Al Gore at Wayne State (Detroit, Oct. 13): Climate change to blame for storms, droughts, wildfires

[Faygo Kid]

From today's Detroit Free Press. Wasn't sure where to post this one, so have at it. Thank you, Al Gore:

"Former vice-president and Nobel peace prize winner Al Gore was unbowed and unrepentant in blaming recent storms, droughts and wildfires on climate change.

Gore reeled off statistics about huge downpours in Pakistan and Colombia, wildfires in Australia and drought in Texas in the past year that he said are clear evidence of the looming climate crisis.

Even his own hometown, Nashville, had floods that experts said would only be expected once every 1,000 years, he said, and most people had no flood insurance because nobody expected floods.

"This is what is happening now all over the world," he said. "We've had 10 of the hottest years ever measured in the last 13 years."

Speaking before about 550 people at Wayne State University, Gore compared the rejection by many people of scientists' predictions about climate change to bankers ignoring signs of a mortgage crisis in the years leading up the 2008 recession. . . "

http://www.freep.com/article/20111013/NEWS07/111013048/Al-Gore-Wayne-State-Climate-change-blame-storms-droughts-wildfires?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

He's right, of course, but the dittoheads posting there get their science from Rush Limbaugh, and deny it. We are not going to make it another century. Just wish they go first.

Thank you, Al Gore. Would that you had been president.

Great winner of Nobel Peace Prize, however.

[FarCenter]

1. Al and Tipper -- almost certainly part of the 1%

Son of Al Gore, Sr., former US Senator, lawyer and member of the board of directors of Occidental Petroleum, and chairman of Island Creek Coal Company.

Tipper is from a wealthy family as well.

[Uncle Joe]

3. So was FDR. n/t

[FarCenter]

4. And he saved the capitalists bacon back in the '30s

[Uncle Joe]

5. I know he saved tens if not hundreds of millions of people from poverty.

What did FDR save the capitalists from?

[Faygo Kid]

8. FDR was a great president. Gore would have been, too.

Nice profile you have there, by the way. Typical.

[demmiblue]

2. More vital role than the president in terms of the environment, IMHO.

At least one actually earned the prize.

[Initech]

6. Hey he was at my brothers school!

Yeah it sucks that these fat, old, disgusting, blow-hard gas bags like Rush feed information about things they do not know or even begin to comprehend to millions of people who take their shit literally word for word. Argh. :argh:

[Lost-in-FL]

7. I am just glad there is no antibiotic resistant Bubonic plague… yet.

(Scientists believe the Black death was possibly the product of extreme changes in climate during medieval times.)