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Al "Inconvenient" Gore get a Nobel Peace Prize? Hold on, what date is it...?
...no, sadly, it's NOT April 1st.
His "documentary", just this week examined in court for its fitness to be shown, unchallenged, in UK schools, has been revealed to have several scientific errors in it - and the guy still gets rewarded for his hour-and-a-half of Powerpoint presentations
Yes. Climate change is happening. But then it did just the same thing time and time again, long before man had an opposable thumb, let alone the internal combustion engine - hell, the planet's been doing it ever since it got a frigging atmosphere.
I think I may have used the whole "oil in the Arctic" thing to support this argument - the change in climate there does, in fact, have a hell of a lot to do with a little something called continental drift. Yeah, all that tectonic plates stuff - billions of tons of rock spreading and shifting over the centuries...
...hold on, what if that's the cause of "global warming"? What's Gore gonna do about that? Nail all the fricking continents in place?
And then there's the real question: just what happens if we can't "stop global warming"? Has anyone actually considered how to preserve mankind if the world is irrevocably screwed? "Nah - no political capital in that", say the politicians, "so let's just hype up this save the planet stuff instead - and keep the secret environment domes and deep hibernation chambers for ourselves..."
In closing, let me say this: Thank you, Nobel Prize committee - thank you for giving me something to rant about, rather than struggle to come up with excuses for not being able to kick-start my inspiration.
...no, sadly, it's NOT April 1st.
His "documentary", just this week examined in court for its fitness to be shown, unchallenged, in UK schools, has been revealed to have several scientific errors in it - and the guy still gets rewarded for his hour-and-a-half of Powerpoint presentations
Yes. Climate change is happening. But then it did just the same thing time and time again, long before man had an opposable thumb, let alone the internal combustion engine - hell, the planet's been doing it ever since it got a frigging atmosphere.
I think I may have used the whole "oil in the Arctic" thing to support this argument - the change in climate there does, in fact, have a hell of a lot to do with a little something called continental drift. Yeah, all that tectonic plates stuff - billions of tons of rock spreading and shifting over the centuries...
...hold on, what if that's the cause of "global warming"? What's Gore gonna do about that? Nail all the fricking continents in place?
And then there's the real question: just what happens if we can't "stop global warming"? Has anyone actually considered how to preserve mankind if the world is irrevocably screwed? "Nah - no political capital in that", say the politicians, "so let's just hype up this save the planet stuff instead - and keep the secret environment domes and deep hibernation chambers for ourselves..."
In closing, let me say this: Thank you, Nobel Prize committee - thank you for giving me something to rant about, rather than struggle to come up with excuses for not being able to kick-start my inspiration.
