Oscar nominations jump the shark, again.
(todayszaman.com) Al Gore ‘thrilled’ by Oscar nominations for ‘Inconvenient Truth’ Who says politics is show business for ugly people? “An Inconvenient Truth,” former Vice President Al Gore’s film on the perils of global warming, scored two Oscar nominations: for best documentary feature and best original song.
While he is not technically a nominee, the film’s director, Davis Guggenheim, won the nod, as did singer Melissa Etheridge for the song “I Need to Wake Up”. Gore said on Tuesday he was “thrilled” that his movie was honored.
Yes Al you do need to wake up.
The truth about global warming - it’s the Sun that’s to blame
(telegraph.co.uk) Global warming has finally been explained: the Earth is getting hotter because the Sun is burning more brightly than at any time during the past 1,000 years, according to new research. A study by Swiss and German scientists suggests that increasing radiation from the sun is responsible for recent global climate changes.
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The research adds weight to the views of David Bellamy, the conservationist. “Global warming - at least the modern nightmare version - is a myth,” he said. “I am sure of it and so are a growing number of scientists. But what is really worrying is that the world’s politicians and policy-makers are not.
“Instead, they have an unshakeable faith in what has, unfortunately, become one of the central credos of the environmental movement: humans burn fossil fuels, which release increased levels of carbon dioxide - the principal so-called greenhouse gas - into the atmosphere, causing the atmosphere to heat up. They say this is global warming: I say this is poppycock.”
Squawk’s fearless prediction is that Al’s film will win The Oscar and the research by real scientist will be ignored. Imagine that. The sun is getting hotter. Whoduh thunk it?
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Aww the acceptance speech
Brings one back to the heady days of yore (Gore)
The only question I can think of is will Gore drive the ratings for the show below the approval ratings of the guy he beat but wisely for the good of the academy didn’t accept the 2000 nomination for best president
I’ll believe the global waring cr!p when people can grow wine grapes in England again, and when people can farm Greenland like they did in the 1400’s…
If this is the best it doesn’t say much for the quality of documentries.
I sincerely hope that Mr. Gore didn’t suffer a life threatening brain aneurism from straining so hard in the picture. I would hate to lose his infallible insight into the world’s problems.
Now here’s something I can work with. Here is my “Top Ten” list of captions for this picture:
1) “An Inconvenient Truth” is about how boring I really am.
2) “An Inconvenient Truth” is the fact that I lost the 2000 Presidential race in Florida.
3) I accept this award for my acting job as Vice President of United States.
4) I accept this award for my portrayal of a “tree” in “An Inconvenient Truth”.
5) By me just opening my mouth, I contribute to “global warming”.
6) Damn straight!!! Life has been “An Inconvenient Truth” for me.
7) You can take this award and stuff it up your *ss because this movie really is a farce.
9) This award is for my acting like a “human being” in life.
10) I accept this award for the director who couldn’t be here because he was snowed in.
I hope Algore enjoys these as much as I enjoyed writing them.
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Regarding the comment above, “Global warming has finally been explained: the Earth is getting hotter because the Sun is burning more brightly…,” the published research does not at all implicate the Sun as a significant contributor to global warming. Here is a direct quote from the author of that study, extracted from the study itself:
“Just how large this role is, must still be investigated since, according to our latest knowledge on the variations of the solar magnetic field, the significant increase in the Earth’s temperature since 1980 is indeed to be ascribed to the greenhouse effect caused by carbon dioxide.”
We should at least agree that the prospect of global warming, if true, is extremely serious and will affect ALL of us. So let’s try to be mature and have an honest discussion. Remember that science addresses objective reality, and as such does not respond to our hopes, wishes, fears, or prayers.
ooooh ooooh ooooh Horscacks hand bouncing in the center of the room! OOOOH OOOOH OOOOOH Mr Kotter I know whay causes global warming, its all them polititions in Washington who are full of hot air.
And to think this BOZO was almost President. Doesn’t say much for American Voters.
Al Gore suffers from NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder)…in other words he thinks he is God’s gift to the world.
Walden is completely right. You are ignoring the main point of the article. Here is a quote, “over the past 20 years, human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation had begun to dominate ‘the natural factors involved in climate change’”. I can’t say I’m surprised though. This is typical of most global warming skeptics: cherry-picking a tiny piece of information seemingly refuting global warming while ignoring the overwhelming amount of evidence supporing it.
sneezy720
Show me the proof. No theories allowed. There is proof regarding the sun.
Fact v/s Theory? I’ll take fact all day long.
Just a quick drive by to post the relvant passge from the “Those who will be damned after the coming Second Holocost” post made in the Open Comments section:
sneezy
I don’t dispute that it is happening, I dispute what you claim to be the cause.
Global warming and cooling has happened many times in history, long before humans. Your unsupported statement that human activity is dominating natural factors is typical your chicken little the sky is falling crowd.
We have indications that global warming is occurring of other planets as well as ours. I guess human activity caused that also.
Warming and cooling cycles are natural, learn to deal with it.
sneezy720
Here is a Google Search for you. Go ahead click it. It is OK. No one is going to take away your “Green Card” if you read the information provided and find out that trees do “bad” things to “our” atmosphere too.
1. All this tree planting negates the gains made in cleaning up pollution
2. That trees put out natural VOCs that are ignored by you and the Al Bores of the world.
FACT not theory. So who is cherry picking now?
And one more thing. I am no skeptic. I flat do not believe the Al Bore global warming theories at all.
My personal beleif is that teh earth is warming for the same reason it has done several times in the past.
If it hadn’t, then there wouldn’t have been jungle sufficient enough to make oil where we have deserts today and seashells coming up in construction sites in Fort Worth.
Global Waraming nut cases need to prove to me several things:
1. Prove that it is happening.
2. Prove it isn’t natural
3. Prove it’s permanent and not an aberration in normal rythms (like the Littel Ice Age was)
4. Prove we can stop it if we want to.
5. Prove that stopping it won;t make something else worse happen.
Right now, for instance, we’ve made corn expensive enough that the price of tortillas has quadrupled in the past year. No big deal in this country, but a large portion of the people in this hemisphere use corn as a basic staple of thier subsitence. They make thier bread with it.
Consider now that the French Revloution (and the Terror that followed) was caused when “The Little Ice Age” which reduced the viability of the grain crops, making bread too expensive for common people to afford. To rapid a change from petrolejm products to corn based ethanol might caused starvation and rebellion in the Southern part of this hemisphere, creating nations that may be our enemies. And if you think we have a big illegal immigration problem now——
It’s the rule of “unintended consequences” folks. Mother Nature doesn’t like being messed with—and until you can prove with absolute certainty that Mother Nature isn’t the one causing the so called climate change—don’t mess with it.
BTW:
The Little Ice Age explained:
http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/lia/little_ice_age.html
Here’s a simple test for the global warming crowd to try:
(1) Locate the website for the National Hurricane Center.
(2) Locate the yearly data on the number of named storms, the number of named storms making landfall, the number of major hurricanes, and the number of major hurricanes making landfall.
(3) Add up the numbers in each category for the first half of the 20th century (1901-1950 for those of you in Rio Linda) and for the second half of the 20th century.
(4) Compare the two sets of numbers.
(5) Pick yourself up off the floor, go get a long drink of water, and regain your composure.
(6) Come back here and admit that you’ve been playing the fool and that your hero Al Gore really is an idiot.
If Al Gore isn’t careful, by the looks on his face, he is contributing to global warming (hot under the collar, Al?).
Here’s a little bit of proof. http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2193672.ece
Also, if you want to read the actual report, you can go to http://www.ipcc.ch
This is the most comprehensive report on climate change so far, and it places the blame for global warming squarely on human activites.
sneezy720
Did you read that quatch. I just did. There is no PROOF to yours or AL BORES claims what so ever. Everything is speculation and conjecture.
Did you happen to notice the sponsors/creators of the report?
I will take independant scientist with no axe to grind over “Intergovernmental agencies” and the United Nation.
Please don’t take this wrong, but to twist a quote of Clinton’s
“It’s the sun stupid.”
Just for the sake of argument let’s say “we” are both right. You are not, but let’s just say we are both right. Some miracle human beings pull a Star Trek and join together in complete cooperation and clean Gaia’s arse just what then? Huh?
How ya gonna cool the sun. Look sneaze ol’ pal, Mama Earth has a record of cleaning herself and our messes too if given a chance. Ya got your spring rains and winter snows Oh and let’s not forget summer breazes to clear the air. There has always been an expanding and contracting “OZONE HOLE” that is now proven it ain’t nothing new and all this so called abnormal stuff is natural for the Earth.
BTW I am going ot assume you are much my junior, but it was not more than twenty years ago that we were warned about global freezing.
So go make yourself a tall cool one, relax, take a trip to Colorado where there is still snow on the ground and drop yer pants and go slide on the ice. Relax Dude life is too short.
You say there is no proof, that it is only conjecture. What you fail to realize is that all science could be classifed as conjecture, because there is no way to irrefutabley prove anything. By your logic, I could conclude that you believe there is no God because there is no proof. And if you do believe in God, it seems to me you’re being a little hypocritical. Believing something that was written in a book thousands of years ago, and disbelieving the word of the vast majority of scientists today strikes me as a little ignorant.
When you say “How ya gonna cool the sun.”, I’m going to assume you’re referring to the article cited in the main article. However, this is where I’m going to ask you if you read it. I dont think you did, because if you had you would have seen this,
“He added, however, that the study also showed that over the past 20 years the number of sunspots had remained roughly constant, while the Earth’s temperature had continued to increase.
This suggested that over the past 20 years, human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation had begun to dominate “the natural factors involved in climate change”, he said.” So the sun really isn’t responsible.
Regarding your comment about the sponsor of the study, I would have thought that bringing together over 2000 scientists from across the world would add credibility, not reduce it, but I guess that’s just me.
Also, you say that these “intergovermental agencies” have “an axe to grind”. Could you please clarify what exactly it is.