Posted on 03/27/2008 3:09:50 PM PDT by Rebelbase
(CBS) Self-avowed “P.R. agent for the planet” Al Gore says those who still doubt that global warming is caused by man - among them, Vice President Dick Cheney - are acting like the fringe groups who think the 1969 moon landing never really happened, or who once believed the world is flat.
The former vice president and former presidential candidate talks to 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl in an interview to be broadcast this Sunday, March 30, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
Confronted by Stahl with the fact some prominent people, including the nation’s vice president, are not convinced that global warming is manmade, Gore responds: “You're talking about Dick Cheney. I think that those people are in such a tiny, tiny minority now with their point of view, they’re almost like the ones who still believe that the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona and those who believe the world is flat,” says Gore. “That demeans them a little bit, but it's not that far off,” he tells Stahl.
Gore’s campaign to make the world more aware of man’s role in global warming won him the Nobel Peace Prize last year. He donated the $750,000 prize money to The Alliance for Climate Protection, the non-profit he started to help him on his quest. He and his wife, Tipper, tell Stahl they not only matched the Nobel money with their own, but they are also donating to the organization the significant profits from his book and Oscar-winning documentary film about global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth.” The funds will help The Alliance for Climate Protection execute a new $300 million ad campaign on global warming set to start next week.
Some of the ads will feature unlikely alliances to drive home the message that people of all stripes are concerned about global warming. These include the Rev. Al Sharpton and the Rev. Pat Robertson, Toby Keith and the Dixie Chicks, and Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich.
Stahl also visits the Gore's Nashville home, recently refitted with touches that include roof solar panels that make it more environmentally friendly. She asks him his feelings on the Supreme Court ruling that handed his opponent, George W. Bush, the electoral votes of Florida and the presidency.
Stahl also asks Gore, an uncommitted superdelegate of the Democratic Party, who he supports for his party’s nomination.
Gore is becoming more and more like Joseph Geobbels.
Manbearpig is real. Al Gore is cereal. Super, super cereal.
Is Algore STILL talking about doing something about the weather? He’s retarded.
His arrogance is unbelievable.
Or denied global cooling was gonna kill us in the 70's.
How dare that plump moron accuse others of being uninformed. Does anyone here believe Al Gore is a real smart scientist? If there were AGW, I’m contributing 100 times less than he is.
Nice. He "donates" the $$$ to his non-profit. Those of you that know more about the tax code than I do, help me out here. Are there tax benefits if he makes this "charitable" contribution, then receives some kind of funding back from the non-prof?
Hey, Gore, the warmth you feel on your face is from the inner lining of your colon.
Does this mean it will snow in NY Sunday?
Sometimes I think the Left talks about changing weather because they are so retarded about everything else. Gore is SO stuck on stupid it’s hard to imagine he was a heartbeat away from being the most powerful man on earth. He needs a hobby.
>>“You’re talking about Dick Cheney. I think that those people are in such a tiny, tiny minority now with their point of view, they’re almost like the ones who still believe that the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona and those who believe the world is flat,” says Gore. “That demeans them a little bit, but it’s not that far off,” he tells Stahl.<<
Wow! What a tough debater. I guess with objective, fact based and position supporting statements like that, he has ME convinced!
It boggles my mind that Newt Gingrich has bought in to this man made global warming, or is climate change now the correct terminology, nonsense.
This is awsome! I was just looking at my list of top "go to" people for advice on issues of climate, solar science, and economics:
Well of course, it shouldn't surprise me that my list exactly matched theirs - this is a collection of the absolute best and bravest science, economic, and civil-rights minds in the country -ah - the world, really.
“non-profit” is technical tax terminology. Nothing more. Nothing less. It has nothing to do with morality, goodness, rightness or wrongness. It is about tax status.
The guy’s body temperature is higher than his IQ.
It's also VERY scary to think that he may very well be the demonrat candidate for president again this year!
What we need is a cereal killer
I think he should "meet" him ASAP
The global warming cult is in a panic because global cooling has begun.
You can almost count on a blizzard Sunday night in NYC.
Pot, meet kettle. Geez, what a maroon. And to think that we came with 600 votes of having this doofus as President. Of course, instead of Tweedle Dumber, we just got Tweedle Dumb, but that's another story.
You forgot Sheryl “One piece of Toilet Paper” Crow.
“. He “donates” the $$$ to his non-profit. “
Who of all people stand to financially gain from Global Warming legislation/treaties?
It boggles my mind that the Republican nominee for President (McCain) has bought in to the anthropogenic GW scam, yet we're told to just shut up and vote for him.
When he's suffering from exteame hypothermia.
Stop insulting the Nazis!
I agree. It’s completely about tax status. That’s why I wondered about albore donating his nobel prize $$$. I’ve worked with some non-profs. It’s shocking the salaries their staff make, all in the name of “charity.” So very little of the gross actually gets to the people they purportedly are helping. While there are good non-profs out there, doing great work, there are more that are in it to make a killing, while pretending to be altruistic.
Algore is the flat-earther. He believes a simplistic hypothesis and had built his world around.
He's released a message? Is it authentic?
Typical liberal. Don’t defend your position. Insult the intelligence of your critics.
It is almost time for a class action lawsuit against this fraud. Now is the time to take names and document exactly what they have don.
The time is not ripe yet, since it will take two more years to fully document the decrease in global temperatures, but it will happen.
Them, millions of people should rise up and take these frauds to court.
It may increase the closer it gets to Sunday, usually does.
There is charity and then there is non-profit. The two can overlap, but one should never consider them synonymous.
Hey Al, don't let the facts get in the way of your insulting people who disagree with your Gorebull Warming theories.
Ohh WOE is me... whys everybody pickin on me???
Algore’s problem is that he lacks a major longterm perspective, and he may not know how to spell molybdenum.
Team Of Scientists Discover Clue To Delay Of Life On Earth
by Staff Writers
Tempe AZ (SPX) Mar 27, 2008
Scientists from around the world have reconstructed changes in Earth’s ancient ocean chemistry during a broad sweep of geological time, from about 2.5 to 0.5 billion years ago. They have discovered that a deficiency of oxygen and the heavy metal molybdenum in the ancient deep ocean may have delayed the evolution of animal life on Earth for nearly 2 billion years.
The findings, which appear in the March 27 issue of Nature, come as no surprise to Ariel Anbar, one of the authors of the study and an associate professor at Arizona State University with joint appointments in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the School of Earth and Space Exploration in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The study was led by Clint Scott, a graduate student at University of California Riverside. Scott works with Timothy Lyons, a professor of biogeochemistry at UCR who is a long-time collaborator of Anbar’s and also an author of the paper.
“Clint’s data are an important new piece in a puzzle we’ve been trying to solve for many years,” says Anbar. “Tim and I have suspected for a while that if the oceans at that time were oxygen deficient they should also have been deficient in molybdenum. We’ve found evidence of that deficiency before, at a couple of particular points in time. The new data are important because they confirm that those points were typical for their era.”
Molybdenum is of interest to Anbar and others because it is used by some bacteria to convert the element nitrogen from a gas in the atmosphere to a form useful for living things - a process known as “nitrogen fixation.” Bacteria cannot fix nitrogen efficiently when they are deprived of molybdenum. And if bacteria can’t fix nitrogen fast enough then eukaryotes - a kind of organism that includes plants, pachyderms and people - are in trouble because eukaryotes cannot fix nitrogen themselves at all.
“If molybdenum was scarce, bacteria would have had the upper hand,” continues Anbar. “Eukaryotes depend on bacteria having an easy enough time fixing nitrogen that there’s enough to go around. So if bacteria were struggling to get enough molybdenum, there probably wouldn’t have been enough fixed nitrogen for eukaryotes to flourish.”
“These molybdenum depletions may have retarded the development of complex life such as animals for almost two billion years of Earth history,” says Lyons. “The amount of molybdenum in the ocean probably played a major role in the development of early life.”
This research was motivated by a review article published in Science in 2002 by Anbar and Andy Knoll, a colleague at Harvard University. Knoll was perplexed by the fact that eukaryotes didn’t dominate the world until around 0.7 billion years ago, even though they seemed to have evolved before 2.7 billion years ago. Together, Anbar and Knoll postulated that molybdenum deficiency was the key, arguing that the metal should have been scarce in ancient oceans because there was so little oxygen in the atmosphere in those times.
In today’s high-oxygen world, molybdenum is the most abundant transition metal in the oceans. That is because the primary source of molybdenum to the ocean is the reaction of oxygen with molybdenum-bearing minerals in rocks. So the hypotheses rode on the idea that the amount of molybdenum in the oceans should track the amount of oxygen.
To test that idea, Scott, Lyons and Anbar examined rock samples from ancient seafloors by dissolving them in a cocktail of acids and analyzing the rock for molybdenum content using a mass spectrometer. Many of these analyses were carried out using state-of-the art instrumentation in the W. M. Keck Foundation Laboratory for Environmental Biogeochemistry at Arizona State University. The scientists found significant evidence for a molybdenum-depleted ocean relative to the high levels measured in modern, oxygen-rich seawater.
By studying Earth’s ancient oceans, atmosphere and biology we can test how well we understand the modern environment, according to Anbar. “Our molybdenum hypothesis was inspired by the theory that biology in the oceans today is often starved for a different metal - iron - and that the lack of iron in parts of the oceans affects the transfer of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to the ocean” he says.
“The idea that metal deficiency in the oceans can affect the entire planet is very powerful. Here, we are exploring the limits of that idea by seeing if it can solve ancient puzzles. These new findings strengthen our confidence that it can.”
If Professor Gore had actually studied his upper division math he would know that at the point of tangent any round, curved or spherical object is equally flat and round.
...verses a guy who gets Amnesia from drinking Ice Tea with Buddist Monks while flying around in polluting jumbo jets! Yeah much rather listen to a jerk off like that!
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