Comments on: In media blitz, Al Gore takes on the assault on reason

By: Sheppard Johnson

Sheppard Johnson — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:28:23 +0000

How can you lecture all of us about carbon emissions and then fly your limos to Copenhagen? Please everyone lets us walk the talk!

By: sharron lobaugh

sharron lobaugh — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:28:06 +0000

I first read about the potential for global warming about 25 years ago on our first visit to Mexico. It turns out I had a gigantic scientific book on the topic and it was all there was left to read that week on the beach. (You could not buy an English paperback then in Mexico.) So, after plodding through it, I became concerned. Now, after studying clilmate change at the University. I am alarmed. Especially because we have lived in Alaska for 40 years and are aware of the melting of the permafrost; increasing fire incidents; polar ice cap and local glaciers melting; polar bear habitat loss; and the Tongass logging issues. We hope the United States will be a strong influence for some binding commitments from other nations.

By: Robert L King

Robert L King — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:26:12 +0000

I believe in clean air, clean water, clean everything. Who wants dirty anything? NOBODY!!!! My question, where were all the “experts” prior to the last 8 years of greed and disposal as we are so conveniently led to believe?

I’m all for a cleaner environment but I’m not for the arrogant take over of industry in the name of globalized dictatorial rule. We may or may not be wasting away our existence but if there really is no God, does it really make any difference? And if there is a God, is our good intentions enough to satisfy the final objective?

If mankind is truly destroying planet earth through progressive industrialization then how do we turn this around so all can benefit regardless of classification? I find no checks and balances in what the “experts” offer. There are to many “Counter Experts” that have a different Worldview of this “Global Catastrophe” I am seeing more collusion rather than cooperation when it comes to explanation of what’s going on. I am not convinced on either side of the aisle regarding Climate Change and the melt down of the polar caps. This is looking more like redistribution of the wealth at the expense of everybody.

By: Steven Earl Salmony

Steven Earl Salmony — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:36:46 +0000

The astounding inaction of woefully inadequate leadership during the past eight long dark years of procrastination, deceitful half-measures, soothing delays and baffling denials with regard to accelerating climate destabilization, has placed the human community in a “now or never” situation. As others have put it so well, the next few days “will seal history’s judgment” on many too many of my not-so-great generation of arrogant, foolhardy and avaricious elders. In the first decade of Century XXI, greed has ruled and ruled the world absolutely. Thanks to the assemblage of new, action-oriented leaders at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, perhaps necessary change just around the corner from “now-here”.

By: Steven Earl Salmony

Steven Earl Salmony — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:34:25 +0000

Young people must act responsibly now because their elders are abjectly failing to do so. “Anything goes” to save the global political economy in our time. Greed not “green” rules absolutely. Ideological idiocy “swift-boats” science. Not nearly enough is being done to save the Earth as fit place for the children to inhabit. We are witnessing the acute abandonment of intellectual honesty and moral courage on a scale that is unmatched in human history and duplicitously “underwritten” by wealthy, self-proclaimed Masters of the Universe in a not-so-great generation of many too many psychologically disordered leaders and minions who are choosing to pose as if they are willfully blind, hysterically deaf and religiously mute rather than accept their responsibilities to do what is possible to save the planet from their patently unsustainable plundering, polluting, hyperconsuming and hoarding? What a shame it is for a single arrogant, extremely foolish and avaricious generation of leading elders to behave so selfishly and irresponsibly and, by so doing, drop a colossal, human-caused ecological wreckage for which the elders are largely responsible into the laps of children everywhere.

By: Tom Martin

Tom Martin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:48:07 +0000

I would like the IPCC models – code, data totally public and validation they can reproduce the charts the IPCC says we are to believe?

By: Lois Sunrich

Lois Sunrich — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:32:01 +0000

Dearest Al,

Today, while working on an story art project, I suddenly came across this quote from Vladimir Shatalov, a Russian astronaut, and thought it was important to share it.

“When we look into the sky it seems to us to be endless. We breathe without thinking about it, as is natural. We think without consideration about the boundless ocean of air, and then you sit aboard a space craft, you tear away from Earth, and within ten minutes you have been carried straight through the layer of air, and beyond there is nothing! Beyond the air there is only emptiness, coldness, darkness. The “boundless” blue sky, the ocean which gives us breath and protects us from the endless black and death, is but an infinitesimally thin film. How dangerous it is to threaten even the smallest part of this gossamer covering, this conserver of life.”

As always, there is no way to thank you enough for your steadfast devotion. None the less, thank you.
Lois Sunrich

By: Sherlia Aziz

Sherlia Aziz — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:57:05 +0000

I am interested in knowing what the air quality is in places
like IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN

am convinced that THE GULF COAST ‘NAT’ DISASTER
and the GULF WAR are closely linked

one responsible for the other

you cannot really talk PRO GREEN
UNLESS YOU TALK PRO PEACE

so if you are truly green

vote PRO PEACE
more important that JUST VOTING FOR GREEN

Al and I have a mutual foe in common

By: gerold firl

gerold firl — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:36:27 +0000

Cheap solar photovoltaic is clearly the optimum solution for energy. Using it as a distributed rooftop installation has a number of additional benefits. It cuts down on the inefficiencies of long distance energy transport, since it is generated near point of use. Also, the installation of rooftop solar for both business and residential will generate large amounts of immediate jobs.

The cost of thin film PV has been dropping very rapidly, and with improved production engineering and economy of scale, it will soon be cheaper to generate electricity on your own roof than to buy it from a coal fired, gas fired, or nuclear plant. This is actually where government stimulus spending would give us the most bang for the buck: engineering the next generation of solar PV.