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.
What is the Carbon Footprint of the Hypocrite Gore’s new $8.5M mansion?
It makes me sick to my stomach that poeple give this HYPOCRITE the time of day. But the people just get what they deserve in the end. If all they can be bothered to do is watch football and eat themselves into pototatoe shapes then f*** ’em – the NWO, a whole bunch of Gore like hypocrites, is who will own them, like slaves.
If Gore really beleived that CO2 is going to destroy the planet, and if he really cared about destroying the planet, then he would reduce his onw footprint. But as he gets richer and richer and richer and richer fron the carbon tax schemes through the companies he owns, he is increaing his own footprint. He will say he is offsetting. But that is a bit like me being pro population control, having another child, but not donating to African charities on the basis that at least a couple more Africans will die to offest my new sprogs. I.e. let someone else make the sacrifice.
It is typical of socialist/communist mindsets like Gore. The problem they have is that eventually they will run out of other people’s money.
here’s an untouched, un homogenised, un recognised weather station in Rural Australia, over the hill from it’s associated town so impervious to UHI . Goes back to 1908 (even further but they’ve lost the data for some reason) Rainfall goes back to 1858 but……
http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=139&p_display_type=dataFile&p_stn_num=058063
Yet it doesn’t seem to fall into the global warmist preferred site list – pity as it speaks the truth.
http://users.tpg.com.au/johnsay1/Stuff/Casino_temp.jpg
Would you listen to a man who has business interests in the carbon market?
Would you listen to a theologist / politician who says that the earth’s core is millions of degrees?
Would you trust a man who says rising co2 is bad and yet has 6 fireplaces?
Would you trust a man who said in December 2009 “…there is a 75 per cent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years”
I don’t!!!
In the article I read:
“But he said other scientists say there is only a decade left before we reach the irreversible point.”
Ahhhhhh, that 10 year tipping point that’s NEVER reached!!! Free beer tomorrow I guess. :o(
Mmmmmm! Bear in mind their upward ‘adjustments’, UHI, and you need to talk to Professor Paul Jones from the warmist Climate Research Unit who when asked by the BBCs Roger Harrabin in February 2010:
source
So much for unprecedented warming. Michael, why are you not more sceptical????
“We can do great things in the world. We have the technology. Don’t tell me we can’t solve it if we don’t put our heads to it,” Gore said.
Well, maybe he was misquoted – or maybe he mis-spoke – or maybe I am just not smart enough to understand 🙂 Is he noted for making such comments?
Wren says:
June 9, 2010 at 11:57 pm
“….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.”
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I am an US citizen but I am afraid the US is head down the tubes – FAST. A country that is dead broke and is producing no REAL WEALTH, that is manufacturing products or growing food can not afford a “strong Army” The Soviet Union proved that. Once the US stopped providing cheap food they collapsed. At this point the USA is a NET importer of food. We used to be a net exporter. We have less people employed in manufacturing than we did in 1970 and what is left of our industry is foreign owned.
Grace Commission Report: Presented to Congress in January 1984.
Resistance to additional income taxes would be even more widespread if people were aware that:
* One-third of all their taxes is consumed by waste and inefficiency in the Federal Government as we identified in our survey.
* Another one-third of all their taxes escapes collection from others as the underground economy blossoms in direct proportion to tax increases and places even more pressure on law abiding taxpayers, promoting still more underground economy-a vicious cycle that must be broken.
With two-thirds of everyone’s personal income taxes wasted or not collected, 100 percent of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal debt and by Federal Government contributions to transfer payments. In other words, all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services which taxpayers expect from their Government.” http://www.uhuh.com/taxstuff/gracecom.htm
Foreign Ownership:
The Department of Homeland Security says 80% of our ports are operated by Foreigners and they are buying and running US bridges and toll roads. http://www.alabamaeagle.org/issues.asp?action=form&formID=2105&recordID=131006
Statistics (courtesy of Bridgewater) showed in 1990, before WTO was ratified, Foreign ownership of U.S. assets amounted to 33% of U.S. GDP. By 2002 this had increased to over 70% of U.S. GDP. http://www.fame.org/HTM/greg%20Pickup%201%2010%2003%20report.htm
Another major problem is American education. It also has gone down the tubes.
“For 10 years, William Schmidt, a statistics professor at Michigan State University, has looked at how U.S. students stack up against students in other countries in math and science. “In fourth-grade, we start out pretty well, near the top of the distribution among countries; by eighth-grade, we’re around average, and by 12th-grade, we’re at the bottom of the heap, outperforming only two countries, Cyprus and South Africa.”
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0804/0804textbooks.htm
“… Surveys of corporations consistently find that businesses are focused outside • the U.S. to recruit necessary talent. In a 2002 survey, 16 global corporations complained that American schools did not produce students with global skills. United States companies agreed. The survey found that 30 percent of large U.S. companies “believed they had failed to exploit fully their international business opportunities due to insufficient personnel with international skills.” One respondent to the survey even noted, “If I wanted to recruit people who are both technically skilled and culturally aware, I wouldn’t even waste time looking for them on U.S. college campuses.”
…the U.S. ranks 21st out of 29 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries in mathematics scores, with nearly one-quarter of students unable to solve the easiest level of questions….In 2000, 28 percent of all freshmen entering a degree-granting institution required remedial coursework”
http://www.edreform.com/_upload/CER_JunkFoodDiet.pdf
“You Americans are so gullible! We don’t have to invade you! We will destroy you from within without firing a shot! We will bury you by the billions! We spoon feed you socialism until your Communists and don’t even know it! We assist your elected leaders in giving you small doses of Socialism until you suddenly awake to find you have Communism. the day will come when your grandchildren will live under communism!” Nikita Khrushchev
I guess old Nikita was right. Remember one of the trio involved with the Carbon Exchange is Mikhail Gorbachev as well as the long time friend of the Soviet Union and Communist China Maurice Strong. I wonder what that makes Al baby.
My memory is not all that good, but hasn’t Big Al been saying “in about ten years” for almost ten years?
Slight credibility problem here? (department of Questions That Should Not Be Asked)
(at least the Rev. filed this under “Al Gore is an idiot”)
What did they pay him for this speech?
How much did it cost to get him to the Phillipines?
How many folks went along with him so he could give a speech?
How many fancy dinners did he attend with high ranking officials and business folks so that he could lobby them for his causes?
I like the little Smiley at the bottom of the page. Nice touch. I tried to clean it off of my monitor then I noticed it was in the page!
Sorry Michael Hauber, try this better link from the same site.
MWP global in extent.
Honestly, I can’t imagine living my life–as many of these scientists do–in fear of global climate change. What kind of a life are these people living if they constantly roll out of bed every single morning with the thought: “The end is near!”? How terribly tragic.
“Al baby”, as Gail Combs calls him, is the outspoken, unhinged and uninformed prophet of the Cult of Anthropogenic Global Warming (aka Climate Change). He invokes spiritualism when he calls upon people to get involved yet the very object of his derision, CO2, is the key to feeding the world’s population–If we’re lucky, foodstuff production will keep pace as the carbon cycle expands. That Gore and his ilk are against it speaks volumes about their anti-humanity, self-enriching theology. Expose it. Fight it. Conquer it.
Algore is a false profit.
@Rhys Jaggar “Mr Gore wants to look at data close to home”
Mr Gore needs to look at data, full stop, but he neither will nor can as it’ll upset his gravy train.
Yes, Gore’s visit in Manila was well-covered by the local media. Lots of believers in man-made warming scam here. I wrote a commentary about it, “Al Gore politics in Manila”, http://funwithgovernment.blogspot.com/2010/06/al-gore-politics-in-manila.html
How do you know Summer has arrived?
Al Gore blames it on global warming.
Same goes for Spring as Clinton would has joked.
But was this speech peer reviewed?
Divorce: The Real cause of Global Warming
If you thought we were headed for trouble before, wait until the divorce of Al and Tipper is final.
Please read on at http://www.cashill.com/
The reason Al Gore invokes spiritualism and morality for reducing co2 is because he needs to move away from the shaky AGW science before it implodes, yet needs reasons to reduce co2 other that its ‘warming’ effect. This approach is a crock to most people and will fail because the massive sacrifices will be in the name of spiritualism and morality not cold, hard science.
Got to pay the bill don’t ya know!!!
I m not afraid of 1000 ppm CO2. What I m afraid of is 200 ppm CO2, or less. The end of the world will not be according to Al Gore’s prophesies. The end of life on this planet will be when volcanoes stop pumping out CO2 gas from their bellies. CO2 inthe atmosphere has a resident life of 15 years according to peer-reviewed scientific studies. Hence, the CO2 we are burning today, the CO2 oozing out of the oceans and the CO2 escaping from the earth’s bowels will all be turned into grass, insects, birds, animals and Al Gores withing 15 years time. So the end of the world will be 15 years after CO2 stops coming out of the planets belly.
from the article: “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.”
One of the most harebrained statements ever.
a) There is no single “Himalayan glacier” from which the Mekong and Yangtze originate.
b) The Mekong ebbs and flows in concert with monsoon season (rain) and dry season (no rain). It has nothing to do with the temperature or with the Himalayan glaciers.
c) Flooding of the Mekong has been almost nonexistent for the last 12 years, and no greater than normal for the last 40 years (the Mekong Delta is, after all, a flood plain). Anecdotally, my wife’s family lives less than 10 to 30 meters from the Mekong, and she grew up there. Nothing is abnormal by their accounts.
Midwest Mark says:
June 10, 2010 at 5:54 am
Honestly, I can’t imagine living my life–as many of these scientists do–in fear of global climate change. What kind of a life are these people living if they constantly roll out of bed every single morning with the thought: “The end is near!”? How terribly tragic.
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You are assuming they actually believe their own hype. I wonder if it is the hype or the grant money they actually believe in.
Mann received $541,184 in economic stimulus funds last June for three years. That does not include the nearly $1.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation is for studying the effects of climate change on the spread of infectious diseases, such as malaria.
Climate change: have we reached the irreversible stage?
I hope so.
Thanks Mr.Gore!, we could have not expected less from you, you are the one who has helped more for all humanity fully to understand and comprehend with their whole being, that the scare of Global Warming/Climate Change that you so, intelligently, concocted by you for us, commoners and simpletons of the world, who are so fool of working hard every day of our lives, not like you who manages to live like a King without making any effort, it is a complete non sense. You are doubtless our most distinguished champion, we all sceptics are deeply thankful of your invaluable help for making of Global Warming/Climate Change the most, the biggest JOKE.