Al Gore's Warning "An Inconvenient Truth" film...

[travelerjim]

The Nation - Sunday August 6th edition is on-line at:

http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx .

Featured on Sundays front page is story of former US Vice-President (served with President Clinton) and Presidential Candidate in 2004 (lost to President GW Bush) - Al Gore's just released Documentary Film "An Inconvenient Truth" - now appearing in Bangkok theaters.

With all the storms and flooding in Northern Thailand - and the sweltering Summer days here in America, the former Vice-President has found a lively topic for discussion worldwide.

I applaud his efforts to educate and inform anyone who will stop to listen about "Global Warming".

There is much to be learned and ...it is damn hot outside here - this Oklahoma afternoon!

I can't wait til the end of this August month ...when I am again to be lucky :-) to be on the beaches of Jomtien...sweltering and weathering the heat with bf and friends ...sipping a cool one... munching on watermelon and pineapple....under the umbrellas :-)

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Well Traveler Jim, seems we will be at the beach at the same time. I will look forward to waving to you from one of Rits chairs.

[Impulse]

Most scientist believe that global warming is a real threat.Many Republicans here in the U.S. will have you believe different.Bush has done nothing good for the environment and doesnt want to burden big business with any kind of regulations.It seems he is not interested in future generations as our federal deficit has ballooned to over 10 trillion dollars.I saw a program saying were near a point of no return and the earth will be a mess in the not too distant future.

Sorry, but who is Al Gore?

[travelerjim]

Hello both-hans,

My apology ... Al Gore served as USA Vice-President for 8 years - 1992-2000 (with President Clinton); and was the Democratic Party Presidential Candidate in 2000 -

He lost the 2000 election to the office of President of the United States to the current USA President George W. Bush - in the Presidential election of 2000 -

It was an election which was finally decided by the US Supreme Court...(see posting below) in a close election decided by Electoral College votes...even though Gore had more popular votes in the election.

An interesting fact is that Gore failed to win the majority of votes in his own home State of Tennessee...and also failed to win the majority of votes in President Clinton's home State of Arkansas.

Had Gore won "either one" of these two states - he clearly would have won the Electoral College Votes and would have been named President of the United States 2000-2004!

TravelerJim

Note: My thanks to Hobie99 for the helpful history reminder ....time does has its ways :-)

Jim,
I'm sure that you meant to write that Al Gore was the Demorcratic presidential canidate in 2000. He had more popular votes then did President Bush but the U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 ruling refused to order re-count of Florida votes that, in retrospect would have made Gore the winner of the electoral collage vote and the U.S. President.

John Kerry was the 2004 Demorcratic presidentail canidate and lost the election to Bush by a large majority of the electoral collage vote.

The U.S., under Bush's leadership was the only major country to reject the global warming treaty negotiated in Japan. It now appears as though our children and grandchildren will bear the consequences of that failure to join the international community in fighting global warming.

Sorry for the political intrusion into this excellent web site!

... will never know if Gore would have signed up to the Kyoto protocols on climate change or whether he would have been so 'green' if he had become president, somehow I doubt he would. However, despite being a fading politico he deserves some applause for making a stance.

It's nice to know that American politicians are standing up for political freedoms and the fight for democracy in other countries, especially when their own country had nine judges decide who was going to be president of the USA in 2000.

I liked Al's movie, and I believe the science behind it. However, my overall impression is that Al Gore is overly optimistic about the prospects that the world (not only the US) will act fast enough to prevent this disaster. He is proposing a major lifestyle and energy consumption style change for the developed world and the developing world. It isn't happening, and by the time people realize they have to make these changes, according to the science, it will be TOO LATE!

So, enjoy Pattaya!

... before the Amazon turns to desert, before the ice caps melt, before the earthquakes devestate the likes of San Francisco and the coming massive tsunamis washes away New York (Manhattan island at least), before the ozone layer is destroyed and all life extinguished by the sun's radiation, before all the sea's are polluted, before more animals which are endangered become extinct, before the nuclear war (wait for the middle east to go up in one or a number of great big bangs), before all this yes before all this there will still be time for one last hit of viagra and to off your favourite star boy and make his day by tipping him everything you have. You can't take it with you :cheers:

Yeah, not an issue for people like me over 50. It is a big issue for the younguns. They are getting a really crappy world.