True, mankind did not create the cow. But the current large population of cattle — and its large methane output — is most certainly due to mankind.

If he writes about tipping points, there is. (I haven’t read the book either.)

Actually, if you examine the Gallup story, their poll finds the only group that didn’t lower their support is 18-29 year-olds. I’m not saying these are children, but they are the youngest cohort in the study, and the ones most likely to have to live with severe effects.

March 11th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
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This is a rather silly semantic argument, but I’m going to side with Tracy on this point. Humans do manufacture cattle, in very large and highly-polluting factory farms. Sure, the raw materials were not actually created by humans, but then neither was the iron ore we use to make steel or the hydrocarbon we use to make plastics.

The creatures we grind up to make our cheeseburgers bear at best a passing resemblance to the wild animals they are descended from. They have been selectively bred and genetically modified to become living fermentation vats and lipid storage, and loaded up with so many chemicals and antibiotics that they’d never survive in the wild.

I think it’s completely accurate to say that the cattle on factory farms around the world is indeed a product of humanity, and is a major producer of greenhouse gases that we should be very concerned with.

I’m sorry for the misundersanding.

On the contrary, the glaciers and polar ice caps are melting exactly because heating of the atmosphere on a global scale is occurring, and this heating is apparently accelerating, which definitely doesn’t bode well for the future of mankind.

YOU ALL will be living back in the Stone Age where you belong.

Deal?

It’s okay for AlGores horse to crap in the street because He can afford the guy in a clown suit to follow Him around with a shovel. How very progressive of Him.
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it’s kind of… amazing to watch a feckless twit like this one try to turn the problem into some sort of popularity contest… “because I don’t like Al Gore, the problem can’t be real…” or some such self-serving nonsense.

Let’s not forget that just last month, “on the 200th anniversary of his Darwin’s birth, Gallup has a new poll out showing that “only 39 percent of Americans say they ‘believe in the theory of evolution,’ while a quarter say they do not believe in the theory, and another 36 percent don’t have an opinion either way”.

What percentage of Americans believe the Earth is only 6,000 years old?

What percentage believe Elvis is still alive… and perhaps living in the center of the Earth in Atlantis?

Problems have this nasty way of showing no respect whatsoever to opinions.

Go ahead… believe, hope, pray there isn’t a serious problem here… see where the prayers get ya…

damn that al gore for being concerned about the future!!!!

and damn him for exercising his right to free speech!!!

and damn him for understanding what scientists mean when they talk about their disciplines!!!

damned smart people, anyway!!

damned old al gore!!!

he’s what the real problem is!!!

Alejandro Says:

Just wait until summer, it’ll go down again.
Then up in the winter again.
People are stupid.

This.

Not all people, of course, but there’s certainly a fair percentage of the population that can’t get past the “But it’s cold out now, how could there be global warming?” thing.

Global Warming Is an Immediate Crisis
By Al Gore
New York University School of Law

Monday 18 September 2006

A few days ago, scientists announced alarming new evidence of the rapid melting of the perennial ice of the north polar cap, continuing a trend of the past several years that now confronts us with the prospect that human activities, if unchecked in the next decade, could destroy one of the earth’s principle mechanisms for cooling itself. Another group of scientists presented evidence that human activities are responsible for the dramatic warming of sea surface temperatures in the areas of the ocean where hurricanes form. A few weeks earlier, new information from yet another team showed dramatic increases in the burning of forests throughout the American West, a trend that has increased decade by decade, as warmer temperatures have dried out soils and vegetation. All these findings come at the end of a summer with record breaking temperatures and the hottest twelve month period ever measured in the U.S., with persistent drought in vast areas of our country. Scientific American introduces the lead article in its special issue this month with the following sentence: “The debate on global warming is over.

Pretty ambiguous there Al.

It’s okay for AlGores horse to crap in the street because He can afford the guy in a clown suit to follow Him around with a shovel. How very progressive of Him.

It also becomes your reality from the first written word