Al Gore responded to climate critics on Sunday in a The NewYork Times op-ed piece entitled “We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change.”
Minor mistakes in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report don't change its conclusions, says Al Gore
The former vice president and climate crusader took aim at naysayers who he said doggedly persist in trying to prove every major National Academy of Sciences report on global warming is hugely wrong.
“Unfortunately, the reality of the danger we are courting has not been changed by the discovery of at least two mistakes in the thousands of pages of careful scientific work over the last 22 years by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,” he wrote. Global warming disbelievers say the two mistakes – an incorrect projection for the melting of Himalayan glaciers and an overstatement of the amount of the Netherlands below sea level – undermine the report.
In addition, e-mail message stolen from the University of East Anglia in Britain hardly wish away the temperature records the university generates. Instead they show that “scientists besieged by an onslaught of hostile, make-work demands from climate skeptics may not have adequately followed the requirements of the British freed of information law,” he said.
Despite these failings, the scientific consensus on global warming remains unchanged, with the world dumping 90 million tons of greenhouse gas pollution into the atmosphere everyday.
January may have seemed unusually cold in the United States, but globally it was the second hottest January in the past 130 years, Gore said.
Congress, instead of moving ahead with regulation, is paralyzed by the disbelievers, supported by businesses that depend on unrestrained pollution and news organization who “present showmen masquerading as political thinkers who package hatred and divisiveness as entertainment,” he wrote.
Gore went on to point out that the United States trails China in the race to develop smart electric grids, fast trains, solar power, wind energy, geothermal plants and therefore sources for new 21st Century jobs.
It is time, he added, to do the right thing.
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Like VolksWagen with a 4Zyl. engine , running on LP Gas for households . Makes 11-30 Kw , it fits 70% of all households in Germany ! With US$6,000 it is affordable and with Gas from anywhere, Landfill , City provider or just a bottle , it runs for less than $50 a month . The overhead is sold to the power companies (smart grid) .
And . for bigger companies , Plants or city’s , Powermax Energy Units from Miami . A German patent what runs on waste heat to make fresh drinking water . And : ELECTRICITY !
Both in unlimited numbers !! Heat from 50-900F is required to produce water and power . http://www.powermaxus.com
Already successful in Germany and DUBAI , the first project will be run by the end of 2010 in the USA . GreenTech Bottling plants for Beverage Corp. , fresh drinking water facilities for city and States are in planning and cooling water production for Solar plants are in planning . Both concept’s are an example for “old technology” can save our future . We have 20 or more years to”bridge” before the technology gives us the ultimate FuelCell technology . For cars, homes etc . ….
We can do it , we must because ……. And we have to change now . Sun , Wind Heat , Natural Gas , everything is available . The technic is ready ( Solar panels are patented first time by 1901 in New York ! ) Waste heat technology since the mid 40ssss . We just ignored it ………
Ralph
Al Gore is a great democrat and politician. When he candidate to US presidency he had a great campaigne.
The global warm problem, it’s now a great problem for all of us!
thanks good. you cant wish it away
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