Opinion: Don't Believe the Hype

[apothanein kerdos]

I took his video and put it into my "Lock Box"

[anti-hillbilly]

Have many of you have actually seen the film?

[apothanein kerdos]

Have many of you have actually seen the film?

I don't need to. I have heard Al Gore lecture many times on it. The film is nothing more than his slide show (he admits this himself) and the slideshow is absolutely horrible. Why watch what I have already seen via slides?

[anti-hillbilly]

Have many of you have actually seen the film?

I don't need to. I have heard Al Gore lecture many times on it. The film is nothing more than his slide show (he admits this himself) and the slideshow is absolutely horrible. Why watch what I have already seen via slides?

When, where did you see him lecture?

[apothanein kerdos]

Have many of you have actually seen the film?

I don't need to. I have heard Al Gore lecture many times on it. The film is nothing more than his slide show (he admits this himself) and the slideshow is absolutely horrible. Why watch what I have already seen via slides?

When, where did you see him lecture?

This new confounded contraption called "Television." Apparently he did a lecture on some "station" called C-SPAN. He also did an interview on "The Daily Show."

What I'm really curious about is how you are questioning if I've seen it but refusing to deal with what I said. Hmmmmmmmm, distraction?

[anti-hillbilly]

Have many of you have actually seen the film?

I don't need to. I have heard Al Gore lecture many times on it. The film is nothing more than his slide show (he admits this himself) and the slideshow is absolutely horrible. Why watch what I have already seen via slides?

When, where did you see him lecture?

This new confounded contraption called "Television." Apparently he did a lecture on some "station" called C-SPAN. He also did an interview on "The Daily Show."

What I'm really curious about is how you are questioning if I've seen it but refusing to deal with what I said. Hmmmmmmmm, distraction?

What's wrong with questioning? I thought you saw him in person or something; my mistake. I heard about the movie but haven't seen it nor have I seen him give any interviews.

I'll go to C-Span and watch it; they should have it archived there, thanks!

[apothanein kerdos]

Have many of you have actually seen the film?

I don't need to. I have heard Al Gore lecture many times on it. The film is nothing more than his slide show (he admits this himself) and the slideshow is absolutely horrible. Why watch what I have already seen via slides?

When, where did you see him lecture?

This new confounded contraption called "Television." Apparently he did a lecture on some "station" called C-SPAN. He also did an interview on "The Daily Show."

What I'm really curious about is how you are questioning if I've seen it but refusing to deal with what I said. Hmmmmmmmm, distraction?

What's wrong with questioning? I thought you saw him in person or something; my mistake. I heard about the movie but haven't seen it nor have I seen him give any interviews.

I'll go to C-Span and watch it; they should have it archived there, thanks!

Not a problem. Check out the Daily Show as well where he talks about how Global Warming will be worse than a Nuclear Holocaust (which shows how nutty this guy is).

[anti-hillbilly]

Check out the Daily Show as well where he talks about how Global Warming will be worse than a Nuclear Holocaust (which shows how nutty this guy is).

I'm gonna have to watch and see how he phrased that exactly. Actually there's some truth to that...depending. Global warming would affect the entire planet and stop crops from growing which would lead to millions of deaths by starvation. There's been a couple of mini ice-ages in the past 800 years. In Europe, the crops wouldn't grow for years (1200s) and people started to starve, break out in boils, the plague occurred then. Naturally they thought it was "Revelation" coming true and the end of the world...of course they were wrong about that but half of the european population ended up dying. (History channel). There was also a mini ice-age in the early 1800s and a lot of people moved west cause the crops in the eastern U.S. wouldn't grow.

Of course an all out nuclear holocaust would ruin everything but on a localized scale nuclear war, while devastating to the area it's in, wouldn't affect the crops on the other side of the world.

I've never thought of him as being nutty even if I disagree with him on something. But that's just me.

Thanks again!

Edited July 4, 2006 by anti-hillbilly

[Bractal]

Actually, it would take far more than a couple deployed nuclear weapons to cause a so-called "nuclear winter", and it would be incredibly difficult for humanity to take the steps necessary to even invoke nuclear war.

Thus, global climate change is probably a larger threat than nuclear war could ever be. I'm uncertain as to why some Christians deny the concept of global warming, some claim that God would never eradicate the planet we inhabit, but how do you know it isn't God's way of punishing humanity when our society ends up excessively greedy/centralized around money?

The environment isn't limitless, and by always consuming to unhealthy degrees I do believe we've invoked this global climate change. I have yet to see Al Gore's documentary as it isn't playing anywhere near me, but I've read up quite a bit about global warming, and you can even begin to see the beginnings of a global shift now.

The past seven years have been the warmest on record, there have been increased hurricanes due to warming waters (we've never manage to make it to "Z" before), dryer summers/wetter winters in the Midwest, Tennessee and Illinois virtually becoming part of tornado alley, coral decaying globally... All of these side-effects of global warming were predicted far before they began occurring, and just look around, we're living in the middle of this now.

Edited July 4, 2006 by Bractal