An Inconvenient Truth Trailer

According to statistics, the USA produces over 25% of the world's pollution and greenhouse gases. It is by far the most polluting country on the planet, followed by Russia, China and Japan. The US government has REFUSED to ratify an international treaty, the Kyoto Protocol which is an amendment to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), an international treaty on global warming. It also reaffirms sections of the UNFCCC. Countries which ratify this protocol commit to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases, or engage in emissions trading if they maintain or increase emissions of these gases. A total of 141 countries have ratified the agreement. Their reason was that it affects the economy of the country. So yea, let the US economy thrive, and the rest of the world can go to hell!!

What about the motorcades and private jets Gore uses to travel all over the place promoting this stupid movie. waste of fossil fuels? I think so. : )

Q: When has the earth's climate remained a constant temperature?
A: Never.

Read some history instead of listening to politicians.

A MAJOR volcanic eruption can cause another ice age or MAJOR solar activity could raise the temperature no matter if we all rode unicycles. CO2 is just a minute factor in the equation.

I want to argue that it is now time for us to make a major shift in our thinking about the environment, similar to the shift that occurred around the first Earth Day in 1970, when this awareness was first heightened. But this time around, we need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead.

"Global Warming" is not a correct description of what is going on, the more accurate descriptive phrase is "climate change."

The Earth's climate is, however, always in a process of change. It has been much colder than it is now, and it has also been much warmer.

The questions to ask are what extent is climate change anthropogenic (man-made), and what --if anything -- should be done about it.

The answer to the first question is "we don't really know."

I always treat with skepticism any report of climate change that fails to acknowledge the Little Ice Age. This was a roughly 400-year-long cycle of temperature decrease that affected the Northern Hemisphere from the 1300s to about 1850.

It is important to note that prior to the Little Ice Age, commercial vinyards operated in Northern England, Greenland was covered in meadows suitable for grazing sheep, and dwarf palm trees could be found in Germany (which had a climate much like Portugal today.)

The Little Ice Age put an end to this, and indeed the Greenland colony was abandoned. Today, there are ruins of farms underneath the ice in Greenland. It may interest some to learn that the Thames river started to freeze over in this period, and New York harbour used to freeze over often in winter -- allowing people to skate from Manhatten to Staten Island. (The last time it did so was 1818).

The Little Ice Age came to an end around 1850, and temperatures began to rise. They still haven't reached the levels they were 800 years ago.

When sheep can graze in Greenland, and commercial wine can be made in England, then temperatures will be back to normal historical levels.

Kyoto was cooked up after the success of the CFC ban in the 1980s. CFCs were dangerous to the ozone layer, and have been effectively elimininated. With CFCs banned, CO2 became the next crusade.

But unlike CFCs, CO2 is a natural component of Earth's atmosphere, and has fluctuated to levels much higher than they are now.

Indeed, in the times of Ancient Greeks, certain warm-climate birds and animals (including lions) had ranges more northerly than they do now.

CO2 is not a poison. It is essential for plantlife.

Rather than spend billions of dollars on Kyoto, I would rather direct resources to containing noxious pollutants (like lead, sulpher dioxide etc) and conserving wildlife habitat.

Pollution that causes smog and poisons water is the important issue, not fluxuations in CO2.

BTW.... What is seldom mentioned in this scaremongering is that water vapour in Earth's atmosphere is responsible for about 90% of the greenhouse effect. CO2 accounts for roughly 5% of the efct, and various other gasses account for the rest.

Humans are responsible for roughly 1% of water vapour emissions (the rest is evaporated off the oceans). CO2 emissions from natural sources (biomass decay, vulcanism etc.) exceed anthropogenic emissions.

In all humans are likely responsible for no more than 2-4% of the greenhouse

not to sign the Kyoto agreement. Goes to show how much faith they have in their economy. They are slowly poisoning themselves and their environment. A friend of mine visited USA and had to get tested by doctor and he was amazed at how low his lead contamination was. Australia is using unleaded fuel as it major source of petroleum. Not saying Australia is better it still has a long way to go too!

If I put ice in a glass of water, does the water level rise as the ice melts??? Try it and find out for yourself.......

The origins of "global warming" alarmism had its roots in the 1970s-era fears of "global cooling" and an impending ice age, resulting from the 1940-1970 global temperature decline. Swedish meteorologist Bert Bolin suggested at the time that man-made greenhouse gas emissions might offset the cooling by warming the atmosphere.

FAKE! LOL

...just 25 years ago?

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keep up the good work TREY

i think we should try to help to stop global warming becase on the furute we are going to be loosing alot of plants and alot of animals would be extingis as well so please think care full about that ; if we carry on like that on the future there is not going to be more snow may be also the wind will become hotter so would u like to live like that

lets waste more water at stop saving it
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Take a glass of water... and put ice in it, make sure you messure where the water was at in the begening.
Check the water when all the ice melts

Does it change?