The earth is in a crisis. Al Gore says so.
By Karen Galarpe, abs-cbnNEWS.com
MANILA, Philippines – Planet earth is in a crisis.
The earth’s temperature is rising, the icecaps are melting, the ecosystem is in distress, and time is running out.
At the SMX Convention Center Tuesday afternoon, former US Vice President Al Gore detailed how the climate is changing in Asia and the rest of the world.
“We’re changing the atmosphere primarily through the burning of fossil fuels,” said Gore. This results to higher CO2 levels and rising temperature.
“The earth’s temperature increases, melting virtually all ice regions of the world,”
he said. Glaciers are melting, and with the seven major rivers of Asia (which include the Mekong in Vietnam and the Yangtze in China) originating from one piece of ice, the Himalayan glacier, Asia is experiencing flooding like never before, as do other parts of the world.
But with rising temperature come droughts too. Gore pointed out record historic droughts in China and Mexico, among other places.
This results in a shifting in ecological boundaries, affecting wildlife and amphibians, which are diminishing.
The coral reefs are not exempt. “The coral reef is an ecosystem in distress,” said Gore.
“We are witnessing a collision between our civilization and the earth,” he said. Gore added that this is due to three factors: population explosion, scientific and technological revolution, and our way of thinking.
After AlGorebychov spoke in Copenhagen last year, there were massive blizzards and extended cold periods hitting Europe and North America. Please Al, give Australia a break and don’t come southwards this (Antipodean) winter.
kirkmyers says:
Why would any rational, informed adult pay to hear this charlatan speak? The “science” presented in his books and his movie have been thoroughy debunked.
Probably the same reason that people pay to see John Edwards…
I think Brother Gabriel got it right. Brother Michael simply forgot to hit the ‘sarc’ button when he posted.
It’s not warming in Beeville, and it’s not warming in Paisley, Or., either!
😉
Mike
stevengoddard says:
June 9, 2010 at 10:08 pm
He couldn’t save his marriage, but he wants to save the world. The emotionally stunted mentality of a teenager.
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Steve, you won’t win friends among the divorced that way. I can’t speak for divorced people, but I imaging many feel more stunted financially than emotionally. Gore, however, shouldn’t have to worry about the cost of his divorce.
Not a lot of coral reefs left to be distressed in the Philippines. They have destroyed them by dynamite fishing.
After listening a few times to the man on NPR I am now fully convinced he is a dishonest profiteer.
Sad.
“We are witnessing a collision between our civilization and the earth,” he said. Gore added that this is due to three factors: population explosion, scientific and technological revolution, and our way of thinking.”
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Another factor is the rapid economic growth of developing countries, particularly China and India.
I think it inevitable that the U.S. will lose much of it’s lead as an economic power, so it’s important we continue to be a world leader in military strength and in science and technology.
Meanwhile, hot (sic) on the heels of a very cold NH winter, we have the following to report from down under in NZ:
Snow Farm Open 5th June
Earliest opening in the history of the Snow Farm.
http://www.snowfarmnz.com/index.cfm/snow_report___road/snow_report.html
and
Early Snow 31 May Update
Wow, check out the white gold!! After spending several days clearing the road, we finally gained access to the car park – what follows now is a lot of digging! With over 1.5 metres, we are frantically trying to get everything ready for a (fingers crossed) early start to the season.
http://www.mtdobson.co.nz/
noaaprogrammer says:
June 9, 2010 at 9:41 pm
…and Al Gore was still waving to people in Manila like a President elect with his wedding ring. That’s what the Filipino people were really interested about.
Well, I was there in Manila in the SMX Convention Center. His is a gret speaker and multimedia communicator. His latest shocking pictures captured the audience. But I will not bore you with too many details here. If you know the facts, you just don’t buy it anyway.
“The earth will warm 3°C by the end of this century. That’s the minimum. It can go up by 12 degrees.”
Fahrenheid??? He hasn’t removed the Kilimanjaro story (glacier evaporating after climate shift and deforestation, not CO2, Kaser et al….). His slides went straight from the Kilimanjaro glacier and faded into Law Dome, Antarctica, where her started to ramble about ice core records, then the CO2-concentration of today – shocking, you know. Then the power point let the CO2 pillar even more than double one more time. “This is were CO2 is going to be if we continue as now for the next 35 years”. What does he mean? 780ppm in 2045?
MIT study “storm intensity +50%. Sept. 2008: “Gustav hit New Orleans again. It didn’t even hit the news”. Guatemala City May 2010. “Sinkhole 100 meters deep opened up”.
Then Arctic Sea ice: “This is how it looks like NOW”. The slide shows Arctic minimum ice extend 2007, of course!
At the end, Gore praises the (still) President of the Philippines Gloria M. Arroyo for her global warming initiatives [at the expense of the poor…] with battery powered jeepneys. (I didn’t see any) and for the Philippines lead in geothermal power. Well, that’s a good one. But the Philippines stabilized CO2-emissions? I doubt that statistics. Then again: Put a pricetag on carbon…nuclear power can be a solution.
The jet-setting environmentalist strikes again.
I live in the Solomon Islands, it isn’t just the one sided views expressed, it is the one sided acceptance that we are sinking, that all the islands, atolls, coral reefs, fish, eco systems are in complete failure and without massive amounts of money from the western societies that have caused this we are doomed.
Despite numerous and well reviewed papers, as mostly reported in here, which point out the failures and falsifications, the AGW scare machine rolls on.
Willis has frequently and intelligently provided hypothesis that explain the interelationship between the tropics and the temperate zones, which I have blatently and frequently plagiarised and had published in the Solomon Star, but the scent of compensation has over ridden any intelligence being applied to this.
To have the over puffed charlatan that Al Gore has become still pushing his message of salvation to come once the western world is beggared by reparations, is beyond my comprehension.
One of the principal reasons for divorce is one partner spouting BS all the time.
Enough said.
Amphibians diminishing? Oh my, I’d better go and tell my garden frog colony that Al Gores thinks the bumper crop of tadpoles currently swimming around in my wildlife pond aren’t enough.
“It is a moral, spiritual issue. It goes to our hearts as God’s people.”: Gore et Al
What exactly does omnipotent mean, and why is Al trying to thwart Gods will?
Can God make a planet so hot that he can not cool it?
Idiot.
In reply to Steven Goddard; I always read and appreciate your posts, but I survived a divorce many years ago and, since then, find moral judgements of any divorce (or divorcee) without knowing the facts to be both judgemental and quite silly and tend to diminish those making comments. Some things should remain out-of-bounds for comment.
I taught teenagers for many years and found the great majority of them to be amiable, responsible and sensible people, with about 5% of them deviant from the norms of their peer group in some way or other. Because Al Gore does what he does is no reason to cast aspersions about other large sections of humanity.
Having said that, I am still mightily relieved that Al Gore never did get his hands properly on the levers of power.
I hope AGW really crossed an irreversible point. It is beyond irreversible point of lost confidence and the irreversible changes will continue fast.
The only crisis here is in Al’s Carbon trading dream.
Gore world – If the real world data lets you down, simply make stuff up and repeat it at every opportunity.
I just love the smell of failing investments in the morning.
So why is the 2010 year to date temperature in the US pretty normal?
Go to NCDC, you’ll see the charts.
Much warmer than normal in the NE and across the Great Lakes.
Much colder than normal in the SE and colder across the entire Southern states of the US from Florida to California.
The May split is west-east. The entire west of the US much colder, the east significantly warmer.
Mr Gore wants to look at data close to home.
“He couldn’t save his marriage, but he wants to save the world. The emotionally stunted mentality of a teenager.”
How low can a blow get? I guess I’ll have to keep reading WUWT to find out…
If we have reached a stage in wich AGW is irreversible then we might as well stop research into climatechange and start learning how we should board up our windows & doors at a massive scale. But damn they keep moving the goalposts (again) because we still have about a decade to act.
Al Gore is a bit like the kid from next door that keeps shouting that you will be beaten up by his bigger brother unless you hand over your pocket money, the problem is that his bigger brother is only imaginary, perhaps there is a distant nephew, but we don’t know for sure and it is very unlikely that he will come over to beat us up because little Al told so.
rbateman says:
June 9, 2010 at 9:36 pm
Tipper’s not going to be around to keep him in check, so it’s Gore Strikes Back.
Kinda like Rocky movies: there’s always another sequel.
Rather than teaming up with Sly Stallone, the Goreacle is planning a sequel to his movie with the Governator, who of course starred in that instant climate change on Mars movie; Total Recall
The followup to An Inconvenient Truth will be called “Total [snip]”
I wish Gore would concentrate on the over population issue – that at least makes sense. It is not that the Earth doesn’t face dangers, just that overheating from CO2 doesn’t seem to be one of them!
“UK Sceptic says:
June 10, 2010 at 1:12 am
Amphibians diminishing? Oh my, I’d better go and tell my garden frog colony that Al Gores thinks the bumper crop of tadpoles currently swimming around in my wildlife pond aren’t enough.”
Ah. Not just my pond then? I’ve never seen so many. Bumper year. Where are those phenologists when you need them?
cheers David [UK]
Desperate man.
His investments will only pan out if we get cap and trade.
Not likely.
His wife will be getting something out of the divorce. So his expenses are up.
Let’s see… expenses up… revenues down… got to do something.
He really has been off the radar screen until news of his divorce hit. In another month everyone will have forgotten him. History is not going to be kind to him. But he’ll continue to live a comfortable lifestyle.
We won’t hear much of him until he finds a new love interest.
Al Gore junior, is so full of himself that were he to take a serious restroom break, the only things left would be his clothes.