Al Gore's Message To Climate Skeptics

[RestoreGore]

http://progressivesforgore.blogspot.com/2008/03/al-gore-on-sixty-minutes-this-sunday.html



I am so looking forward to seeing Mr. Gore's interview this Sunday night. I hope he gets to talk about The Alliance for Climate Protection's ad campaign scheduled to be launched next week, because I am hoping it brings a turning point in this country regarding the need to take action on climate change through awareness. And also, his response to the climate skeptics is right on target. Those centuries ago who claimed that the sun not the Earth was the center of the universe were treated with the same scorn and contempt as those scientists who have proven that we as humans are contributing to the affects of climate change. How fortunate for humanity that it did not place trust in those who thought the opposite or thought the world was flat.

I don't believe it is all about money either, though that is certainly a large part of it as many of those who dismiss the evidence of anthropogenic climate change in the skeptics movement have received money from oil and utility companies. I also think it is religious in nature (the will of God) opposing science, it is political, and it is also about the inability to take responsibility for one's actions.

None of those reasons however, should stand in the way of truth and that is exactly what those who refuse to see the evidence are doing: standing in the way of truth. Should we actually listen to the skeptics and decades from now after the glaciers have melted, after the water has begun to dwindle, after wars are fought for land, water, food and other resources with great loss to humanity and other species, will those who claimed this was all a hoax still believe that?

Let's hope we never have to find out. Let's hope we take action now to save not only the planet that is our only home but ourselves, a rare and precious species in a rare and precious universe too precious to bow to the whims of the few who simply wish to perpetrate lies to assuage their own wants over the needs of the whole.

Therefore, thank you Mr. Gore for being our Galileo.

http://www.showbuzz.cbsnews.com/elements/2007/03/21/people_crusades/photoessay2592403.shtml

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/27/60minutes/main3974389.shtml?source=mostpop_story

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1395964&mesg_id=1395964

[RestoreGore]

1. Let's hope the candidates will be watching to understand what they too must do

[Marie26]

2. Thanks for the heads up

Gore's interview will be on 60 Minutes today.

[RestoreGore]

5. You're welcome... And Obama, Clinton, and McCain should watch it as well

To update their climate change platforms to meet this challenge.

[Life Long Dem]

3. Let's try to keep this to general discusson primary GDP topics.

:eyes:

[RestoreGore]

4. Climate Change IS a primary issue

And since it is OK to post TRASH about Bs schemes to push him into this election here, why can't we post about topics that are part of this primary, or at least should be? And he is also a superdelegate and will be discussing that in the interview as well. Good enough for you?

[Life Long Dem]

6. Blah... blah... blah...

ohhhhh... okayyy:hi:

[OzarkDem]

7. Obama supporters don't like environmental policy?

Yes, its another area where his policy is weak. Better to discuss it now.

[enfield collector]

8. anyone else remember the 2nd ice age that was supposed

to be coming in the early 80s?

[kestrel91316]

9. Oy. Do they clone you people in a factory somewhere in China??

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. ...

:eyes:

[Hissyspit]

12. Was never a seriously widely held theory. Human-caused global warming and climate change is.

Not to mention it is daily being evidenced.

Now go do some research before you parrot brain-dead right-wing talking points.

[SammyWinstonJack]

10. K&R!

[Uncle Joe]

13. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, RestoreGore.

[John Kerry VonErich]

14. I wonder if he will respond to the possible lawsuit by the Weather Channel founder?

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