Al Gore

Al Gore's Opinions

Global Warming Is there a consensus on global warming amongst scientists? Agree There are no longer any serious scientists producing peer reviewed scientific journal articles that [deny anthropogenic global warming]. The real scientific debate is over. The people who say global warming isn't real, they must get together on Saturday nights and party with the ones who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona. The Marginalizing Pitch   The Analogy Pitch   The Association Pitch   Edit Pitches 19 Jun 2006    Source Does Cap and Trade beat carbon tax for reducing emissions? Neutral For more than 20 years, I have supported a CO2 tax offset by an equal reduction in taxes elsewhere. However, a cap-and-trade system is also essential and actually offers a better prospect for a global agreement, in part because it is difficult to imagine a harmonized global CO2 tax. Moreover, I have long recognized that our political system has special difficulty in considering a CO2 tax even if it is revenue neutral. The Long Standing Pitch   The Futile Fight Pitch   Edit Pitches 06 Mar 2009    Source Science Would a rise in global temperature catastrophically increase sea levels? Agree The Arctic is experiencing faster melting. If this were to go, sea level worldwide would go up 20 feet. This is what would happen in Florida. Around Shanghai, home to 40 million people. The area around Calcutta, 60 million. Here's Manhattan. The World Trade Center Memorial would be underwater. Think of the impact of a couple hundred thousand refugees. And then imagine 100 million. Edit Pitches 19 Jun 2006    Source Is global warming caused primarily by humans? Agree We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. The Crisis Pitch   The Moral Pitch   Edit Pitches 12 Oct 2007    Source

Philosophy Is scientific consensus relevant? Agree There are no longer any serious scientists producing peer reviewed scientific journal articles that [deny anthropogenic global warming]. The real scientific debate is over. The people who say global warming isn't real, they must get together on Saturday nights and party with the ones who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona. The Consensus Pitch   The Analogy Pitch   The Marginalizing Pitch   Edit Pitches 19 Jun 2006    Source Climatology Is the IPCC objective? Agree The world authority on the climate crisis, the IPCC, after 20 years of detailed study and four unanimous reports, now says that the evidence is “unequivocal.” To those who are still tempted to dismiss the increasingly urgent alarms from scientists around the world, ignore the melting of the north polar ice cap and all of the other apocalyptic warnings from the planet itself, and who roll their eyes at the very mention of this existential threat to the future of the human species, please wake up. The Wake Up Pitch   The Existential Pitch   Edit Pitches 09 Nov 2008    Source

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