(VIDEO) Gore: "If the crib's on fire, you don't speculate that the baby is flame-retardant

[Greeby]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/21/gore-barton/

At the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing today, leading climate skeptic Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) tried to cast doubt on the science behind global warming, claiming “even the mainstream media are now noticing that global warming science is uneven and evolving.”

Vice President Al Gore rebuffed Barton’s attempts to interrupt his testimony and quickly debunked the claim that the recent warming trend is ordinary. Gore noted, “20 of the 21 hottest years ever measured in the human record have been in the last 25 years. The 10 hottest have been since 1990. The hottest was 2005. The hottest in the United States of America was 2006. The hottest winter ever measured globally was December of last year.”

Mocking global warming deniers, Gore said, “The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don’t say, well I read a science fiction novel that tells me it’s not a problem. If the crib’s on fire, you don’t speculate that the baby is flame-retardant. You take action. The planet has a fever.” Watch the highlights:



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[hippytree420]

1. Wow...

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[Cabcere]

2. And the only prescription...

is MORE COWBELL! :rofl: Rock on, Al Gore. :yourock:

[InvisibleTouch]

3. Ha! Good for him!

Sounds like he was prepared for every contingency. Not that I'm surprised, of course.

I thought about him a lot today and was sending him lots of "good energy" during the times I knew he was speaking. I hope he made a huge impact, and a lot of people really heard what he said. Because our very existence depends on it.