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.
Hi Steve,
I think you’ve got your dates all mixed up.
You are supposed to post Funnies on Fridays!
Because this is now a spititual fight, let us pray
(with apologies to King David)
The Gore is my shepherd, I shall not warm.
He makes me lie down in offset pastures,
Because this is now a spititual fight, let’s give thanks
(with apologies to King David)
The Gore is my shepherd, I shall not warm.
He makes me lie down in offset pastures,
he leads me beside quiet glaciers.
He restores my carbon.
He guides me in the paths of zealousness
for his Nobel’s sake.
Yea though I walk through the valley of unending warmth
Iwill fear no polar bears
For you are with me
Your cap and your trade, they comfort me.
You prepare an organic table before me
In the presence of deniers
You anoint my head with biodiesel, my cup overflows.
Surely Mann and Jones will follow me
all the days of my life,
And I will dwell in the house of the Gore forever.
ManitobaKen says:
June 10, 2010 at 9:17 am
Great!.I am sure he will will invite you to accompany him to the realm of wildfires and of the unending heat.(which we call on earth:The Hell)
Climate change: have we reached the irreversible stage?
I would say yes. If Cap and trade or something similar is not passed in the next two or three years, and if we continue with a solar minimum and negative PDO, AMO then the window of opportunity will have passed.
Wren says:
June 9, 2010 at 11:57 pm
“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.
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I fear those things are all linked. Our current administration wants us to lose our lead in military strength. They would be happier if there were other super-powers to counter balance us.
I believe we have largely lost our lead in science and technology. First, we have a broken education system that tries to do anything but education. Second, we have a culture which does not encourage our best and brightest to pursue careers in science and technology. We are also in the process of creating an economic system which discourages innovation and risk-taking.
Wow, Al makes it sound really bad. At least he has a good marriage to go home to.
Here’s a parody showing how advanced some of our “stellar” leaders are in solving problems:
And here’s an alternative approach:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2010-06-10-column10_ST_N.htm
The latter is what made or makes America great; the former is why the rest of the world is laughing at us.
“We are witnessing a collision between our civilization and the earth”
No. What we are witnessing is a collision between bad politics and good science.
“have we reached the irreversible stage?”
For those who have been around a few years, (and have been somewhere long enough to see any changes)
What was the climate?
What is the climate like now? what have the changes been?
What do the models say will happen in the future?
Have any changes you have seen been a problem?
Does any change look irreversible?
“We’re changing the atmosphere primarily through the burning of fossil fuels,” said Gore. This results to higher CO2 levels and rising temperature.
If this were true at some point we would see a change in the specific heat of air. CO2 has a Cp of approx .87, water vapor is approx 2.8 and air is 1.004. So we should see Cp of air increase being there are generally more molecules of water produced when burning a fossil fuel. (I hate that term. Coal is the original biofuel.) CH4 +2O2 => CO2 + 2 H2O
Grumbler says:
June 10, 2010 at 2:30 am
“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]
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But, but… too many are also a sign of the planetary fever. On the bright side, you now have a robust earthquake detection system.
Wren says:
June 9, 2010 at 11:57 pm
“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.”
Well at least he admits his thinking is dangerous!
“The earth’s temperature increases, melting virtually all ice regions of the world,”
That would take at least a 12+ deg C rise.
Dammit, no more fizzy drinks then $?
Can’t we just hurry up and reach the tipping point so he’ll shut up. No wonder his wife left him; she probably got tire of him whispering sweet nothings about the climate in her ear.
“We are witnessing a collision between our civilization and the earth”
The way I see it is civilization expanded and transformed territory to serve the civilized people. I wouldn’t call it a “collision” as much as an “aquisition”. On the other hand, I am very much a “nature freak” and feel spiritually nourished when out and about in un-managed places. There is something beautiful about the “untouched” wilderness. I think it is great that the modern version of “western” civilization values wild spaces, so that some land was acquired to be left alone as a service to the people.
I know this has nothing to do with “global warming” but rather land use. But the reason I bring it up is because I worry that the warming concerns of Gore are diverting attention away.
I follow Stefan in believing that psycho/religious motives are strongly involved in warmism. These include a desire to place oneself among the “sheep” (as opposed to the goats); to adopt a one-up, holier-than-thou, anointed stance vis-a-vis the Other (the mundane, earthly, grubbing, benighted get-and-spender); to have “clean hands” to show to the Lord (at least on the level of intentions); etc.
Wasn’t he claiming the earth had a decade left 4 years ago. http://www.3daudioinc.com/3db/showthread.php?12879-Gore-Doomsday-Clock-tipping-point-reached-on-Jan-2016&p=126921
What changed Gorstradamis’ mind?
David Bailey says:
June 10, 2010 at 2:24 am
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!
Ah, but he is! Money is not the ultimate goal of the AGW scam, they have plenty of that already. Algore, Prince Charles, Maurice Strong, the Rockefellers, the UN (with its watermelon NGO’s) et al. want to destroy national sovereignty and form their global government for a very specific reason. AGW is supposed to be the means to the end, the end being population reduction. Gore’s Gaia preaching (ever notice Charles does a lot of this too?) is all part of it.
ManitobaKen on
June 10, 2010 at 9:17 am
Bravo! Well done!
/Mr Lynn
I love how accurate these scientists can predict weather and there effects. This year in April we got a fairly large snow storm and the scientist were all happy because they had determined with there hadn’t been enough snow fall over the winter and they were sure that we were going to have a drought. This snow fall might be just the thing to prevent that. I should probably explain that I live in western Canada. Now it is June and the province of Saskatchewan has basically declared a state of emergency because they have had so much precipitation that the farmers can’t get on the fields to plant crops. Here in Alberta, the same thing is happening, we just haven’t declared an emergency yet. The fields have large pools of standing water in them, the ditches either have pools of water in them or the ground is so soft that vehicles sink up to there axles in mud in they go in them. One field near where I work has so much water in it that there are ducks living in it.
I’m still waiting for the drought.
So Al Gore thinks that “mankind” and their production of CO2 is going to cause GW. What a load of rubbish. The atmosphere has a mass of about 5 quadrillion metric tonnes MT’s (5,000,000,000,000,000,000) CO2 accounts for 0.0383% or 1,915,000,000,000,000 MT’s.
The earth produces 97% of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Man’s total contribution to that figure is 3% – or 0.001149% = 57,450,000,000,000 MT’s. These figures appear to be very large because of all the zero’s.
I will convert these figures to dollar values to make man’s contribution more understandable -I will call the total atmospheric CO2 $100,000, (100% x 1000). Man’s 3% contribution to the 0.0383% total CO2, (0.001149% x 1000) is the equivalent of $1.149c. So $1.15 (rounded up) is going to have a devastating effect on $100,000 of atmospheric CO2 – I think not.
A big CON – I certainly think so – I don’t mind being called a sceptic because at least I am thinking and rationalising the data – I would rather be deemed to be a sceptic than a non-thinking lemming
Where is fire breathing Al? I was and am roasting in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas.
Al Gore, you are a fraud, charlotan and liar.
Everything you say scientifically is either wrong or severely over stated to sell your soap that you are making millions off of at the expense of the public who will get nothing but higher energy bills and taxes that you profit from.