"Americans work longer hours for less pay, suffer more government intrusion and less privacy than ever before. We enjoy more executions, longer sentences, bigger prisons, less social programs for those in need while the cost of health care and higher education rises beyond family means; and of course more fear, hate, and war. It just goes to show that conservatives were never meant to be in control of anything at all other than prisons, gun shows and country music." Rack Jite

That Al Gore is the "true" 43rd President of the United States, and that global warming requires urgent public policy changes.

This is all the same kind of evidence-based "science" that gave us birth trauma litigation, silicone gel breast implant diseases, Bendectin birth defects, Erin Brockovich, "The Population Bomb", John Edwards' miracle cures from stem-cell research, and so many other mass-hysteria movements.

Liberals can say whatever they want to about us Conservatives. For my own part ("creationism" is not in my theology), I will have none of it. For me, "Junk Science" and the rejection of science is a uniquely Liberal preserve.

Man would invent one.

Why do you hate America so much , Arlo?

Maybe when your stock porfolio is worthless and your parents on the coast are forced to sell their beachfront due to rising tide and your Pepe shrinks (even further) due to atmospheric imbalance and your precious Republican candidates run out of their drowning, bakrupt base- then, only then would you admit the Climate Catastrophe that the rest of us ( 72% at least ) already prudently aknowledge.

Please read something besides Rush's Rag.

Oh, yeah- you can do something about that shrinkage problem, too.

Rewarding Al Gore's sentimental psuedoscientific propaganda is a mistake, just ask the better educated British or legions of scientists who think global warming alarmism is just that, alarmism. What's the idea here, the climate is a static entity, and evil man the planet's alien interloper is fully responsible for climate change? Go tell that to the wooly mammoths. We should be more worried about uncontrolled population growth than global warming.

That's a total red herring. The true answer is that we should be worried about both, but that climate change, as a geologic process, becomes a steamroller if left unchecked. There are too many unknowns in the overall impact of it to allow it to continue without attempting to slow or halt it.

For instance, one possible outcome: if the temperature heats up to a point where the methane clathrates embedded in the sea-floor begin to unlock rapidly, this could generate a runaway self-reinforcing cycle of heating. That may result in making the planet uninhabitable by us or at the very least the organisms we eat. i.e., we all die.

Granted, that's nowhere near a certainty. In fact, it's still in the realm of a minor possibility. However, the overall impact is extinction. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of possible extinction events waiting for us in this, and it's a good probability that more than one of them will come to pass. Simple risk analysis would yield that such an outcome cannot be ignored.

However, the "oh, it might be a natural process, so let's not do anything at all about it" is the same horse-dung argument I keep hearing (when I'm not hearing 'oh, it is not happening at all'), and the one you just voiced. In answer to it: even if it is a purely natural process, (no matter that the evidence suggests that such a hypothesis requires a lot of acid to believe) we cannot afford to sit back and watch it happen.

T

Three things strike me as true. First, as soon as Al Gore enters the race it's over. The man is equal parts statesman (not politician), visionary and world wide media hero as big as any rock star out there. He has more positives and fewer negatives that any Democrat (or Republican) currently in the race. His coattails will be long and keep in mind that the Chihuahua jackals (I mean no disrespect to either Chihuahuas or jackals) of the right have already done their worst. All they have left is personal attacks and they shot that bolt seven years ago.

Second, Gore is the best person for the job. He has true gravitas without being ponderous (he has shed his pre-2000 image), experience, knowledge and that "vision thing" that exists in short supply among the Democratic candidates and not at all among the Republicans. He knows what has to be done and how to lead. He has the deep respect respect of the rest of the world. He might actually get them to like us again. With an adequately progressive Congress he might be the best President we've had in a very long time.

Finally, Al Gore owes it to us who voted for him in 2000. He won that election and in my opinion didn't fight nearly hard enough for his supporters then. Personally, I think he should reclaim what was his. He owes that much to us.

For all you liberal arts, journalism, and law geniuses out there, global warming is a fact, it has been since the last ice age, pre-civilization. Hence the woolly mammoth jibe at your ignorance. Global cooling is a fact also. They myth Al Gore is perpetrating is that a static climate is normal. The 2nd myth he perpetrates, is that man's carbon dioxide and methane emissions are solely responsible for global warming. Hence, man is inherently bad, Jesus, Al Gore sounds like a priest of some religion for chrissakes. The third myth he perpetrates is that global warming will necessarily be bad. If I lived in Stockholm I'd be all for global warming, but Scandinavians represent less than a fraction of one percent of the world's population. You've all latched on to global warming because you are all too scared to deal with the real problem, most people in the world don't know who Al Gore is, don't routinely watch crappy American movies like his, and don't really give a shit what we think, republican or democrat. The twin towers would also have fell if he had won Florida. The teeming masses of humanity are on our doorstep, just look south into the hot lands, people flourish where it's hot. Global warming must be good for humanity, if it results in large tropical and subtropical populations?