I can't believe this.
Al Gore's blatant propaganda film has been barred from being shown in a Federal Way school district, until the opposing viewpoint can be shown. Naturally, the usual ferret hugger crowd bleats on about the petroleum industry and anyone who questions their orthodoxy is a flat earther.
The whole "global warming" thing pisses me off.
The only thing we know for sure, people, is that it's now about a degree Celsius warmer, on average, than it was a hundred years ago.
Period. Full stop.
Everything else is about money and politics, on both sides.
There's very good evidence that sunspot activity or the albedo is responsible for what we're seeing, which is STILL within the range of what's normal for this planet. Remembering the white Christmases of the 1970s and 1980s? You quickly forget that at the time people were worried about the abnormal brutal cold and snow and were scared we were going into a new ice age.
Carbon Dioxide will be toxic to us long before it bumps us into the highs of the Holocene period. You get diminishing returns with CO2. Adding more to the atmosphere does not result in a linear increase in temperature.
I disagree with Al Gore. I disagree with him saying Kilimanjaro is losing its ice cap due to Global Warming. It has been doing so because we deforested the area around the mountain. And we've known the cause since the 1850s. Likewise pulling THIS sort of shit
pisses me off. Anyone looking at that for a few seconds on a screen while the voice over drones on "cataclysm... we're killing ourselves.... famines.... drought..... polar bear dicks shrinking...." would ignore a few points, like in the first pic the lighting is totally different from the second. This sort of shit is what people pull in before and after diet pill ads, too. With the same amount of truth.
In the latter pic, the mountain is backlit. Lots of shadow. Shadow which makes a lot of the snow on the mountain blend into the surroundings. Look carefully at the pic and you'll see that the two pictures aren't really that markedly different.
Mind you, Al Gore will happily jet around in his private jet, while collecting dividends from oil stocks and living in two ten thousand square foot mansions, while telling you to cut back on your possessions, ride the bus and bicycle.
Nor does he buy the windmill generated green power available in both areas he lives in. Like he suggests we do.
But then again, this is a guy who claimed to have created the internet, been a down home farm boy and spent seven years as an Army reporter. And to have been the inspiration for Love Story and found the Love Canal.
An outright liar? No. But truth-teller? Not exactly, either. Going to private schools, sitting in on a funding committee for a pre-existing private network and being a causal acquaintance of an author does not give him grounds to make any of the claims above. And he was an army reporter for five years, not seven.
But he is poised to make a fuckload of money shilling this enviro-religion crap, selling indulgences in his new cult sorry "carbon credits" (will they use the dollar bills to "soak up" "excess" CO2?) and the like.
And don't for the love of God suggest I'm in the mind control of the oil industries, please. I think we should convert to butanol doubleplusquick and let Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran sort their problems out themselves.
Al Gore's blatant propaganda film has been barred from being shown in a Federal Way school district, until the opposing viewpoint can be shown. Naturally, the usual ferret hugger crowd bleats on about the petroleum industry and anyone who questions their orthodoxy is a flat earther.
The whole "global warming" thing pisses me off.
The only thing we know for sure, people, is that it's now about a degree Celsius warmer, on average, than it was a hundred years ago.
Period. Full stop.
Everything else is about money and politics, on both sides.
There's very good evidence that sunspot activity or the albedo is responsible for what we're seeing, which is STILL within the range of what's normal for this planet. Remembering the white Christmases of the 1970s and 1980s? You quickly forget that at the time people were worried about the abnormal brutal cold and snow and were scared we were going into a new ice age.
Carbon Dioxide will be toxic to us long before it bumps us into the highs of the Holocene period. You get diminishing returns with CO2. Adding more to the atmosphere does not result in a linear increase in temperature.
I disagree with Al Gore. I disagree with him saying Kilimanjaro is losing its ice cap due to Global Warming. It has been doing so because we deforested the area around the mountain. And we've known the cause since the 1850s. Likewise pulling THIS sort of shit
pisses me off. Anyone looking at that for a few seconds on a screen while the voice over drones on "cataclysm... we're killing ourselves.... famines.... drought..... polar bear dicks shrinking...." would ignore a few points, like in the first pic the lighting is totally different from the second. This sort of shit is what people pull in before and after diet pill ads, too. With the same amount of truth.
In the latter pic, the mountain is backlit. Lots of shadow. Shadow which makes a lot of the snow on the mountain blend into the surroundings. Look carefully at the pic and you'll see that the two pictures aren't really that markedly different.
Mind you, Al Gore will happily jet around in his private jet, while collecting dividends from oil stocks and living in two ten thousand square foot mansions, while telling you to cut back on your possessions, ride the bus and bicycle.
Nor does he buy the windmill generated green power available in both areas he lives in. Like he suggests we do.
But then again, this is a guy who claimed to have created the internet, been a down home farm boy and spent seven years as an Army reporter. And to have been the inspiration for Love Story and found the Love Canal.
An outright liar? No. But truth-teller? Not exactly, either. Going to private schools, sitting in on a funding committee for a pre-existing private network and being a causal acquaintance of an author does not give him grounds to make any of the claims above. And he was an army reporter for five years, not seven.
But he is poised to make a fuckload of money shilling this enviro-religion crap, selling indulgences in his new cult sorry "carbon credits" (will they use the dollar bills to "soak up" "excess" CO2?) and the like.
And don't for the love of God suggest I'm in the mind control of the oil industries, please. I think we should convert to butanol doubleplusquick and let Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran sort their problems out themselves.