I think it is an insult to man who traveled to Antarctica and sought the knowledge of scientists long before the Climate Crisis is found to be real. That seems to be the problem with Mr. Lind's article.
He wants to debunk the Former Vice President before he becomes validated as a real threat to Wall Street as it exists today.
Democracy, Hacked (click here)
....Still, the faults of “The Future” have less to do with Gore’s particular approach to his material than with the shortcomings of the genre itself; futurist polemics tend to alternate between exposition and exhortation. When the alternation is too rapid, we get passages like the following. “There are already several reckless practices that should be immediately stopped: the sale of deadly weapons to groups throughout the world; the use of antibiotics as a livestock growth stimulant; drilling for oil in the vulnerable Arctic Ocean; the dominance of stock market trading by supercomputers with algorithms optimized for high-speed, high-frequency trades that create volatility and risk of market disruptions; and utterly insane proposals for blocking sunlight from reaching the Earth as a strategy to offset the trappings of heat by ever-mounting levels of global warming pollution.”...
I think it is far easier for the USA to laugh at genius than actually see it. That is the real problem here, now isn't it? Why not make the Former Vice President a cartoon than a scholar. After all, he might have to be respected.
By Steve Fishman
Published May 5, 2013
...By mansion standards, the house is modest. (click here) The most famous feature of the Gore living room, Tipper’s drum kit, has been moved out since they separated in 2010. Off the living room is Gore’s writing room, with floor-to-ceiling whiteboards, where he spent the better part of two years—nights and weekends included—writing his latest book, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, 533 pages, 154 of which are endnotes and bibliography. Shortly after finishing his manuscript, he sold his cable channel, Current TV, in a deal worth $784 million—Al Gore is now richer than Mitt Romney, according to Forbes magazine. Add that to his books, his investment company, his Oscar-winning movie, and his Nobel Prize, and you have a flawless American success story—except, of course, for one little detail....
Now, what was it he said? Hmmmmm? Oh, yeah. The severe storms the world now faces belongs to a warming plant caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gases.
Hitting to close to home to admit he was absolutely correct the entire time. Is there any reason the 2000 elections were rigged by purging thousands of registered democratic minority voters in Florida violating the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Global carbon dioxide levels set to pass 400ppm milestone (click here)
The concentration of carbon in the atmosphere over the next few days is expected to hit record levels
John Vidal
The Guardian
Monday, 29 April 2013
He wants to debunk the Former Vice President before he becomes validated as a real threat to Wall Street as it exists today.
Democracy, Hacked (click here)
‘The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change,’ by Al Gore
By MICHAEL LIND
Published: February 8, 2013
....Still, the faults of “The Future” have less to do with Gore’s particular approach to his material than with the shortcomings of the genre itself; futurist polemics tend to alternate between exposition and exhortation. When the alternation is too rapid, we get passages like the following. “There are already several reckless practices that should be immediately stopped: the sale of deadly weapons to groups throughout the world; the use of antibiotics as a livestock growth stimulant; drilling for oil in the vulnerable Arctic Ocean; the dominance of stock market trading by supercomputers with algorithms optimized for high-speed, high-frequency trades that create volatility and risk of market disruptions; and utterly insane proposals for blocking sunlight from reaching the Earth as a strategy to offset the trappings of heat by ever-mounting levels of global warming pollution.”...
I think it is far easier for the USA to laugh at genius than actually see it. That is the real problem here, now isn't it? Why not make the Former Vice President a cartoon than a scholar. After all, he might have to be respected.
By Steve Fishman
Published May 5, 2013
...By mansion standards, the house is modest. (click here) The most famous feature of the Gore living room, Tipper’s drum kit, has been moved out since they separated in 2010. Off the living room is Gore’s writing room, with floor-to-ceiling whiteboards, where he spent the better part of two years—nights and weekends included—writing his latest book, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, 533 pages, 154 of which are endnotes and bibliography. Shortly after finishing his manuscript, he sold his cable channel, Current TV, in a deal worth $784 million—Al Gore is now richer than Mitt Romney, according to Forbes magazine. Add that to his books, his investment company, his Oscar-winning movie, and his Nobel Prize, and you have a flawless American success story—except, of course, for one little detail....
Now, what was it he said? Hmmmmm? Oh, yeah. The severe storms the world now faces belongs to a warming plant caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gases.
Hitting to close to home to admit he was absolutely correct the entire time. Is there any reason the 2000 elections were rigged by purging thousands of registered democratic minority voters in Florida violating the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Global carbon dioxide levels set to pass 400ppm milestone (click here)
The concentration of carbon in the atmosphere over the next few days is expected to hit record levels
John Vidal
The Guardian
Monday, 29 April 2013
The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached 399.72 parts per million (ppm) and is likely to pass the symbolically important 400ppm level for the first time in the next few days.
Readings at the US government's Earth Systems Research laboratory in Hawaii, are not expected to reach their 2013 peak until mid May, but were recorded at a daily average of 399.72ppm on 25 April. The weekly average stood at 398.5 on Monday.
Hourly readings above 400 ppm have been recorded six times in the last week, and on occasion, at observatories in the high Arctic. But the Mauna Loa station, sited at 3,400 m and far away from major pollution sources in the Pacific Ocean, has been monitoring levels for more than 50 years and is considered the gold standard.
"I wish it weren't true but it looks like the world is going to blow through the 400ppm level without losing a beat. At this pace we'll hit 450ppm within a few decades," said Ralph Keeling, a geologist with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography which operates the Hawaiian observatory....
So, while the USA's government, lined with juvenile thinkers that count on rhetoric rather than genius, blew off any idea there was actually a Climate Crisis, there are many who were as dedicated to the truth and accepting of the leadership.
We’re excited to announce today that ten U.S. cities are now on board with fossil fuel divestment! They include: Seattle, WA, San Francisco, CA, Berkeley, CA, Richmond, CA, Boulder, CO, Bayfield, WI, Madison, WI, State College, PA, Eugene, OR, and Ithaca, NY.
Posted by Jamie Henn
04/25/13
So, while the USA's government, lined with juvenile thinkers that count on rhetoric rather than genius, blew off any idea there was actually a Climate Crisis, there are many who were as dedicated to the truth and accepting of the leadership.
We’re excited to announce today that ten U.S. cities are now on board with fossil fuel divestment! They include: Seattle, WA, San Francisco, CA, Berkeley, CA, Richmond, CA, Boulder, CO, Bayfield, WI, Madison, WI, State College, PA, Eugene, OR, and Ithaca, NY.
Posted by Jamie Henn
04/25/13
Last fall, (click here) Seattle started the trend when Mayor Mike McGinn committed to keep his city funds out of fossil fuel companies and push the city’s $2 billion pension fund to pursue divestment.
Then, last week, Ithaca, NY became the first East Coast city to commit to divestment. Ithaca’s Mayor, 26-year old Mayor Svante Myrick, is one of the youngest mayors and youngest African-Americans elected in US history. He agreed to pursue divestment after meeting with a group of local high school students who urged him to act in order to protect their future.
On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco followed suit, voting unanimously to urge the city’s $16 billion retirement fund to divest over $583 million from 91 different fossil fuel companies. The San Francisco fund is the largest that our campaign has targeted so far. We’re still going to need to put some serious pressure on the Retirement Board to follow through with divestment, but as a long-time board member told a local paper, “We’d give it consideration if one supervisor asked us to look at it — and in this case, it was the full board.”...
By all means continue to make something out of nothing when it comes to war, after all it is so much easier to comprehend and deal with, wouldn't you say? Hating and acting on hate, violence and causing violence is, after all, something everyone can do without compromising the idea they are too stupid to reach with real insight. Might effect the ratings after all. It makes the politics a 'basic instinct' rather than the values of a sincere First World society.
By all means continue to make something out of nothing when it comes to war, after all it is so much easier to comprehend and deal with, wouldn't you say? Hating and acting on hate, violence and causing violence is, after all, something everyone can do without compromising the idea they are too stupid to reach with real insight. Might effect the ratings after all. It makes the politics a 'basic instinct' rather than the values of a sincere First World society.
