Posted on 06/21/2011 10:32:25 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Gore says extreme weather shows need to take action on climate change By Andrew Restuccia - 06/21/11 10:50 AM ET
Former Vice President Al Gore is sounding the alarm about climate change and extreme weather, pointing to the recent floods along the Mississippi River, drought in Texas and wildfires in Arizona.
In a keynote address at the Games for Change Festival Monday in New York City, Gore pointed to a slew of extreme weather events in the United States and around the world. He raised concerns about the wildfires in Arizona and drought in Texas, as well as the recent flooding along the Mississippi River.
“Today, the biggest fire in the history of the state of Arizona is spreading to New Mexico. Today, the biggest flood in the history of the Mississippi River Valley is under way right now,” Gore said.
“At what point is there a moment where we say, ‘Oh, we ought to do something about this?’”
Gore, the chairman of the Alliance for Climate Protection, has long called for measures to drastically reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, warning of the potentially catastrophic effects of climate change.
In his address, Gore waded into the politically thorny issue of climate change and extreme weather. While some climate scientists argue that you can’t draw conclusions from any one particular weather event, others say climate change is to blame in part for recent extreme weather.
Gore, in a portion of his speech posted by the website Treehugger.com, also pointed to large-scale flooding in Nashville last year.
“Thousands of my neighbors lost their homes and businesses,” Gore said. “They had no flood insurance because there has never been a flood in the areas that were flooded.”
And he listed other extreme weather events around the world like flooding in Pakistan, Australia and Colombia.
Everybody! Quick! Buy my carbon credits NOW or we’re all DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!
As a true believer in the left-is-evil club, I believed that Gore was ONLY a self-serving POS. But, as the facts continue to surface about global warming (there ARE no facts)and as nature continues to make Gore look stupid, and as he continues to blather on about global warming, I have come to the conclusion that he is brain damaged. It’s really the only thing that explains his complete anti-intellectualism and his autism-like (”autism like” because some autistic kids are true geniuses, unlike Gore) repetition of information that, in his case, is completely wrong.
Forgive me for stating the obvious...Gore is a moron.
The effects linger. The ocean temperatures are back to normal on average, but the all-important temperatures near the U.S. west coast have been dropping (with corresponding warming further west). That is due to blocking weather patterns, and only a coincidence. But La Nina weather patterns are clearly still in effect in the CONUS.
Fire up AF#1 to go golfing.
Meanwhile Prime Minister Cameron flies commercial.
Yep, absolutely agreed!
Would not surprise me. The fire a couple of years ago that burned part of Los Alamos started with a controlled burn. The forest service is way past the point of no return, they screwed up big time.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/06/19/20110619quiet-sun0619.html
Sun Spots may disappear for years.......(article)
No word on AllGork's residential use of 221,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006. The difference I'm guessing is those KWh's are permissable in that they are carbon-offset.
Like clockwork... there’s Al, preaching the same old, tired BS. Give it up Al... you made your millions, you got your publicity, but....
Game Over...
So MOVE ON!
There. Fixed.
Just the damage he has done to young kids in school with his crap film being forced upon them is a crime.
Hey, Al (and your ilk)! Have I got a deal for you! I know a great place for you to move to. The planet Mercury! This fine little planet doesn’t have a bothersome atmosphere to cause weather. However, you can still get the extremes in temperatures that you and your friends LOVE to whine about. You get the both of best of both worlds! It’s a win-win for everyone.
About time for Al to get his Second Chakra released again. Call the masseuse. Guess his new single lifestyle isn’t working out for him?
*“Thousands of my neighbors lost their homes and businesses,” Gore said.*
They wouldn’t have had homes or businesses in the first place if people listened to the nonsense that this quintessential liar promotes.
He wants to ruin the Earth through causing poverty and dictatorships. I’ll take my chances with the storms.
56. [Ye] hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?
57. Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?
I think Gore built his house on the ocean just to thumb his nose at the suckers that beleive him.
“Hey, guess what? The oceans going to rise 80 feet!”
“What?...Oh, you don’t believe that...Wouldja believe 20 feet?..You would! OK, now I’m going to build a several million dollar mansion right on the beach.”
“By the by..did you know that using fossil fuels will destroy the Earth? WE MUST STOP USING FOSSIL FUELS!...OK, so how do I use 20 times the electricity of the average American without blowing a fuse?...oh circuit breakers, you say....heh heh, I never was very good with electricity or any of that science stuff....”
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