I perhaps should have overstated the idea that I'm not a scientist - I am a writer and a scholar, but my research has always been in literature and my studies of the natural sciences is sadly lacking. Like 100% of the human race, I can only understand foreign concepts through information that is handed down by experts. I have listened to both ends of this particular partisan debate, and it seems to me that one half supplies stats and figures and the other provides attacks on their enemies.
Maybe carnutzzz is correct... but I sincerely doubt that plant-produced methane gas has done more harm over the last century than human/technologically-produced carbon. Maybe I'm wrong. Like I said, I'm not a scientist. Moreover, I'm not here to debate what the cause of climate change might be, but rather that anyone who believes it isn't happening is in severe denial.
Oh, for the record, I am completely in favor of a transition to a nuclear-powered society - and I have been called a liberal - as long as someone can provide a solution to what should be done with the waste. Every solution has another problem to solve - the law of unexpected consequences - but nuclear power might be a solution worth exploring.
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Originally Posted by carnutzzz
You ask some basic questions that demonstrate your need for further research i.e. "what would be the point of a hoax?". The answer- it's a political platform used to gain election. Al Gore would rather say "If elected, I will save everyone from an untimely demise" than "I'm going to make the few people who actually pay taxes support the entire population that doesn't pay, and doesn't want to work."
Greed, money, power- those are the reasons for the hoax..
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I have to challenge you on this point, however. Whereas greed, money, and power can be blamed for many of civilization's foibles - Communism trying to pass itself off as Socialism comes to mind - I don't think that the Al Gore point is apt. He has repeatedly stated that he will very likely never again run for public office. I just read an interview with him about a week ago where he asserted this claim, even though many are clamoring to get him into the race. His motivations appear to be noble. If he ends up running for office in 08, I would retract this challenge (and still probably vote for Gore).