Tag: Al Gore
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MEC: Addressing Global Warming
Today's hot environmental topic (pun intended) is anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change. The leading theory is that CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels are causing a greenhouse gas effect that is causing global warming. McLaren seems to take this as indisputable fact. I don't. However, I'm not interested in debating that point here. We will assume…
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The Gore Effect
From the Stat Guy (Scott Gilbreath): The Gore Effect It’s nearly enough to make one feel sorry for Al Gore: Unseasonably cold weather seems to follow the guy around. It’s almost eerie. In January 2004, Al Gore visited Boston and New York to deliver a global-warming panic speech, and bitter cold weather came with him. …
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Believers preach gospel of green
From the LA Times: Believers preach gospel of green IN Hollywood, the white knight in the fight against global warming is Al Gore, whose film, "An Inconvenient Truth," was received with great media hoopla when it arrived in theaters earlier this year. But in much of the rest of America, the man spearheading the battle…
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“An Inconvenient Truth” Movie Review
I recently went with some friends to see Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," a one-hour and forty-minute movie by Gore on the problem of Global Warming. Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 92% rating, so I knew the movie couldn't be a total dud. Here are some of my reflections. I found the movie interesting and…