Al Gore Likens Global Warming Doubters to Racists

[Teatownclown]

Fodder for your canons ..... let's not get too sensitive.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/205336/20110829/al-gore-global-warming-climate-change.htm

Al Gore Likens Global Warming Doubters to Racists


Former vice president Al Gore recently compared climate change doubters to racists.

Gore, speaking with former advertising executive and Climate Reality Project collaborator Alex Bogusky on a UStream interview this past week, said one day climate change doubters will be looked at like racists. He urged people who support curbs to greenhouse gasses to change the minds of these skeptics.

He talked about how racism changed over time. When a racist comment was made, "There came a time when people said, 'Hey man, why do you talk that way? That's wrong, I don't go for that, so don't talk that way around me. I just don't believe that,'" Gore said.

"That happened in millions of conversations, and slowly the conversation was won. And we still have racism, God knows, but it's so different now and so much better. And we have to win the conversation on climate."

During the interview, Gore also focused on meat eating and organic foods. He said the shift to a meat-intensive diet has caused the clearing of forests in many parts of the world in order to raise more cattle. He also said a reliance on synthetic nitrogen for fertilizers has caused problems.

[Conan71]

Fodder for your canons ..... let's not get too sensitive.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/205336/20110829/al-gore-global-warming-climate-change.htm

Al Gore Likens Global Warming Doubters to Racists


Former vice president Al Gore recently compared climate change doubters to racists.

Gore, speaking with former advertising executive and Climate Reality Project collaborator Alex Bogusky on a UStream interview this past week, said one day climate change doubters will be looked at like racists. He urged people who support curbs to greenhouse gasses to change the minds of these skeptics.

He talked about how racism changed over time. When a racist comment was made, "There came a time when people said, 'Hey man, why do you talk that way? That's wrong, I don't go for that, so don't talk that way around me. I just don't believe that,'" Gore said.

"That happened in millions of conversations, and slowly the conversation was won. And we still have racism, God knows, but it's so different now and so much better. And we have to win the conversation on climate."

During the interview, Gore also focused on meat eating and organic foods. He said the shift to a meat-intensive diet has caused the clearing of forests in many parts of the world in order to raise more cattle. He also said a reliance on synthetic nitrogen for fertilizers has caused problems.

He has no shame.

Global warming skeptics are now on the same level as racists?  How on earth does he expect to be taken serious?  The wisest thing the Global Warming er climate change crowd could do is remove this hypocritical buffoon from the forefront of their movement.

I will say this: if cleaner emissions results in more jobs, less dependence on foreign oil, and better air for me to breathe, that's terrific.  I'm simply sick and tired of Algore using a cudgel to inflate his self-serving financial interests in climate-related initiatives.

[Gaspar]

I think they are like Hitler, and the world is their gas chamber!

Godwin! 

[Conan71]

I think they are like Hitler, and the world is their gas chamber!

Godwin! 

Wow, Godwinned yourself.  Awesome!

[Townsend]

Koch brothers research team:

Skeptic finds he now agrees global warming is real

http://news.yahoo.com/skeptic-finds-now-agrees-global-warming-real-142616605.html

WASHINGTON (AP) — A prominent physicist and skeptic of global warming spent two years trying to find out if mainstream climate scientists were wrong. In the end, he determined they were right: Temperatures really are rising rapidly.

The study of the world's surface temperatures by Richard Muller was partially bankrolled by a foundation connected to global warming deniers. He pursued long-held skeptic theories in analyzing the data. He was spurred to action because of "Climategate," a British scandal involving hacked emails of scientists.

Yet he found that the land is 1.6 degrees warmer than in the 1950s. Those numbers from Muller, who works at the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, match those by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA.

He said he went even further back, studying readings from Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. His ultimate finding of a warming world, to be presented at a conference Monday, is no different from what mainstream climate scientists have been saying for decades.

What's different, and why everyone from opinion columnists to "The Daily Show" is paying attention is who is behind the study.

One-quarter of the $600,000 to do the research came from the Charles Koch Foundation, whose founder is a major funder of skeptic groups and the tea party. The Koch brothers, Charles and David, run a large privately held company involved in oil and other industries, producing sizable greenhouse gas emissions.

[nathanm]

It was amazing to watch how quickly the rest of the skeptics turned on him once he validated the temperature record. Yet another example of money obfuscating truth, though.

[dbacks fan]

1.6 degree temperature rise since 1950. Population of the planet has doubled since 1950. Coincedence?

[Conan71]

It was amazing to watch how quickly the rest of the skeptics turned on him once he validated the temperature record. Yet another example of money obfuscating truth, though.

It's okay Nate, I still believe too.