Al Gore's Message To Climate Skeptics

[RestoreGore]

http://progressivesforgore.blogspot.com/2008/03/al-gore-on-sixty-minutes-this-sunday.html



I am so looking forward to seeing Mr. Gore's interview this Sunday night. I hope he gets to talk about The Alliance for Climate Protection's ad campaign scheduled to be launched next week, because I am hoping it brings a turning point in this country regarding the need to take action on climate change through awareness. And also, his response to the climate skeptics is right on target. Those centuries ago who claimed that the sun not the Earth was the center of the universe were treated with the same scorn and contempt as those scientists who have proven that we as humans are contributing to the affects of climate change. How fortunate for humanity that it did not place trust in those who thought the opposite or thought the world was flat.

I don't believe it is all about money either, though that is certainly a large part of it as many of those who dismiss the evidence of anthropogenic climate change in the skeptics movement have received money from oil and utility companies. I also think it is religious in nature (the will of God) opposing science, it is political, and it is also about the inability to take responsibility for one's actions.

None of those reasons however, should stand in the way of truth and that is exactly what those who refuse to see the evidence are doing: standing in the way of truth. Should we actually listen to the skeptics and decades from now after the glaciers have melted, after the water has begun to dwindle, after wars are fought for land, water, food and other resources with great loss to humanity and other species, will those who claimed this was all a hoax still believe that?

Let's hope we never have to find out. Let's hope we take action now to save not only the planet that is our only home but ourselves, a rare and precious species in a rare and precious universe too precious to bow to the whims of the few who simply wish to perpetrate lies to assuage their own wants over the needs of the whole.

Therefore, thank you Mr. Gore for being our Galileo.

http://www.showbuzz.cbsnews.com/elements/2007/03/21/peo...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/27/60minutes/main3974389.shtml?source=mostpop_story

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1395964&mesg_id=1395964

[Kajsa]

1. The naysayers. my congressman included,

think this is political in nature!

What kind of FUed reasoning is that?
Everyone and everything is affected by global warming!

Are they nuts?

I hope they wake up before it's too late.

This is one time when I don't want to say,

" I told you so!".

:(

Thank you, Mr. Gore, for telling us the truth.

[RestoreGore]

2. That's why we need a people movement and why Al Gore is leading it

We now need to make THEM see that truth.

[RestoreGore]

3. kick