Here's a video on Global Warming...

From 1958!! Yep! 1958. YouTube is a goldmine of information. So the idea of the damage to our planet by global warming has been around for a long time. Al Gore didn't invent or dream up the idea as some uninlightened people, right of center, might want you to believe.

Here's the information and the video from YouTube:

For FIFTY YEARS scientists have known about global warming. This exerpt is from the well known educational documentary "Unchained Goddess" produced by Frank Capra for Bell Labs for their television program "The Bell Telephone Hour." It was so well made, that it went on to live a continued life in middle school science classrooms across the nation for decades.

Nearly half a century before Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth," this film was made. But what does it reveal? That our scientists have known for over two generations about this danger, but our politicians and citizenry have chosen to ignore the dangerous implications of this fact until it really is too late to avoid the preventable consequences.

OP-ED by AL Gore

Al Gore wrote an op-ed for the NY Times, today, about his favorite subject, Global Warming.

Lets take a look:

Moving Beyond Kyoto
By AL GORE
Nashville

WE — the human species — have arrived at a moment of decision. It is nprecedented and even laughable for us to imagine that we could actually make a conscious choice as a species, but that is nevertheless the challenge that is before us.

Our home — Earth — is in danger. What is at risk of being destroyed is not the planet itself, but the conditions that have made it hospitable for human beings.

Without realizing the consequences of our actions, we have begun to put so much carbon dioxide into the thin shell of air surrounding our world that we have literally changed the heat balance between Earth and the Sun. If we don’t stop doing this pretty quickly, the average temperature will increase to levels humans have never known and put an end to the favorable climate balance on which our civilization depends.

In the last 150 years, in an accelerating frenzy, we have been removing increasing quantities of carbon from the ground — mainly in the form of coal and oil — and burning it in ways that dump 70 million tons of CO2 every 24 hours into the Earth’s atmosphere.

The concentrations of CO2 — having never risen above 300 parts per million for at least a million years — have been driven from 280 parts per million at the beginning of the coal boom to 383 parts per million this year.

As a direct result, many scientists are now warning that we are moving closer to several “tipping points” that could — within 10 years — make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable damage to the planet’s habitability for human civilization.

Just in the last few months, new studies have shown that the north polar ice cap — which helps the planet cool itself — is melting nearly three times faster than the most pessimistic computer models predicted. Unless we take action, summer ice could be completely gone in as little as 35 years. Similarly, at the other end of the planet, near the South Pole, scientists have found new evidence of snow melting in West Antarctica across an area as large as California.

This is not a political issue. This is a moral issue, one that affects the survival of human civilization. It is not a question of left versus right; it is a question of right versus wrong. Put simply, it is wrong to destroy the habitability of our planet and ruin the prospects of every generation that follows ours. More here>>

And yet people still don't believe this earth is warming here in the good ole U.S. Listening to the people that called in, this morning, on C-SPAN'S Washington Journal, this unfortunately runs along party lines. What the Radio Talk Show hosts and Fox News tells these people to say, they say! Taking this a gospel and not even doing any research of their own. Sad that we have that many people who can't think for themselves.

Two Thirds of Americans anxious about Bush Foreign Policy

Here it is from the AP:

Americans are expressing growing nervousness about their country's foreign policy, according to a survey, with about two-thirds saying relations with the rest of the world are on the wrong track.

The poll, completed in March, found that public pessimism extends beyond the war in Iraq. More than eight in 10 respondents said they were worried about the way things are going for the United States in world affairs. Three quarters of Americans also said they worry about global warming, up from two-thirds percent in September 2006.

The poll included an "anxiety indicator" that calculates the level of angst in the country based on answers to five questions. The indicator registered 137 on a scale of zero to 200, with zero being the most secure and 200 the most anxious.

The figure registered in the latest survey moved up seven points since a similar survey in September.

"The Anxiety Indicator is moving closer to the 150 mark, the `red zone' that to me would signal a full-blown crisis of public confidence," said survey researcher Daniel Yankelovich, chairman of Public Agenda, the nonpartisan public policy institute that released the study Wednesday along with the publication Foreign Affairs.

I've been anxious since Bush took office!

New Thread Feb. 19, 2007

Science group:
Warming a mounting threat
The world's largest general scientific society on Sunday joined the concern over global climate change, calling it a "growing threat to society."

Scientists warn it may be too late to save the ice caps
A critical meltdown of ice sheets and severe sea level rise could be inevitable because of global warming, the world's scientists are preparing to warn their governments.

I love the shore line, but I wouldn't live close to the water right now!

Sad how some people just won't believe this is happening. The same people that won't believe Bush is the worst president ever; and just now on CNN Wolf Blitzer said there was a poll and 2% of the people think Bush is the greatest president ever. Makes you wonder, doesn't it?