REFLECTIONS

This week my European-Mexican friend sent to me Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. It’s a bootleg copy. I ask several other friends which was worse: bootlegging or wasting a good DVD?

Two of my friends from Townhall replied,
rwwood:”The main thing is to avoid lining Algore’s pockets with a legit sale of the DVD.”
laur: “tough call, in any case, it should be burned.”

My niece said, “Can it be recycled? Happy Earth Day!”

After I watched this movie I would say you can’t dispute the data presented within it. With that said, the movie is only a presentation of data with Gore’s supposition. Far too many viewers of this movie have tentatively accepted Gore’s working hypothesis as so serious no further investigation is needed to be done; any opposition is a foolish, continental-don’t-shift mindset.

In my academic years I was taught all hypothesis need to be proved before they are taken serious. In the scientific community, objectivity is even more important to uphold. It is very important to keep an open, objective view that when Albert Einstein formulated his theory of relativity he designed a proof to be very strenuous and rigorous against his theory. Gore’s university professor helped discover the rise of CO₂ but the movie did not present the experiment showing how it rises or declines. We learn of his professor and others collecting data. We do get to see a cartoon supporting the supposition. Einstein’s proof would show his theory correct. Al Gore did not offer any such proof being conducted. Einstein’s proven theory changed the world; Gore’s unproven theory made a partisan world more bitter.

In an Inconvenient Truth Gore does mention his elementary school teacher instructing his class on geography. One day while they were viewing a map of South America and of Africa a boy ask the teacher if the two continents were ever connected. “No!”, the teacher said, “continent don’t move.” This story would be used later in the movie as proof that opposition to global “warming” (formerly “cooling,” now climate change) was as wrong as the flat-earthers; I had the impression opposition to the supposition is the proof. Sorry, Mr. Gore, but your elementary teacher is not representative of all geography teaching of that time. You and I are close in age; we are both in the baby-boom generation though you are about five years older than myself. My teachers in Wisconsin did not dismiss such a question as your classmate ask. I would guess your’s was a sad exception to the norm. Succinctly, your only hyperbolic “proof” falls short of anything.
This post does not dare to suggest there is not any global climate change. There is. Always has been changes in climates throughout the ages. The question is is this constant change in warming and cooling trends our fault. The data needs a strenuous and rigorous testing.

The earth is in constant change. Another change is the North & South Pole shift.

The above examples are changes occurring by the earth with possible help by mankind. There is a change happening by man alone. Al Gore in his movie worried about humans who are destroying the earth thus our civilization. He should be more worry about the civilization he lives in being destroyed by people of another civilization. Militant Islam means to replace the West (both the blue & red cultures). That is more a threat to our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honors.That is the more probable, inconvenient truth.

UPDATEI forgot to add yesterday about Al Gore’s attempt to show we can all get together to “save” the planet from ourselves. He claims that in the 1980s we came together in complete bipartisanship to defeat communism in the Soviet Union. What was Gore smoking then? His political party, the Democratic party of the USA and every other leftist group in the 1980s did everything possible to defeat President Reagan’s effort to free the world from Soviet imperialism! Gore is an idiot and he deserves N.D. Ted’s fork.