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Look Behind You
Finally someone who sees this issue the same way i do!…your awesome and well informed!
Curtis
Can we be cleaner? YES! Global warming? MADE UP! Could I be wrong? OF COURSE. But there is NO WAY of knowing for thousands of years. We are projecting our 80 years of individual life upon hundreds and thousands of years in to the future. What a waste of our lives. Let’s just be cleaner, and stop spreading so much FEAR.
Nospinplease
oh sorry, a little grammar change. I should of had “Everyone still haven’t”.
Nospinplease
Oh and about all of global warming apposers. None of you still havn’t given any facts and that is ok because that is who you are. There is no way we can get you to change your minds even if we show the facts right in front of your face. So, why don’t we just stop flaming and start planting trees like other people suggested. It helps both sides. The global warming and non global warming supporters alike. Yes, my family did plant trees, so where is my million dollars?
aepout
I challenge ANYONE to prove how human activity caused the massive global warming that marked the end of the ice age. Until then I postulate: global warming occurs WITHOUT any input from people, and so does global cooling. We already have irrefutable proof that such cycles exist apart from human based contributions. (Simplistically: the ice age began, then it ended)
Nospinplease
THANKS!!! someone will finally say the truth without spinning it. We will all have the pleasure of seeing people enraged when we find out in 20 years we are not dead and the earth is still getting a bet warmer or colder due to the sun. Then we can say I TOLD YA SO!!
steph
I’m still showing all my friends at school this video. It’s certainly one of the best I’ve seen on this issue. I will continue to spread the word on this video because its good to know the other side of the “global warming” issue or should I say scandal.
WKD
What our governments are doing to the world is no laughing matter. Thier so call “bio-fuels” have had a dramatic impact on so many countries. And if trees are the answer then you should really see for yourselves what they’ve done. You should never underestimate the greed there is for oil/wealth/power. There is no global warming! They invented a fake problem to get away with what thier doing. It makes me sick. There’s people are starving in the world.
AnotherSqueezedRadish(or Turnip?)
We have to stop the ManBearPig! Listen,please, you gotta listen, I’m really serial!!! We have to stop the ManBearPig at all costs before he destroys us all! I’m super serial…
pkw
If the scientific community is pretty much agreed about the certainty of global warming, what about the 31,000 scientists who believe it’s false?
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=64734
pkw
or we could just plant more trees
Zola Maphila
I think that global warming is a global issue that we know longer can ignore. I’m mostly afraid for the children that I will possibly have in the future. They will grow up in a world where they have to wear oxygen masks. I urge all nations to stand together to eradicate this epidemic. Before it’s too late!!!
HermanH
This piece of video is brilliant. I stretch back to my stint in astronomy while in college and it was predicted (in billions of years) that the sun will suffer the same fate as other suns that begin to die: it will super nova. You think global warming is an issue… better start looking for a new solar system in the next million years because we’ll literally be toast (actually, just vaporized into particulate matter.)
But until that time, the sun will go through phases of expansion and collapse. It is a self-regulating fusion reactor based on hydrogen fusion and the solar system outside the bounds of our planet, has a bounty of hydrogen, however, like anything else that develops ‘heat’, there is a sort of blow-off valve effect. The sun expands due to all of the hydrogen it absorbs in space and get’s larger until it exceeds a specific size beyond it’s “normal” mass (regulated by it’s gravitational force); solar flares is a resulting phenomenon of this and at some point, the sun will return to normal size. If I recall correctly, we’re talking thousands of miles in diameter changes so I can understand how other planets polar caps can also change as far as they are (none have a atmosphere like ours.)
In terms of our own scientific time on earth, we may have achieved so much in so little time, but on the larger timeline, we have literally NO sampling rate to go by. I feel it’s still ground zero (computers have only been around for 40-50 years and written science maybe a couple thousand years - the earth has been around for millions of years.)
Even if I’m way off base, I do agree we need to be more responsible. There’s no way I’ll argue against planting more trees. Also, less dependent upon foreign oil, renewable resources, and maybe population growth should be brought up as an issue. Remember China and it’s zero growth initiative? Oh that won’t work here because less people, less taxable income. Going ‘green’ is a good idea, but I think the whole point in the video is not to panic. Just think.
Ironically, I feel that at some point, the human race will just die off, we become fossil fuels for a new species to eventually evolve and develop the combustion engine and start all over again. Probably cockroaches… there’s still time between now and 10 billion years…
Sami
Can I write you in for President?
Joe G
Say the worst-case warming scenario is all the ice melts.
What we should start doing now is start taking more water from the rivers and streams- diverting it to fill all the aquifers and lakes- to balance the additional water from the melting ice.
We could possibly end drought in this country if we did that.
And forget hydrogen fuels cells- that is unless the hydrogen is derived from water. Could you imagine the effect of 1 billion vehicles belching out water and water vapor, if that was in addition to our current water table?
As for the air pollution- just have Oreck design massive air purifiers… :)
AnotherSqueezedRadish(or Turnip?)
Whatever Happened to Acid Rain? And more importantly, what happened to Chocolate Rain?!?
Barry
While you’re making corrections, my roommate (who works in a genome research lab) says that water is a greenhouse, but it is not “the leading greenhouse gas”. Obviously there is more by volume, but it may not affect radiation as much. I recommend you look into it.
Colby Clark
Unless someone can explain to me how many SUVs on Earth it takes to melt polar regions on other planets, the fact that there is global warming and melting of polar ice on Mars, Pluto, Triton and Jupiter strongly points towards the Sun or Some other cosmic force being the cause of the recent global warming on Earth.
Here is one of many links:
http://seoblackhat.com/2007/03/04/global-warming-on-mars-pluto-triton-and-jupiter/
Denise Smith
The issue he’s having here is about alarming others. My concern is robbing the earth. There’s a giant hole in TX and it’s growing. Centralia (a town in PA) has a giant mine fire going on that can’t be put out. Why can’t we find other sources to fuel ourselves than robbing the ground of ALL of its resources? I’m not an alarmist. It’s common sense. What you take, you have to put back. I think that is what his teacher was trying to say. Too back he came across as an alarmist…
Dick Wood
Dee, here is a comedy routine in the manner of Mort Sahl of yesteryear. If this doesn’t take you to the one on Global Warming, scroll down til you find it. Dick
warning:brain in use
Ahhh. Six whole minutes free from the constant one-sided fear-mongering from the left.
When I was in school in the seventies, global cooling was going to kill us all. Then the same folks said we would run out of food and fuel within 20 years. Now they same fools are claiming, arrogantly, that global warming is caused by us. When Mt. St. Helen blew it put more greenhouse gas into the air than did mankind during the entire industrial revolution (it also caused a year of global cooling–oops!).
Maybe, just maybe, a huge ball of nuclear fire, only one astronomical unit away (for those who are factually challenged, I’m talking about the sun) is causing some of the warming/cooling. I’m just saying-it’s a possibility.
I wonder if the earth, casting anthropomorphism aside, really suffers any effect from mankind’s feeble attempts to change it. After all, earth is a big place. Only on a microscopic level we can do great damage-and then only for a period of time. For example, Lake Baikal in Siberia has been polluted with over 2400 thousand tons (almost 5 billion pounds) of contaminants over the last fifty years. Yet people still argue whether it is even polluted (Baikal Lake holds nearly 20% of all the surface water in the world).
The earth’s time clock and ours vary considerably. For most of us 75 years is a lifetime; for the earth that’s not even the blink of an eye (I really tried to cast aside the anthropomorphic references…)
One last thought. Great weight is placed in the pablum that the earth cannot support the 6 billion people in the world. Oh dear, whatever shall we do… Here’s an idea; move them all to Mexico-all 6 billion. They would each have an eighth of an acre to live on, leaving California, Texas, Florida and the US bread-basket states all free for farming and the rest of the earth free from the ’scourge’ of mankind. OK, the idea needs some work, but still… I wonder if the earth would tilt if we all moved to the same spot?
Great Video
Meandering
Great video. Is the Earth warming, YES. Do we need to do a better job taking care of the planet, YES. Should we starve ourselves and stop looking for oil so while the uber-rich (Al Gore, Richard Branson, and other celebrities)charter private jets and use more oil and other resources than any normal person, NO! Enough bickering and lets solve problems instead of making things up like storms are being caused by global warming. Grow up.
Mr. G.
To all the global warmingists who ask us to consider facts. Okay. What about the fact that from around 1100 AD to 1300 AD the Vikings had thriving colonies on Greenland. Then glaciers grew and forced them to abandon them. So what caused them to melt before the 1100’s? Must have been all those greenhouse gas producing…ummm…yeah!
Kelly
I hope this clip will be sent to all schools in the name of equal time, since global warming due to human caused rise in CO2 is currently a monopoly in this country.
Water Vapor is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. CO2 is not a pollutant. You can be sure, though, whatever sacrifices the global warming crowed want to exact from us by force, they will exempt themselves from—-they are the literate of this world and they shouldn’t be hamstrung by their own suggestions.
Benjamin
I found the suggestion in the second video that we ought to plant more trees to eliminate, or at least reduce, the amount of carbon dioxide humorous… at least considering that decaying vegetation, rotting foliage fallen from trees for example, is a greater contributor of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than anything our industrialized processes have ever achieved.
draeger (not PhD)
I think you re-evaluate your post John H. Essentially your post says that “sensible environmental policy without global warming panic” is just hyperbole and horsecrap. You might want to save your broad sweeping, ironically hyperbolical statements to describe your own post and nothing more. I mean, if you disagree with everything he said then you believe global warming is a life threatening problem, but you don’t support environmental change. Maybe you should give that PhD back or maybe you should just write PhD correctly, cause when you don’t it makes it looks like you don’t actually have one or deserve one.
John H., PHD
Utter horsecrap. This entire video is nothing but hyperbole.
John Bay
To Marti, Mike and Company,
I respect that Kathy said her peace. And I am green too, but the “act now before we really know” mentality is what brought MTBE to the gas pumps. I don’t think anyone wants that on a global scale. So let’s move forward sensibly not radically. As for Marti and Mike, I don’t think there is anything wrong with what is expressed in this video. It may differ from your opinions or mine, but it is considerate - which is more than I can say for either of you. And your analysis is way off Mike. There is no fence sitting going on here. So he doesn’t believe we contribute significantly to global warming, so what?! Clearly he is in favor of a cleaner environment and that is what really matters! And HIS presentation is likely going to be successfully at reaching a large audience that tunes out your style of angry ranting. Leave him alone and maybe we’ll actually get somewhere.
Marti
MIKE you are Hilarious, blunt, and a great Psychoanalist!Geniusly put together! Thank you for making me laugh :)
KATHY you Sum it up! “GO GREEN”
“Mike
This dude is hilarious! Such an only child desperate for attention. This is merely a instructional video for those who are tired of being ignored. Sit on the fence, sensationalize largely unheard of quotes and news articles to sound like you’ve done groundbreaking research, slam everyone with opposing views, trivialize their studies, raise your eyebrows a lot, condescend your audience and act as though it was never your intention to insult anyone for fear of being smacked upside the head. I sincerely hope the fence on upon which you sit is picketed.
5/4/08 @ 16:47Kathy
I think it’s a good idea to stop and make changes NOW in whatever direction is appropiate. NONE of us know for sure what’s right, so why take chances? GO GREEN!”
Marti
My finest respects goes to JOHN STONE Reasonable Top Intellectual Free Thinker and Genius! Thank you!!!!!
” I am not a supporter of Al Gore, nor do I have any affiliation with the Democratic Party or any Political Party. I am an individual, and I approach each issue on its on merits. You have proven to me that the folks opposing the reality of Global Warming are politicizing this issue and bringing idiots such as Al Gore into the picture. This is not, and should not be a political issue; it is an issue of Planet survival. By the way Bryan, I am glad you can add numbers. You might do well competing against a fifth grader or less.”
” I can’t believe you are not able to read. I stated before and I’ll state it again, I am not a supporter of Al Gore, nor have I ever watched his media progamming. This isn’t about Al Gore, it is about idiots like yourself who can’t read. Our planet is suffering, we have limited resources, and people with limited brain power to understand this. Shall I repeat this paragraph, because of your learning disability.”
Reasonable Top Intellectual Free Thinker and Genius! Thank you!!!!!
I’m thrilled to see Enlightened Minds and Spirits with a Broad View of how things work and are without involving the EGO or affiliations. The world is richer because of people like you!
TeresaE
To all that actually are paying attention: keep pounding on the alarmists.
To those that want the US plunged into the 3rd World (except for the ultra-rich and politicians of course) why do all “solutions” ignore the two biggest polluters with the largest populations?
China is under-reporting their pollution and even going so far as to SHUT DOWN THEIR FACTORIES UNTIL A MONTH AFTER THE OLYMPICS. India has no control.
Yet, all the taxes and mandates only will do one thing and one thing only, finish descimating the economy for us regular, hard working Americans.
Enjoy your “green” poverty folks. Meanwhile, the Chinese will be enjoying our lattes in their SUVs.
Farkin fools.
Why don’t we try this? Find a REAL alternative to the internal combustion engine before ethanol starves us all.
Marti
You know…I’m very greateful to what Al Gore is doing standing up for the rights of Mother Earth. His good intentions should not be overlooked just because he might not share your political views. Instead of letting your ego blind you for his good works, stop and think that facts are facts…and ideals in the human spirit in helping this Earth to be a better place and is a long fought dream not only for Al Gore but so many people including the Father’s of this country fighting for justice and peace to All. If this Earth did not have this positive people with their human ideals to better this world where wee would be? Many changes in Society have improved the lives for so many people…because of their dreams that raised withing their spirit…think of Martin Luther King his famous words “I Have a Dream…” Now, Blacks in the US are free for the scocial injustices during the 60’s nd prior to that! Glabal Warming it’s happening very slowly byt surely.
If you are helping the Earth, Humans to live in a better place I do not care who you are, your political views, etc. However, to tear someone’s awesome work b.c of the differences of political views I think this is rooted in the ego. Views and preferences might differe, but we should all have a common desire to make this world a better place of us, for people, for the future generations.
Thanks and stay open minded don’t take facts literally. The human spirit has much depth and inner desires that are more important than what facts might appear to be.
QuadFather
Gary,
The problem is that the “steps” to prevent global warming screws up our economies by using a variety of methods to raise the price of everything.
Sometimes, erring on the side of caution is a really really stupid idea.
Roger Hopkinson
I love this global warming!!! We had another awesome snowfall and ski season in Utah, and, if it’s the global warming doing it, then I hope the earth just bakes away, because I love the snow it produces!! Kudos to another global warming - created epic ski season!!! (By the way, I think Snowbird is open until June this year, if any of you haven’t got your ski weekend in yet, you actually still have a chance… possibly longer if it snows again — which it might!)
Jimster
Ya we have global warming. I live in the Ozarks and 10000 years ago we were covered with a mile of ice known as glasers which have been menting since then and continue to melt.
lupita
Brilliant! I am going to have my two daughters watch. They are being fed a steady diet at school about the ‘impending doom’ of global warming and I try to tell them it’s pretty much bunk, that the earth has been doing this forever … warmer, cooler, warmer, cooler… . This is an excellent video, very informative and entertaining.
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Gary
If you are going to be wrong about global warming doesn’t it make sense to be wrong in a positive way. I mean what if those who preach against the fact the world is warming convince us all to not do anything about it and they are wrong. Doesn’t it make better sense take a more positive approach and assume it is true and take the steps to keep it from getting worse.
About the fear factor. History has shown that man does not act until it becomes a catastrophe. I think putting fear into the parents of today, that their kids and future generations may encounter environmental disasters is a good thing. Then maybe they will do something about it.
Paul A.S.
Okay,folks I got another nickel worth.Some are concerned
about global warming.Some are not concerned.Once you give up hope you’ll feel much better.Let me remind all that scientist have found evidence of past astroid or meteor strikes that have wiped out all life on earth millions or billions of years ago.They also say it will happen again.And all life will perish again.Sorry people
when or if it happens,nothing we can do about it.The people that beleive in God will have an OUT.The people that don’t, won’t have much going for ‘em.If you beleive in the end times,and I beleive we’re in them now.Global warming doesn’t seem so important.The EAGLES said it in a song a few years ago “GET OVER IT”.
Lorraine
Bravo! All the arguments that I always forget when arguing with my ‘green’ friends. This is a wonderful accurate and concise clip that puts the right perspective out there and is also funny and easy to watch!
Well done!
jack
Fear and emotional claims are not good. Also calling others idiots and hippies also destroys your credibility.
Who realy needs to know how it happens, just remember water rises with the temp, keep your head up!
Science Avenger
Quad, there is not enough space to refute scientific claims on blog comments. If you want to see scientific refutations of the kinds of global warming denialist nonsense like the guy in the videos spouts, try:
http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/
Frankly, many of us don’t bother any more because some of the arguments are so moronic that anyone who thinks they have value isn’t going to liston anyway. For example, the argument that manmade global warming isn’t true because the Mars ice caps are melting is like someone saying “The 12 twinkies I eat a day can’t be the reason I’m fat, because John is fat and doesn’t eat twinkies.”
QuadFather
Hahaha, Did anybody else notice that the Global Warming folk didn’t address a SINGLE point that the video made? Looks like the emperor got caught with his pants down.
Why - why oh whyyy - does such ignorance need to exist??
These are the people who are screwing up our economies by mandating ethanol, taxing our fuel, and refusing to let us build our own refineries and drill for our own resources, even while complaining about our dependency on foreign oil.
… And at what point does any of this make ANY sense?
I’m not getting a lot of help here …
Johnny O
Just remember that the so called scientist used to say the world was flat( some still believe it is) So much for science. Science is only as good as the info used and the person using it. Lets try and live with reality. Hey Look! There goes Elvis!
Kathy
I think it’s a good idea to stop and make changes NOW in whatever direction is appropiate. NONE of us know for sure what’s right, so why take chances? GO GREEN!
Mike
This dude is hilarious! Such an only child desperate for attention. This is merely a instructional video for those who are tired of being ignored. Sit on the fence, sensationalize largely unheard of quotes and news articles to sound like you’ve done groundbreaking research, slam everyone with opposing views, trivialize their studies, raise your eyebrows a lot, condescend your audience and act as though it was never your intention to insult anyone for fear of being smacked upside the head. I sincerely hope the fence on upon which you sit is picketed.
drshorty
Well, only a very few scientists supported global cooling 30 years ago, the vast majority still supported global warming. The whole issue I have is you’ve taken one man’s argument argument of how CO2 rises after temperatures increase, when many more say otherwise, and there are even charts from just the last few decades that say otherwise. So you’ve consulted a few resources and haven’t taken time to look at the consensus, I understand, you sought what you were looking for, but don’t point out what a few say when many more have opposing voices. I don’t take alarmists seriously, but when I’ve taken time to educate myself on a subject I don’t know, it becomes easier to weed out those who have an opinion(potentially harmful) vs those who have an educated opinion(usually helpful) Granted global warming is still too complicated for me to fully understand, all the actual data(not the people who present it) tends to lean toward C02 contributing. You mentioning one name with a PhD is hardly worth listening too. And it’s a shame that’s the best you’ve got, because it seems to show you’ll just take whatever you find, without actually seeking answers.
Science Avenger
This is nothing more than the typical denialism which has been rejected by every scientific organization on the planet, and that’s when it isn’t just mindnumbingly stupid. Global warming is a reality folks, deal. Yammering about mistakes of the past doesn’t apply to evidence of the present, and neither does attacking Al Gore, who is a mere political figurehead, not a scientist.
I blog on this stuff all the time, and it never ceases to amaze just how factually bereft and logically flawed the global warming denialists can be.
Bryan
John Stone: “By the way Bryan, I am glad you can add numbers. You might do well competing against a fifth grader or less.”
After reading your post I assumed that is what I was doing.
Well crap, now I feel bad about lowering myself to a level where I would post a line like that. Ok, maybe I don’t feel that bad.
BTW kinda funny how you didn’t address anything I said. You just, mistakenly, said I politicized the issue. I don’t believe I mentioned anything about politics other than using Al Gore’s name. The only reason I even did that was because he is the most visible spokesperson for global warming. Not because he was a politician.
Nice try John but not particularly effective.
john stone
Ken, I can’t believe you are not able to read. I stated before and I’ll state it again, I am not a supporter of Al Gore, nor have I ever watched his media progamming. This isn’t about Al Gore, it is about idiots like yourself who can’t read. Our planet is suffering, we have limited resources, and people with limited brain power to understand this. Shall I repeat this paragraph, because of your learning disability.
ken roberts
Gore has 72 scientist who’s job is to relate impact of weather changes on the planet they are a bunch of scenario builders and have not the expertise to predict the next days weather . we have 1,900 American scientists that have signed the Oregon papers in protest of man made warming , all of these people are as concerned about our future as any one . but that is the way of people like John Stone , the debate is over and it has not yet begun. John can you show me where the polar bears are dying out , if you can come up with that I might be more inclined to listen to your story .From 5,000 to 25,000 since 1980 now that doesn’t sound as if they are dying out . 13,000 hectares of new ice at the poles , that is an increase is it not ?
also warming Island, oh boy that is a classic , it was mapped as an island fifty years ago it has been proven,and from the frogs being killed out because of the tripe on the boots of the environmentalists not the man made warming, to this bear lie it makes me believe you have been duped by AL Gore and his minions . Do you ever read anything or do you just take Gores word on it or may haps you saw Gores movie .
john stone
Bryan, I am not a supporter of Al Gore, nor do I have any affiliation with the Democratic Party or any Political Party. I am an individual, and I approach each issue on its on merits. You have proven to me that the folks opposing the reality of Global Warming are politicizing this issue and bringing idiots such as Al Gore into the picture. This is not, and should not be a political issue; it is an issue of Planet survival. By the way Bryan, I am glad you can add numbers. You might do well competing against a fifth grader or less.
Bryan
Yes John, and as we all know, science is never wrong. In the history of the Earth there has never been six billion people before? Ok, I’ll give you that. Also, up until we had five billion people, there have never been that many before. Same goes for four billion and so on. That number is neither here nor there. You have your mind made up on global warming and there is no changing it. So be it. I wonder how much you’ve, actually, looked into it or if you are just parroting what you hear people such as Al Gore say? I can truthfully say that I’ve looked at what both sides have offered and added a little common sense as well. As for it being “science”, they are now predicting a 10 year cooling cycle. Hmmmmm, that wasn’t supposed to happen. Oh well, I guess they changed their minds. Of course, the world hasn’t warmed since 1998 so if you add those years to the upcoming ten years of cooling, no warming will have happened for two decades.
john stone
For those of you who think Global Warming is a hoax, I feel sorry for you and your children, and you children’s children. It is Science folks, plain and simple. Never in the history of our Earth has there been 6 billion people. There are consequences arising from our use and mis-management of our natural resources. We are changing the Planet, and the change is irreversible.
Andrew
You can find an excessive amount of information debunking the Hysteria here:
The Anti “Man-Made” Global Warming Resource
http://z4.invisionfree.com/Popular_Technology/index.php?showtopic=2050
Censored Global Warming Videos
http://www.populartechnology.net/2008/01/censored-global-warming-videos.html
NO ‘Consensus’ on “Man-Made” Global Warming
http://www.populartechnology.net/2007/10/no-consensus-on-global-warming.html
The Global Warming Book Collection
http://www.populartechnology.net/2008/04/global-warming-book-collection.html
eric swenson
well that is a very convincing comment ” john stone ”
26 vs 1 hmmmm….. i go with the previous 26 comments
i believe you are mistaken .
ice ages come , ice ages go !!
heat waves come , heat waves go
here is an interesting link
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aU.evtnk6DPo&refer=worldwide
the gist is global warming will take a pause for 10 years but watch out after that.
global warming is all a hoax to give the government more power to take more of your money i.e. “carbon tax”
when people can consistently predict weather for the next day then i may give them credit for the following week.
but not for the next 50 years , it isn’t possible …yet
john stone
whatyououghttoknow.com is a brainwashing site. Global Warming is real.
Terri
Finally, something that provides some sense to all the phoney-baloney. Thank you so much! We’re so tired of hearing it over and over again. And guess what so are my teenagers!
Mary Alice
Thank you! I don’t know who you are, but thanks for the sanity.
Now what? Do we just tolerate the goofiness until it passes away?
Jared
Great show man! You articulated everything I believe about global warming from the research I’ve done. Great work and keep it up!
tony raimo
Al Gore and the rest of his freaky friends should be put on a cruise ship and set out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. There our Navy can practise lobbing bombs at them.
There is no such actual history to say the planet is heating up. As a matter of fact it is rather cooling down.
Al…..you are still a jerk!
Paul S
I even quit giving to MIT because they do not seem to have the courage to speak out on the lack of science and truth in the AL Gore Movie.
Kenny O of Attleboro, MA
Absolutely On the Mark… Of course they can’t air this on national television, it’s too long; it’s the truth!
and don’t worry about Al Gore, he won’t see this, he is on his jet plane on his way to lecture us about “our carbon footprint”.
Maybe his plane will fly over the Bermuda Triangle! We could not be so luck…
Paul A.S.
OH LORDY!!
I am so glad I found this link.I read all of the posts.Just want to add my 2 cents.We all know that the
“media” is controled by the LIBS.That’s why you’ll never see the truth on the evening news..Glenn Beck will get the truth out.I’m just sayin’.The enviromental WHACKOS
won’t be happy ’till we’re riding around in 2 wheel horse drawn carts with the body of a 50’s era crosly mounted over it.Whew,Boy sounds like fun….
Scott M
The truth shall set you free! This should be “mainstream”. Thank you for getting this out there.
Heather
Lol…does anyone remember those trippy “Weekly Readers” the teachers used to hand out? It talked about acid rain, living on the moon in 2080, machine feet that would walk for you. Yeah. Anyways, there was one particular long Weekly Reader (1991, I think) that talked about the Biosphere in Arizona, how scientists are going to live on it and it’ll be a replica of the earth and it’ll be so cool! Weekly Reader never reported on it again. I never found out ’til later why not. Scientists don’t like to talk about their flops. :)
Chris
I think I should turn in my acid repellent suit huh?
CrazyDave
Awesome!
jeremy
excellent. I am looking forward to forwarding this to my family members that have completely bought into this global crisis movement.
Mike
every day i sit with a bunch of left-wing democrats (which has let me to become not a republican, but and anti-democrat)and all i hear about is global warming and how awesome al gore is
thank you so much ill show this to all of them
John from NIU
Excellent show! Quite even handed and informative.
Oh, and there’s nothing wrong with being a Skeptic. So don’t worry, you must also be an honorary “show me” state resident.
Rion
You sir are my hero, this argument is epic. Too bad the lemmings wont listen too it. I would say site your sources more but ya know lemmings don’t care about facts. You have one more new watcher, Im even showing this to my friends.
Jacob
Well said, sir. :-)
Lilmissgeek
Pretty controversial issue… I agree that climate change is happening. I say “change” because some places are getting colder and others are getting warmer. But, at this point, I don’t think that we can necessarily say that we’re having as big of an effect on the environment as all the environmentalists claim. I also don’t think that we’re having as little of an effect as the opposing side claims. But hey, hindsight is 20/20 and we’ll probably know in 30 or so years.
I think one of the main problems is that we only hear of the 2 extremes… we’re either the cause or not. No middle ground to walk on.
Another problem is that people are rushing off to make “solutions” without thoroughly thinking through the problems that they might cause. An example, those new low energy light bulbs… no one knows that for most of them you have to properly dispose them because they have mercury in them. And no one is going to market the fact that they have mercury in them, just that they are a huge energy saver. The mercury bit they add in on the small print on the packaging.
Scott L.
Thank you, I will be recommending this episode to all the Global Warming Alarmists at my school. I have been trying to make the same point for a long time.
Scott
I ran into an interesting story a few days ago that discusses what it would take in alternate energy to replace the world’s oil. 250,000 solar panels a day, a 900 MW nuclear reactor every week, or 1200 wind farms a week, for the next 50 years. You could also build 200 18GW hydroelectric dams, or 7700 solar thermal plants. That would replace the oil currently in use. If you want to replace coal and natural gas add 150% to those figures. Of course, the demand for energy is expected to double in the next 30 years. There is no easy answer, quick fix, or magic bullet. Fossil fuels will be with us for some time to come. So restart the drills and find ways to burn it cleaner.
http://www.news.com/8301-11128_3-9928068-54.html
Jason
I thought I was the only one who felt that the ‘global warming problem’ would be ’solved’ by planting more trees.
At what point did ‘THEY’ (ie. THEY say that the planet is warming, THEY say the planet is cooling and we are all going to die.) start to become omnipotent?
Becky
“Malthusian”? Nice!
Melanie
Kudos! KUDOS!!!
Can they take Nobel Peace prizes back?
Dan
Brav-freakin-o!
Just had to post a quick link to WYOTK « Toiling in dreamland
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Bryan
You folks are brilliant. Have you noticed though that they no longer use the phrase “global warming”. Now it’s “climate change”. The Nancy Pelosi/Newt Gingrich ads tell how we need to work together to stop climate change. Guess they are just hedging their bets. Warming, cooling, rainy, arid can all fall under climate change. I guess unless it’s sunny and seventy degrees with a chance of evening showers it’s the fault of people.
Kel
Excellent! It’s rare that we get this perspective, although it’s what I’ve believed all along. When I was in junior high, we learned that the earth would probably start to heat up again. Now it is, and people are panicking? OK….
This article has some good data as well: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/23/AR2006052301305_pf.html