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**GogaMegaPis** · 02-02-2011, 01:16 PM

Right - he cares so much about the environment that he maintains a huge, energy gluttonous mansion and flits about in a private jet belching carbon.

I can most certainly call him a hypocrite, because he is one. He's active in the "carbon credit market" because he makes a ton of money off of it - and it enables him to buy "credits" from himself to pretend he's sincere.

Actually, the topic is Gore's claim about the storms.

Matt

Yeah Matt, that is what makes me suspicious of Gore. If he really felt such a dire need to change things, why does he not set the example like the actor Ed Bagley? Gore ever ride a bike outside of is spa? But perhaps he just wants the average folks to "save the planet" by their own actions? He exempts himself. Typical elitest attitude.

Our winters in the South are getting colder, with more snow for the past couple of years, after a long spell of milder winters. In fact last winter reminded me more of the winters of my youth down here in the deep South. When stuff like that happens, average folks have a hard time accepting the projected models of the pro warming scientists. Just saying...

IF the world is indeed warming up, who is to say that it will keep doing it until the East coast is under water? Seems to me in the past when the earth warmed up, mankind exploded in population, like post last Ice Age here in America with its original Indians.

The REAL TRUTH IS, we really don't totally understand climate changes. It's causes, ALL of its causes. Some of this new stuff is new ground.

I don't doubt we are seeing a warming. What I do question are ALL of the projected ramifications of such. And given I doubt China will stop using fossil fuels in its own economic growth, anytime soon, the rest of the world could go green tomorrow, and China who is in the race to become the largest supplier of consumer goods will just take everyone else's place in the CO2 department. And rule the world in the process.

Frankly the sky has been falling ever since I gain consciousness as a baby. So, harder for us old farts to believe the newest "the sky is falling" predictions. And why is there always so much profit to be made in these assertions? Coincidence or just another con job to enrich a few? I have plenty of reasons to be suspicious. Remember 1984, by Orwell. Manufactured wars. Some of us have a right to be skeptical, given our past.

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GogaMegaPis Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 462 Senior Member	Right - he cares so much about the environment that he maintains a huge, energy gluttonous mansion and flits about in a private jet belching carbon. I can most certainly call him a hypocrite, because he is one. He's active in the "carbon credit market" because he makes a ton of money off of it - and it enables him to buy "credits" from himself to pretend he's sincere. Actually, the topic is Gore's claim about the storms. Matt Yeah Matt, that is what makes me suspicious of Gore. If he really felt such a dire need to change things, why does he not set the example like the actor Ed Bagley? Gore ever ride a bike outside of is spa? But perhaps he just wants the average folks to "save the planet" by their own actions? He exempts himself. Typical elitest attitude. Our winters in the South are getting colder, with more snow for the past couple of years, after a long spell of milder winters. In fact last winter reminded me more of the winters of my youth down here in the deep South. When stuff like that happens, average folks have a hard time accepting the projected models of the pro warming scientists. Just saying... IF the world is indeed warming up, who is to say that it will keep doing it until the East coast is under water? Seems to me in the past when the earth warmed up, mankind exploded in population, like post last Ice Age here in America with its original Indians. The REAL TRUTH IS, we really don't totally understand climate changes. It's causes, ALL of its causes. Some of this new stuff is new ground. I don't doubt we are seeing a warming. What I do question are ALL of the projected ramifications of such. And given I doubt China will stop using fossil fuels in its own economic growth, anytime soon, the rest of the world could go green tomorrow, and China who is in the race to become the largest supplier of consumer goods will just take everyone else's place in the CO2 department. And rule the world in the process. Frankly the sky has been falling ever since I gain consciousness as a baby. So, harder for us old farts to believe the newest "the sky is falling" predictions. And why is there always so much profit to be made in these assertions? Coincidence or just another con job to enrich a few? I have plenty of reasons to be suspicious. Remember 1984, by Orwell. Manufactured wars. Some of us have a right to be skeptical, given our past.
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