He tries to make it seem that the debate is over on global warming and what causes it. The fact is the scientific community is not as sure as Gore would make us think it is.

If you have done any research on this topic you would have found that the “hockey stick” graph that Gore shows in his film is completely wrong. The correlation between CO2 and temperature was wrongfully portrayed. CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere actually lag behind temperature increases by several hundred years. So it is not CO2 alone that is causing temperature increases. More than likely it is the suns activity that is causing the warming of this planet. Which is made evident by the increase of sun spots and other activity on our sun.

Also, why is it that other planets in our solar system as well as the moons of Jupiter and Saturn are experiencing “global” warming?

As David Mayer de Rothschild said “because those planets are closer to the sun.” This was in an interview on the Alex Jones Show. I heard it for myself.

In case you don’t know David Mayer de Rothschild was one the people that worked with Gore to put on the Live 8 concerts about bringing awareness to the global warming issue. He also wrote a book that was given out at the Live 8 concerts that featured a polar bear with a life preserver with no ice around. If any of you didn’t know polars bears can swim. That are quite good at it and can swim a few miles.

Please learn a thing or two before you start groveling to an idiot who knows absolutely nothing of science. The only reason he made that movie and made himself the leader of the global warming debate is because he couldn’t win the presidency and has no political power. He needed something to do, something to show that he is worth it and does still have some pull in the political arena.

He is nothing but a shill and a disgrace to this country. He is a hypocrite for putting on concerts that did little to inform anyone of this issue and also for how much energy was wasted just to put the concerts on.

Seriously, how hard is it to see past his fake persona and care for this worlds problems? This man advocates sanctions on third world countries so they can not develop there natural resources to provide energy for their countries. These countries are then only allowed to use extremely expensive alternatives fuel sources that do not fulfill there needs.

All the while Gore has more than enough money to buy what ever “green” alternative energy sources that he wants. Such as solar, thermal or whatever. He also advocates that we trim back our uses of power while he still has a huge mansion that uses the same amount of raw power as it did before.

Gore uses the same amount of energy as he always has but those who can’t buy these expensive alternatives are left in the dust.

Yeah, Gore really cares about us and this world.

However, I see this as an incredible thing. It is one thing to be fed lies about why we should go to war (ie Bush Administration)resulting in thousands of deaths and another thing to be professing (possibly inaccurate) information about global warming so that we use less fossil fuels, and each person has a better reason to recycle, and people start thinking about respecting our earth for a change. Give it a rest please… on criticizing Gore! He has been preaching this message long before he was able to truly benefit from it, therefore I believe he is truly passionate about it and wants benefit humans indiscriminately, and the worst that could happen is we actually pass some laws that require corporate monsters to recycle and car manufactures to create more efficient cars. There are better things to spend time fighting over.

Hey look my post is as factual as his movie.

Congratulations on your well deserved award.

As for Al Gore… whatever.

Your main argument against global warming is that it is due to an increase in Sun activity. I am not surprised that you all believe in that, since United States school system produces an astonishing 90% illiterates (illiterates in science, that is) of all its graduates. I’m surprised you can actually write.
But, I digress. Sun activity time scales are usually short - months or even weeks. The other Sun-related reason is our orbit getting closer to the sun. The time scale of such orbit-oscillation is much larger than 80 years, since our global warming started. You could just as well blame the constellations, like an astrologist would do.

I wonder how many of you, SUV driving people, ever think that your nice Dasani water bottles are just a proof of the pollution in this country - tap water just ain’t good enough for you, is it? It is the whole environment, not only the climate change that Al Gore is concerned about.

I haven’t seen his movie, and I simply don’t care if it is full of inexactitudes, or even lies, since that is not the point. The point is that people carelessness and greed destroy the environment. And the point is that we happen to live in this environment, and if it changes too fast we will be unable to react. Our accommodation time to a new environment (the one we create right now) is very long, tens of thousands of generations which is at least 100000 years (that is one hundred thousands, for those of you not so good with numbers).

Now, let me list some of the main environment problems:
1. overpopulation
2. global warming
3. destructions of ecosystems (Brasilian rain forest, African rain forest)
and reduction of animal habitats.
4. increasing rate of species disappearing
5. air pollution - not only CO2, but also dangerous things like Hg, NO2, … maybe you have heard about acid rains?
6. water pollution
Well, this is the reason you drink Evian, but also, I should remind you that all the toilets are actually flushed trough the city’s sewerage system into rivers, which bear that crap right into the sea.

I appreciate Al Gore’s courage for trying to sensitize the most ecologically illiterate rich country to the environment problems. If we don’t deal with this now, our children may not be able to do it.

sassy and Mike… do your own research… sheep don’t have fingers with which to type… the very act of providing an opinion for oneself demonstrates that people are thinking for themselves… I’m sure that you’ve at least thought about this issue before. You seem to be under the illusion that the research that you’ve done is conclusive… it isn’t… I wonder just how much climate science you’ve been involved with…? Maybe you could be more constructive with your opinions?

Laura… what is it about the Peace prize that makes you think it’s for scientists?

As for Gore… well… that’d be political…

The prediction onsea level rise varies greatly from scientist to scientist. For example, James Hansen - Head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York strongly believes that we may see several meters of sea level rise by 2100.