Senator Steve Fielding wants to convince Al Gore he's wrong on global warming
source: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25780407-421,00.html
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Senator Fielding is trying to score a one-on-one meeting with Mr Gore, who is in Australia promoting several environmental causes, to prove to him that climate change sceptics are right.
Senator Fielding has promised to clear his schedule for any chance to meet the former US vice-president and Nobel Prize-winning environmental campaigner. "The ball's in his court," a spokesman for the senator told news.com.au.
The spokesman has said Mr Gore is aware that Senator Fielding holds a crucial vote in Parliament and that any major green schemes - such as the Government's model to reduce carbon pollution in Australia - essentially rely on his support.
"(Mr Gore) said 'look, the schedule's tight but hopefully we can work something out'," when Senator Fielding approached yesterday for a meeting on the issue, the spokesman said.
"We're clearing our schedule to see him. If he calls at three in the morning, we'd go," he said.
It is believed Mr Gore will only be in the country for another day or so.
Senator Fielding wants to present a graph to Mr Gore which argues global temperatures have stabilised during the past 15 years, even as carbon emissions have risen.
The graph was used by the UN in its reports on the effects of climate change. UN scientists say the world has warmed in the past 150 years, but temperatures have plateaued at warmer-than-normal levels in the past decade after a particularly hot year in 1998.
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JanforGore
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WHY do we have to continue with this politically partisan BS when we need solutions to this? Can this Senator not see with his own damn eyes that there are changes occurring around the globe? So sick and tired of this politically partisan debate and the people who perpetuate it. So once the Himalayas melt and billions of people have no access to water we don't have to do anything? And when the Maldives finally go under water we dont have to help those who will be left behind without a home? And when the forests are all cut down we won't have to do anything about that either because some shill said that isn't our fault either? MORE FALSE SMOKE AND MIRRORS that miss the entire big picture behind what is happening to this planet. I actually hope Mr. Gore doesn't waste his time with this Baloney.
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JanforGore
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WakeUpPeople
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JanforGore:
If Al doesn't participate in the baloney show, they will pounce on it and call it a victory. They will consider it an admission of defeat. I personally would love to see a televised debate between the two.
- 2 years ago
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WakeUpPeople
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masterzip
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Earth temperature arguments are pointless on both sides, because you can talk all you want but it will not make the water I drink, the air I breathe, or the food I eat, any cleaner.
Global warming is all about global pollution, our earth is changing by killing many living things from pollution(including humans) - 2 years ago
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masterzip
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Herbal_Minded
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We all know the ice caps are melting. I don't care what the politicians want to call it as long as they do something about it.
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Herbal_Minded
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WakeUpPeople
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But in this debate there is a problem with a graph that only looks at 15 years. Climatologists around the world look at trends in 30 year "blocks" because of the natural fluctuations. Meteorologists look at short term trends while climatologists look at the big picture. In this graph from 1880 to approx 2009, there is a clear correlation between CO2 and global temperatures. Notice that the temperature graph is not a perfectly smooth line. That is why you have to step back and look at the big picture rather than a quick 15 year snapshot.
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WakeUpPeople
