And for some levity, Al Gore on Global Warming
Forget Hillary Clinton.
Forget Obamamania.
Al Gore talking about the weather is where it's at.
While voogling for clips of "An Inconvenient Truth", I came across this clip of Al Gore at last year's TED Conference.
TED is the "Technology, Entertainment and Design" clusterf0ck of CEOs, VPs and anybody who is anybody in the higher echelons of the ever shrinking (or growing, depending on how much of an optimist you are) creative class.
Al Gore was there last year to talk global warming and, well, hilarity ensues. I haven't laughed this hard in a while. If you have not been impressed by the man's renaissance, I promise you, you will have a completely different perception of Al Gore after you see this clip.
Now I understand why Mary Beth of Wampum couldn't wait to start her campaign to Draft Al Gore.
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Oh really?
Submitted by mole333 on 23 January 2007 - 9:07pm.
Haven't seen the movie. But I did see his talk when he was first putting together the whole thing and I saw it with two professional climatologists who worked in a joint Columbia U/NASA program. They found his talk extremely accurate and thought he did an excellent job.
So...if you think he is wrong, how about citing actual evidence? Are you going to try the "well they used to say we were entering an ice age" myth? Or maybe the "yeah but global warming is happening on Mars, too" myth? Or that moldy oldie "the Mt. Pinatubo eruption is at fault" myth? Those are the already debunked myths of the denial lobby. What is your preferred debunked denial myth?
And you know what our grandchildren will probably think of you? "What an irresponisble asshole for ignoring the science and fucking us up so badly." There may well be a special place in Hell for the denial lobbyists who put their kids and grandkids in the path of disaster so they can drive their extra-large gas-guzzlers.
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Fun in the Sun
Submitted by mrme (not verified) on 24 January 2007 - 2:09pm.
So, where was the vicious hurricane season???????
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Now you are committing a serious error
Submitted by mole333 on 24 January 2007 - 4:58pm.
You can't judge based on one single year. That shows a major misunderstanding of the science if you are using THAT as an arguement.
The predictions are of an increase in average temperature, an increase in year-to-year variability and an increase in storminess overall. That means that some years will be one way, some years another, but the GENERAL TREND will be towards warmer, wetter and stormier.
Trying to argue based on one year is foolish.
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el nino years have lower hurricane occurrences
Submitted by zensnob on 24 January 2007 - 7:45pm.
al gore, who summarized the existing evidence reasonably well (in particular given the time constraint!), is not an atmospheric scientist and so should probably stick to summarizing and avoid forecasting.
what i'm sayin' is, that, it's like, you know, common knowledge amongst atmospheric scientists that the upper level wind shear induced during el nino years inhibits the formation of hurricanes. like, duh!
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Reefer Madness
Al Gore's "documentary" will be viewed with great cultural interest and great good humor generations from now. it's like when we watch Reefer Madness, and we can't believe the paranoia, the panic, and the nonsense. Our grandkids will have a similar experience with this movie. It's good theatre.
By the way, where was this year's vicious hurricane season. . . .