Originally Posted By EighthDwarf Here's the link: <a href="http://www.citizensugar.com/1609388" target="_blank">http://www.citizensugar.com/1609388</a> I didn't realize catastrophic storms were a modern phenomenon - shows how ignorant I am.
Originally Posted By DlandDug Al must say this. His confident assertion that the years following the unprecedented 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season (15 full scale hurricanes) would offer more of the same turned out to be false (5 hurricanes in 2006, and 6 in 2007). He had nary a word to say to explain why he was so wrong. But now he has a new disaster to point at to prove he was right all along...
Originally Posted By plpeters70 I thought this was a good quote from the article: "If he is wrong about global warming, what harm is there in taking better care of the planet anyways?" He may be a little premature in linking this storm to global warming, but that certainly doesn't change the need to clean up the planet.
Originally Posted By plpeters70 With that said, I do think he is hurting his message by jumping to conclusions about the storm. He seems to be going into "ManBearPig" territory with this one, and that's never a good thing for Mr. Gore!!
Originally Posted By PetesDraggin "I do think he is hurting his message by jumping to conclusions about the storm." I would agree with this. I know our planet is in trouble, but I'm still not sure whether or not man has anything to do with this. That being said, there is definitely no harm in doing things to try to help. But Gore really comes across as an idiot sometimes. I find it very difficult to take him seriously and find most of what he says to be hypocritical and condescending.
Originally Posted By utahjosh <He may be a little premature in linking this storm to global warming, but that certainly doesn't change the need to clean up the planet.> That's true. But the lengths to which Gore and others wish to legislate and tax us to do so go too far.
Originally Posted By EighthDwarf I am all for cleaning up the planet, but do we really need to the global warming excuse to do it? Global warming is like racism. Not all bad things that happen to black people can be attributed to racism. Likewise, not all bad things in nature can be attributed to global warming. Although racism and global warming are real, that doesn't mean they are to blame for everything.
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 My problem with "experts" such as Al Gore is that every storm that we get from now on will be attributed to Global Watming... So basically 40 years ago we never had storms and they are only happening now because of Global Warming? Next Volcanic Eruptions will be blamed on Global Warming by Gore and his "eco" friends.
Originally Posted By mele <<So what were they caused by before we triggered Global Warming?>> That's easy...the Gods (angered by all of the celebrating)!
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn <He may be a little premature in linking this storm to global warming, but that certainly doesn't change the need to clean up the planet.> Yes. Keep the %^&* out of the air.
