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.
I agree with mister Gore, we should do something. I suggest that we as a nation repent and turn back to the God of our founding. He is sovereign over the weather and all reality, He is just (which is why we should fear) and merciful (which is why repentance is efficacious for the blessings of providence). Some specific areas I suggest are:
what ever happened to his wife/girlfriend thing? Or was it a maid at a hotel? Anybody hear the results of that?
count every cloud............
Gore: “You see, I was reading about how the popes in the olden days sold writs of absolution and I wondered how I could create a great scam like this. I thunk and thunk until I couldn't think no more.
Then it hit me! The econuts have sort of a “secular religion” what if I could be the pope of the econuts! Make it a “sin” not to follow our edicts. Call people who don't believe exactly as we do heretics.......no wait..’Deniers!’ Yeah...that's the ticket!
Every once in awhile I could throw something even crazier out there like ‘It's several million degrees 2 kilometers beneath the Earth's surface.’ If I still have followers after a whopper like that, I know that I can be ‘Eco-Pope’ for life!”
Global warming kicking some serious booty in Colorado snow storm. You go boy.
That’s the one that called him a sex poodle. I’m sure it got all swept under the rug.
Gore—STFU you globalist POS.
The poodle bites- come’on Frenchy!
You got to pay attention to the AGW cultists:
COLD weather has nothing to do with the climate. But a hot, sunny day in Phoenix in the middle of July is a sure sign of imminent doom and uncontrolled global warming.
A blizzard in Europe in April has nothing to do with global warming. Nor do record cold temps at last year’s Global Warming conference in Cancun. But the recent tornadoes and any hurricanes that happen this year PROVE that global warming is nearing the ‘tipping point’.
Won’t the rapidly rising oceans put out the wildfires? Makes sense, doesn’t it?
What happenned?
sheesh.
As for the "unprecedented" flooding in the midwest this summer, I was in St. Louis for the flood in '93. The Mississippi was 20 miles wide in places. Current events, while devastating, aren't even approaching that.
The American people have the memories of a goldfish.
No one has yet asked Gore: What is the correct temperature of the earth? How much warmer is the earth now than it ought to be?
Some other questions: What is the correct amount of rainfall in Texas? What is the correct amount of water in the Mississippi River? What is the correct distance between North America and Europe? What is the correct distance between South America and Africa?
“Are you serial? “
No! Mute and irrevalunt!
He’s a shill for an industry that feeds his own “green” businesses.
Now, when the Chines say they have not seen floods like the recent ones “in 44 years”; it means they saw such floods 44 years ago, and some number of years before that and before that, ad infinitum.
Some recent events only appear “unusual” because the time-cycles they wax and wane on run in centuries or decades and not year after year. If a time-cycle between two of the same/similar event is longer than 20 years, people tend to think the most recent occurrence is “unusual”.
Gore counts on people’s scientific ignorance and on their fear of the “unusual”- which is almost always simply unusual to them (in their lifetime), not to the earth and not to their place on the earth, in the longer scheme of things.
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