Gore vs. .the environment

[Lady's Human]

I sincerely doubt the former VP is spending his own personal money, more likely he is spending money that his foundation has accumulated from donations.

I find it exceedingly odd that a person who cares so much for the environment jets around in his personal jet aircraft, burning thousands of gallons of fuel for each trip, instead of taking a commercial flight which would reduce the pollutants produced. It falls in the same vein as the Senator behing vehemently anti-tobacco during campaigns while he was raking in money from his family tobacco farms.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Gore is not exactly a Johnny come lately to the environmental cause.

I find it exceedinlgly odd that famous people are criticized for doing something for good as frequently as they are criticized for not doing anything for good.

But, of course...only if the criticizer disagrees! I often wonder....jealousy? envy?

[elizabethann]

I sincerely doubt the former VP is spending his own personal money, more likely he is spending money that his foundation has accumulated from donations.

I find it exceedingly odd that a person who cares so much for the environment jets around in his personal jet aircraft, burning thousands of gallons of fuel for each trip, instead of taking a commercial flight which would reduce the pollutants produced. It falls in the same vein as the Senator behing vehemently anti-tobacco during campaigns while he was raking in money from his family tobacco farms.

Actually, he was quoted as saying one of the reasons he developed his new movie, Inconvenient Truth, is because he wouldn't have to fly everywhere to discuss environmental issues and wasting fuel with his personal jet.

[Lady's Human]

Actually, he was quoted as saying one of the reasons he developed his new movie, Inconvenient Truth, is because he wouldn't have to fly everywhere to discuss environmental issues and wasting fuel with his personal jet.

Yet he continues to fly his private jet all over the world.

[Lady's Human]

This article explains the debate about global warming, and states frustrations with the media's presentation of the issue very well.

http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/harris061206.htm

There IS debate within scientific circles about global warming, and it's not just a lunatic fringe who disagrees with the popular view of the issue.

[BOBS DAD]

I Find It Hard To Criticize Anyone Who Is Honestly Trying To Make A Positive Difference In The World, Irregardless Of Whether I Agree With Their Own Personal Cause. It's Easy To Have An Opinion On A Variety Of Social Issues, But A Lot Harder To Actually Act Upon It! Give Gore Some Credit And Everyone Else Who Is Trying To Make The Climate Stable, The Environment Cleaner Or Just A Better Overall World.

[lbaker]

I work for a very large non-profit Science Org that happens to publish the weekly journal SCIENCE. You would not believe the letters we've received saying Global Warming is a hoax. The same kooks that write about our stand on Evolution, a "theory". Same ones that didn't like our Reports and Articles warning about the dangers of Agent Orange - oh those many years ago that people forget - Any step , even a half-step, forward is better than standing in place and closing your eyes *takes a deep breath here*

[Lady's Human]

Lbaker,You can go back through the climate records and find periods of warming, periods of cooling, periods of severe storms, periods of peaceful weather. What infuriates me about the global warming issue is that there is NO public debate, any doubts get squelched in a chorus of ad hominem attacks.

There are scientists whose field is not climatology calling respected climatologists fools. There are scientists picking and choosing from data. (Prime example, storm records are unreliable before 1890, but they will rely on tree growth data from single trees to determine the temperature and climate when they can't find multiple samples) Above all, like the saccarin scare, cold fusion, and the endless articles from the '70s about the coming ice age, there seems to be a rush to publish first and evaluate later. Technologies are being forced to the fore as solutions when the solution may be worse than the current problem. (example, the hydrogen car, generating hydrogen takes electricity, which we get from where? largely fossil fuel burning power plants, which we will need more of if we are going to generate enough hydrogen to useit as a fuel)

I don't think global warming is a hoax, I just don't think all the facts are in yet.