Katie Couric's Notebook: Gore And Global Warming
Hi everyone.
Video: The last time Al Gore came to Capitol Hill--six years ago--he was there to certify the electoral college results that made George Bush president.
But today it was a triumphant return, this time as a private citizen, to declare that the world faces a "planetary emergency" over climate change. And now, a lot of his skeptics agree that Gore makes a powerful point.
The scientific consensus is clear, and Gore urged Congress to listen to scientists, not special interests. He pushed for an immediate freeze on greenhouse gases, as well as cleaner power plants, more efficient cars, and stronger conservation efforts.
Gore said "a few years from now...the kinds of proposals we're talking about today are going to seem so small compared to the scale of the challenge."
Here's hoping Congress puts partisanship aside, and comes together to act boldly on global warming.
That's a page from my notebook.
Best-selling author Mitch Albom on his first nonfiction work since "Tuesdays with Morrie."
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See all 191 CommentsAl Gore will go down in history as one of the biggest morons of the past 100 years!
"Here's hoping Congress puts partisanship aside, and comes together to act boldly on global warming."
Why are you in doing News?
You are SO silly!
Trikat from WI
You must know that this "Global Warming" charade is merely a new means for liberal Democrats to:
1. levy a punative tax on Americans, based upon "pollution".
2. siphon that tax money to "Global Warming Industries" and "Global Warming Research Institutes"
3. take political contributions from those "Industries" and "Institutes" to fund the political campaigns of Liberal Democrats.
4. Over time, establish a Socialist Dictatorship run by liberal Democrats.
The "jig" is up, Katie.
A few things Al Gore forgot to mention.
http://www.john-daly.com/hockey/hockey.htm
http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory.asp?story=CZ434669U
http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/Index
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XttV2C6B8pU
The last is a link to "The Global Warming Swindle" that the uk/ShowStory talks about. The planet has and will continue, to warm and cool, until our sun dies.
Creating mass hysteria, which is what Katie and her colleague's are paid to do, does nothing, but try to sustain ratings, which fails. But the thing its implementation will do, cuts to their so called core belief, and hurts the poor. The billions that will perish in poor countries worldwide will be devastating.
What makes us the greatest country in the world? The amount of food and money we contribute globally, and energy is what makes this happen. Cut back energy output will result in lost production. Lost production equals death.
Something to think about.
Oh and former Vice President Gore, despite being given major preferential treatment, has violated the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee%u2019s (EPW) hearing rules. His testimony was received by the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee.
Gore's testimony was given to Committee members just one minute before his scheduled House appearance and mere hours before his scheduled Senate appearance.
EPW committee%u2019s 48 hour rule that requires all witnesses before EPW to submit their testimony in advance. The GOP minority on the EPW committee then agreed to waive the 48 hour rule in favor of allowing Gore to submit his testimony 24 hours before the hearing.
He gave his testimony a ONE MINUTE notice to the Committee. Why was that? More importantly, as a news reporter, why didn't you ask Gore that?
If Gore had been a Republican, a grand-jury would of been convened for this violation.
Democrats get a free pass to "break the rules", you can leave someone to drown, use the "N" word, take bribes and keep 90K in your fridge, have an affair with a male intern(Barney Frank) and you and other liberals "give them a round of applause". You know, like the Democrats did for Barney.
The scientific consensus at my house is that algore and you need a v-chip implant so you can invent the internet again and win another award for the movie Love Story which was about your life while scaming the world with a Y2K scare. We also have consensus that you are 3rd rate con artists.
Have a warm day.
MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!!!! AND I'M CALLING ARNOLD RIGHT AWAY,TOO!!!! MAY THE FORCE
BE WITH YOU!!!! KATIE, YOU ARE GREAT!!!!
Unfortunately, I have to put you in the same categorie as Heidi Cullen over at the weather channel - "Just another pretty face."
Does anyone in the MSM think for themselves anymore?
Does anyone in the MSM question or investigate anymore?
Does anyone in the MSM not drink Al Gore's kool-aid?
It's the Sun!!
1. Cosmic Rays are constantly bombarding the planet. When they combine with water vapor they form clouds, which deflect sunlight from the earth, resulting in cooler temps.
2. During high sun-spot activity the solar winds increase and divert a large portion of the cosmic rays from the earth. This results in less cloud formation. It is during these periods of high sun-spot activity that the earth's temp warms.
For a more complete analysis and if you dare to be enlightened then check out google video and search terms "global + swindle".
You will also discover an amazing correlation between temps and CO2. And also, how PM Margaret Thatcher started it all!!
So, all you limousine and Gulfstream libs will be able to drive and fly guilt-free and no-longer need to waste money on carbon credits.
"ITS THE SUN STUPID"
The polar Icecaps on Mars are also getting smaller.
Isn't it amazing that one volcano goes off and it has a bigger impact on global temperature that all of Mankind.
Hmmm,
The planet has gone through several Ice ages and subsequent warmings long before man was on the seen with our SUV's.
Yes the planet is Warming you dope but mans causing it is a joke. You've bought into this *** hook line and sinker.
Supposedly all the scientists that agree on this have nothing to gain except for the billions of dollars in research grant money. I guess that wouldn't be a possiblity or incentive to jump on board.
Global warming is the new politically correct religion of the 21st century. It has become political and is all about tearing the US down.
An equalization of economies. Cripple the US economy so the rest of the world can catch up.
Pull your head out of your A**. We will continue to warm up until the Sun decides to play nicer with us and than we will start to cool.
"ITS THE SUN STUPID"
If you had examples...
earthwirm
Like all educated conservatives, I understand AGW. Think for yourself. Your BS that ultra-competetive scientists across the world share an agenda is pathetic. And please, ancient history when MY church tried to suppress the SCIENTIFIC discovery that we weren't the center of the universe hurts your cause (by your cause I mean that of the big biz that owns you). Claiming my church helped forward that scientific discovery is false and BESIDE THE POINT. Return to THE PRESENT, or pretend that only liberals beleive AGW. And accuse me of lying about my views here while admiring the business end of any one of my "liberal" gun collection.
fred_r_m a
False. http://www.ipcc.ch/
kmpk1
Shouting "its the sun stupid" is goofy. That the sun hasn't been getting brighter since the 1950s when we started measuring, but we're still getting warmer might be a clue that its mostly the billions of tons of CO2, stupid.
bironetworks
Katie is liberal, but you have to be a brainless simp to think that the billions of tons of GHGs PROVEN to increase temps is somehow NOT increasing temps, with no explanation whatsoever.
Most of us regardless of politics can read the following: http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf instead of pretending it isn't happening.
I want to see some discussion by real experts in their scientific fields on climate change. Do you understand Katie? Don't you people understand the power of the internet, and do you not see that the vast majority of all comments on this subject in most forums are in disagreement with Al Gore. We can find information in this day and age on the internet that we would have never have heard about in the past, and most politicians think we are still in the dark. Not so, thank God. Katie do you know what Galileo had to endure because the "consensus" in his day was that the sun moves around the earth? Now you have discovered that the sun orbits around Al Gore, and he is the center of the universe. Enlightenment is a wonderful thing.
his attention seeking, global warming? I believe Mr. Gore suffered a mental breakdown when he LOST the election and isn't mentally healty yet. He and you seem to be in the same mental/physical condition these days.
Check it out Katie.
Excerpt:
Al Gore Challenged to International TV Debate on Global Warming
PERTH, Scotland, March 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a formal
invitation sent to former Vice-President Al Gore's Tennessee address and
released to the public, Lord Monckton has thrown down the gauntlet to
challenge Gore to what he terms "the Second Great Debate," an
internationally televised, head-to-head, nation-unto-nation confrontation
on the question, "That our effect on climate is not dangerous."
(http://ff.org/centers/csspp/docs/20070316_monckton.html)
Monckton, a former policy adviser to Margaret Thatcher during her years
as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, said, "A careful study of the
substantial corpus of peer-reviewed science reveals that Mr. Gore's film,
An Inconvenient Truth, is a foofaraw of pseudo-science, exaggerations, and
errors, now being peddled to innocent schoolchildren worldwide."
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