I suggest everyone go out and see Al Gore's moview when it opens over the next couple of weeks

This is the most important issue of our generation and directly affects GL surfers.

Website for the movie is http://www.climatecrisis.net/

Listing of theatres: http://www.climatecrisis.net/findatheater/
Opens Toronto June 2, and a number of locations upstate NY and IL

Time to hug the trees before they take them all away
find a beach where they haven't built a marina
where dunes still exist instead of giant homes and towers.

We have been deceived on many levels.

I just got back from watching this movie. Everyone has to see this!!! Its a MUST!! Its very relavent, wether your into the environment or not, and it does a great job of getting the point across without being over the top. I wanted to post this in the regular forum section, 'cause I don't think enough people visit this area of the forum, but I will leave it in here for now and hope that the word gets out. This is a great movie; a very important movie, and one that everyone needs to see! You won't be disapointed.

Johnny

The debate about global warming reminds me of how smoking was debated once.

Even if the U.S. government scientists are wrong that North America has the highest tmeperatures in two thouusand years others would question the duration of time on this planet and statistic gathing with unleasured longer periods of history. Although there has to be core sazmple evidence and shorter tree ring evidence that indicates warmer temperatures right now.

We really should be more energy independent and be like this town in Indiana that they now call "Bio Town." The towns goal is to be energy self sufficient off of bio mass. The gas in their town gas station will come from ethanol and their electricity will come from bio mass.


Burning coal and petroleum releases ancient carbom into the atmosphere. But burning just yearly produced bio mass for energy keeps the earths temperature cooler.

Also jet contrails contribute to the warming of the earth. On 911 when all the planes were grounded in North America there was colder measured temperatures in North America then on other days recorded in the same period in other years.


The are powerful vested interests that do not want to move us towards newer and better geo political balences and energy efficiencies. In my opinion the captilist and democratic system can be preserved through smarter technologies that are more benifitial to humanity and the planet without polluting it and rending it worse off than the way we found it.

Gore's dire warnings on global warming should be heeded
By GERRY RISING

6/25/2006


Former Vice President Al Gore is warning us about global warning.

It will be useful at this time, when former Vice President Al Gore's powerful documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," has been published and whose film is also being shown here, to recall the reception of Rachel Carson's book, "Silent Spring."
Today, with eagles and ospreys and peregrine falcons returning to the region, we have clear illustrations of the importance of Carson's warnings about the dangers of pesticides, but her 1962 book drew a violent response from the chemical industry. One American Cyanamid Co. executive claimed that her recommendations "would return [us] to the Dark Ages, and the insects and diseases and vermin would once again inherit the Earth." Others questioned her integrity, even her sanity.

But President Kennedy's Science Advisory Committee reviewed the issues the book raised and thoroughly vindicated both "Silent Spring" and its author. The Senate then held hearings at which Carson, already dying from cancer, testified, further establishing her points and communicating her ideas to the public.

Carson's sponsor at that Senate committee was Sen. Al Gore, the former vice president's father.

Now we have a project that is, I believe, even more important that Carson's. Perhaps the best reaction to "An Inconvenient Truth" is New Yorker reviewer David Denby's comment: "If even half of what Gore says is true, this may be the most galvanizing documentary you will see in your lifetime."

Gore's warnings are far more dire than Carson's. They tell us of our planet at a tipping point, beyond which the effects will far outmatch Katrina, the Christmas 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami or the drought and starvation in Somalia today.

Both "Silent Spring" and "An Inconvenient Truth" personalize global problems, Carson by imagining a world without the sound of bird song, Gore by relating global events to experiences of his own family, including his sister's death from smoking-related cancer.

Despite her critics' attacks on her, Carson was a well-educated and deeply informed scientist. Her experience in government gave her much information about her subject and provided important contacts within the conservation community. Gore is neither as well trained nor as eloquent, but he has been able to use his positions in government - senator's son, then senator and vice president - to gain access to informed scientists. And he has been involved with such issues for many years.

Already Gore's global warming concerns are under attack as harshly as were Carson's. These attacks did not and will not come only from individuals; they will also come from industries that will once again pour money into countering the evidence the projects gather and present.

The naysayers are out in force. Two examples of the ad hominem attacks appear among the four star Amazon.com reviews: "This book presents so much false evidence it isn't even funny. If you really care about the truth, you'll research both sides of this topic instead of taking in what the ever-so-corrupt U.N. dictates." Another claims that Gore is "the man who has in the past advocated banning the internal combustion engine and sending us back to the horse-and-buggy era."

Opposition will come from another source as well. This project is terribly embarrassing to our current political leaders, who cut the mileage requirements and emissions standards on our cars, thus increasing our contribution of dangerous chemicals to our fragile atmosphere, who reduced FEMA to a political wasteland with terrible consequences, whose "clean air initiative" reduced air quality requirements and increased health risks, who have until very recently simply assigned global warming to "further study."

It is important to understand that there are a few senior scientists who disagree with the overwhelming majority of the scientific community about global warming. For example, MIT climatologist Richard Lindzen, wrote a recent editorial in the Wall Street Journal entitled "Climate of Fear." But a response to Lindzen has been posted on the Weather Underground Web site by Jeff Masters, who mentions Lindzen's service as a $2,500 a day consultant to fossil fuel companies.

I urge everyone to see "An Inconvenient Truth" and to buy the book already on best-seller lists in order to have documentation at hand. Their two messages are clear: We can and must save this planet. To do so we must respond to global warming - and soon.


e-mail: insrisg@buffalo.edu