Al Gore on global warming
By Michael J.W. Stickings
Al Gore was interviewed on the BBC Two's The Daily Politics show earlier today. The interviewer is co-host Jenny Scott. Next to Gore is Virgin founder and rebel billionaire philanthropist Richard Branson (who, as The Washington Post is reporting, has "offered a $25 million prize... to anyone who can come up with a way to blunt global climate change by removing at least a billion tons of carbon dioxide a year from the Earth's atmosphere"). The topic is global warming. Here's the YouTube clip. It's quite long -- 8:41 -- but well worth it. Gore is an impressive and impassioned advocate for action to combat the climate crisis.
It ends -- starting at 5:48 -- with left-versus-right commentary back in the studio. The global warming denier is Peter Hitchens of the Mail on Sunday, a popular right-wing British tabloid. Peter, younger brother to Christopher (another pompous ass -- how did their parents manage it?), is a former Trotskyite and now an independent conservative whose positions are generally rightist (particularly on moral and cultural issues), nationalist (he opposed the Iraq War), and at times oddly libertarian (and anti-government). His argument here, common among the deniers if never quite expressed so blatantly, is relativistic: This is just the current view. There have been other views. No view is superior to any other view. So who is to say that global warming is true? (Who is to say that anything is true? My, how conservatives have come to resemble postmodernists. Sad, pathetic, dangerous, and utterly irresponsible.)
Please watch. It's important.
Al Gore was interviewed on the BBC Two's The Daily Politics show earlier today. The interviewer is co-host Jenny Scott. Next to Gore is Virgin founder and rebel billionaire philanthropist Richard Branson (who, as The Washington Post is reporting, has "offered a $25 million prize... to anyone who can come up with a way to blunt global climate change by removing at least a billion tons of carbon dioxide a year from the Earth's atmosphere"). The topic is global warming. Here's the YouTube clip. It's quite long -- 8:41 -- but well worth it. Gore is an impressive and impassioned advocate for action to combat the climate crisis.
It ends -- starting at 5:48 -- with left-versus-right commentary back in the studio. The global warming denier is Peter Hitchens of the Mail on Sunday, a popular right-wing British tabloid. Peter, younger brother to Christopher (another pompous ass -- how did their parents manage it?), is a former Trotskyite and now an independent conservative whose positions are generally rightist (particularly on moral and cultural issues), nationalist (he opposed the Iraq War), and at times oddly libertarian (and anti-government). His argument here, common among the deniers if never quite expressed so blatantly, is relativistic: This is just the current view. There have been other views. No view is superior to any other view. So who is to say that global warming is true? (Who is to say that anything is true? My, how conservatives have come to resemble postmodernists. Sad, pathetic, dangerous, and utterly irresponsible.)
Please watch. It's important.
Labels: Al Gore, global warming, politics, United Kingdom
posted by Michael J.W. Stickings at
9:33 PM
2 Comments:
peter hitchens is NOT a GW denier; he QUESTIONS AGW, as do MANY others, including MANY climate experts.
AGW is an untestable hypothesis which folks like you have FAITH is correct thru a plain and simple APPEAL TO AUTHORITY, which last time ANYONE checked is a logical FALLACY.
p hitchens and me and others are DISSENTERS. something the left seems to ONLY hold dear when they find themselves doing it - apparently.
there is actually EXPERIMENTALLY PROVEN SCIENCE which shows that cosmic rays have much more to do with GW - an d always have throughout the millennia.
CR effect water vapor formation in the atmosphere and as EVERYONE AGREES (and as SCIENCE HAS EXPERIMENTALLY PROVEN!) water vapor influences atmospheric temps MUCH MUCH MUCH more than C02.
here's a link:
http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2007/02/
more-proof-that-cosmic-rays-and-not.html
have a great day! STAY WARM!
(PS: i broke-up the url so it would fit better!)
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Reliapundit, at 1:07 PM
Well, you put a lot of words in all caps, so I'm convinced.
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