Global Warming

Boston is having one of it's snowiest seasons in recent records. By now, most of us are pretty tired of cold feet and wet gloves, but one advantage I have discovered is that it's been too cold for the Greenpeace acolytes to stand around Central Square and harass me about global warming.

I got into an argument with one once, and during the course of it I mentioned how just 30 years ago the big climate crisis was global cooling. He informed me that global cooling was a part of global warming and that "it's like Robert Frost poem, Fire and Ice, you know?"

I blinked at him a couple times, because, not being a poetry buff, I didn't know. I then countered that it seems silly to claim that the world heating up would simultaneously cause it to cool down.

He then asked me if I saw Al Gore's new movie.

"You mean his glorified power point presentation? Why yes, I had."

Not only have I seen An Inconvenient Truth, but nearly ten years before I read Gore's book, Earth in Balance.

I didn't want to, but my mom made me because she thinks silly things like "knowing both sides of a debate" is important.

I wasn't convinced, particularly when I noticed that his graphs showed that carbon levels rose after temperatures rose. This was so contrary to what he was claiming that I even showed the graph to my mom to make sure I was reading it right.

So imagine my delight stumbling across this John Stossel report on Gore's latest creation.




I just wish I knew about this when I was debating with Greenpeace. After all, if I can watch An Inconvenient Truth, surely he could spare eight minutes and watch a video.