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Documentary plans to challenge Gore
The icebergs are melting! The ocean is rising! New York will become an aquarium! Let’s all step back, and take a breath here. It’s not that long ago that an ice age was predicted.
There is a climate shift occurring, no doubt about that. It’s been another warm, pleasant, December week here in New Jersey, where we should be shivering our way toward the new year. Anyone notice that last week it was -6 in the midwest? Guess it has something to do with wind patterns, etc, arctic air sweeping down from the north, then bumped away by a warmer system moving up from the south, which would explain the nice weather the northeast is having. I did hear something about an early El Nino~ too, which could have something to do with it, but then, what do I know, I don’t work for the Weather Channel. I’m just going to take another walk along the river in the sunshine today, and enjoy it.
Speaking of the Weather Channel, what happened to all those dire predictions for this year? After Florida got waffled by I forget how many hurricanes, and Katrina battered most of the Gulf Coast, 2006 was predicted to be the worst hurricane season ever. We were even thinking of moving to Kansas. What’s the occassional tornado compared to a dozen back to back hurricanes?
How many did we have?
How many made landfall this year?
My mind must be slipping, because I don’t remember any.
Search engine time again.
Let’s go look it up.
There it is… none… zip… nada… not one.
Now I’m not saying let’s forget about Mother Nature all together. We do need to be responsible global citizens, but let’s not fall prey to the Chicken Little syndrome, let’s not see that the ‘sky is falling’ every time we look up. There are other man-made predicaments that can affect warming and cooling, and these are things that we ‘can’ do something about, like what we’ve pictured below, for instance.
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The efforts of energy corporations, their affliates in extreme right-wing “think tanks”, and their friends in the U.S. government to deny the reality or the potential impact of global warming for their own financial gain is well-documented. Gore himself points out the success of this propaganda campaign by comparing a sample of the scientific literature and the mainstream press, showing that while there were no papers published casting doubt on the reality or potential impact of human-induced global warming, over half of reports in the press did so. This is ridiculous…the experts and the people who have spent their lives studying this phenomenon are unanimous, and the media and politicians are like “oh, it’s not proven”. Where are they getting their information from? It’s the same with evolution, although that is a much less important issue. There are of course all sorts of “think tanks” run by ideologues that will publish “scholarship” and documentaries defending current emissions policies (which, by the way, are unique in the U.S.), a 6,000 year old earth, etc., but there is no reason why anyone serious about finding out the truth should listen to them. It boggles the mind that people will admit, finally that “The planet is warming; human beings are playing a substantial role in that warming” and continue to ignore evidence of the potential effects of that warming, which are not exactly “doomsday” but which are and will be significant anyway in decades to come (the predictions Gore makes are based on well-established science…if you want information from the scientists themselves there are plenty of non-partisan sources). The simple fact of the matter is that we are harming ourselves and future generations with our actions now, and we have to work together to reduce our emissions and ecological footprint. This is not a partisan issue. It is a scientific and ethical one, that conservatives, politicians, and even oil company executives should be concerned about. I am going to write a lengthy and detailed blog using ‘Inconvenient Truth’ but more of the scholarly literature very soon. Read it if you get the chance. Thanks.
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