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RE: The Threat to the Planet
by Lost at 12:33 pm EDT, Jun 30, 2006

possibly noteworthy wrote:

An Inconvenient Truth is about Gore himself as well as global warming. It shows the man that I met in the 1980s at scientific roundtable discussions, passionate and knowledgeable, true to the message he has delivered for years. It makes one wonder whether the American public has not been deceived by the distorted images of him that have been presented by the press and television. Perhaps the country came close to having the leadership it needed to deal with a grave threat to the planet, but did not realize it.

We have reached a critical tipping point.

We have at most ten years -- not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions. If we do not, climate disasters will become unavoidable.

When nations must abandon large parts of their land because of rising seas, what will our liability be? And will our children, as adults in the world, carry a burden of guilt, as Germans carried after World War II?

Gore actually said on the Daily Show that Global Warming is a greater threat to humanity than Global Thermonuclear War with them Soviets was. I mean, gimme a break. He makes it pretty easy to dismiss him as an extremist. Not to say that his message is wrong, but I hope he's not running for public office again.

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