Bad Timing

[SteveStromberg]

Never Book a speech on Global Warming in January.

http://drudgereport.com/agwarm.htm

[UconnTim97]

He can be an idiot, but then again didn't he invent the internet?..lol

What's with the mentions of coldest day in New England if his speech is is NY?

[speeder]

What you and Matt Drudge simplistically refer to as "Global Warming" is also the cause of extreme cold weather adn other freakish climate trends around the world.

And no, I'm not going to claim that record weather extremes did not occur before the depletion of the ozone layer, they did, but this is something different.

As long as he isn't giving the speech to a bunch of ignorant rednecks he should be fine.

[SteveStromberg]

The coverage of ice in the Northern Hemisphere Arctic has been virtually unchanged since 1979 (USGCRP, June 2000), while that in the Antarctic regions has actually increased 2.6% since 1979. (Cavalieri, Science, November 1997)."

[nostatic]

nice try pseudo-science boy:

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/stories/ice_20031111/

maybe be a little more careful with what you read and where you read it. Context is everything...

[john70t]

I heard somewhere that something like 50% of Austrailians get treated for some sort of minor skin cancer because the ozone layer has retracted so far from the poles. That would be nuts if true.
Science is saying that the average earth temps are due for an upwards swing, only it's happening much faster than expected. Probably not good to buy land in Florida or Louisiana, even if it take a couple thousand years to go underwater.
Nothing like a little massive crop failure and mass starvation to bounce humanity back into the stone age.

[tabs]

Originally posted by john70t

Nothing like a little massive crop failure and mass starvation to bounce humanity back into the stone age.

U don't realize how close to the truth that really is. Just try a virus that is suddenly unleashed from a burned rain forest...

[Crowbob]

And for heaven's sake, don't look up. You might get a chunk of sky in you eye! I say give global warming a chance.

[BlueSkyJaunte]

If it weren't for global warming we'd be headed straight into an ice age...

[CJFusco]

Global warming is CAUSING these record-low temperatures that we're seeing now.

Every January, we get these "arctic blasts" of air coming down from the north, and every year they get colder and colder. Why? As the world temperature rises, the icecaps melt little by little and (in a dumbed-down version of the truth, because I don't really understand the scientific mumbo-jumbo) the air is cooled by the breaking-up of the ice. This air is caught in the normal "arctic blasts," and viola! We have -30 degree wind chills in New England to accompany our record-high heatwaves in July.

[Serge914]

You will have to realize that global warming also mean bigger temperature variations. Over here, for the first time in my life, we couldn`t go ice fishing during the holidays because there was no ice on the river. And now we are beating cold records days after days.

Of course if you live in the desert, a few degres of variation doesn`t make a big difference.

[dd74]

Let's not forget what this thread's really about: Gore and Gore's bad timing. Global warming aside, yet again the perception he'll make is of the wrong guy at the wrong time.

-- just like when he was VP.

-- just like when he ran for the Presidency.

-- just like when he slobbered all over Tipper onstage during the '00 campaign.

-- just like now and his talk on Global Warning.

Jeez. Thus far in my life I've gotten a few breaks. If it would help him no longer look like the idiot he is already perceived as, I'd gladly sell him one of my "breaks."

He reminds me of "Schleprock" from the Flintstones.

[speeder]

He is definitely not the most deft politician, with his verbal gaffes and lack of Bush/Clinton "homey personality/ aw shucks appeal", but he's a very smart man who truly understands the world and the real importance of environmental issues.

By the time Republicans acknowledge man-made climate changes and the consequences of same, people will be getting sun burnt in Maine walking their dogs around the block.

It will be a little too late by then, kind of like trying to recover the $$ from Enron, to put it in some perspective.