My access to the internet is limited, so I'll be brief.
A few days ago I saw An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's deocumentary about global warming. It's detailed, concise, and terrifying. Gore is direct, thoughtful, and funny. Anybody who still has any lingering doubts about global warming needs to go see this movie (and stop watching Fox).
Does this mean a Gore run in '08? While I don't think his life-long ambition to be president has softened any, his tolerance for campaigning probably has. And while it's not impossible to come back eight years after a close presidential election and win (Nixon did it), it seems like a risk the timid Democrats won't take.
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I've yet to see the movie, so perhaps it's unfair to comment. Seeing how I get to the theater perhaps three times a year, unless it comes to the cheap seats or to my school come fall, it may be awhile until I'm an informed critic.
That said, the problem cynics have with the grand theory is whether or not humans are the cause of global warming. Does he address this in the movie, or does coorelation simply equal causation and we're probably all going to die?
The global warming fear mongerers seem especially arrogant--though I will admit the other side often suffers the same malady. I am told that the earth has been around for 4.5 billion years--don't tell the young earth creationists--and yet, in a span of about a century, we humans are going to heat this baby right up. Yes, humans are greater than nature. Good one.
Secondly, the democrats will not run Gore, but they will make this decision not out timidity, but out of something perhaps vaguely resembling intelligence.
Whatever his qualifications, Gore is not a good candidate for the Presidency. He lost to George W. Bush, a man whose grasp on the English language is astoundingly poor, despite riding a strong Clinton economy. Gore had his chance, and he blew it. He can't still have it because he never had it.
Instead of Gore, Hillary will be nominated, and she will win.
That said, the problem cynics have with the grand theory is whether or not humans are the cause of global warming. Does he address this in the movie, or does coorelation simply equal causation and we're probably all going to die?
Gore does go in the the science between CO2 emissions and rises in temperatures. Of course, the correlation is also so dead-on that it's hard to ignore.
The global warming fear mongerers seem especially arrogant--though I will admit the other side often suffers the same malady. I am told that the earth has been around for 4.5 billion years--don't tell the young earth creationists--and yet, in a span of about a century, we humans are going to heat this baby right up. Yes, humans are greater than nature. Good one.
If they seem arrogant, perhaps they can be forgiven a little exasperation. Doubtless proponents of the 'round earth' theory felt the same way arguing with the flat-earthers.
You think humans aren't capable of causing major changes to the earth in a mere hundred years? Haven't we wiped out entire species, re-directed rivers, created lakes, levelled mountains, and plunged whole islands under the sea? Haven't we invented the atom bomb? The earth is already hotter than it's ever been; what more do you need?
Gore does go in the the science between CO2 emissions and rises in temperatures. Of course, the correlation is also so dead-on that it's hard to ignore.
BS. Temperature has risen and fallen over the course of the last hundred years. Moreover, we have no data prior to the late 1800's--save for a notion that there were previous ice ages. If the earth could warm up without humans, why are humans to blame this time around?
The earth is already hotter than it's ever been; what more do you need?
What do you propose as a solution? Perhaps we should go back to living in the woods and bartering crops amongst each other. Charming perhaps, but liberty seems to trump any hysterical concern by environmentalist types, certainly at least, in my mind.
Prediction: in twenty years no one will be talking about global warming and the environmentalists will have to go back to trying to save the rain forest.
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