1. The climate is warming up (again)
2. CO2 is not causing the warming
3. CO2 levels are caused by warming the oceans
4. The oceans are the largest repository of CO2 on the planet
5. People are not causing the warming
6. Earths climates have always changed
7. Did anyone notice that big nuclear furnace called the Sun that is 8 light minutes away??
8. Sun activity is the major cause of climate change
9. We humans are crazy if we think we can influence the suns activity
10. Al Gore is crazy
11. The IPCC is a political body, not a scientific one
12. The global warming business is just that, a business

Get a clue and do the research. Don’t listen to the political speach on this issue, it has zero creditability.

Gore and his Generation partners base their investments on long-term research, looking ahead up to five years, and they have agreed not to take any profits themselves until three years into any investment. The firm began investing client money in April 2005 (it now manages around $200 million in assets), and Gore, while declining to give specific figures, says the returns thus far have been “really gratifying, I mean really exciting.” Initial investments include companies involved in photovoltaics, wind turbines, wave energy, and solar power. The firm put money into BP, betting on its new power plant in Scotland that injects carbon emissions back into the ground. It’s the kind of technology Generation sees as having a competitive advantage in a carbon-constrained economy

It’s not about right or left but green! There are lots of researchers with resumes alot more suited to determine this and Al ain’t one of them.

I mean if Al was so worried about the earth why didn’t he just put The Movie on the internet for free? He invented it? Then he would not have to do ANY flying!

In the stock world, They call it Pump and Dump Baby!

I challange you to to some seroius research on the multitude of “scares” that we have been subjected to throughout the millenium that have never come to happen all because of shoddy science. Here is some that is quite ironic.

… climatologist J. Murray Mitchell, then of the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, noted
in 1976: “The media are having a lot of fun with this
situation. Whenever there is a cold wave, they seek
out a proponent of the ice-age-is-coming school and put
his theories on page one…Whenever there is a heat
wave…they turn to his opposite number, [who predicts]
a kind of heat death of the earth.”

“The cooling has already killed hundreds of
thousands of people in poor nations. It has already
made food and fuel more precious, thus increasing the
price of everything we buy. If it continues, and no
strong measures are taken to deal with it, the cooling
will cause world famine, world chaos, and probably
world war, and this could all come by the year 2000.”
–Lowell Ponte, The Cooling, 1976.

“The facts have emerged, in recent years and
months, from research into past ice ages. They imply
that the threat of a new ice age must now stand
alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale
death and misery for mankind.”
–Nigel Calder, former editor of New Scientist and
producer of scientific television documentaries, “In
the Grip of a New Ice Age,” International Wildlife,
July 1975.

“At this point, the world’s climatologists are
agreed…Once the freeze starts, it will be too late.”
–Douglas Colligan, “Brace Yourself for Another
Ice Age,” Science Digest, February 1973.

I believe that increasing global air pollution,
through its effect on the reflectivity of the earth, is
currently dominant and is responsible for the
temperature decline of the past decade or two”
Reid Bryson, “Environmental Roulette, Global Ecology:
Readings Toward a Rational Strategy for Man, John P.
Holdren and Paul R. Ehrlich, eds., 1971.

Bryson went so far as to tell the New York Times that, compared to the then-recent “decade or two” of cooling, “There appears to be nothing like it in the past 1,000 years”, implying that cooling was inevitable.
Indeed many of the same persons who were then warning about global cooling are the same climatologists who are now warning of global warming – especially Stephen Schneider, one of the most prominent of the global-warming doomsters.

I could go on and on. We are running out of coal, oil, oranges…..etc. I call BS.

I think it is great that you are earth friendly but should it have taken Al to tell you this?? I’ve been doing this for years?

In my opinon, it is very clear that Al has made very little sacrifice in his life in regards to his global warming hooplah. It is pretty clear if you do your own research that he as pretty much says and does what makes Al rich and electable. Nothing more. 20 rooms for a home business and security/ Please! Ya, his carbon credits business! Aristicratic douch bag!

Do youself and the earth a favor. Be earth friendly and spend your carbon credit money planting your own trees.

Oh, Funny how Oberman let out when he signed up for the green power. Like in the last week!

Respectfully.

doesn’t mean that Gore is at fault because he doesn’t know the outcome of that debate now. It is not as if he is completely relying on them, there is plenty of evidence that Gore is trying to reduce his carbon footprint even to the extent that he buys green power, wind and solar generated electricity, that costs him 50% more on his power bill.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/02/28/olbermann-on-gores-energy-use-setting-the-record-straight/

And, yes, he can afford it, but since when are conservatives into attacking people because they have been financially successful?

And, yes, Gore does ask people to do their best to reduce their carbon footprint, but he doesn’t, as some claim, ask people to make huge sacrifices and live in a cave.

And as a matter of fact, I was motivated by his movie “An Inconvenient Truth” to follow some of his suggestions, and my power bill went down by $50.00 a month; that means about $600.00 in savings a year. Thank you Al Gore.

How did I do it?

1. I changed all my incandenscent light bulbs in my house to compact florescent bulbs (total 14).

2. After I brew coffee with my electric coffee maker I turn it off and put the coffee in a thermos carafe rather than letting it sit on the hot plate for an hour or two.

3. I turn off lights in unoccupied rooms.

4. I put my home entertainment system on a power strip and I turn it completely off at night when I go to sleep and during the day when I go to work so there is no standby power useage for no reason.

5. I pull the plug on tranformer style plugs such as those for charging one’s cell phone when they they aren’t charging or fulfilling there function. (They drain power if they are plugged in even when the device they are attached to is off.)

5. I changed the fixtures on multiple sets of lights that are turned on by one switch so I can turn them on and off with a pull chain and only use the lights I need when I need them.

So multiply what I did by a million families and that’s $600 million dollars that can be spent by families on something other than coal and oil. Gee what a terrible sacrifice; fighting global warming sure hurts the economy!

And even if you disagree with

George W. Bush,

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/02/print/20070207-5.html

John Howard,

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2290051.ece

and Rupert Murdoch,

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Rupert_Murdoch_Changes_Mind_On_Global_Warming_999.html

who believe that global warming and climate change are real, surely you would want to save some money and gain some independence from the power companies, no? Oh, right, Al Gore thinks it’s a good idea and he’s a hypocrite, so it must be a bad idea, fantastic logic folks.

PS In case you didn’t follow the link, Murdoch tells us that “British Sky Broadcasting, which is run by his son James Murdoch, was moving to be “carbon neutral” — or not contributing any net carbon emissions.”

Gee, I wonder if Sean knows.

In addition, some economists have questioned if carbon trading schemes are delivering the expected benefits. These questions result from a collapse in the price of carbon credits at two of the major carbon trading schemes.[14] There are also concerns that using carbon offsets actually increases demand for polluting sources of power since overall power consumption isn’t being reduced and polluting sources of power aren’t being ended.[15]

Other controveries around carbon offsets revolve around the absence of market regulation or standards. This has resulted in number of offset projects being questioned over their supposed benefits.

Gore has been a hypocrite his whole career. don’t forget he was taped in a debate with George senior claiming his failure to go into Iraq after Saddam in the first gulf war was a major mistake because of his ties to Osama and his WMD?? Seems he is on the other side of the fence now?? Must be nice to be able to flip flop to whatever makes you rich or electable. What a douch bag!

It’s funny how when the Libs get caught owning 4 houses using 20 times the electric a normal person uses then all they can say is “All the do it attack” wah wah wah If you want to lead then set an example.

It’s like a dad telling his son don’t drink as he reaches for his Bud

Sorry, the USA Today piece was an opinion piece and the “facts,” do not check out,

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/8/17/133652/848

Beside, this whole line of argument, attacking Gore to somehow prove that global warming is not true is a logical fallacy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

“For someone who says the sky is falling, he does very little…
Public records reveal that as Gore lectures Americans on excessive consumption, he and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.) For someone rallying the planet to pursue a path of extreme personal sacrifice, Gore requires little from himself.

Then there is the troubling matter of his energy use. In the Washington, D.C., area, utility companies offer wind energy as an alternative to traditional energy. In Nashville, similar programs exist. Utility customers must simply pay a few extra pennies per kilowatt hour, and they can continue living their carbon-neutral lifestyles knowing that they are supporting wind energy. Plenty of businesses and institutions have signed up…

But according to public records, there is no evidence that Gore has signed up to use green energy in either of his large residences. When contacted Wednesday, Gore’s office confirmed as much but said the Gores were looking into making the switch at both homes. Talk about inconvenient truths… ”
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-08-09-gore-green_x.htm

USA Today missed another abode, this one on the West Coast in San Francisco making it a coast-to-coast affair for the humble and conserving ex-V.P.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2006/08/al_gore_buys_san_francisco_con.html

I wonder if he is “looking into” greening up this latest resting spot?

The translation of my figures above of the jet fuel burned in the one small time space calculated to be 1,207,125 gallons of kerosene burned by Gore from April 1999 to May 2000 works out to 25,478,876 lbs CO2 emitted from the commonly quoted ratio of 21.1 lbs of CO2 to each gallon of fuel burned. Please note that Mr. Gore has never permitted or offered inspection of his self-proclaimed off-set accounting, where the off-sets go or how they are calculated, much less if they recoup past emissions are or merely for present transgressions. He also does not explain if the moneys to assuage his “guilt” go to planting trees or the more common method by which America’s money is sent to former Soviet failed endeavors to pay them for CO2 they couldn’t produce if they now wanted to do so.

I wonder if the “carbon neutral” calculations are computed with “no controlling legal authority” exactness standards?