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randhail said:
Does a cardiologist lose all credability on how people should eat low fat diets if he has a big steak for dinner?
AEON said:
I didn't post this to debate global warming. Jesus will fix it. I just wanted to point out that Gore is a fraud.
U2Man said:
thats not the same scenario. the cardiologist will only hurt himself by eating that steak. he can believe in his science and yet choose that lifestyle, it will only hurt himself. its his choice.
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INDY500 said:WWJD
What would Jesus drive?
Justin24 said:
But what if he is wrong and it's a cycle the earth goes through every couple of thousands of years? Would you then put him in the Bush there are WMD's in Iraq box?
What about his international travel? Webcasting should be the first thing adopted by politicians; it saves taxpayers money and the environment.BonoVoxSupastar said:
I agree.
But a bill alone doesn't have any context to it. I'm not the biggest Gore fan, but I'm not ready to call him a hypocrite just yet due to his electricity bill.
A_Wanderer said:What about his international travel? Webcasting should be the first thing adopted by politicians; it saves taxpayers money and the environment.
And the use of the term denialist isn't political?MrsSpringsteen said:Didn't Al Gore say at the Oscars that it's not a political issue? I think he was either drunk or he's doing some naive wishful thinking. Republicans are certainly making it a political issue, and against a guy who says he's not even going to run.
Justin24 said:Some not all I admit. But why should we also turn a blind eye to that of which I wrote?
Justin24 said:Because I have not seen anyone bring it up.
anitram said:This is another swiftboating attempt.
The Tennessee Center for Policy Research is an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization committed to achieving a freer, more prosperous Tennessee through free market policy solutions.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A day after actor Leonardo DiCaprio hailed Al Gore on the Oscar stage as a "inspirational leader in the fight against global warming," the former vice president was forced to respond to charges from a Tennessee organization that his home consumes significantly more energy than the national average.
The Tennessee Center for Policy Research charged Monday that Gore's "mansion" "consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year."
"The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh -- more than 20 times the national average," the group charged in a statement.
"Al Gore has to be willing to walk the walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to home energy use," the groups president Drew Johnson said in the statement.
But a spokesman for Gore quickly fired back Monday night, claiming, "The Gore's purchase all of their power through the local Green Powerswitch program -- it is 100 percent renewable power."
"In addition, they are in the midst of a renovation which includes installing solar panels on their home, which will enable them to use less power," Gore's spokeswoman Kalee Kreider said in a statement.
Justin24 said:Have they done research on volcanos? weather patters? What about the earths tilt could that have done something.
Ormus said:since nearly all "free market" types would rather see the world burn to the ground than do anything that might lead to higher taxes.
Justin24 said:Have they done research on volcanos? weather patters? What about the earths tilt could that have done something.
Vincent Vega said:
So we should go on wasting the earth to find out when we have the possibility to change the pollution we are causing?
I don't care what is in the Bible, or in Revelation 21:1, I want ot live in this world.
AEON said:However, at some point in time - there will be a new Heaven and a new Earth.
INDY500 said:
So, do we listen to the alarmists that warn us to cut back on our energy use and therefore slow our progress and lessen our prosperity. Or do we go forward, trusting in the same technology and ingenuity that transformed the world of poverty, filth and sickness that existed prior to the Industrial Revolution, to today's standard of living---to find solutions.
Ormus said:
And, in the meantime, we have to live in the Earth that we've got. If God didn't stop terrorism or save the Roman Empire even after Christianity became the state religion, who's to say that God is interested in stepping in to stop us from destroying the planet?
(In fact, to step back to the Roman Empire for a moment, it's theorized that Christianity actually hastened the demise of the empire, because of complacency. After all, "Jesus was going to come again," so why care all that much if your empire is falling apart at the seams?)
Contrary to what others might think, I do believe that nature has a built-in "failsafe" to all of this to prevent us from becoming Venus. Since Earth exists outside of the zone in the solar system, where the Sun, alone, is enough to warm us up (only Mercury and Venus inhabit this zone), we're dependent on natural processes that ultimately form our "greenhouse effect" for warmth. Damage nature enough and you could very well damage the "greenhouse," allowing us to revert to a rather interesting part of Earth's geological past: the "Snowball Earth."
So, yes, I do believe that the Earth is fairly robust, but that doesn't mean that Earth's life is as adaptable. We've had many "mass extinction" events, and there's nothing that says that we will automatically survive one. But life would go on for other, lesser animal species, affording them the millions of years for our dominant successor to evolve.
INDY500 said:I don't think it's wasting, it's using resources to the best of our technology. That we now use energy consuming machines to do what 100 years ago required the physical labor of a man or animal...is a good thing. An advancement.
But technological advancements come with a trade-off don't they?
Fossil fuels pollute and may cause global climate changes. Ok, let's switch to nuclear power. No, that's too icky we're told.
So, do we listen to the alarmists that warn us to cut back on our energy use and therefore slow our progress and lessen our prosperity. Or do we go forward, trusting in the same technology and ingenuity that transformed the world of poverty, filth and sickness that existed prior to the Industrial Revolution, to today's standard of living---to find solutions.
INDY500 said:So, do we listen to the alarmists that warn us to cut back on our energy use and therefore slow our progress and lessen our prosperity. Or do we go forward, trusting in the same technology and ingenuity that transformed the world of poverty, filth and sickness that existed prior to the Industrial Revolution, to today's standard of living---to find solutions.