We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change [Op-Ed Contributor AL GORE........]

New York Times ^

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We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change By AL GORE

It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.

Of course, we would still need to deal with the national security risks of our growing dependence on a global oil market dominated by dwindling reserves in the most unstable region of the world, and the economic risks of sending hundreds of billions of dollars a year overseas in return for that oil. And we would still trail China in the race to develop smart grids, fast trains, solar power, wind, geothermal and other renewable sources of energy — the most important sources of new jobs in the 21st century.

But what a burden would be lifted! We would no longer have to worry that our grandchildren would one day look back on us as a criminal generation that had selfishly and blithely ignored clear warnings that their fate was in our hands. We could instead celebrate the naysayers who had doggedly persisted in proving that every major National Academy of Sciences report on climate change had simply made a huge mistake.

I, for one, genuinely wish that the climate crisis were an illusion. But unfortunately, the reality of the danger we are courting has not been changed by the discovery of at least two mistakes in the thousands of pages of careful scientific work over the last 22 years by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In fact, the crisis is still growing because we are continuing to dump 90 million tons of global-warming pollution every 24 hours into the atmosphere — as if it were an open sewer.

[OldDeckHand]

The NY Times editorial board must have forgotten to send ALGORE this recently headline...

U.S. Data Since 1895 Fail To Show Warming Trend

Published just TWO DAYS before ALGORE's rant.

[hal ogen]

Can we wish algore away?

[widdle_wabbit]

True then but covered over by the algore hysterics.

U.S. Data Since 1895 Fail To Show Warming Trend
By PHILIP SHABECOFF, Special to the New York Times
Published: January 26, 1989

[Sprite518]

Hey Al if what your saying is true (its not if you understand basic science), then how come you guys had to cook all books for over 10 years?? How come they could not just use the data if what you are saying is true?

Your con man Al, and you belong in a jail cell. Shame on you for what you have done to our great nation.

[listenhillary]

FTA-

“From the standpoint of governance, what is at stake is our ability to use the rule of law as an instrument of human redemption.” Al Gore

Isn’t that sad. So really at risk here is the power for the whacked out greenie statists to bludgeon the unenlightened into redemption and save Gaia.

CO2 is plant food not a farking pollutant.
Increased warming will lead to increased clouds which will lead to more reflected sun. It is a self regulating system that works much better than Al Gores brain.

[GVnana]

U.S. Data Since 1895 Fail To Show Warming Trend By PHILIP SHABECOFF, Special to the New York Times Published: January 26, 1989

But Al Gore is still a putz.

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He’s nuts........certifiable...