Gore Gives it Another Go
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Today in the New York Times, Al Gore once again tries to convince the ignorant and pigheaded that anthropogenic climate change is for real.
The best part for me comes early, in paragraph 3 when he exalts on “what a burden would be lifted” if the world’s climate scientists were mistaken: “We would no longer have to worry that our grandchildren would one day look back on us as a criminal generation that had selfishly and blithely ignored clear warnings that their fate was in our hands. We could instead celebrate the naysayers who had doggedly persisted in proving that every major National Academy of Sciences report on climate change had simply made a huge mistake.”
Recently, NASA released a top-drawer video explaining climate-change science in less than six minutes.
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Stimpson… nothing less than EXCELLENT! Many thank yous for the wonderful video!
Good grief man! Did you really have to make me start Sunday morning with ‘anthropogenic’?!
‘cognitive dissonance’?? Not you as well osori! This is too much. Haven’t even had a cup of tea yet!
Stimpson,
Very helpful.Thanks!
I was about to make the Beck connection but Teeluck beat me to it-NASA rocket scientists vs Glen Beck!
and Sky Girl makes a good point about cognitive dissonance.
I bet their hero Glenn Beck could disprove Global Warming on his chalkboard in less than five minutes…because he and his followers are sooo smart.
LMAO!
Seriously, I wouldn’t wanna square off against Becky in a debate. Mainly because it’s practically impossible to debate someone whose thinking is neither rational nor reality-based.
Gore most definitely needs to keep telling this story. I have no doubt that the planet is warming. When I first moved to South Georgia about 5 years there were lakes, ponds and stream dotting the landscape. Today more than half of those water sources have dried up completely. This is only the beginning. I suspect, and there is evidence to support this premise, that agriculture will eventually be forced to move north, as the southern states will not have sufficient water to sustain crops. Farmers all around me have pulled up stakes and moved on, their ponds and lakes dry and their once deep wells not deep enough to sustain irrigation. This, by the way, is one of the best videos I have seen on the subject. Short but concise and to the point. Thanks Stimpson!
I’m a big fan of brevity, and I’m glad the conspiracy-oriented wingnuts aren’t. They always try to get people to read enormous ‘articles’ or watch 2-hour videos that ‘prove’ their ideas. As in, “If you’ll just read this thorough explanation by a John Birch Society friend o’ mine, you’ll see that global over-population really is a myth perpetrated and perpetuated by the Freemasons and Girl Scouts in cohoots with the Queen of England. It’s very simple, really.”
There is no doubt that something is going on with the planet and there are conspiracies on both sides of the debate. Some scientists are being over zealous in wanting to prove their theories and the naysayers don’t want their profit margins to be affected. The Earth is a living breathing organism and if something is harming it, it will react to protect itself. That was a great video.
Gore should risk being laughed at by the usual suspects and keep telling it.
For the people in agri-business and major coporations, such as oil and the automotive industry, the financial burden is too high to admit to global climate change. For Joe Citizen, it’s an uncomfortable thing called cognitive dissonance. People choose to say it’s not real, because that’s more comfortable than admitting something catastrophic is going to happen if they don’t drastically change their behavior (which they don’t want to do).
Reminds me of something Upton Sinclair said: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.”
Upton Sinclair was dead right.
The fact that Mr. Gore has finally admitted that agri-business is a humungous part of the problem (as in, factory farming emits more man-made greenhouse gasses than all forms of transport combined) is a positive advance. But it’s only a first step. He needs to start consistently putting this information forward and, yes, lead by some example here. ‘Cause if he doesn’t, then he’s just another politician