Al Gore predicted all of this in An Inconvenient Truth:
As the planet warms, the ancient machines of the gray whalean master race will begin to stir. Their instruments of death powered by minute rises in sea temperature, they will begin to send their agents of terror out on increasingly bold missions of destruction. At first the human population will be oblivious. The occasional ship sinking or swimmer mauled with characteristic baleen bite marks will be reported locally, but the dots of this sinister global movement will not be connected until it's far too late. Their algal slime will gradually colonise the land, allowing them to slither across huge distances by night. By the time the 2012 Republican presidential candidate is revealed to be a pygmy sperm whale wearing a top hat and monocle, the gray whales will have assumed total dominion over the affairs of humans, or "mega-plankton" as we are known to the grays.
In 1995 I proposed a bill to impose a 0.2% of surcharge on the use of high fructose corn syrup in candy. The money raised was to be appropriated to fund a crack team of scuba specialists to wage humanity's covert war against whalean infiltrators. The bill was defeated. Now, alas, it may be too late.
Why won't people listen to this guy? It's like everyone fell asleep or left after the first half of the movie or something.
Why won't people listen to this guy? It's like everyone fell asleep or left after the first half of the movie or something.
For the same reason people doesn't listen to greenpeace. While he says a lot of things that are true the hit/miss ratio is too bad for anyone to be able to take anything he says at face value. It's not enough to say a lot of things that are true. If you wan't people to start listening to you you will also have to stop telling things that aren't.
For the same reason people doesn't listen to greenpeace.
Speak for yourself. I don't listen to Greenpeace because they do things like drive motorboats back and forth across the English Channel to prevent oil from coming into the UK.
Why won't people listen to this guy? It's like everyone fell asleep or left after the first half of the movie or something.
For the same reason people doesn't listen to greenpeace. While he says a lot of things that are true the hit/miss ratio is too bad for anyone to be able to take anything he says at face value. It's not enough to say a lot of things that are true. If you wan't people to start listening to you you will also have to stop telling things that aren't.
Such as? From a review [realclimate.org] by actual climatologists [realclimate.org]:
How well does the film handle the science? Admirably, I thought. It is remarkably up to date, with reference to some of the very latest research. Discussion of recent changes in Antarctica and Greenland are expertly laid out. He also does a very good job in talking about the relationship between sea surface temperature and hurricane intensity. As one might expect, he uses the Katrina disaster to underscore the point that climate change may have serious impact
Al Gore is, or at least was, a politician. In the U.S., we have what is known as a two party system. Even though those two parties are often in agreement on many issues, the people who vote for those parties can be extremely emotional about their party. Consequently, to maybe 50% of the U.S. population, Al Gore is first and foremost a "Democrat" and therefore the enemy. This makes it incredibly easy to ignore everything he says as lies and liberal propaganda. And that will never change. The issue has now become politicized, there's no going back.
Consequently, to maybe 50% of the U.S. population, Al Gore is first and foremost a "Democrat" and therefore the enemy. This makes it incredibly easy to ignore everything he says as lies and liberal propaganda.
Probably more like a very vocal 10% of the population. Most simply don't care.
And then there's the converse, like my mother-in-law, who literally said to me once "If Al Gore supports it, then I'll vote for it. Good enough for me."
I think the answer is unfortunately obvious. There is no profit (supposedly), it is inconvenient, and it is "outside of my control" i believe are the 3 prime reasons people use. I am no socialist, so rather than arguing the earth has rights, i argue that I (and all who desire it) have a right to a livable environment robust with trees and animals of the earth and that I a "Shepard of the Earth" must do my part to ensure its safety in the ways that I can. If more people took this approach and realized tha
When a million people say "ill turn my computer off tonight while i sleep...", "Ill just run the ac in the rooms i need", and things like that then we will see reductions in power consumption which in turn could reduce power stations, etc
1. Most people's computers go to sleep after a long period of disuse. Particularly if they are laptops. It's called "default power management settings" which the vast majority of users don't change.
2. Most people don't have zone or room based AC. If they have AC at all and it's not window units, it's almost always whole-house forced-air AC.
Even when using window units, it is often more efficient to simply leave them running, since they use less power performing minimal room temperature maintenance than
Only the beginning (Score:5, Funny)
Al Gore predicted all of this in An Inconvenient Truth:
As the planet warms, the ancient machines of the gray whalean master race will begin to stir. Their instruments of death powered by minute rises in sea temperature, they will begin to send their agents of terror out on increasingly bold missions of destruction. At first the human population will be oblivious. The occasional ship sinking or swimmer mauled with characteristic baleen bite marks will be reported locally, but the dots of this sinister global movement will not be connected until it's far too late. Their algal slime will gradually colonise the land, allowing them to slither across huge distances by night. By the time the 2012 Republican presidential candidate is revealed to be a pygmy sperm whale wearing a top hat and monocle, the gray whales will have assumed total dominion over the affairs of humans, or "mega-plankton" as we are known to the grays.
In 1995 I proposed a bill to impose a 0.2% of surcharge on the use of high fructose corn syrup in candy. The money raised was to be appropriated to fund a crack team of scuba specialists to wage humanity's covert war against whalean infiltrators. The bill was defeated. Now, alas, it may be too late.
Why won't people listen to this guy? It's like everyone fell asleep or left after the first half of the movie or something.
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Maybe his script was written by Frank Schätzing. The Swarm hits pretty close to this, and dramatized as it is, it's an awesome novel.
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I don't think so, but it sure read like a novel. I'd love to see it adapted for film, though.
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Why won't people listen to this guy? It's like everyone fell asleep or left after the first half of the movie or something.
because it's an Inconvenient truth
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Why won't people listen to this guy? It's like everyone fell asleep or left after the first half of the movie or something.
For the same reason people doesn't listen to greenpeace.
While he says a lot of things that are true the hit/miss ratio is too bad for anyone to be able to take anything he says at face value.
It's not enough to say a lot of things that are true. If you wan't people to start listening to you you will also have to stop telling things that aren't.
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For the same reason people doesn't listen to greenpeace.
Speak for yourself. I don't listen to Greenpeace because they do things like drive motorboats back and forth across the English Channel to prevent oil from coming into the UK.
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Why won't people listen to this guy? It's like everyone fell asleep or left after the first half of the movie or something.
For the same reason people doesn't listen to greenpeace.
While he says a lot of things that are true the hit/miss ratio is too bad for anyone to be able to take anything he says at face value.
It's not enough to say a lot of things that are true. If you wan't people to start listening to you you will also have to stop telling things that aren't.
Such as? From a review [realclimate.org] by actual climatologists [realclimate.org]:
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Shut up and take my money!
Re:Only the beginning (Score:5, Insightful)
Al Gore is, or at least was, a politician. In the U.S., we have what is known as a two party system. Even though those two parties are often in agreement on many issues, the people who vote for those parties can be extremely emotional about their party. Consequently, to maybe 50% of the U.S. population, Al Gore is first and foremost a "Democrat" and therefore the enemy. This makes it incredibly easy to ignore everything he says as lies and liberal propaganda. And that will never change. The issue has now become politicized, there's no going back.
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Consequently, to maybe 50% of the U.S. population, Al Gore is first and foremost a "Democrat" and therefore the enemy. This makes it incredibly easy to ignore everything he says as lies and liberal propaganda.
Probably more like a very vocal 10% of the population. Most simply don't care.
And then there's the converse, like my mother-in-law, who literally said to me once "If Al Gore supports it, then I'll vote for it. Good enough for me."
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When a million people say "ill turn my computer off tonight while i sleep...", "Ill just run the ac in the rooms i need", and things like that then we will see reductions in power consumption which in turn could reduce power stations, etc
1. Most people's computers go to sleep after a long period of disuse. Particularly if they are laptops. It's called "default power management settings" which the vast majority of users don't change.
2. Most people don't have zone or room based AC. If they have AC at all and it's not window units, it's almost always whole-house forced-air AC.
Even when using window units, it is often more efficient to simply leave them running, since they use less power performing minimal room temperature maintenance than
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Too bad he got distracted tracking the Manbearpig. Otherwise he might have saved us all from the coming insurrection.
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Why won't people listen to this guy?
I seriously don't know, and you ignorant fuckers all deserve the death that is coming to you.
FWIW; we all knew this was coming in 1973, and we just fucking kept on ignoring it.