Gore and Wallstrom, who wrote the forward in the Swedish translation of “An Inconvenient Truth,” which was also made into an Oscar-winning documentary, spoke at the International Writers’ Stage lecture series in Stockholm.
Gore said the truth of climate change already is known. Wallstrom agreed, adding that “We may not know every little detail but we know enough to give advice to politicians.”
She said people need to understand it’s not just a temperature change , citing a conversation with a woman in Russia who didn’t think a few degrees warmer would be such a bad thing in a place where it was -41 degrees Celsius outside.
“You have to start explaining the difference between weather and climate,” she said.
Democracy is utterly dependent upon an electorate that is accurately informed. In promoting climate change denial (and often denying their responsibility for doing so) industry has done more than endanger the environment. It has undermined democracy.
There is a vast difference between putting forth a point of view, honestly held, and intentionally sowing the seeds of confusion. Free speech does not include the right to deceive. Deception is not a point of view. And the right to disagree does not include a right to intentionally subvert the public awareness.
This post is the second of a two part series. Read the first installment, Unreported Emissions From Natural Gas Blow Up BC's Climate Action Plan.
Methane leaks from British Columbia's natural gas industry are likely at least 7 times greater than official numbers increasing the entire provinces' carbon footprint by nearly 25%. That's like putting 3 million more vehicles on BC's roads.
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“You have to start explaining the difference between weather and climate,” she said.
She can start by explaining what hydrology is all about.
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But if your smoke alarm makes intermittent beeping noises, it's probably a good idea to check whether it needs a new battery first -- before Al Gore throws your baby out a third-story window.
Not if you see smoke and
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If Gore indeed said that
Gore is hurting the debate
Ridiculous statements like "as solid as gravity" hurt the debate. Try reading realclimate.org for a few weeks and you'll see lots of evidence of a junior science. Climate modellers boast about how much their models have improved in the last decade, yet we were told in 1992 that global warming was a proven fact. Criticisms of inadequate data or poor methodology are met with statements about "a new paper (not yet reviewed) shows that...".
Compare this with gravity, where the formulas from 1950s textbooks are still valid. No need to refer to the latest studies.
think again
gravitation new
or
gravitation new 2006
or whatever you like. Gravitational theory, evolutionary theory and climatological theory are all in the same boat - well-proven, powerful, and still filling in thousands of unknown details and mechanisms. They are advanced way beyond economics, for example (but I suggest that you do not throw away your money or property titles just because economics still has some bugs to work out.)
Uh, don't think so, buddy
In 500 years, it may be proven, or disproven with hard evidence. But for now, it's merely speculative.
Global Warming speculation is nothing like gravitational theory, or evolution theory.
do some reading
And I am sure no buddy of yours, but cheers, anyway.
(The 500 years line is priceless, by the way. Thanks for bringing joy to others.)
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"... Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, published in 1857, remains a theory even now."
It's a good thing that they don't apply this concept to "music theory", or we would have had to wait 500 years to listen to Pete Seeger, a terrible loss.
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Why? Because you are a smug, supercilious dimwit, that's why.
""Gravitational theory" doesn't mean that I might float."
Although, you do seem rather light in the loafers.
Sorry, pal. AGW may be a scientific "theory", but it is certainly not in the same class as evolution, or most other well-accepted scientific theories. It has very scant evidence to support it, and what evidence there is, is highly contradictory.
But please, continue to bray and rant, if it makes you feel better. Your strutting, pompous ignorance is mildly amusing.
"...It has very scant
"...It has very scant evidence to support it, and what evidence there is, is highly contradictory..." This false statement displays your own "strutting, pompous ignorance" which is more tiresome than amusing.
There is the evidence of the glaciers melting; the evidence of the temperatures rising, especially at the poles; the evidence of the aerosols counteracting the warming effect for a few decades; the evidence of the ice caps melting; the evidence that large amounts of greenhouse gases are being emitted which of course is affecting the atmosphere and the ocean; the evidence of migration of plants, animals and insects; drought in Australia; drought in western Canada... Read the IPCC reports, then say there is no evidence.
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Strawman.
It's interesting you note Gore as a straw man, because indeed it seems he's being set up that way.
I would say that the one thing the denier movement and the PR people behind them are doing well at recently is distracting us away from the fact that this is not Al Gore's theory of global warming.
There is a weight of scientific evidence that points with a high level of certainty to human caused global warming - it is not produced by Gore, only promoted.
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