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Originally Posted by Ohio
Hey Evangelical, you got one right!
And you'll be happy to know our new puppy is an aussie!  |
No, he didn't. The first point I mentioned was the increase in CO2 levels to over 400ppm, the first time we have been above 300 ppm in the last 400,000 years. That is clearly the result of the industrial revolution and it is the inferred cause of climate change.
All of the "symptoms" confirm the diagnosis. The cause is the burning fossil fuel, the burning of the rain forest, and the huge herds of cows and pigs.
I saw Al Gore's sequel and thought it was very interesting, though certainly not going to appeal to the masses. He begins with various senators and congressmen ridiculing the first movie and talking about the exaggeration and hyperbole. They were especially outraged at a projection that he made in the movie that with sea level rise the World Trade Center would be flooded. Then after letting us hear their ridicule he then cuts to news footage of the World Trade Center being flooded during hurricane Sandy.
After that he cuts to a Senate hearing where one Senator was literally spitting angry at him, asking him questions, but as he would answer just cutting him off and being a jerk. Eventually the chairman had to step in and tell them that they cannot ask a question unless they will give the witness a minute to answer.
He then cuts to a visit he took to Greenland. He goes on the ice and meets with the scientists on the ice who have been there since 2001. That is a very big contrast. On the one hand you have those screaming every insult and ridicule they can without the slightest evidence, never visiting the scientists, never wanting to hear from them.
Perhaps the most striking visual to me, which most viewers would miss, was the ladder he had to climb to get into the camp on Greenland. It isn't clear why they would build this camp ten feet in the air and then use an aluminum ladder to get up into it. But later you see a picture of the camp the year before. It was built on the ice. However, they put in posts deep into the ice to prevent the camp from falling into a crevasse, etc. The reason you have to climb up 10 feet is because that is how far the ice has melted in the last year.
However, the striking picture to most people is that of fish swimming across the roads in Miami Florida. Apparently this is a common occurrence that happens during high tide.