Albore?

And... ?

MANBEARPIG IS REAL!

I'M SERIOUS!

The CBC's so-called "comedy" shows can take a hint from this. Then again, leftists all live in a delusional fantasy world. How else can they maintain their fanatical religious beliefs?

I love the market!!!

It speaks softly but authoratatively

'Caught algore being interviewed by Evan Soloman on Sunday night. Whoo. Scary looking guy. He used to be borderline-handsome, now he looks evil. Something about his eyes and spiky eybrows. I don't know. He just gave me the creeps.

I can't stomach gor(e)y movies.

You've got to love Hollywood for trying. Since 9/11, the Left Coast elite have been totally overwhelmed by history and reality. Two thoughtful terrorist films bit the dust - both with elements of root cause examinations and terrorists as not-so-different-from-you-and-me themes - and they still don't get it. Oh, and add their lame Crusaders film to the dustbin too. Their smarmy anti-American and pc endorsing scripts aren't selling in the heartland.

Hollywood is another group that, like the NYT's, would rather be hit in the wallet than give up their lefty garbage. Their time is over. We aren't that desperate for their insulting entertainment. What sickens me is that their packaged and hyped garbage sells overseas providing an erroneous view of American culture and values.

I've also run into more than enough "educated" birdbrains, almost always lefties, that quote a movie as the factual source of their opinions. Scary.

Hey, why dispute the facts when you can attack the person and just off turn your brain?

I generally love gore in my movies (Beyond Re-animator rocks!), but in this case I'm willing to make an exception. I'm not sure if it's because I can't stand Al Gore or if it's because I just can't abide dishonesty:

http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/

McMarthyism didn't take. No good luck, no good night!

lolwhat: "why dispute the facts". FACTOIDS, sounds like hemmorrhoids. A Royal Pain in the a ... ah never mind.

Al Bore's foray into Hollyweird and the hysterical mythology of "global warming" has been a bust.

Speaking of busts, perhaps it'd have been better to cast Pam Anderson than Al Bore, though he has a considerable bust these days, too...

Poor old Al... made a career out of being a leftist. Now no one really cares. Poor Bore.

Just another champagne loving, latte slurping wannbe socialist making big bucks off the kyoto "the sky is falling scare" .

Almost as bad as the Suzukioids and the rest of the save the world charities that live a first class life style on the donations they scare out of folks.

These dudes is sooooooo sad, sooooooo bad.

Gore may not be movie star material--he never could give a line, that's why he's not president, but he was ahead of his time on global warming. He's been speaking about it since 1989. A visionary, a rare breed in politics these days.

Agreed Fred, people are sick and tired of being depressed by G(bore)ing people and preachy, 'you do it' type media thingies. We need some movies that are on the good guy's team so we exit feeling good about ourselves.

Al 'Global Cooling, umm no, Global Warming' Bore is just another ranting, vein-popping champagne socialist dipwad! Only the clueless leftards stuck on stupid, would buy a ticket to see this fairy tale!

I wonder if we'll ever witness a day when leftists jump aboard a looming-environmental-crisis bandwagon that has as a solution less government ownership, subsidization, intervention and regulation of industry...

I don't think so either.

This may be wild speculation, but could it be that having his name on all of those movie posters would create some kind of FCC 'equal time' problems in case he runs again for the presidency?

Kate - why don't you tell us your solution to global warming.

For once, why don't you post something thoughtful that is your own.

"Kate - why don't you tell us your solution to global warming."

Allow me...

Tell all the David Suzuki's and Al Gore's of the world to shut their collective pie holes.

I don't know about Kate, but my solution to be able to swim in my pool more than 3 months of the year involves high revolution conversion of 2 stroke oil into an effective mosquito fog as I grab another gear at redline.
Ring-ding-ding-ding

The Right Wing solution to global warming is to pretend it doesn't exist. Never mind virtually all science has warned it is real. Since Conservatism is pre-science they just don't understand. Their rule of thumb is if they don't understand it, then by definition, it is a Leftist plot.

"'Global Cooling, umm no, Global Warming'"

This is a myth. While it does have a grain of truth to it, as most myths usually do, in that in the 40s to 70s scientists did observe a slight cooling trend, everyone knew that extrapolating such a short trend would be a bad idea. It was treated very tentatively and the scientific consensus was that further research was needed.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=94

You won't find anything in the scientific press of the time that says otherwise.
http://www.wmconnolley.org.uk/sci/iceage/

Al Gore's movie specifically is discussed here: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=299
The "rebuttal" from junkscience.com is also discussed in the comments; it doesn't fair too well. You might want to check the contributors tab on the RealClimate blog and note that they are experienced climate scientists, easily more qualified in the field than biostatistician and lawyer Steven Milloy.

He doesn't fair too well either:
http://info-pollution.com/milloy.htm
http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1999Q4/avery.html#milloy
http://www.no-smoke.org/pdf/stevenmilloy.pdf

"why don't you tell us your solution to global warming."

I have. Next time, search the archives.

Kate
yes you have. However, you use the usual suspects for your information. The guys you use are invariably are bought and paid for by lobbyists with huge financial interests in maintaining the status quo.

Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, a distinguished professor of meteorology at MIT, is one of a small band of global warming skeptics used by industry to undermine and delay any kind of regulatory action meant to address the looming environmental crisis.

Lindzen was reported in 1995 to "charges oil and coal interests $2,500 a day for his consulting services; his 1991 trip to testify before a Senate committee was paid for by Western Fuels, and a speech he wrote, entitled 'Global Warming: the Origin and Nature of Alleged Scientific Consensus,' was underwritten by OPEC." [1]

You can believe your small handful of well paid, largely oil company paid, scientists for hire, or you can believe the vast majority.

http://www.worldtrans.org/whole/warning.html

Kate
"less government ownership, subsidization, intervention and regulation of industry..."

Been there, done that, back in the 19th century. A great time for business but a nightmare for the individual and society. I don't think we wanna go back there. Slowly, though, as corporate power engulfs government, we are headed back. So just look at the last 50 years or so and you can see how your wildest dreams are in fact coming true. Trouble is that when we get there we will have another social revolution because people won't stand for it, just like they didn't back then.

The execs didn’t want to get Gored by the bull-(sh**t).

Without commenting on this film, you should realize that Al Gore can act! He hosted SNL a few years ago and did a marvelous job, including poking fun at himself. Hosting SNL is not an easy gig - Robert DeNiro was terrible.

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/02/02h.phtml

man made co2 less 2% of total and we are going to spend billions of dollars for that? if enviro-nazi blowhards want to cut down co2 emissions then they should shut their big traps, hold their breath and stick their collective asses into a volcano

"yes you have. However, you use the usual suspects for your information."

No I didn't.

Just add Kyoto, man-made-global-warming-kyoto, to the long and growing list of hoaxes. Hoaxes for the gullible, like; Crop Circles, Oil For Food, Global Cooling, Franken Foods, Roswell NM Space Ship, Lost City Of Atlantis, Y2K, .....

The hubris of the environmentalists is that they think human activity would upset the "delicate balance". Nature herself regularly dwarfs anything man can do.

Just one recent volcano, Mt Pinatubo, knocked global temperatures down by 1.3C. That one volcano had more effect on global temperature than any possible global warming that could have been made by all of mankind's CO2 emissions since the beginning of the industrial age.

Steve, Steve, Steve -"The Right Wing solution to global warming is to pretend it doesn't exist. Never mind virtually all science has warned it is real. Since Conservatism is pre-science they just don't understand. Their rule of thumb is if they don't understand it, then by definition, it is a Leftist plot."

See there's the difference between your view of global warming and the alternate view - you think you understand but you are falling hook, line and sinker for the "Al Gore theory" of science instead of those scientists who actually study climate for a living. Remember it was Al who invented the internet so that should tell you something.

As for it being a leftist plot - I certainly don't believe it is a plot, however in true liberal fashion, if there is money to be made off something, all they have to do is spout off motherhood and apple pie jargon and the masses fall into line and demand that governments pay these idiots money to "study" and "study" and "study" the potential effects of global warming.

Recently, Steve, there have been numerous articles about the psuedo-science of global warming, the money making scam of global warming and the fact that the arctic was once rife with jungle like plants (hmmm - global warming in previous millenia??).

So the lefties invite Mr. Internet to give his "knowledge" about global warming and they swarm and croon and fawn all over him as if he is the second coming (funny how when an American left thinking person speaks - there is no anti americism visible, but when it is a right thinking american.......)

Although, Steve, you probably think it is all a "Conservative plot".

Gideon, you think climate scientists don't consider aerosol forcing? You're at least fourty years late with your "revelation."

The problem with conservatives is that they fear the potential solutions to global warming as a threat to the free market, capitalism, etc. so they attempt to undermine the phenomenon itself. They simply want to believe it's not true. This kind of wishful thinking simply isn't productive. You should accept reality and work towards solutions that deal with the problem while still maximizing individual liberties.

The Right Wing solution to global warming is to pretend it doesn't exist. Never mind virtually all science has warned it is real. Since Conservatism is pre-science they just don't understand. Their rule of thumb is if they don't understand it, then by definition, it is a Leftist plot.

Posted by: steve d

too true! The attitude of some of the folks in here is scary. Talk about 50' "thinking." The only reason they dispute the science is because they either make a buck off the oil and gas industry or they drive big suvs. Electing Harper was like killing the patient to cure the disease.

Posted by: lolwhat at June 8, 2006 09:58 AM

"The problem with conservatives is that they fear the potential solutions to global warming as a threat to the free market, capitalism, etc. so they attempt to undermine the phenomenon itself. "

You've got this bass ackwards whateveryournameis: capitalism, free markets produce surplus capital which advances technology and thereby makes the environment cleaner. Take a look at the toxic swamp that was the soviet union and their desperate satellite countries. Capitalism, not socialism, is the environment's best friend.

You want to take a chainsaw to the world economy in order to -- assuming the data is accurate which is extremely doubtful -- reduce temperatures by a small fraction of 1 degree over a 100 years. Taking a chainsaw to world markets hurts everybody especially the poor and disadvantaged who are trying to get a slice of that easy life you take so much for granted.

Thanks for eloquently proving my point, Me No Dhimmi. I said nothing about what I adovocated as a solution to global warming and yet you immediately jumped to assuming I "want to take a chainsaw to the world economy."

lolwhat: Sorry if I misread you, ... maybe you weren't too clear. Perhaps you can enlighten us on how to "solve" "global warming" without doing enormous economic damage, esp. considering that while the planet seems to be warming gently, there is no proof (you see I'm not pre-science!) that the phenomenon is not part of a natural cyclical trend, i.e., no proof that it is man-made. For example, on a thread a while back, someone provided a link to a climate scientist who the poster felt suppported Albore's fear-mongering: near term risk of 20 feet of polar ice melting. I went to the link and was shocked to see this scientist warning us that in the 21st centruy temperatures might -- GASP - rise to the level of 130,000 years ago.

From what I've read about Albore's Agitprop Movie, he has no solutions either, no actual programme!

I read somewhere that even if we had met Kyoto targets -- a complete impossibility -- the net result would be small fraction of 1% reduction in temperature over 100 years.

er, that should have been small fraction of 1 degree not percent (1/10 of 1% was it?)

Inconvenient Truth is at ninth of the top ten movies for June 2 to June 4. It's per screen average also blows away the competition. I'm sorry, did someone say something about the wisdom of the free market, or something?