What can you do to stop it? Shoot arrows into the sky and hope it hits global warming.
Yes, it's too difficult a problem and the obstacles are too big, so we should just give up and forget about it, because there is nothing we can do. I shudder to think about the outcome of conflicts throughout history if everyone had this dire outlook.
I think Gore has been shown recently to be pretty much of a huckster. Just a modern day version of the old travelling snake oil salesman.
I think he might be more like Chicken Little than a huckster; and what does he have to gain...? Self-respect, he seemed to have that before he made the film, recognition--- I mean recognition beyond that of a man beaten by a draft-doding politcal patsy... Who knows. I don't think his motives are as insideous as the Man who sold Hadleyburg.
Ah spoken like a true liberal here, kind of "damned if you do, damned if you don't" agree with you.
I'm really not much of a liberal, I don't have the same sort of pretend pity for the tired poor and huddled masses that so-called liberals do... And if you say "liberal", it's more of a sort of schizm than it is a politcal belief---
To me there are much more pressing, truly, moral issues facing the planet that the supposed "global" warming topic should be taking a back seat to.
Regardless if you feel that it's a lower priortity there are a group of people (lobyists, think-tanks) who actively seek to create the opinion not that the problem is a low priority, but that it doesn't exactly exist.
Over population, lack of affordable health care all over the world, the ever growing gap between the "have's" and the "have nots" among a long list of items that should be discussed well before "global" warming.
I honestly think you'll see acords on global warming far before you see any sort of progress on nations making honest attempts to combat income inequality.
I wonder how much Gore got in appearance fees for coming over here to talk about this topic? I'll bet it wasn't for free and I'll also bet that he isn't donating the money he gets on helping to stop the problem either.
So, when someone makes money for what they do, and I don't know what his appearace fees were, if they did exist, it invalidates whatever message they have...?
I didn't hear about him coming over here on a sailing ship, he flies around on jumbo jet's, which supposedly are one of the biggest "causes" of global warming.
Maybe he should have come to Japan on a solar powered flotilla.
Gore has become a joke... similar to the way global warming should be treated. Seriously, ask any meterologist who actually knows what they're talking about rather than being told about the subject, and global warming will be one of the last things on your mind.
I don't agree with you about Gore becoming a "joke"... nor do I agree with your assessment with Global Warming, and I don't think I would ask a meterologist anything about global warming...
[...]In contrast to
meteorology, which studies short term
weather systems lasting up to a few weeks, climatology studies the frequency with which these weather systems occurred in the past. It studies the periodicity of weather events over years to millennia, as well as changes in long-term average weather patterns, in relation to atmospheric conditions.
Climatologists, those who practice climatology, study both the nature of climates - local, regional or global - and the natural or human-induced factors that cause climates to change. Climatology considers the past and can help
predict future
climate change.
It's climatologists who you'd prefer to ask.
