Gore Shows New Evidence That Climate Change May Be Worse Than Predicted

I have never seen a story slide down HuffPo as quick as this one. Someone in London must have read the article and then looked outside and saw the 5 inches of snow in April after one of the coldest WORLDWIDE winters in over 25 years and said "Jumped the Shark!!!"

The cascading effect of opinion which is still, in my opinion, far outpacing the actual science has reaced a stage where, if tomorrow a meteor struck the earth unleashing catastrophe followed by unprecedented eruptions of flood basalts across the globe, our well intentioned former Vice President would point to it and say "see, all the more reason to believe that global warming is the result of CO2 emissions which need to be addressed with an international cap and trade system for carbon off-sets."
He may insist that those of us who don't interpret the IPCC's accepted climate model (a well understood but ultimately non-predictive tool) the same way the IPCC does as not thinking the sun is the center of the solar system, but in fact we do, we just happen to not believe that the planets follow circular and predictable paths, as he and the IPCC would have us think we must. Instead we would prefer that enlightened scientists consider the fact that the paths of the planets are following eliptical paths subject to the perturbations and a degree of uncertainty that invalidates the circular model as a predictive tool. Complex, I know, but that's why it's so like the reality of climate change and so unlike the model that the IPCC would want us to believe for simplicity's sake.

So what's Gore going to do when this whole man-made global warming turns out to be a bunch of baloney?

"Uh... whoops... sorry about that guys... my bad..."

Co2 build up in our atmosphere is causing global warming. Global warming will destroy our economy. We should stop burning carbon fuels as soon as possible.
Any questions?

Why is it that people avoid doing the simple FREE things to conserve like recycle cans, don't litter, use their own shopping bag instead of paper or plastic, inflate their tires.....
But instead happily support arcane and complicated schemes like carbon credits? In the first case, we are talking straight cause-and-effect relationships that we in the redneck south call common sense. In the second case, professional degrees are cited, statistics are tortured into arguments, and normally intellegent individuals surrender their free choice and their paychecks to any pseudo experts with access to a video camera. Seems like everyone wants to solve the equations of life instead of just keeping it simple.

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, well glance at the photo in the link below from the Philadelphia Inquirer Story "Let there be less Light"

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/10710467.html

Pretty, isn't it? Well, it may be pretty but at least 30% of it is truly wasted. Yes, we are spending money every night to light the undersides of Birds, Clouds and Airplanes.

And here in The United States it costs us $ 10.4 Billion per year!
BTW, the real cost of using so much electricity to light the heavens actually is higher still for to
generate that light we produce 38 Million Tons of CO2 every year.

Now, this is not some tomfoolery, it's not baloney or anything else.

Want to check this out?

Good, go out on any clear night and see how many stars you can count from your suburban location.
On a subsequent cloudy night, go out and see just how light it is?

Want to be truly green?

Kill the light pollution!

This is a group that Senator James Inhofe trots out as global warming deniers who happen to be environmentalists. They are really Canadian energy lobbyists.
http://www.desmogblog.com/discredited-friends-of-science-emerge-as-the-natural-resources-stewardship-project

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."

- Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister

Here is a group supported by big business that offered 10000 dollars to global warming skeptics.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/03/aei-letter/

I believe that global warming is a serious and growing threat but it's surprising that this presentation has Illinois and Wisconsin lying to the west of the Mississippi when comparing the disapperance of the polar ice cap to an equivalent area in the US. It's a little troubling that no one involved failed to recognize a mistake that would have drawn derision from my 5th grade teacher and made all her Midwestern pupils guffaw.

Conservatives have been trying to say human induced global warming is disproved because of "warming" on Mars. This link disputes that.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=192

If some of you trolls think Gore is doing this just for the money, sell off your Exxon stock and invest in carbon credits. I don't know if carbon credits is the answer, but at least Gore is trying something instead of outright denial. He threw out an option that would attract investers and money, which in todays marketplace is the only way to get something started on a grand scale. Just depending on everyone to do the right thing is a slow process and there have only been minimal gains from starting at the grass roots level. So a top down model is being offered.

I love the selfishness and ignorance of the few here who say its been colder in my neck of the woods this year so Warming must be fake. It's been warmer in mine, so we're a wash according to your logic.

9 out of 10 scientists agree with the theory and are trying to disprove it themselves, thats what they do, but the evidence is overwhelming.

What can we do? How about we say something along the likes of "If you gave up ____, and you could still live life the way you see fit, would you do it?" For example, The _____ might be cars. Say we gave up all of these different makes and models and only sold a generic, high MPG car and then we could still eat what we want, fly when we want, vacation, whatever... would you do it?