VentureBeat - Latest Comments in Al Gore’s “Our Choice”: Climate handbook or more hot air?

Re: Al Gore’s “Our Choice”: Climate handbook or more hot air?

hypARCHtyp — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:42:31 -0000

angryatliars, where are your facts? The debate is over.

Climate change is a FACT. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that has complied the work of thousands of climate scientists for over twenty years, says the evidence of the climate crisis is "unequivocal."

"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts."
Senator Pat Moynihan, quoted by VP Al Gore in "Our Choice."

Re: Al Gore’s “Our Choice”: Climate handbook or more hot air?

angryatliars — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:39:44 -0000

uhh dudeoflife, where in your answer did you use any facts? All Al Gore does is tell everyone that the debate is over, that his scientists are right...yet Methane is the new Co2? Yes, I believe in science, but whose science are young going to believe in?

Maybe Al Gore shouldn't have told us the debate is over so soon...

Re: Al Gore’s “Our Choice”: Climate handbook or more hot air?

dudeoflife — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:09:09 -0000

to those who will soon begin to comment and bash gore and hippies. you can't be angry at a smart person investing in smart technologies. What should he do, preach and not act on it? there is no more "believing" or "not believing." Climate change is a scientific fact and we're all gonna get fucked eventually anyway. 99.9999% of all species of life on earth have gone extinct, why are we so different? We will all be living differently in 50 years. Resist? fine, we'll laugh when youre still driving a hummer. Just be fucking smart and stop being stubborn assholes. Why can't you believe that 6.4 billion people can have an effect on our planet?

Re: Al Gore’s “Our Choice”: Climate handbook or more hot air?

dylinkfu — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:29:11 -0000

well Im sure he goes into it a little but I could see the bad with high carbon taxes on farmers wouldnt really make things fair it just make meat more expensive and more outsourcing of our beef products becouse itll be even cheaper to buy beef from somwhere else if we do that which would make alot more poeple unemployed without really creating any jobs. I believe the solar panel and power grid idea is good becouse even though people working for coal reactors might lose a job it would create jobs in another market with the building and maintance of solar panel power and grids made to work off this.

Re: Al Gore’s “Our Choice”: Climate handbook or more hot air?

Scott — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:54:35 -0000

Meat is the #1 cause and they should address it now.

Re: Al Gore’s “Our Choice”: Climate handbook or more hot air?

amdizzle — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:24:06 -0000

Actually Andy, it is METHANE that is the greehouse gas Gore and others are now citing as the "real" culprit behind global warming. It'll prolly be water vapor (the most prevalent greenhouse gas) next and the price of your latte will go up due to the steam tax on the espresso machines.
I honestly hope that VentureBeat makes Gore give full disclose at GreenBeat that he is a major investor in and corporate advisor to Silver Spring Networks, a smart grid technology company that already has secure government contracts. So now Al is going around talkin' smart grid? Huh, must just be coincidence.

Re: Al Gore’s “Our Choice”: Climate handbook or more hot air?

Andy — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:30:20 -0000

How come no one talks about addressing the single largest contributor to greenhouse gases - LIVESTOCK. There has to be a carbon tax on beef consumption to make it fair to all. But as always, the lobbyists and weak politicians are not going to let that happen.