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Mr Gore: Apology accepted

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UPDATED: Sunday, January 4, 2009 20:07
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Sunday, January 4, 2009 5:15 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


And the best part? From non other than the Huffington Post.

Don't that beat all ?

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You are probably wondering whether President-elect Obama owes the world an apology for his actions regarding global warming. The answer is, not yet. There is one person, however, who does. You have probably guessed his name: Al Gore.

Mr. Gore has stated, regarding climate change, that "the science is in." Well, he is absolutely right about that, except for one tiny thing. It is the biggest whopper ever sold to the public in the history of humankind.

What is wrong with the statement? A brief list:

1. First, the expression "climate change" itself is a redundancy, and contains a lie. Climate has always changed, and always will. There has been no stable period of climate during the Holocene, our own climatic era, which began with the end of the last ice age 12,000 years ago. During the Holocene there have been numerous sub-periods with dramatically varied climate, such as the warm Holocene Optimum (7,000 B.C. to 3,000 B.C., during which humanity began to flourish, and advance technologically), the warm Roman Optimum (200 B.C. to 400 A.D., a time of abundant crops that promoted the empire), the cold Dark Ages (400 A.D. to 900 A.D., during which the Nile River froze, major cities were abandoned, the Roman Empire fell apart, and pestilence and famine were widespread), the Medieval Warm Period (900 A.D. to 1300 A.D., during which agriculture flourished, wealth increased, and dozens of lavish examples of Gothic architecture were created), the Little Ice Age (1300 to 1850, during much of which plague, crop failures, witch burnings, food riots -- and even revolutions, including the French Revolution -- were the rule of thumb), followed by our own time of relative warmth (1850 to present, during which population has increased, technology and medical advances have been astonishing, and agriculture has flourished). http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harold-ambler/mr-gore-apology-accepted_b
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Sunday, January 4, 2009 5:44 PM

RIGHTEOUS9




What apology? did I miss it in the article? article itself sounds like total rhetoric. Last line states no facts or refutations...just says that what gore said in Germany was demonstrably false.


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Sunday, January 4, 2009 5:53 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Quote:

Originally posted by Righteous9:


What apology? did I miss it in the article? article itself sounds like total rhetoric. Last line states no facts or refutations...just says that what gore said in Germany was demonstrably false.





Yeah, you missed it alright.

You missed the POINT.

*edit* Clearly, the author of the aritcle was mocking Gore, by stating that he accepted the apology Gore hasn't come to grips to make yet, and likely never will. But regardless, Gore NEEDS to apologize, and for good reason!





"Climate change " = It is the biggest whopper ever sold to the public in the history of humankind.





It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager


" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

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Sunday, January 4, 2009 5:58 PM

FINN MAC CUMHAL


Quote:

Originally posted by Righteous9:
What apology? did I miss it in the article? article itself sounds like total rhetoric. Last line states no facts or refutations...just says that what gore said in Germany was demonstrably false.

I’m not sure where the apology was either, but a great deal of what Gore says on this issue is demonstrably false. Anyway, I do like the way this article points out the historical optimums and minimums and the way they correspond nicely to periods of human prosperity and periods of human suffering, a point I’ve tried to make on many occasions. It isn’t the warm periods we should be afraid of, but the cold periods. Those are the times when the growing seasons contracts, glaciers expand, winters become very long and harsh, and disease becomes rampant. Fortunately, we have recently emerged from a cool period, or climate minimum (the Little Ice Age) and so the climate is warming. Hopefully it will continue to warm for a long time, because when it stops and starts cooling, considering how populated the earth has become, human civilization could be devastated. That's probably not a concern for a long time.




Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

-- Cicero

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Sunday, January 4, 2009 8:07 PM

DREAMTROVE


Climate Change is a complex issue, requiring a great deal of science to understand, and has little to do with industrial pollution. However, Gore is a moron. He probably did more damage to the conservation movement than all his critics combined.

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