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"First he won the Oscar -- then the Nobel Peace Prize. He's being
called a "prophet."

Impressive, considering that one of former Vice President Al Gore's
chief contributions has been to call the debate over global warming
"over" and to marginalize anyone who disagrees. Although he favors
major government intervention to stop global warming, he says, "the
climate crisis is not a political issue. It is a moral and spiritual
challenge to all of humanity".

Give me a break.

If you must declare a debate over, then maybe it's not. And if you
have to gussy up your agenda as "our greatest opportunity to lift
global consciousness to a higher level," then it deserves some
skeptical examination.

Everyone has heard that Earth's atmosphere is heating up, it's our
fault, and it's a crisis. No wonder 86 percent of Americans think
global warming is a serious problem and 70 percent want the government
to do something now.

But is it a crisis? The globe is warming, but will it be catastrophic?
Probably not.

In "An Inconvenient Truth," Gore says that "sea levels worldwide would
go up 20 feet."

But the group that shared last week's Nobel Prize, the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says in a hundred years,
the oceans might rise 7 to 24 inches .

Gore also talks about drowning polar bears. He doesn't mention that
the World Conservation Union and the U.S. Geological Survey say that
today most populations of polar bears are stable or increasing.

And while man's greenhouse gasses may increase warming, it's not
certain that man caused it. The most impressive demonstration in
Gore's movie is the big graph of carbon-dioxide levels, which suggests
that carbon levels control temperature. But the movie doesn't tell you
that the carbon increases came after temperatures rose, hundreds of
years later. "

Yep, the debate is over - for true believers!

Ronnie

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