Al Gore Calls on All Scientist to Fight Against Global Warming

[Hissyspit]

Source: IEEE Spectrum

Al Gore calls on all scientists to fight against global warming

Speaking to a packed audience at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science currently underway in Chicago, former US vice president Al Gore called on all scientists to help fight against global warming, and for every scientist to use his or position of respect and trust among fellow citizens and neigbors to raise awareness of the problem the world is facing.

"This is no time to sit back," he said. "We as a species must make a decision..... Continuing on our present course will threaten human civilization." Gore ascribed the problem we are facing today to "our absurd overdependence on carbon-based fuel."

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He mused that one reason that some may find it hard to believe that humans have produced climate change is because when we look up, the sky appears to be a vast expanse. It seems absurd to assume that human beings can have any impact on this limitless blue sky.

Gore got a standing ovation from the scientists present.

Read more: http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/tech_talk/2009/02/al_gore_calls_on_all_scientist.html

[XemaSab]

1. All your scientist are belong to me!

:o

[wial]

2. considering it's by far the biggest problem we face

ok, half of the biggest problem, the other being the immanent collapse of the oil supply, after which if we don't have something to switch in human civilization may never recover, given how many other resources we've already burned through...

maybe we should start the betting on what will replace us. Mongooses from Hawaii?

Of course, with a tiny fraction of the annual US military budget, we could get all this straightened out, along with world hunger, education, health, habitat destruction, etc etc.

But no. Boys want their idiotic toys. Girls want those kind of boys. And so a whole species vies for the biggest Darwin Award of all.

Maybe we can leave a message for our successors: "be like ants: don't marry soldiers".

Maybe it'll be the ants.

[DUlover2909]

3. OK, not following your line of logic exactly.

Our biggest problem is not the collapse of our oil supply. There's a shit-load of oil still left to be burned. The question is whether or not we should continue to use oil and coal to power our energy needs. Coal is worse than oil. Coal is pure carbon. Oil is a hydrocarbon that has multiple uses including energy production. I would also note that it would take not "a tiny fraction of the defense budget" to correct these energy concerns, even though I agree that the defense budget is way out of what's reasonable or necessary. It would require a large fraction of our defense budget to switch over to clean energy, which is OK with me.

[biopowertoday]

4. We will make some progress these next years with

the dems in charge and obama as president. Gore has done great work

[Frisbee]

7. I agree Gore has done great work...

but must respectfully disagree that the Dems are in charge. Looks more like Specter, Snow and Collins are calling the shots now. Of course it looks like the repukes may be shooting themselves in the foot, and hopefully in 2010 we'll get a filibuster-proof majority. Or better yet, Harry Reid will wake-up and eliminate the filibuster all together. Soon.

[ensho]

5. and that blue sky air is getting less and less every year

they say the atmosphere is not at thick as it was

we breathe to live.

[Uncle Joe]

6. Global warming climate change should be viewed at the very least

as a national security issue.

I believe we should change our focus and redirect at least a portion out of the vast sums of money wasted on the redundant capability to destroy humanity toward saving it instead.

Thanks to Copernicus, Galileo, the scientists sounding the alarm regarding global warming and Al Gore for his contributions toward trying to save us from ourselves.

Thanks to Hissyspit for the thread.

[Frisbee]

8. Absolutely it should be...

viewed as as a national security issue. I wonder if the Repukes will still be saying America is the greatest nation in the history of the world when we are reduced to a near 3rd world country that can no longer supply most of it's own food. I assume most of them figure they'll be dead and gone by then, but don't they give a crap about their kids and grand kids?

[Laelth]

9. What a great President he should have been!

k&r

:patriot:

The United States is a LIBERAL Country.

:dem:

-Laelth

[fascisthunter]

10. If You EVer Want to Irritate a Right WInger, Send Them Articles Like This...

woooooh boy! That was a little fun I must say. :evilgrin:

[endersdragon34]

11. I hate to do this...

But if you want to irritate a left winger send them articles like this: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=90127