Gore movie puts heat on Bush (barf)

NY Daily news ^ | 4/17/06

[finnman69]

Boring Al Gore has made a movie. It is on the most boring of all subjects - global warming. It is more than 80 minutes long and the first two or three go by slowly enough so that you can notice that Gore has gained weight and that his speech still seems out of sync. But a moment later, you will be captivated, then riveted and then scared out of your wits. Our Earth is going to hell in a handbasket.

You will see the Arctic and Antarctic icecaps melting. You will see Greenland oozing into the sea. You will see the atmosphere polluted with greenhouse gases that block heat from escaping. You will see .photos from space of what the icecaps looked like once and what they look like now, and, in animation, you will see how high the oceans might rise. Shanghai and Calcutta swamped. Much of Florida, too. The water takes a hunk of New York. The fuss about what to do with Ground Zero will turn to naught. It will be under water.

"An Inconvenient Truth" is a cinematic version of the lecture that Gore has given for years warning of the dangers of global warming. The case Gore makes is worthy of sleepless nights: Our Earth is in extremis. It's not just that polar bears are drowning because they cannot reach receding ice floes or that "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" will exist someday only as a Hemingway short story. It's rather that Hurricane Katrina is not past, but prologue. Katrina produced several hundred thousand evacuees. The flooding of Calcutta would produce many millions.

You cannot see this film and not think of George W. Bush, the man who beat Gore in 2000. Bush has been studiously anti-science, a man of applied ignorance who has undernourished his mind with the empty calories of comfy dogma. For instance, his insistence on abstinence as the preferred method of birth control would be laughable were it not so reckless. It is similar to Bush's initial approach to global warming. It may be that Gore will do more good for his country and the world with this movie than Bush ever did by winning in 2000.

Gore insists his presidential aspirations are behind him. "I think there are other ways to serve," he told me. No doubt. But on paper, he is the near-perfect Democratic candidate for 2008. He won the popular vote in 2000. He opposed going to war in Iraq, but he supported the previous Gulf War - right both times. He is much more a person of the 21st century than most of the other potential candidates. Gore could be a great President. First, he has to be a good candidate.

In the meantime, he is a man on a mission. Wherever he goes, he finds time and an audience to deliver his (free) lecture on global warming. It and the film leave no doubt of the peril we face and neither do they leave any doubt that Gore, at last, is a man at home in his role. He is master teacher, pedagogue, know-it-all, smarter than most of us, better informed and, having tried for and failed to gain the presidency, has raised his sights to save the world. We simply cannot afford for Al Gore to lose again.

[finnman69]

GLOBAL WARMING PRIMER
http://www.clearlight.com/~mhieb/WVFossils/ice_ages.html
http://vathena.arc.nasa.gov/curric/land/global/climchng.html

These two figures show former temperatures with major periods of glaciation labeled. The dashed lines are the present global average temperature of about 15° C (59° F). Thus the solid curves show small changes from this average; note that the temperature drops only about 5° C during a glaciation. This has occurred about every 100,000 years, with smaller wiggles in between. That is, there has been a 100,000 year glaciation cycle for the past million years or so, and there may be shorter cycles as well.

The most recent glaciation, 20,000 years ago, is called the Laurentide, and Earth is still recovering from it. This map from the The Illinois State Museum exhibit on ice ages shows the extent of that ice.

The most recent small drop in average temperature caused the Little Ice Age of 1500-1700 AD, which history describes. Mountain glaciers advanced in Europe and rivers like the Thames in England froze solid, which doesn't happen now.

Click image for animation

The growth of the ice sheets began about 120,000 years ago as ice built up on the continents in the Northern Hemisphere, especially in Canada and Europe. The largest extent of these ice sheets occurred 18,000 years ago. At that time the largest ice sheets were between 3.5 and 4 km thick. In North America the largest ice sheet was the Laurentide Ice Sheet centered on Hudson Bay with other sheets centered on Greenland and in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. As these ice sheets expanded they grew together, covering Baffin Bay and eventually the Great Lakes and New England. In northwestern Europe the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet began to grow and expand south to cover what is now Norway and Sweden and north to cover the exposed continental shelf. Over time the ice sheet grew to cover Finland and the United Kingdom. This ice sheet extended east to the Ural Mountains where it met the Siberian Ice Sheet. Before the last ice age ice sheets already existed on Antarctica and on Greenland.

[xcamel]

"Gore Movie" : Hostel?

[Puppage]

the lecture that Gore has given for years warning of the dangers of global warming

Yeah. Like the lecture he was to give last February in New Yor City that was canceled due to a blizzard & 4 degree weather.

What an ASS CLOWN!

[facedown]

Nice review, Tipper.

[sgtbono2002]

I dont see how this movie will put any heat on bush it appears from the article to just point out what an idiot Al Gore is. We already knew that.

[COUNTrecount]

I think Gore has Global Warming in his pants.

[Mo1]

But on paper, he is the near-perfect Democratic candidate for 2008

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Wow ... the Dems are in worse shape then I thought

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Gore insists his presidential aspirations are behind him. "I think there are other ways to serve," he told me. No doubt. But on paper, he is the near-perfect Democratic candidate for 2008. He won the popular vote in 2000. He opposed going to war in Iraq, but he supported the previous Gulf War - right both times. He is much more a person of the 21st century than most of the other potential candidates. Gore could be a great President. First, he has to be a good candidate.

First the Tom Cruise/placenta thread, now this. I think I'm going to be sick.

[jerod]

I live in Canada... I can hardly wait for global warming, I'm too busy freezing my arse off.

[janis]

The Bush-bashing by The Daily News is truly hateful.

[Always Right]

It is amazing that just 20,000 years ago, a sneeze in comparion to the earth's 4 billion years in existance, that much of the midwest was glacier covered. Glaciers retreated off the northern US and most all of Canada in very recent history, and none of that could be blamed on man. Yet somehow scientists can blame man for the glaciers retreating today. It is asnine that these people call themselves scientists.

[w1andsodidwe]

I live in Canada... I can hardly wait for global warming, I'm too busy freezing my arse off.

That can't be true, because I read an article here last month that said that Canada had the warmest winter in recorded history. Canada began recording weather history in 1948 according to that article.

That said, we are still freezing out here in California. At least the rain stopped yesterday and we had cold, windy sunshine.

[liberty2004]

I think there are other ways to serve," he told me. No doubt. But on paper, he is the near-perfect Democratic candidate for 2008.

Right, Gore probably dreams every night of being President. He is a LIAR if he says he doesn't want to be President. We simply cannot afford for Al Gore to lose again.

OMG, these sycophants on the left are extremely dangerous. This author is totally ignorant of the true goals of Gore et al. To destroy Capitalism and push socialism forward. Those who push Global Warming solutions are as much of a threat to our long term survival as the Islamo-fascists. Their goals are the same.

[BonnieJ]

Not only do they blame mankind for it all, they specifically blame George Bush...who has been in D.C. and global power for 5 years!!! Compare that to the age of the earth and all its inevitable cycles...

[Ron in Acreage]

Global warming is a wecome event in florida. Maybe those from the north would quit moving here and screwing everything up, if their states weren't such frozen hell holes.

[6SJ7]

It is more than 80 minutes long and the first two or three go by slowly enough ...

I'll bet. An 80 minute movie that feels like 180 minutes. They should play this movie down in Guantanamo. Those detainees would be ready to spill everything they know by the third showing.

[TheForceOfOne]

It's two days before the day after tomorrow!

Which would ummm... make it ...oh no....TODAY!!! AHHHH!

[liberty2004]

It is asnine that these people call themselves scientists.

It is beyond that, is is pure evil. These scientists are NOT true scientists. They are leftists frauds, who hate the US. To think that man can cause all these "so called" problems is beyond ludicrous. Those scientists who support drastic cutbacks in greenhouse gases are no different than the terrorists. They are spiteful and out to destroy this Republic. If true justice reigned, these leading mouthpieces like Hansen would forfeit their lives for the simple reason, their goals would cause many deaths and untold misery. God help us if the left ever gains power again.

[dighton]

Please tell me that Richard Cohen is attempting humor.

He is master teacher, pedagogue, know-it-all, smarter than most of us, better informed and, having tried for and failed to gain the presidency, has raised his sights to save the world. We simply cannot afford for Al Gore to lose again.

[Pessimist]

"It's not just that polar bears are drowning because they cannot reach receding ice floes.."

Of course less poilar bears is good news if you're a seal. And more seals is good news if you're an Orca.

Oh, wait... I guess we only care about seals and whales when doing so can be used to browbeat the human race.