This is not exactly the right NG, but it is the only one I visit. Sorry for spamming. Anyway, Has anybody seen the movie? Opinions? I would highly recommend it. I'd make it part of the curriculum in schools.
I saw it. Quite impressive. Al Gore is nothing like you think. He has a clue.
Some of his charts are a bit deceptive, with a surpressed zero, but overall he makes a good case.
And there's enough curtaways to outdoor adction so it's not really like a long lecture.
See it and draw your own conclusions.
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I saw it on discount Tuesday matinee, along with about a dozen other people (no more than 20). He sure spends a lot of time in airports and fiddling with graphics on his laptop. Other than that, he comes across pretty well, certainly better than he did when he was running for prez, and makes a decent case.
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But why are Gore and Clinton now so upset about global warming, while they did nothing when they were in the White House? Well, Al did burn up half a million gallons of jet fuel going to Kyoto.
John
Bush (deliberately or not) is probably doing far more for reducing CO2 emissions, by pushing up the price of oil (and thus other energy sources) for everyone almost like a 100-400% tax, plus devaluing the US dollar by 30-40% so it's even more expensive for the biggest consumers. Turns out it's not such a big deal anyway.
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Because it's politically advantageous?
Actually, Al Gore has *always* been a big environmentalist; his book "Earth in the Balance" was published while he was in office (1993), and I'm sure that if Clinton had actually been tossed out on his keister during their term, Gore would have started implementing some significant environmental reform.
His book makes a good case for the idea that, even if you *do* think the environmentalists are all wackos, there are plenty of business opportunities that any money-loving entrepreneur would love to get a piece of. RoHs is a good example -- plenty of money is being made in retrofitting fab lines, redesigning products, etc.!
That's the part that baffles me.
With USA losing so many manufacturing jobs in mature industries to the developing-world countries, you would think that the incentives for leading-edge stuff like pollution control and biotech (read: stem cells) would be such that USA could get those markets off the ground BEFORE everyone else.
*Shrugs*.
I've looked into the global warming thing. It looks like the proposed measures to head it off will probably be insufficient. And some of it may not be man-made at all.
It may be a far better plan to just prepare for it.
Luhan
Don't worry Karolinska Institutet (ki.se) is working hard on that issue ;)
*Another* biotech field would be for concentration of metals; the energy required is far less than strip mining, crushing, etc & etc. Even some purfication (ie: getting one metal almost exclusively) can be done. ..and some of that can *be* a part of pollution control.
Prepare? What is that? Politicians can only see far ahead enough for re-election.
At least there are a *few* intelligent people left on this dustball...
Critics have uniformly blasted an inconvenient truth as "realistic".
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Sure. Let's see... Venus' surface temperature is about 900F. Using Venus as a model (the only model available, AFAIK), our atmosphere should probably not exceed 450F because we are further away from the sun.
Let's prepare for that.
John
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No, your model is in error; Venus does not have a moon which reduces the atmosphere thickness. That in itself makes a big difference. Maybe a return to mean temperatures in the "temperatate zone" of 120 F; inevitably an inexorably followed by another major ice age with a glacier pushing through the Mississippi valley again.
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Heck, we're up almost half a degree F already, and sea level is up almost a full millimeter. May as well commit suicide now and avoid the agony.
John
Elect Democrats to ensure the suicide.
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Too late for that. You are behind the times.
The rise is already about 20 mm (in the last 100 years). Of course, the zero reference (100 years ago) was already about 140 meters above sea level during the last glacial maximum.
The problem is that we are paying this tax to Iran and Venezuela. Talk about feeding the hand that bites us.
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