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   Ripit said, 5 months ago

   Nice one!

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   SomethingPositive said, 5 months ago

   Yeah, I’ll tell you what. Making poorly drawn, barely distributed comics makes a much bigger difference than crusading against global climate change. Spot on, Rall!

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   Adora68 said, 5 months ago

   You’re right, Something! Rall creates contributes far less carbon to the environment by not jet-setting around the world in a private jet. Good call!

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   Right_On said, 5 months ago

   I love Gore’s tattoo. Really makes the point.

   And that’s a pretty good representation of Gore’s home. If he only showed the electricity meter with the dial spinning at supersonic speeds, that would be the best.

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   eft said, 5 months ago

   Why do people think that proving someone a hypocrite wins the policy argument? If this were true, we would have gay rights written into the Constitution by now.

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   Adam Sperry said, 5 months ago

   Al Gore is the very reason I registered Green before the 2000 election. He was a boob for not runing on Clinton’s record, and an idiot for not insisting that FL needed to be alowd to count all of their votes.
   Whatever good he’s doing now rather pales in comparison to us not being at war with Iraq.

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   tpenna said, 5 months ago

   For what it’s worth, Al Gore’s home is run largely on renewable power and has been retrofitted with greener appliances. He voluntarily pays much higher electric bills in order to run on wind and solar power. This has been confirmed by his local utility company.

   And I’m with Adam Sperry (though I never changed my party affiliation). I voted for Nader in 2000 largely because I found Gore to be an unsatisfactory candidate.

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   fennec said, 5 months ago

   So the result was we got Bush Jr. I learned about cutting off my nose to spite my face in California in the ‘70’s. Sometimes one has to go for the lesser of evils, just to avoid the greater evil.

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   dtroutma said, 5 months ago

   Some folks inherited a lifestyle, and saw the light. Some folks just keep ignoring the warning lights, and driving til the engine seizes. For a planet, that’s really an expensive repair.

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    audieholland said, 5 months ago

    Even if the climate changes, there’s nothing we can do about it. There was global warming during the age of the dinosaurs. There was a mini-Ice Age in the 1600s. Mankind has only recently started registering global temperatures.

    Al Gore and his brainwashed followers want every person to pay a global environment tax. As if that would save your planet, let alone your soul.

    The voter always has to choose between the lesser of two evils. That’s because the system excludes anyone to be elected who is any good.

    There is no difference between Gore and any republican. You’re gonna get screwed anyway. Being able to choose your executioner only gives an illusion of freedom. Who do you want as interrogator? Good cop or bad cop?

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    Cpt. Jay said, 5 months ago

    But he’s super cereal. That, and he resembles Man-bear Pig, does he not?

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    motivemagus said, 5 months ago

    Good Lord, audie, is that an American speaking? “There’s nothing we can do about it?” Nonsense! That’s the whole point – we helped create the current state of global warming, and we can influence it back. The issue is finding a cure that won’t be worse than the disease. The current effort is to buy us time to figure that out.
    For example (just to prove I’m not talking through my hat), some suggestions include: (1) a giant sunshade (actually an array of shades or Echo balloons) in the L1 point with steerable solar sails to keep them there; (2) microscopic sulfate droplets pumped into the high atmosphere to mimic the cooling effects of a volcanic eruption. Scientists have previously estimated that reflecting less than 1 per cent of sunlight back into space could compensate for the warming generated by all greenhouse gases emitted since the industrial revolution, according to an article from 2007, so it wouldn’t take all that much, relatively speaking. Trouble is, the first costs megabucks, and the side effects of the second could be bad if we miscalculate the amount required!

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    oldlegodad said, 5 months ago

    Y’all see the Space Station photos of the Volcano? Wee little humans canna do that much damage ina 1000 years.

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    Bill_Clay said, 5 months ago

    “I voted for Nader in 2000 largely because I found Gore to be an unsatisfactory candidate.”

    I don’t want to be a killjoy, but those millions of votes wasted on Nader were what put Bush into the White House. And put this country onto the express elevator to Hell.

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    churchillwasright said, 5 months ago

    Yeah? Well I voted for Gore, and I thank God that he lost! (I’m a non-believer, but I gotta thank something)

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    mattro53 said, 5 months ago

    I have not voted for a Democrat for prez since 1992. Had I lived in a “battleground state” in 2000 rather than CA, I still would have voted Green. Blaming Nader for Gore losing the election is disingenuous. Gore could not even take Tennessee. His campaign was spectacularly inept. The Republicans stole, caged or repressed millions of votes as they do in every election. Yet, disgruntled Dems still persist in blaming Nader.

    I do believe that Gore is a very positive force in bringing awareness to the issue of global warming. Most of the right’s propaganda about him is flat out lies. Al Gore came from a rich family; he is not making money off global warming. He is not new to the issue. He’s been talking about for 30 years. In fact, I remember reading something about him in connection w/global warming before 1980. He’s helped bring the issue to the forefront. If only he could get more people to really care.

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    tpenna said, 5 months ago

    I can appreciate your points, fennec and Bill_Clay. But I decided to vote for Nader in 2000 for a few reasons, and I still don’t feel bad about it at all.

    First, Ralph Nader has always stood for the things I believe in. This is the same reason why I voted for Dennis Kucinich in the 2004 primary.

    Second, as a progressive, Bill Clinton had been a big disappointment to me. I still had a lot of affection for the guy, but his centrist domestic policies left me aching for someone I could actually believe in. Al Gore, though he tried to run away from Clinton, promised to be more of the same. I had always been fond of Gore and his intentions, but I believe he had lately (like Clinton) let politics get in the way of good policy.

    Third, I wanted to see the Green Party get the 5% necessary to get federal funds for the next time out. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen. So we’re still stuck with the lousy two-party system.

    Fourth, and perhaps most important to you, I cast my vote in Tennessee. It was already apparent that Gore would not win his home state, and Nader’s tally there could never make a difference for him. Had I lived in a battleground state, it might have been a tougher decision for me. But since I didn’t, it was an easy choice.

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    Right_On said, 5 months ago

    Half man, half bear, and half pig. Man Bear Pig must be stopped.

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    bromonation said, 5 months ago

    ahahahah this was magnificent!

    9/10

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    Bill_Clay said, 5 months ago

    I don’t blame you guys for voting for Nader, I blame Nader himself for being the spoiler. The almost 3 million votes he siphoned away from Gore would have made all the recounts unnecessary, and a whole lot of US soldiers and Iraqis would still be alive today.

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    audieholland said, 4 months ago

    Motivemagus: No, that’s not an American speaking. I’m from Holland, hence my posting name, see?

    If the Earth is warming up it’s a natural process and like the dino’s couldn’t do anything about their species going extinct, neither can we. Even though stinkers like Gore make you think that, yes we can - only if we pay more taxes!

    Bill_Clay just proves my point about the political mono culture in the US of A. Anyone who dares stand up as an independent voice is branded as almost a traitor because his actions prevented the appointed presidential heir (Gore) from taking over the throne.

    The US of A really is a monarchy. The heir to the throne must always come from one of two families of nobility: the Democrats and the Republicans. A choice from two evils is not a choice at all.

    The fact that only half of the Americans is a registered voter and only half of those actually vote is a clear example that most Americans do not believe it makes any difference. Because, when you have electors, who needs any popular vote?

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    motivemagus said, 4 months ago

    Holland is a surname, too, you know, but sorry for the misunderstanding.
    Because something is a “natural process” does not mean it cannot be influenced. The dinosaurs faced a cataclysmic meteorite strike which produced the equivalent of a nuclear winter for an extended period. Not, in the sense you mean, a “natural process,” but an unusual disaster.
    And besides, it’s NOT just a natural process. We would be in an ice age now were it not for the increase in greenhouse gases produced by industry.
    And I find it irritating that no one is READING my ^%$#@ posts. There are a number of things we can do. Note that the sulfate droplets idea mimics a volcanic eruption, which is a “natural process.” Any reason why we can’t duplicate it?

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    Bill_Clay said, 4 months ago

    audieholland:

    You can’t just rush over the cliff’s edge screaming, “I’m an Independent!” and expect a change to spontaneously happen.

    There’s a reason it’s called the ‘lesser’ of two evils. If you stubbornly threw away your vote on a fringe candidate who had absolutely no chance of winning, then you helped the ‘greater’ of two evils win.

    A whole lot more people ended up dead under Bush than they would have under Gore. But the Independents can proudly say they voted their conscience while victims are being buried.

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    deadheadzan said, 4 months ago

    Humans have been influencing the climate very noticebly since at least the 1950’s by cutting down the Amazon rain forest. The idea that we don’t significantly influence it is just not looking at all the facts.

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    M Kitt said, 4 months ago

    DHZ, let them try to explain why the ozone layer is peeling away at the poles and as a direct effect of that the level of ultraviolet radiation is high enough to have to wear sunblock year round……that wasn’t the case until the last 20-25 years and is directly tied to CFC (chlorofluorocarbon) propellants. So let’s all pretend that hydrocarbon residuals like CO have nothing to do with environmental change, just pay attention to and trust the swill the petrochemical manufacturers are putting out to the corporate media, no conflict of interest there, yeah right. Just like they said manufacturing and driving gas guzzling pieces of fecal matter that are unmarketable outside of the U.S. would be good for the economy, gluttonous a$$holes.