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  • He should go to jail for duping so many people

  • Biggest SCAM ever!!!!

  • Mars has an atmosphere nearly made up of 95% carbon dioxide but it's very very cold....

  • Enjoy the growing glaciers around the globe. Thati s good positive news we all need

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  • New thinking?

    Hell, this is just back door Karl Marx.

    That is OLD thinking.

  • Al Gore is super serial about all this.

  • HERE'S Inconvient TRUTH.  Gore was a Soviet-Russian SPY. Armmon Hammer-the Jewish Industrialist who owned Occidental Petrol and Baking Soda-also owned Al Gore and Gore's father-bought and paid for politicians firmly in Hammer's pocket-when the Soviet Union fell -they said publicly that Armmon Hammer was a Russian SPY against America.

  • @libertydogfight.

    An Incontinent Truth for climate change deniers and Gore bashers... Gore has been telling us what the scientists have been saying for over 30 years. No one has done more to raise awareness of the climate crisis. Some conspiracy theory nuts and vested interests say that it's all a hoax. They don't offer credible evidence in support of that claim. Will we have time to respond to the crisis before it’s too late? Will we ACT given the potential consequences?

    We can only try.

  • @ReduceGHGs Where do they find such gullible and stupid humans like you, Al Gore is a Satanist same as all the other Global Elitists. Don't you understand that all of this world is a Scam, an Illusion, all our Science is based upon the Kabalah and the teachings of Lucifer-our entire modern society is one of Demonic Posession! Where is your credible evidence that Global warming exists or even that global warming is a bad thing at all.

  • @libertydogfight .

    You sound like a child afraid of the dark. Gibberish Amusing at best.

    If you can't do better, please don't bother.  In addition, I'm no doc but you may need to seek help.

    .

    For those that want to learn more about climate change here are two good links.

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    Google: Scientific Opinion on Climate Change Wikipedia

    Google: NAS pdf Global Warming 2008 Edition

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  • @ReduceGHGs You speak about Me as a "child in the dark" HA-Every damn Global Warming Idiot I every heard sounded like Chicken Little Screaming "The Sky is Falling, the sky is falling" Take a look in a mirror and see if you see youself as a disgusting HYPOCRIT.

  • @libertydogfight the global elitiest are the koch brother, oil companies and opec

    whey make billions of dollars by sucking money out of us at the gas pumps

    while paying millions of dollars to deny it exist

    anyone who lived long enough 20 yrs can testify to climate change, we notice that temperature has been rising

    over the years and looking the the thermometer outside we notice that temperature has been a few degree warmer,

    record rain, and recored tornado

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  • @libertydogfight .

    You sound like a child in a tantrum loop.

    I'll filter you comments out. Wouldn't want to aggravate your problem.

    Good luck kid.

  • Climate change is a completely natural phenomena. There have been many times in earths history where the temperature has been much colder and also much WARMER than it is now: little ice age 1500AD, medieval warm period 1000AD, holocene era 8000BC. Do some research, cosmic rays, water vapour and solar winds determine earths temperature not CO2 output. Sea temperature lags behind atmospheric temperature by an avg of 400 years. This climate change video argument is so full of scientific NON-facts!

  • This mofo should be hung drawn and quartered and his pieces dropped on the happy hunting grounds of the Polar Bears. His assets paid back to the US taxpayers who have lost billions on his global warming fraud.

  • Humans are disgusting. its so sad :(

  • Could have been a better president than Bush

  • @Burhansyla anyones better than Bush. just sayin

  • Galactic chaneling said hes reptilian

  • Ah, good old carbon dioxide, the basis of all life on this planet. Too bad it's in such short supply.

  • Guys, any links to a tedtalk where the guy cries at the end saying 'I cant bear to do this to my kids' or something of that sort?

  • just perfect ....bravo to our president AL Gore

  • Al Gore's paid climate scientists studies have found, CO2 emissions from the US are the problem, not CO2 emissions from India or China

  • @JoeJohn90 yes, but if china and india reach the level of the US, their emissions will be a serious problem.

    The thing is... if you waste while you are in the leading position, how can you dare to critisize others, when they do the same?

  • @liquidminds Great point. The Oil funded deniers have been lying and saying that China is the leading polluter, that is oil funded capitalist fascist lies. China is very green and has a 1 child policy which is what Europe, Australia, Canada, and the US need to implement. They are leading the way in clean energy and are taking the necessary steps to stop global warming.

  • here's the proof:

    Daniel K. from 8.A did his homework

  • On 7/28/11, it was revealed that the scientist behind the polar-bears-are-in-trouble research is being investigated for “scientific misconduct”. Then, a new study of NASA data revealed that the earth is actually allowing more heat to escape the planet than previously thought by the climate change community. During a speech at the Aspen Institute in Colorado, Al Gore launched into a vulgar tirade while accusing skeptics of media manipulation.

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  • The Holy Grail for most scientists is not truth but research grants. And the global warming scare has produced a huge downpour of money for research. Any mystery why so many scientists claim some belief in global warming?

  • guys you are all so dumb why the fuck would all the scientists in the world get together to try and trick us into thinking that global warming is real. That is a ridiculous claim.

  • Impacts of climate change in the news...

    Lizards facing extinction because of climate change If current trends continue 20 per cent of all lizard species could disappear by 2080, according to the findings published in Science.

    LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH

    UNITED KINGDOM

    May 14, 2010

  • good man

  • Climate change is real and it's here: report

    Melbourne Age

    Tom Arup

    March 15, 2010 - 3:00AM

    AUSTRALIA's two leading scientific agencies will release a report today showing Australia has warmed significantly over the past 50 years, and stating categorically that ''climate change is real''.

    The State of the Climate snapshot, drawn together by CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology partly in response to recent attacks on the science underpinning climate change...

  • Al Gore: Pied Piper for the Carbon Credit Crusade

    Al Gore brings emotional fervor to his carbon crusade He travels the country displaying charts&graphs quoting scientific experts&appealing to philosophers&religious leaders to save the planet from global warming But he says nothing about his business partners who yearn to trade on the emerging carbon market And the media pay no attention to the companies offering carbon advisory services that will profit from federal carbon emission controls

  • look up, wake up, google chemtrails, Jane Burgermeister,  NO global warming!!

    They are spraying the atmosphere to make global warming all over the world.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Good thing Al Gore is looking out for us humans. No doubt we could not figure it out without him. He is really good at telling us what to think.

  • Dear Al baby - we are still waiting for proof of the CO2 signature in your global warming scare.

    Your hockey stick has been debunked.

    Your sea level rise scare was proofed to be nonsense. By how much has sea levels risen in the Maldives? - zero, zilch, nothing.

    Your polar bears seems to be doing just fine.

    Ever heard of El Nino causing drought in Australia?

  • @oomblikkies

    get some facts before repeating stupid, hysterical lies

    climate . nasa . gov / evidence

  • @aerobique OK here are some of the facts. Gore says that at the current rate we burn fossil fuel we will move to a venus situation. He claims a CO2 rise from 280ppm pre-industrial to 380ppm, thus 1ppm per year. Lets assume a 10ppm increase, then to reach Venus's CO2 will take 100000 years. Earth do not have that much carbon ...... continue

  • @aerobique Some more facts... CO2 does not have a linear relation to temp, the relationship is logarithmic, i.e. CO2 must double for every 1 centigrade jump in temperature which means that if the current 380ppm goes to 760ppm, temperature will go up by only about 1 centigrade.

    No one denies global warming. Earth has gone through hot periods (even much hooter than now) many times before and will continue to do so without our help.

  • @oomblikkies,

    While us Americans are still squabbling over whether there is a problem or not, the rest of the world is leaving us in the dust with renewable solutions. Australia has made the commitment to get off fossil fuels by 2020. China, once again, is going to be the world's supplier of solar panels. Several countries have committed to converting all their vehicles to all electric, not hybrids. How much longer do we have to wait before it's too late?

  • @aphile2 30 Years ago mainstream science said DDT is harmful to the environment and a complete ban was put in place. Independant research has shown that DDT is not dangerous and DDT was again approved as the only effective treatment against malaria mosquitos. Mainstream could easily be wrong! Back to batteries: They all have a finite lifetime and in no-time we will face a huge disposal/pollution problem and how are you going to keep aircraft in the air with batteries or solar panels? LMAO.

  • @oomblikkies Show me the research or go home. This is not a DDT discussion.

  • @oomblikkies It weakened eagle eggs, and caused a sharp decline in reproduction rates. In africa where it is used now there aren't as many drawbacks.

  • @aphile2 thank you for your comments,,,excellent...i wish australia was going as fast as you think but sadly we follow america on most things...change is coming though...cheers

  • @aphile2 probably you'll wait until chinese solar-cars cost 500$ and it's no longer possible to make a profit out of developing them....

  • The Venus analogy is rubbish - Venus has no water and a pre-grade kid will tell you that Venus is damn closer to the sun..... ha, ha what does that mean? Very poor video.

  • Anybody taken a look at what's happening in the world lately?............is it just me or are tsunamis,hurricanes,earthquake­s, and sea level increase in the pacific are at all time high?

    Things are changing for sure....

  • tsunamis and earthquakes have nothing to do with the climate system... areas in the pacific where the sea level is apparently rising are actually sinking - the models fail to take into account land subsidence, as opposed to sea level rise.

  • Hasn't this crook been arrested yet?

  • Another hero generation to defeat reductionism and go to the stars.

  • NASA-GIFF study revealed the warmest decade in the last 100 years was the 1930's with 1934 the hottest. Phil Jones CRU East Anglia Univeristy, "No statistically significant temperatures since 1995 and probably much longer."

  • China tells US to do more on climate change

    By GILLIAN WONG

    Associated Press Writer

    Mar. 10, 2010

    China told the United States on Wednesday to make stronger commitments on climate change and provide environmental expertise and financing to developing nations.

    At the same time, China said its own efforts to reduce energy intensity have been hampered by its economic recovery in the latter part of last year, which brought growth in heavy energy-consuming industries.

  • HAND-MADE ELECTRIC CARS serve a niche market in Japan

    BY Agence France-Presse

    4 MAR 2010 10:38 AM

    READ MORE ABOUT

    Business, cars, Climate & Energy...

    TOYAMA, Japan

    -- While auto manufacturing giants spend millions to develop environmentally friendly electric cars, one Japanese company has taken a more low-key approach, crafting hand-made "green" cars...

  • ...The box-shaped two-door car -- which is dubbed the "Eco-beagle" and comes in green, white, red, and canary yellow -- has a relatively affordable price tag of $9,600...

  • gore is a lier, and should be charged with fraud. he stands to make billions on carbon trading with MAURICE SRONG . look it up on google. carbon trading. .the new one world govt currency .. gore uses 20 times the normal americans electric bill. live what you preach fraudster

  • @nits56 how do ad-hominem attacks prove that he is lying? Even if he is a hypocrite that doesn't mean that he is wrong.

  • The head of East Anglia University admitted last week that and I quote, "there has been no statistically significant" change in temperatures in the last 15 years. James Hensen of NASA admitted he deleted data as he sought to make earlier temperatures cooler and more recent temperatures warmer. NASA is now looking into Mr. Hensen's manipulations. Yvo de Boer the head of UNIPCC is resigning and Pachuari admitted he lied about the Himalayan glaciers and the Amazon rain forest. You are lying.

  • Search NOAA

    The recent Internet chatter about cooling led NOAA's climate data center to re-examine its temperature data. It found no cooling trend.

    "The last 10 years are the warmest 10-year period of the modern record," said NOAA climate monitoring chief Deke Arndt.

    "Even if you analyze the trend during that 10 years, the trend is actually positive, which means warming."

  • why doesn't this video work? It hasn't loaded for days.

  • Al Gore was one of the architects of two of the most anti-American, anti-human rights, & anti-environmental legislation in the history of the United States. He was in office when NAFTA & GATT expansion to the WTO happened.

    Multiple tens of millions of jobs that paid good wages were shipped to Al Gore's Marxist friends in China & the third world so that corporations who greased Gore's pockets could exploit the Environment & Human Rights & stuff their fat pockets with money

    Treason

  • I believe in climate change since it was taught at my uni. But the two-sided debate itself is counterproductive.

    If you go to industrial areas i.e. in China, you won't believe how dirty the air is. There's no doubt of the human impact on the air, land and water there. That should be the focus here and that alone should be a cryout for cleaner energy. I'm afraid the whole debait here is only prolonging the problems that the pollution undoubtedly does cause.The focus is in the wrong things!

  • the church of climate change is dead

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  • Sorry Marxist Warm-mongers........

    But....

    Go to INFORMATIONLIBERATION website for a great expose of Al Fraud & the Marxist warm-mongers

    How does relocating Industry from the West which has Environmental & Human Rights laws to countries that have little to no Environmental or even human rights laws help stop Global warming?

    Al Gore helped engineer the economic destruction via NAFTA/GATT & WTO & now our children are being poisoned by Chinese slave labor made junk

  • There has droughts for millions of ears (AL Gore) What about that? Through out earths history there have been droughts that killed 100's of thousands of people way be for so called Global Warming was conceive. What about the Co2 the ocean and volcanism produce 99.9 percent of ours is only a fraction of that 1%? Debate is never over with the science of climate, other wise we will never advance. I guess cars can only run off petroleum and nothing else. Don't comment back debate is over.

  • Sun Nov 22, 2009

    WASHINGTON

    — Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.

    As the world has talked for a dozen years about what to do next, new ship passages opened through the once frozen summer sea ice of the Arctic.

    In Greenland and Antarctica, ice sheets have lost trillions of tons of ice.

  • Al Gore is a Nazi CFR Illuminati puppet!!

    Wake up sheeple do your homework, dont fall for Propaganda!!

    Al Gore is bieng sued by 31,000 REAL scientist including the owner of the weather channel!!

    Most of our politicians are inful-traitors and they will be routed out and tried for TREASON!!!

    This is all so they can move forward their carbon tax New World Order agenda and DESTROY the rest of our Country!

    Nobody can save us but US!!

    Youtube William Cooper!!

    Rip William Cooper!!

    Behold a pale horse!

  • omg are you all American stupid (base on the coments here) go to school omg ... global worming is true , Europe knows ,China Knows, eweryone knows just Americans dont know ...waaaaaaa

  • yes we have work to do. we need to work on getting your ass the hell off the stage, and to lock your ass away. fucking trader.

  • listen at the part about 4:10 to 5:05 he is telling you how he is pulling this shit off ! when you know the lie, and hear that, he is explaining how he did this scam.

  • ah huh, i'm ah heh, trying

    ah huh trying to actually lower the bar, ah huh ah huh. goofy fuckin bastard, what a fuck nut. man!

  • asan: atad "gnimraw labolg" htrae sram

    gnib

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  • Global warming is a lie. Mars and earth have synchronized considerable heating/cooling cycles.

    Anyone can look up the data.

  • where can i find the data?

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  • oh yeah a standing ovation by the TED audience; yet youtube no-bodies still want to outsmart the global warming issue........... ok.

  • AL WHORE

  • The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. The real enemy then is humanity itself.

    Democracy is no longer well suited for the tasks ahead.—From the Club of Romes The First Global Revolution p. 71,75 1993

  • the guy flys around in private jets and non hybrid towcars and suburbans... HUGE house...

    oh ya got some solar panels eh gore? some cheaper lightbulbs like the rest of us?

    im not buying anything this guys selling.

    oh yes people he wants a price on carbon.

    oh yes he wants global government.

    Al Gore is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Club of Rome

    look it up

  • Al Gore is a parasite of humanity.He belongs in prison for one of the largest ponzi schemes of planet Earth.

  • Al Gore? Educated in ministry, nothing else -and it shows.

  • You have a problem with his being a Christian?

  • All this doomthinking shit on global-warming! It's been proved by many scientists that global warming happens like every two- to threehundred years; after that the earth starts cooling down a little again. Think of it as a man jogging; he sweats to get rid of extensive heat caused by the running. After that, he grabs a cold beer from the fridge and cools down again...

    People, it's just the way nature works. Mr. Gore here, is just making money out of scaring people.

  • Al Gore, the idiot who got a "D" in natural science, has already made $100,000 out of this nonsense.

  • He was bowing down to Buddha,

    Like a hungry barracuda,

    And got $50,000 from the Chinks,

    He should drop this 'global warming',

    And address what does the harming.

    'Cause Tipper's dirty pussy really stinks !

  • lol... don't you have an ark to build?

  • Antarctic Ice GROWING at 4.7% per decade for past 30 years ... Arctic decreasing at 2.7%

  • Funny how he doesn't mention that Antarctic ice has been INCREASING twice as fast as the Arctic ice was decreasing.

    Funny how he hasn't mentioned the past 10 years of global cooling.

  • support your facts please

  • Al Gore - blatant scammer !

  • RemusRomulus360- how pleasant

  • Heeeeyyyy,

    What can I saaaayyyyy

    I'm j-u-s-t a r-e-a-l p-l-e-a-s-a-n-t guuuuuyyyyy!!!!11111

    Take it away boys!

  • can someone explain to me why we know that ice ages are caused by the sun moving away in orbit but when it comes to warming its carbon dioxide??? - even though when earth comes out of the ice age the sun moves closer to the earth.

  • As the earth comes out of a glacial period, CO2 is released naturally, accelerating the warming. That is why we see ice core data in which CO2 rise follows warming.

    CO2 has never exceeded 300 PPM during the past 800,000 years, until now.

    We humans have pumped vast amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere during that past 180 years, we now see 380 PPM. Typical highs of the past were 280 PPM.

    We are driving the natural peak to an unprecedented new high, there is no doubt.

  • co2 amounts to less than 5% of total green house gases.

    humans produce less than 5% of total co2 in the atmosphere

    human activity amounts to approximately 0.117% of the overall greenhouse effect.

    you've been punked

  • You need to get back on your meds.

  • ad hominem attack, very intelligent.

  • Ok then....what data do you have to support your assertions then?

  • What about the midevil period from 1100-1300 AD were temps and Co2 were much higher than they are now. And vinyards flourished in England. A 100 year record keeping does not show the clear picture of the natural cylces that tkae place.

    Yes the solar system is warming, thats a fact.

    Al Gore dose not care about the enviroment, he cares about Carbon Tax and propaganda. His average energy bill for just one of his houses is over $1100 monthly, when it could be geothermal and solar powered.

  • CO2 is higher today than it has been in the past 800,000 years. That's a fact.

  • I believe you can trust his facts, and if you don't like the facts being provided through him there are many experts you can get this same information from. Exageration in times shown or not, this is a serious dilema and it is real. Take your first step and buy some non-incandescent light bulbs. Stop pointing out flaws and do something.

  • so, if al gore has presented this slide show 2000 times in the past two years, that would mean that he had to have shown it at least 2.75 times per day, every day, including weekends, and holidays for the past two years. Something tells me, he is not doing this. If he exaggerates the amount of times he has shown the slide show, can we really trust his representation of "the facts". If so, why has great brittian banned his documentary in its public schools?

  • I love the way only 68% of Americans think it is a product of human activity. Please dont tell me that this number is correct. Does this say 32% of Americans truly thick?

  • 7:10 UPDATE: Check for sensor drift .....I think you'll get that CA-sized chunk of ice back, Chubby.

  • Man it must be KILLING you faith hating atheists that the climate change movement is being lead by a Christian.

  • You really get off on us Yankees?

  • Gore's real message:

    Buy more Carbon credits from my company, Generation Investment Management!!

    The Competitive Enterprise Institute believes that the government policies Gore advocated to the U.S. Senate in January 2009 "will make him and his friends extremely wealthy at the expense of consumers."

    He's a damn charlatan; a snake oil salesman; he doesn't live the life he preaches others to live.

  • Religion is not about behavior- it is about not thinking for yourself; exactly the Modus Operendi of the AGW sycophant.

  • huh?

  • I disagree bsd on anlyss of ocn, CO2 in lfe and rdcl vws tht no scntfc bdy hs bckd; I blve hvg Al Gore as prsdnt wuld be lke bein rld by msnfrmtve, prpgndc frvr tht rvld Nzlnd. No, He no htlr, bt he is lbrl mjr who tk mssg of a gvrnmnt nd rn wth it, prching tht skptcl ws trsn. I INVITE YOU TO SHOW CO2 FRIEND OR FOE to anyone you see as authoritive and have them disagree with any of it

  • Dude, please write using complete words. This isn't a puzzle. You can post more than once if you can't fit it all in 500 characters. Don't destroy the language because you're lazy, besides, you want people to read what you say, right.

  • I can't seem to find this CO2 friend or foe video, could you please provide a link.

  • The President is the figure head of the country. Through action he represents the whole of his country in both the national and international consciousness. Characteristics a president must have are those that promote progress of a different kind, progress that encourages change of bad, degenerative habituation, an enlightened awareness of the current world around you that promotes personal growth in accordance with positive development.

    For those reasons Al Gore should be president.

  • President Obama made a pledge today to put into place laws which limit carbon emissions. Let us see how these go, they promise employment, cleaner, more efficient, sane energy production. Sustainable growth is easy! if only we can rid ourselves of the rich's disgusting greed at the troff, and their superstitious dogmas which plague us today. We can't do much while cheats use religion and money to win arguments, It kills our ability to reason democratically.

    Thanks USA for dumping heir Bush.

  • I'm so happy Al Gore is not atheist. Dude is a duche and I wouldn't much like having something important in common with him.

    By the way does anyone have any information saying CO2 causes global warming? It seems more likely that it would be attributed to methane (which still makes it human caused mostly, but severely changes our solutions).

    If you do have this information, could you provide a link.

  • You can get this information yourself by going outside and not freezing like you would in space. Im pretty sure all scientists agree CO2 traps heat the debate while it lasted was about weather any extra would increase the heat trapped.

    Your right in equal amounts methane dose cores more warming, but this is cancelled out by the shear quantity of CO2 being emitted. So there seams to be more opportunity to reduce carbon emitions but any reduction in methane will be more helpful

  • Certainly an atmosphere is important in keeping the Earth warm, but considering that our atmosphere is less than 300 parts per million CO2 I don't see how this heat is obviously attributed to CO2. Scientists do agree that CO2 traps heat, but, as I understand it, its an anti-logarithmic scale, such that the increase from 100 ppm to 300 ppm should only increase the temperature 1 degree. Not one degree per year, but one degree total. So my plea is still there, please show me some data.

  • LOL it must be KILLING you atheists that the environmental movement is lead by a practicing Baptist.

  • .. Not really.. why should religion matter when it comes to the environment?

  • I should have specified faith haters rather than atheists.

    My bad.

  • South Park were wrong: THIS is the biggest douche in the universe. John Edward, you have lost the title. But don't cry - this moron deserves it more than you.

  • puck you with a p bro

  • Love you with a capitol L brother.

  • Gore reminds me of a street preacher, wants to spread the word, has all kinds of money, instills fear but has no real plan. Stop talking about whats going on Gore and start passing laws to change what we are doing, talk is cheap, a man with your money, and standing would have already created some of the laws needed.

  • You don't pass laws with money (ideally), you pass them with popular support - this is exactly what Gore IS doing at the moment. Generating support so that the necessary laws will be passed.

  • I have watched this clip three times and still cannot find the part where he says "Oh, yeah. And I should disclose that I am the managing director of Generation Investment Management, based in London with over $5 billion in funds some of which are invested in GE stock, a company which I must confess builds and services nuclear power plants as well as wind generators." Imagine if a denier had that size of a financial interest in what they promote, and had the gall to go around fear-mongering?

  • It's surprising that some of the people commenting on this video are so clueless when it comes to the findings of scientists on global warming. People are not rational and don't want to listen to hard scientific evidence. The only scientists who do not believe in global warming are working for Shell and Exxon. Wake up. Future generations will suffer the consequences of your ignorance.

  • Well said again Al!

    Too many voters made such a sad mistake back in 2004. Do any of them feel guilty for the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands and the accelerated degradation of our habitat? They should.

    But, looking forward, there's a lot to be done and we will have honest leadership with a respect for science. FINALLY!

    WeCanSolveIt(dot)org

  • There is no left or right, it would have been the same with a different twist or excuse, both parties have their hands in the cookie jar.

  • We ALL have our hands in the "cookie jar" as we prosper from the use of fossil fuels.

    It is a fact that the republicans have been far less receptive to regulating emissions than have the democrats. The w/cheney admin was a prime example of that.

    Major changes came in 2660 and 2008. At least now we're headed in the right direction. Let's hope we get to sustainability before too many suffer needlessly.

  • The logic here is paper thin. Gore argues rises in sea level of several feet if this continues, yet, he then shows HALF an ice shelf gone. Yep, that's half of Greenland gone you guys see according to his slides.

    So half of what he says will take place should already have taken place. The beach houses are still standing folks.

    Even if it's seasonal, would you be able to live on or enjoy the beach if it rose and fell by several feet per year?

  • Snerkable is wrong. Both hemispheres are in big trouble. CO2 levels in the atmosphere are climbing and soon will be double it's highest ever amount.

    People get your head out of your ass. If the pump that makes the global, deep, cold water, currents move shuts off, our ability to grow food and have clean water will be cut to insufficient levels. We will see poverty and death that makes our current recession look like paradise. It will happen to US, the people living now.

  • Man it must be KILLING you atheists that the leading figure in the enviromental movement is a Baptist.

  • First of all, agnostic here. There's no such thing as an Atheist. All atheists are just agnostics. If an atheist saw definate proof of god he would surely change his worldview.

    Second. I'd have no problem with Al Gore being the face of taking care of the planet if he'd acknowledge the real problem. Too many people. We need about 3 billion less instead of counting on technology to keep up.

    2-3 generations of 1 child per couple would acheive that. Worldwide. Pipe dream mainly.

  • Oh hell no you did not just call atheists agnostics.

    There is a world of difference between most of them.

  • And we still don't know where he got the other $290 m. of that $300 million to carry on the good work promoting this stuff. Could't have anything to do with that new inductee into the Green Energy Club, little Mr. Nuclear, could it?

  • So if I showed a slide show that depicted snow in L.A. and then said it has never snowed in L.A. in over 30 years, and then said we're in for a global ice age would you believe me? No. Same with the arctic, gosh it had one bad year, and yes the past few years it's been getting warmer - but what about the southern hemisphere where most of the ice is concentrated? It's actually been expanding in the past 30 years.

  • really bad slides. alarmist images that don't show anything specific. it says:AAAARRGH, but--what does it mean exactly? the image of the earth especially goes to people's feelings rather than rationality. it's just catchy, but let's tlak about global warming really seriously. let's have some real experts showing us some real slides.

  • don't you feel something strange when Al Gore is speaking? it's like---what is he talking about afterall? it's like bla bla and preaching! and showing the ice melting isn't proving it's caused by humans. temperatures were much warmer in the middle ages, and much colder in the 17th century. that's natural, random variations--and we don't know if it's the sun or other factors within earth itself. we don't really know. that's why it's ot a top priority. CO2 doesn't affect the warming that much.

  • Crazy fanatic.

  • Warming of the seas causes the release of Carbon Dioxide.

    In the 1970s people believed that there was going to be global cooling because there were increasingly cool simmers and very cold winters for the past thirty years (remind you of anything).

    Al Gore refuses debate on climate change even you people cannot deny that that is extremely good evidence. Al Gore says that every scientist believes in Global Warming yet 12 thousand scientists signed a petition disagreeing with him.

  • paid by Exon et al of course. I work in climate change and have a PhD in the area. A scientist in a conference challenging global warming is viewed with suspicion (or laughter)

  • I really don't understand people that seem to hate Al Gore and/or are totally against the thought that humans cause Global warming take the time to search out these videos and comment on them.

    It's a shame that Al Gore didn't win in 2000. What a waste in many ways these past 8 years has been in terms of cutting emissions in USA and loss of life in wars. I'm confident he would have handled it much better.

  • EARTH CONTINUES TO COOL

    Both September 2008 and October 2008 were slightly cooler than September 2007 and October 2007.

    The earth is not being warmed up by "manmade" co2. Al Gore is wrong.