AL GORE : Save us PLEASE !

Decisions, decisions.... I already believe that the sun is the source of all of the earth's warmth... and that there is already overwhelming evidence of massive glaciers in earth's history... and that the Ice Age is considered to be a scientific fact. I also believe that in order for the ice to melt that some sort of global warming had to occur, and that could only have come from the Sun's influence and had nothing to do with Fred Flintstone and his carbon footprint and CO2 output. There is nothing to say that the earth cannot cool as it is warming... after all, isn't that exactly what happened with the Little Ice Age? As to the effect of CO2 on the Global Climate, well you already know that I do not consider that to be an issue of any importance. Water vapor and the Sun, yes... CO2, no. Man made CO2 is such a none issue it would be laughable if every government on earth wasn't trying to find ways to limit it. I have read the EPA report of the Lieberman/Warner Bill, and it plainly shows that such an endeavor is exceedingly expensive and completely pointless. I believe the reduction was only 25ppm by the year 2095 and the cost was something like 6.9% of our GDP by 2050. I have seen a couple of other reports concerning sunspot activity that in theory could cause global cooling, and I must say that theory is much more believable then the CO2 based global warming theory is. Every grade school kid knows that the Sun is our source of heat and light so I really cannot understand why all of these highly educated climate scientists never thought to look to the Sun as a possible reason for our Climatic Conditions. Could it possibly be that there is some political and/or social agenda at work here? I say that we are presently cooling... at least for now... because I have seen reports also where there has been no rise in temperature since about 1998, and in fact the ocean average temperature has fallen by about 1 degree. Al Gore should hide now...

We now need carbon debits. If you are not using enough carbon you can pay me to create more carbon. If your carbon footprint is not big enough pay me and I will just make my footprint bigger to offset your small footprint. The Earth climate has change without humans, and will change with humans. Look at the Ice Ages before humans came to the world. Over millions of years ice would grow and then shrink over time. Did cavemen have SUVs? Then where did the global warming come from back then.

I am certainly no expert on carbon credits. However to my understanding, the fact that they can be traded back and forth between heavy and low polluters sort of adds a sordid angle to it in my opinion. Unless massive efforts are made to reduce the issuance of carbon credits and enforceable measures taken to police industry; it will all be to no avail. I have commented on environmental topics before in that as far as I am concerned; warming/cooling; the earth will do what it is gonna do! It will be self generating and self healing. Whether human kind in the longer term will survive this natural progression or not is the question. There are always two sides of the coin; and if in turn this means that the right outcome is found because of the furious debate and desire to be the ones that are right then all is good. But without sounding too pessimistic; political expediency will ensure that nothing dramatic happens in tis regard any time soon.

Does there seem no possible way to save the ill-fated earth and it's inhabitants from certain destruction? I think the scientists should seriously modify their line of thinking and get eveything ready for the inhabitants of earth to occupy either Mars(in the event of global warming), or Venus(in the event of global cooling). After all, this will have to be a major effort by all the scientists of the world to develop livable conditions on either planet and find a way of mass transit affordable by the masses to secure the survival of humankind in the future. Al Gore better be saving up for his seat aboard the shuttle.

Heaven Help us if Al Gore is the Savior. His global warming theory is full of hot air. There is no global warming. It is the regular ebb and flow of our environment, the natural progression of our history. What is really hurting our planet is the deforestation of the Rain Forrest around the Equator. Now that is a mess. Beamer23