An Inconvenient Truth movie trailer
In case you just happened by AutoblogGreen, but
don’t really know much about green automobile technology and are curious about why people are so concerned about
making their cars run cleaner, here’s a movie trailer worth watching. The film, “An Inconvenient Truth”,
appears to be a dramatic documentary detailing the causes and effects of global warming. The film stars Al Gore, who
says in the trailer that he “used to be the next President of the United States.” I’m not one to usually accept fear-mongering or cries of the sky is falling, but last year’s insane hurricane season and the continued shrinking of the Artic ice tells me that our planet is going through some changes. Just look at the shots in the trailer of the glacier from 70 years ago and then today and tell me global warming is just hype. We may not be able to stop climate change when we use green car technology, but we can do a little to slow it down because we’re not participating as regularly in the rush to output greenhouse gasses.
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Keith 1:06PM (4/24/2006)
I would like to see shots of those glaciers 1000 years ago. Maybe there were palm trees growing.
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Michael 11:21AM (4/25/2006)
Well, well, well. I for one drive a diesel Jetta that gets 50+MPG/4.7 l/100km all year long; my CO2 production per mile driven is less than any gasoline powered vehicle on the market. That reults in lower taxation in many EC countries.
Now for Global Warming. The Earth is a dynamic system always changing so as a result climactic change is inevitable. Wow we must be powerful to affect that, huh? If we are the cause why can't we stop it?
How arrogant a statement is Al Gore's about Global Warming compared to his statement about inventing the Internet? Look at the source my friends.
We cannot predict weather with any degree of accuracy 7 days away but we can predict massive climatic changes decades in the future? The largest, most powerful computers in the world are tasked with predicting weather and still no consistent success.
Increasing global temperature and CO2 levels WILL BENEFIT plants who use those things to grow and flourish, giving off O2 as a by-product. Sounds good to me- more food and better air.
While humans are quite possibly the most numeric mammals on the planet, termites out weigh us and their flatulence is methane; a much more dangerous 'greenhouse gas'. No filters on their butts now are there?
Dairy cattle burps in the San Joaquin Valley of California, where the herd represents 25% of the total US Dairy Cattle population, are a proven cause of the poor air quality in that area. No catalytic converters there either.
Ontario, Canada had it's warmest winter on record; dating alllll the way back to 1948. How old is the Earth? 100,000,000 years or so? That represents 0.00005%, not a very good statistical sample if you ask me.
The Danube is at the highest flood levels in a CENTURY due to the coldest and snowiest winter in a CENTURY. In fact all of Western Europe and Russia experienced the coldest winter in that time; still only 0.0001% of the Earth's life. Wow that percentage is TWICE as large but still really small.
I am making my own bio-diesel this spring until fall. At $0.20/litre I cannot lose and stand only to benefit. Sunoco, which already has arguably the best diesel fuel in the market, will be offering a bio-diesel blend this time next year.
As to melting ice caps causing flooding. Try this, put ice in a glass and fill it to the brim. Wait and see how much spills out when the ice melts. See my point?
They call it Mother Earth for a reason. You can never mess with a Mother without her getting even. Remember, Nature abhors a vacuum so there are things in place to balance it out. As powerful as we may belive we are, the last eruption of Mt. Pinatubo was greater than ALL of the munitions man has EVER exploded and the resulting dust cloud cooled the Earth by 1 degree C for the next year. Can't predict earthquakes or eruptions any more reliably than the weather now can we?
Read State of Fear by Michael Chrichton when you get a chance.
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