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To: Road Walker who wrote (330263)	3/25/2007 1:31:18 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577895

At the very end of the Senate hearing, Mr. Gore inadvertently debunked global warming alarmism. Sen. Craig Thomas, Wyoming Republican, asked Mr. Gore the pivotal question of whether atmospheric carbon dioxide increases have historically preceded or followed increases in global temperature. If temperature increases precede carbon dioxide increases, the notion that manmade greenhouse gas emissions are changing global temperatures would have the cause-and-effect relationship exactly backward. Mr. Gore responded by describing how, depending on the Earth's tilt and wobble as it revolves around the sun, sometimes carbon dioxide increases precede temperature increases and other times temperature increases precede carbon dioxide increases -- leading attentive listeners to wonder, then, well why worry about manmade global warming if it's the Earth's tilt and wobble that defines the carbon dioxide-temperature relationship. Apparently realizing his self-defeating statement, Mr. Gore tried to backtrack by saying that, currently, carbon dioxide increases are preceding temperature increases. It was a desperate and revealing effort to get back on message.

To: Road Walker who wrote (330263)	3/25/2007 1:32:30 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1577895

With respect to his credibility, Al Gore denied to the House Committee that he ever said global warming would cause "more" hurricanes. But all you need to do is look at the front of his own book, "An Inconvenient Truth" where he writes, "The voluminous evidence now strongly suggests that unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of Global Warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes, including more and stronger storms like Hurricane Katrina, in both the Atlantic and the Pacific." Mr. Gore's testimony wasn't given under oath, however. washtimes.com

To: Road Walker who wrote (330263)	3/25/2007 1:33:04 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577895

Mr. Gore said he purchases so-called "green energy" -- electricity produced by wind turbines, solar panels or methane gas -- for his mansion. He failed to mention, however, that he just began purchasing green energy in 2007, though he has been telling anyone who will listen for years that they need to green-up their energy use. Moreover, the green energy he buys in Nashville is not entirely "green." The power produced with methane needs to be co-fired with coal, which produces carbon dioxide. Sure, less coal is used, but Al Gore testified in Congress that he purchases green energy that produces no carbon dioxide and that we should have essentially zero-tolerance for electricity produced with coal.