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Al Gore Ties Myanmar Cyclone to Global Warming
14 hours 30 min ago by LibertySugar 142,050 Views - 190 comments


Al Gore says that the cyclone in Myanmar is a result of global warming. He told NPR yesterday:


And as we’re talking today, Terry, the death count in Myanmar from the cyclone that hit there yesterday has been rising from 15,000 to way on up there to much higher numbers now being speculated. And last year a catastrophic storm from last fall hit Bangladesh. The year before, the strongest cyclone in more than 50 years hit China – and we’re seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated with continued global warming.



Gore said that because ocean temperatures are on the rise, extreme and dangerous weather is also on the rise.

Critics of Gore say he's taking advantage of the deaths of thousands of innocent people to promote his political advantage. But, if he truly believes that we must address climate change to stop such disasters and save future lives, doesn't he have an obligation to speak up? If he is wrong about global warming, what harm is there in taking better care of the planet anyways?

Is Gore right to tie Myanmar Cyclone deaths to global warming?


Al Gore Ties Myanmar Cyclone to Global Warming

Yay! He is just warning people of the danger!
41% (3,023)

Nay! He is shamefully exploiting this tragedy.
54% (3,917)

Other. I'll tell you in the comments.
5% (361)

Total votes: 7,301



http://www.citizensugar.com/1609388

Al Gore ties EVERYTHING to Global Warming. I am surprised he has not publicly come out and accused Clintons libido for being the root cause. Many foreign courts have either banned or ordered disclaimers that "An Inconvenient Truth" is NOT based on fact but largely fictional, before it can be shown in their countries.


Yay! He is just warning people of the danger!
41% (3,160)
Nay! He is shamefully exploiting this tragedy.
54% (4,105)
Other. I'll tell you in the comments.
5% (381)
Total votes: 7,646

My god, Climate Pope Gore has spoken. This is it, it is time to relinquish our soveriegnty to the United Nations, the One World Government, those wonderful unelected bureuacrats who will be able to save us all once we are all under their power! Where will they legislate from and who will be our new One World God, Gore?

Originally Posted by alamb

My god, Climate Pope Gore has spoken. This is it, it is time to relinquish our soveriegnty to the United Nations, the One World Government, those wonderful unelected bureuacrats who will be able to save us all once we are all under their power! Where will they legislate from and who will be our new One World God, Gore?

Most likely they will legislate from the EU in Brussels. The One World God? Javier Solana maybe?

You have to admit, the storms these last 2 years are constant and more potent than ever. Why would anyone doubt what the Bush Regime is capable of doing? Scientist are being squelched for god sake!

Any one see the 60 Minutes segment on the top NASA guy having his information EDITED by the government?
Here some proof:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/ ... 5985.shtml

Rewriting The Science
Scientist Says Politicians Edit Global Warming Research

Rewriting The Science
NASA's top scientist studying climate change says the Bush administration is restricting what he can say about global warming. Scott Pelley reports. | Share/Embed

The greenhouse effect, a look at the Kyoto Protocol and a history of the Earth's climate.


(CBS) This story originally aired on March 19, 2006.

As a government scientist, James Hansen is taking a risk. He says there are things the White House doesn't want you to hear but he's going to say them anyway.

Hansen is arguably the world's leading researcher on global warming. He's the head of NASA's top institute studying the climate. But as correspondent Scott Pelley first reported last spring, this imminent scientist says that the Bush administration is restricting who he can talk to and editing what he can say. Politicians, he says, are rewriting the science.

But he didn't hold back speaking to Pelley, telling 60 Minutes what he knows.

Asked if he believes the administration is censoring what he can say to the public, Hansen says: "Or they're censoring whether or not I can say it. I mean, I say what I believe if I'm allowed to say it."

What James Hansen believes is that global warming is accelerating. He points to the melting arctic and to Antarctica, where new data show massive losses of ice to the sea.

Is it fair to say at this point that humans control the climate? Is that possible?

"There's no doubt about that, says Hansen. "The natural changes, the speed of the natural changes is now dwarfed by the changes that humans are making to the atmosphere and to the surface."

Those human changes, he says, are driven by burning fossil fuels that pump out greenhouse gases like CO2, carbon dioxide. Hansen has a theory that man has just 10 years to reduce greenhouse gases before global warming reaches what he calls a tipping point and becomes unstoppable.[ He says the White House is blocking that message.

"In my more than three decades in the government I've never witnessed such restrictions on the ability of scientists to communicate with the public," says Hansen.

Restrictions like an e-mail Hansen's institute received from NASA in 2004. "… there is a new review process … ," the e-mail read. "The White House (is) now reviewing all climate related press releases," it continued.

Why the scrutiny of Hansen's work? Well, his Goddard Institute for Space Studies is the source of respected but sobering research on warming. It recently announced 2005 was the warmest year on record. Hansen started at NASA more than 30 years ago, spending nearly all that time studying the earth. How important is his work? 60 Minutes asked someone at the top, Ralph Cicerone, president of the nation’s leading institute of science, the National Academy of Sciences.

"I can't think of anybody who I would say is better than Hansen. You might argue that there's two or three others as good, but nobody better," says Cicerone.

And Cicerone, who’s an atmospheric chemist, said the same thing every leading scientist told 60 Minutes.

"Climate change is really happening," says Cicerone.

Asked what is causing the changes, Cicernone says it's greenhouse gases: "Carbon dioxide and methane, and chlorofluorocarbons and a couple of others, which are all — the increases in their concentrations in the air are due to human activities. It's that simple."

But if it is that simple, why do some climate science reports look like they have been heavily edited at the White House? With science labeled "not sufficiently reliable." It’s a tone of scientific uncertainty the president set in his first months in office after he pulled out of a global treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

"We do not know how much our climate could, or will change in the future," President Bush said in 2001, speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House. "We do not know how fast change will occur, or even how some of our actions could impact it."
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(BUSH LIES Easily...)