabid conservatives in England who coudn't even get elected to the House Of Lords. He has zero scientific background in any area let alone atmospheric or biological sciences. He is on a compaign on behalf of all who have a financial interest in maintaining the staus quo of buring fossil fuels. He, therfore, has no problem with oil, gas, coal and nuclear industries externalzing their costs on the enviorment and society in order to avoid regulation to maintain the highest possible profit.

A Google search will allow anyone to examine his lacking curriculum viate, he association with right wing groups and industry. Expanding the search to organizations who have outed his own lies and misleading information on climate change is available as well. Tell us in detail Banned in Boston why you are so vehemently opposed to reducing the global emissions of C02 and what your sustainable approach is to energy produstion. You might as well tells what industry you work in and at what level.

[Chipher]

DISCLAIMER: Former EPA department head now international development consultant.

CC&T.con is a bogus insidious profit-centre campaign to induce global depopulation.

How the rich starved the world: http://billtotten.blogspot.com/2008/04/how-rich-starved-world.html

Rioting over food due to ethanol: http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2008/04/14/rioting-over-food-inflation-due-to-ethanol/

Inflation and Speculation: Ingredients for the Next Food Crisis?: http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2402

Energy Speculation Causes Fuel Price Inflation: http://www.pdamerica.org/articles/news/2008-06-22-13-17-16-news.php

When Inflation Means Starvation: http://www.newsweek.com/id/142413

Refute this with scientific and mathematical precision, not more green bible-thumping.