The Great Global Warming Swindle

[A Black Falcon]

Al Gore is a hypocrite.

Not true. Gore buys carbon footprint offsets to compensate for the amount of energy his house uses.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/26/gore...to-drudge/

That said, I haven't gotten around to seeing An Inconvenient Truth, but I wouldn't be surprised if its credibility can be called into question. Most experts reportedly agree that global warming is anthropogenic (caused by man), but there seems to be a reasonable amount of information out there that debunk the myth. I'm noncommittal to the issue now, but when I research more of it, I'll take a stance. I'll check out this link when I have more time and am not procrastinating studying for finals (so I'm procrastinating more procrastination, so I don't procrastinate as much now... or something).

It's a very polarized and politicized issue, and I don't think you can label all of it as evil right-wingers embracing ignorance.

Watch the movie first, before you say anything negative about it... this is Al Gore, not some random fearmonger, and he has been involved in global warming issues for a long time now.

My stance on climate change is not one of denial, the more I research it, but it's pretty undeniable that a man like Gore has a political agenda a mile long behind his overblown disaster flick, a movie which showcases all of the worst possible scenarios and paints them as not only likely, but completely our fault. Which is nonsense.

It's not nonsense. It's fact, and it's almost certainly mostly or entirely humanity's fault.

Of course, it isn't strictly all new. In fact, one of the largest changes in the Earth's climate ever began at the time that agriculture began to come into wide-scale use. What we are doing now is just doing things worse, and faster, than ever before.

the evil capitalists are really Captain Planet villains who want to destroy the world!!!!! Because a dead world is worth money or something, I guess. I can think of no other way such a stance makes sense.

No, of course not. They simply care about money and only money, and don't think or care about the consequences of their actions. After all, they tell themselves, nothing is probably going to happen, and even if it does it'll probably be in a long time, after I'm dead, right?

Forcing people to THINK about the consequences of what they do is the point, and then moving from that to getting them to think about what they can do to change is the next step. It does not mean the end of capitalism or any of that paranoid idiocy... it simply means doing things differently than we are now.

And as for the plane thing, well, I refer you back to carbon offsets. You either don't know about them or willfully ignore it in order to pretend that Gore is a hypocrite he isn't.