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Al Gore’s New Thinking on the Climate Crisis
April 10, 2008 | Posted by Michael "Aquadoc" Campana
Al Gore’s new video on climate change has just been released. It’s worth viewing (about 28 minutes).
Gore expresses alarm at the pace of melting ice - the summer pack ice in the Arctic Ocean and the Greenland and Antarctic ice caps.
What else is new?
But he is optimistic, and even says that in 1,000 years, this generation will be immortalized in music and poetry as the ones who made the commitment and laid the foundation for a bright and optimistic future for the human race. For that opportunity, he says, we should be grateful.
His talk reminds me of the Chinese character for “crisis”: it is actually comprised of two characters: one signifying “danger”, and the other, “opportunity”. We face danger, but we also have an unparalleled opportunity to “do good”.
Gore has also started a three-year, $300M ad campaign on climate change. Here is an article by Brad Knickerbocker from the 9 April 2008 Christian Science Monitor in which some of Gore’s critics opine on his new endeavor.
“There is an old African proverb: ‘If you want to go quickly, go alone; if you want to go far, go together.’ We have to go far, quickly.” – Al Gore
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Al Gore is not a leading scientist in the field of Global Climate Change. He is a politician, and he has profitted from his work in this field. I encourage AWRA to focus on the findings and publications of climatologists in the field of global warming, and scientists from other fields on the potential impacts of climate change. Al Gore has politicized the issue and has very little technical/scientific training and/or background.
Thanks very much for your comments.
Nowehere did I claim that Gore is a “leading scientist” (or even a scientist at all), nor does the posting of the Gore video mean that AWRA is focusing on his efforts to the exclusion of science-based climate-change efforts (see my 29 March 2008 post).
Don’t forget that AWRA is not just a “scientific” society, but encompasses all aspects of water and related areas, and that includes the political ones as well.
I presented his video “FYI”, because, like him or not, when Gore does something in climate change, it’s news, and like it or not, climate change has become a political issue and will likely remain so for the foreseeable future.
Again - I appreciate your taking the time to comment.
Sounds like a typical Republican, conservative response whos head is still in the sand about climate change.