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Al Gore Goes Completely Insane!

Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 3 months ago to Science
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I was laughing while I read what is in the link.
Gore--Let's ban cars from cities and spend $90 trillion to make it so.
SOURCE URL: http://personalliberty.com/al-gores-latest-salvation-ban-cars-cities-worldwide/

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  • Posted by mccwho 9 years, 3 months ago
    idot,
    If you want people to use public transportation you have to make it faster and you have to do it through private companies, not government. The law of free entrprise will make it actually work. Government involvment will guarantee it will FAIL.
    Gore in utopian... Utopia only exist in a Fantasy not reality!
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  • Posted by jimjamesjames 9 years, 3 months ago
    The purpose of expanding public transportation has only one goal: control of the populace, no choice of movement, no freedom to come and go as one pleases........ Like the TSA is teaching the populace to get on the cattle cars without complaint when the time comes.

    "Hey, the shit has hit the fan, let's get on the light rail system and bug out of here!" !!!!!
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    Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 3 months ago
    I agree with Gore's basic idea but not a master plan that costs a year's worth of global GDP. Any time you ban something or set a hard limit, it stifles even activities that create more value than they destroy. I admire him for point out the long-term costs of burning stuff. If we had to focus on one emissions source, it makes sense that it would be cars b/c we design our cities around them and that drives the need for them. But we do not have focus on one thing. We can use taxes and emission credits to let people find their own ways of reducing emissions. I have a hunch, nothing scientific, that someone will come up with a relatively inexpensive to deal with the effects of the carbon emissions, allowing us to burn stuff at almost no cost to people in the future.

    I strongly admire Al Gore for pointing out the problem and that transportation is the low-hanging fruit of emissions reduction.
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    • Posted by Lucky 9 years, 3 months ago
      I also strongly admire Gore for clever strategy in-
      avoiding debate but enhancing his public profile,
      hypocrisy in making money from oil while condemning fossil fuel use.
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      This public service message brought to you by the Carbon is Innocent Collective
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      • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 3 months ago
        Politicians always care about their profile. I'm not judging politicians or Gore as a person. I'm just saying it's a good thing he's highlighting one of the biggest problems of our time.
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        • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 3 months ago
          The climate has always changed.
          The Ice Age allowed Stone-Age people to cross from Asia to America and primitive horses to go the other way.
          Dinosaurs liked it hot.
          I did not render you that 0.
          That was someone else who felt their intelligence insulted.
          Al Gore is a consistent insult to objective intelligence.
          And he is a hypocritical greedy SOB with a carbon footprint I could never hope to approach.
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          • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 3 months ago
            He's doing a good job, though, getting the word out to people who's knowledge of the problem is so think they actually don't know the climate of the world has gone through many changes. They don't know there may have been a snowball earth period where glaciers covered the planet and a warm period with no ice at the poles. They don't know we're in what's technically an "ice age" with periods of glaciation and deglaciation. The preponderance of the evidence is that human activities are radically upsetting this cycle. We don't have a geo-engineering solution. It's hard to live an affluent lifestyle without burning stuff, and there's nothing hypocritical in having an affluent lifestyle and pointing out the facts.
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            • Posted by Technocracy 9 years, 3 months ago
              The so called preponderance of the evidence is promulgated by flawed and manipulated computer models using data changes that are within the margin of error for the instrumentation. In other words statistically insignificant other than to push a political agenda.

              The agenda is being pushed in both directions by both sides, one side is merely more obnoxious than the other.

              Neither side is completely factual, or can be.
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              • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 3 months ago
                " In other words statistically insignificant other than to push a political agenda. "
                It's a lame agenda b/c it's something we all wish were untrue. It's so costly and unfortunate that I could almost give in to a desire to deny it, as people sometimes deny the scientific evidence they have a grave disease. All the monied interests and desires of humankind want there to be no climatological costs to human activities. It's absurd to say political interests are pushing the science to point to something we hate.
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                • Posted by Technocracy 9 years, 3 months ago
                  Perhaps you don't remember enough about the 60s and 70s to recall the climate agenda back then?

                  Then it was not global warming, it was the impending ice age. That dog didn't hunt so they changed the pitch to global warming.

                  Now that can't be supported either so they have now gone to "climate change"

                  It is all an unproven and unprovable line of BS they use to gain power. Political, beaurocratic, and monetary.

                  Believe in it if you like, after all it is the left's new religion.

                  But I for one recognize when I"m being lied to
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    • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 3 months ago
      I happen to know a little bit about the transportation availability in Madison. I take it you faithfully ride public transportation every day and do not own an automobile?
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