Gore Tells Congressional Panel: I Don’t Exhale
--Updated: Gore Visit Inspires Bipartisan Global Warming Bill
NASA Shocker: Climate change might be caused by the Sun
Bryan Preston
Interesting stuff: Long-term climate records are a key to understanding how Earth’s climate changed in the past and how it may change in the future. Direct measurements of light energy emitted by the sun, taken by satellites and other modern scientific techniques, suggest variations in the sun’s activity influence Earth’s long-term climate. However, there were no measured climate records of this type until the relatively recent scientific past.
So, to shorten the story significantly, a couple of science teams cross-checked between two ancient data sources–one, Nile river records from ancient Egypt; and two, ancient European and Asian records of aurorae. The Nile records show patterns of flooding, which indicate climate change. The aurorae records show patterns of solar activity, since the lights are caused by the solar wind slamming into earth’s atmosphere. And the records reveal a thing or two about climate change: ...
*** Gore Tells Congressional Panel: I Don’t Exhale
by Scott Ott
(2007-03-21) — Oscar-winning filmmaker Al Gore, testifying Wednesday before a Congressional panel on global warming, revealed a little-known technique he has used for years to reduce his personal greenhouse gas emissions.
“I don’t exhale, and I haven’t since about 1991,” said the full-figured Mr. Gore. “Science shows there’s nothing wrong with humans breathing per se, it’s just the exhaling of carbon dioxide that threatens to bring our world to a premature, fiery, water-drenched apocalyptic end.”
Mr. Gore, still a Democrat party favorite to win the White House in the year 2000, said he also reduces his so-called “carbon footprint” by giving speeches and making movies to convince other people to cut their greenhouse gas production, thereby offsetting the emissions generated by his own global travel in private jets as well as SUVs and limousines. ...
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Glenn Reynolds:
"That's the problem with moralistic, messianic crusading -- people expect you to live up to it."
*** Gore Visit Inspires Bipartisan Global Warming Bill
by Scott Ott
(2007-03-22) — Just a day after Oscar-winning filmmaker Al Gore took Capitol Hill by storm with testimony at two Congressional hearings, Democrats announced they would reach across the aisle to Republican global-warming skeptics to take immediate action to save the planet.
Under the terms of a bipartisan measure to be introduced next week, Congress would create a new 30,000-person Department of Climate Control headed by a cabinet-level Secretary of Geothermal Management.
“Honest people can disagree on the issue of what causes global warming or whether it’s even a problem,” said one unnamed Democrat Senator, “The important thing is that we appear to do something about it, and the thing Congress does best is levy taxes and create new government jobs.” ...
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Is Your Cat Ownership Environmentally Sustainable? (H/T: MM)
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