Jan 18, 2007

Cobarde Al

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Al Gore no se anima a responder algunas preguntas de Bjorn Lomborg.

Clearly we need to ask hard questions. Is Mr. Gore's world a worthwhile sacrifice? But it seems that critical questions are out of the question. It would have been great to ask him why he only talks about a sea-level rise of 20 feet. In his movie he shows scary sequences of 20-feet flooding Florida, San Francisco, New York, Holland, Calcutta, Beijing and Shanghai. But were realistic levels not dramatic enough? The U.N. climate panel expects only a foot of sea-level rise over this century. Moreover, sea levels actually climbed that much over the past 150 years. Does Mr. Gore find it balanced to exaggerate the best scientific knowledge available by a factor of 20?

Mr. Gore says that global warming will increase malaria and highlights Nairobi as his key case. According to him, Nairobi was founded right where it was too cold for malaria to occur. However, with global warming advancing, he tells us that malaria is now appearing in the city. Yet this is quite contrary to the World Health Organization's finding. Today Nairobi is considered free of malaria, but in the 1920s and '30s, when temperatures were lower than today, malaria epidemics occurred regularly. Mr. Gore's is a convenient story, but isn't it against the facts?

He considers Antarctica the canary in the mine, but again doesn't tell the full story. He presents pictures from the 2% of Antarctica that is dramatically warming and ignores the 98% that has largely cooled over the past 35 years. The U.N. panel estimates that Antarctica will actually increase its snow mass this century. Similarly, Mr. Gore points to shrinking sea ice in the Northern Hemisphere, but don't mention that sea ice in the Southern Hemisphere is increasing. Shouldn't we hear those facts?

4 comments:

  1. Esta mentira ecologista se la creen todos de todos. Es distinta a la izquierdista, ya que alguno se aviva y se termina dando cuenta que es fruta.

    Pero con el ecologismo es increíble, todos creen. La mentira fue muy bien difundida, por medios y seudo líderes.

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  2. A juzgar por las últimas fotos a don Gore lo va a matar antes el colesterol que el calentamiento global. A menos que consustanciado con la causa ambiental haya decidido mimetizarse con las ballenas

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  3. Creo que en muchos casos no tiene mucho sentido discutir sobre este tema. Se trata de lo más parecido que yo personalmente encontré a un dogma religioso. Conozco gente, una gran mayoría, que ni siquiera se plantean la veracidad o exactitud de la información sobre el “calentamiento global” o el “cambio climático”. Lo toman como un hecho consumado, una verdad absoluta, fuera de toda discusión y debate. De la misma manera en que gran parte del público tomaba a los escritos de Marx y de Freud hasta hace no mucho tiempo.

    Absolutamente todo sirve para “demostrar” que el mundo se está calentando y que el calentamiento se debe al accionar humano y que la ÚNICA solución es volver a vivir como a mediados del siglo XIX.

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  4. Hace un tiempo lei, no me acuerdo dónde, a una europea que decía que Kyoto era una forma justa de frenar el crecimiento económico de EEUU que se estaba distanciando demasiado del resto. Es una manera de poner en práctica en resentimiento y buscar la firma de protocolos internacionales para emparejar un poco los tantos

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