Al Gore: Shields up, Red Alert, “Planetary Emergency” at hand
Former Vice President Al Gore, commenting upon the “Planetary Emergency” possibly coming from a Borg ship that was reported to be heading for Sector 001, and would lay waste the planet, destroying all inhabitants and its climate:
Earth’s climate pattern is now being put at risk…, Gore said. “We face what I think should be described as a full-scale planetary emergency…While aware such a phrase sounds shrill to many ears, Gore added that “unfortunately, I believe it is exactly dead-on accurate.”…Gore said he expects there to be a “complete reexamination and re-imagining of what space policy should be”
“[Earth] used to be right up there as one of our most important priorities,” Gore said….”We need to avoid putting in place a set of policies that end up creating chaos and new obstacles for the creative exploitation of the space resource,” he added….”If we don’t know enough to stop putting 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every day, how in god’s name can we know enough to precisely counteract that”…There’s only one Earth, Gore said. “We don’t have a spare…we don’t have an operating manual.”
Gore is said to have lobbied for the creation of a spare planet, complete with an “operating manual,” in case the Borg were successful in destroying the earth. Gore’s speech was reportedly “attended by a range of executives, visionaries and space and high-tech leaders.” His next transmission is scheduled to emanate from the planet formerly known as Pluto.
October 29th, 2006 at 5:15 pm
Why does anyone take this man seriously?
From the March 19, 2001 Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A37397-2000Mar18):
“For all of Gore’s later fascination with science and technology, he often struggled academically in those subjects. The political champion of the natural world received that sophomore D in Natural Sciences 6 (Man’s Place in Nature) and then got a C-plus in Natural Sciences 118 his senior year. The self-proclaimed inventor of the Internet avoided all courses in mathematics and logic throughout college, despite his outstanding score on the math portion of the SAT. As was the case with many of his classmates, his high school math grades had dropped from A’s to C’s as he advanced from trigonometry to calculus in his senior year.”
I have forgotten more science than Gore ever knew. He is a priveleged son of a politician, and rode that to a Vice Presidential position and a failed presidential candidacy. He has virtually no qualifications to be lecturing us on the local weather, never mind the human effects on global climate.
Pompous ass, yes. Scientist of any note, no.
March 22nd, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Pompous ass says it all for Al Gore. Then he may be writing an “Al Gore Rhythym” to explain his
theory of Global Warming.