Look, many of those who have swallowed the bait hook line and sinker did so because they want to have a purpose, be part of something larger than themselves. They want someone who will lead them to the promised land. This requires trust and faith but they are putting it in someone who has demostrated clearly that he is not trustworthy. They should at least crown someone who is not so obviously unfaithful to their religion.
Again your vast conspiracy theorist thinking puts itself face forward. The problem with Gore is he tried to "dumb down" a difficult to understand concept, in layperson's terms. He simply stood up for what he thinks is right. That people agree with him, as far as responsible stewardship of this planet, is pretty self explanatory.
I find it most telling to talk to those who have been a part of this countries manned space missions. I have been lucky enough to talk with a few, and their perspective gave me pause to consider exactly what all of this means, in context.
The overwhelming consensus from those I've spoken to has seemed to be of wonder, awe and stark reality. Displaced from the surface of the planet by a mere 200 or so miles, and the entire ball that we live on already seems incredibly small. The atmosphere that we rely on for everything.... paper thin. You can see through it, edge on, from space. Basically, 100,000 feet of mixed gases seperate us from 0 degrees Kelvin. (-273.15 C)
Is it truly far fetched that changing the composition of this layer is not going to produce effects upon the climate under it?
In science, changing one part, one
letter in an equation, almost invariably changes the downstream accummulation of readings. The picture geologically shows us what increased CO2 load and CH4 load does to the planet's temperature.
The National Center for Atmospheric Research Climate System Model (CSM) is used to evaluate estimates of Cretaceous atmospheric carbon dioxide. The CSM is a comprehensive coupled atmosphere, ocean, land surface, and sea ice model. It has been integrated for the Late Cretaceous (80 Ma) with atmospheric CO_2 concentrations of 1120 and 1680 ppmv. The model-predicted ocean temperatures, surface and deep-water, are compared to published estimates of ocean temperatures from DSDP and ODP sites in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. For the higher CO_2 integration, the CSM Cretaceous tropical sea surface temperatures (SSTs) average 31-33^oC, a warming of 3-4^oC compared to simulated present-day values. These predicted SSTs are consistent with the inferred upper ocean temperatures from the newest analyses of core data. Considerable east-west asymmetries exist across the ocean basins, with equatorial SSTs of 29.76oC in the eastern Pacific to 34^oC in the western Pacific
7. Atmospheric CO2 has increased from a pre-industrial concentration of about 280 ppmv to about 367 ppmv at present (ppmv= parts per million by volume). CO2 concentration data from before 1958 are from ice core measurements taken in Antarctica and from 1958 onwards are from the Mauna Loa measurement site. The smooth curve is based on a hundred year running mean. It is evident that the rapid increase in CO2 concentrations has been occurring since the onset of industrialization. The increase has closely followed the increase in CO2 emissions from fossil fuels.
We seem to be looking at the same picture and arguing over the artist, not the paint, which is on the wall.
CO2 is tied
explicitly to warmer periods of our earth. CH4 is even more powerful. We belch out billions of tons of CO2 emissions each year,
and yet some can attempt to argue, with a stunning lack of sane rationality, that we are at the very least (I would argue moreso)
somewhat responsible for what is happening?????
It truly is the death of thought, whence dogma and preconception becomes the norm.
