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1. Is this the same Jason who thinks gays are "dumb" for supporting "pandering" Democrats like David Paterson? I'm sensing a pattern . . . and it isn't an intelligent design.

   Posted by: Ernie | Apr 10, 2008 2:40:15 PM

   
   

2. Here is a list of inaccuracies in Gore's movie as found by a UK court...

   The inaccuracies are:

   * The film claims that melting snows on Mount Kilimanjaro evidence global warming. The Government’s expert was forced to concede that this is not correct.
   * The film suggests that evidence from ice cores proves that rising CO2 causes temperature increases over 650,000 years. The Court found that the film was misleading: over that period the rises in CO2 lagged behind the temperature rises by 800-2000 years.
   * The film uses emotive images of Hurricane Katrina and suggests that this has been caused by global warming. The Government’s expert had to accept that it was “not possible” to attribute one-off events to global warming.
   * The film shows the drying up of Lake Chad and claims that this was caused by global warming. The Government’s expert had to accept that this was not the case.
   * The film claims that a study showed that polar bears had drowned due to disappearing arctic ice. It turned out that Mr Gore had misread the study: in fact four polar bears drowned and this was because of a particularly violent storm.
   * The film threatens that global warming could stop the Gulf Stream throwing Europe into an ice age: the Claimant’s evidence was that this was a scientific impossibility.
   * The film blames global warming for species losses including coral reef bleaching. The Government could not find any evidence to support this claim.
   * The film suggests that the Greenland ice covering could melt causing sea levels to rise dangerously. The evidence is that Greenland will not melt for millennia.
   * The film suggests that the Antarctic ice covering is melting, the evidence was that it is in fact increasing.
   * The film suggests that sea levels could rise by 7m causing the displacement of millions of people. In fact the evidence is that sea levels are expected to rise by about 40cm over the next hundred years and that there is no such threat of massive migration.
   * The film claims that rising sea levels has caused the evacuation of certain Pacific islands to New Zealand. The Government are unable to substantiate this and the Court observed that this appears to be a false claim.

   Posted by: Rik | Apr 10, 2008 4:08:05 PM

   
   

3. JIMMYBOYO:
   I've followed the thread and I thought I'd chime in on this one (normally I don't). My suggestion is that you put down your copy of "Marxism for the 21st Century" and use your spare time to google something other than the latest in twink-porn. When you do, you'll find any number of independent minded websites that offer alternative explanations to climate change. You will also notice that every climate historian will point out that the only constant with respect to climate change IS climate changes. (You've heard of the Ice Age and the Little Ice Age, no doubt?) The problem with Gore is that he wants to blame the current registered changes on man. No one has proven it. NO ONE. That's why it's called a t-h-e-o-r-y... look it up.

   If you're too busy to read the other side of the argument (something Gore himself never does, by the way), then you can always call 1.800.KOOLAID. The good folks who work there can certainly help you with the deprogramming. That is all.

   Posted by: paulusW | Apr 10, 2008 4:34:13 PM

   
   

4. RIK

   The UK court also ruled that the errors were so minor that the documentary could and should still be shown in UK classrooms.

   LOL

   Nice warping of the facts there RIK

   Paulsw

   The MYTH you just spouted is also refuted here

   http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462

   Stop lieing Paulsw and educate yourself
   

   Posted by: Jimmyboyo | Apr 10, 2008 7:47:09 PM

   
   

5. Jimmyboyo:
   And therein lies the point, sir... I'm not a scientist, and I doubt you are either (might be wrong, but who cares). You and others approach this issue with a fervor that has moved from purely religious to beyond fanatical. You treat those of us who simply believe that more info and research is needed as heretics. Just because AlGore declares the debate over doesn't mean it is. All of you are starting to look like monks hunting for witches in the 14th century. Fine. Doesn't change my lifestyle any.

   And just for giggles, I thought you'd enjoy knowing that my new car is a rather sizable SUV... not that I needed one, I just like knowing that it pisses off all the Prius drivers I run into at the pump, which is a feeling that is probably similar to how Al and Tipper feel when they board their prvt jets while the true-believers suck down another zoloft to soften the guilt of not paying enough indulgences, uh, I mean "carbon offsets." (I make good money, so the 4 dollar gas doesn't bother me... capitalism rules!)

   So you run along and play, sing songs, hold hands, and practice your rosary. Just leave the grown ups alone... we're busy with life in the real world.

   Posted by: paulusW | Apr 10, 2008 9:23:47 PM

   
   

6. paulsw child

   Take it up with

   - IPCC Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change
   - American Meteriological Society
   -American Geophysical Union
   -American association for the advancment of Science
   -Geological society of america
   -US Academy of Sciences
   etc

   The world is not flat

   There is no sky fairy in the clouds

   The moon is not made of cheese

   Scientists around the world have spoken.

   The myth that it is up for debate is dealt with here

   http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462

   You can debate till you turn blue, but in the end

   The world is round

   The earth orbits the sun

   you are the result of evolution

   and the vast majority of the world scientists have stated that it is a proven fact and caused by man.

   Hell kid, even exxon Mobile finaly admited last january

   Catch up with the 21st century.

   Now go pray your fairytale rosary, debate till you turn blue, and didle yourself all you want.

   Facts are facts

   deal with it
   

   Posted by: Jimmyboyo | Apr 10, 2008 9:34:06 PM

   
   

7. Heh. Your passion is almost cute... if it weren't so silly and misguided. Here's some bedtime reading for you (assuming Mommy let's you stay up after you finish making the cupcakes for homeroom). The point is simply to demonstrate that science is still very confused about what's happening and why. You can't (as Al Gore has done) just classify anyone who agrees with the man-causing theories as "legitimate" and then reclassify those who are still questioning and researching as "illegitimate". Rules don't work that way.

   Every week research emerges that confirms Gore's theories, but just as much emerges that says "wait, this doesn't fit; we need to rethink this again." That's not scepticism... it's call science. I'm content to sit back and let them work it out. But I'm not going to let Al and his new company guilt me into buying indulgences just because I like the temp in my house set at 68 in the summer and 78 in the winter.

   http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Widescale+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm

   http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88520025

   http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=2964

   http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/5/7/Solar_Cycles_24_and_25_and_Predicted_Climate_Response_22nd_October.pdf

   Posted by: paulW | Apr 10, 2008 10:03:19 PM

   
   
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