Al Gore calls it like it is.

[Playinghardball]

[BlueJazz]

1. ...and Al Gore should have been President of the United States.

[dhill926]

3. it would be a different world if he had been.....

[bluestate10]

12. 97,000 people in Florida who call themselves highly informed insured that didn't happen. nt

[byeya]

43. BS: Gore won Florida and the Supreme Court stole it from him.

[bvar22]

48. Al Gore should add THAT myth to the ones listed in the OP.

He actually DID so in an interview with Jon Stewart
while laughing at those who blamed Nader for his loss in Florida.

[Whisp]

49. and Al Gore sat back and took it like a coward

unless I am not remembering correctly, Al Gore did not fight.

at all.

he succumbed and wimpered.

so much for that kind of Prezzie

[xxqqqzme]

54. I am so tired of this 'Gore did nothing BS'.

The lawsuit was titled Bush v Gore. Gore won the recount of votes in Florida's state court. Bush appealed to the Supremes, who over stepped their jurisdiction and the Constitution and handed the presidency to dumbya. Now pray tell, what exactly did Gore fail to do? Other than raise an army and attack DC?

[mother earth]

55. Seriously, he fought, the SCOTUS is in dire need of some serious oversight or reconsideration of

lifetime appointments. Those bastards gave the election to BushCo, and at what price I'm left wondering. Who do they answer to?
Like BushCo & the theft of two elections, I'm guessing, fucking no one.

[lupojohn]

59. What more did you want him to do?

Tell us specifically. He did all he could and Harris and the Supreme Court took it from him.

[lunatica]

2. I would marry that man if he asked me

I absolutely love him for is mind.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. Poor old republicans just got it all twisted around...

the earth was born n the United States
the climate crisis is dead
Saddam Hussein is real
Obama did not attack us on 9/11
Elvis is round

[TheProgressive]

5. Well, technically, the Earth is spherical....

And, yes, the climate crisis is real...

All the money in the world means nothing if you cannot survive on our planet...

[hrmjustin]

6. Welcome to DU!

[TheProgressive]

7. Thanks...!

Lurking for a long while...

I want to start a 'save Social Security and Medicare revolution'...so let's get started...

[hrmjustin]

8. Well said.

[oldhippydude]

18. welcome abord!!!!

[TheProgressive]

24. Aye mate...thanks!

[phleshdef]

10. A sphere is round.

[TheProgressive]

13. Sorry... but round is two dimensional...

whereas, a sphere is three dimensional - like earth...

I apologies for the... well, the technical truth...

[phleshdef]

26. Wrong.

Round: a (1): having every part of the surface or circumference equidistant from the center (2): cylindrical <a round peg>

Synonyms: global, globular, spherical

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/round

[TheProgressive]

29. Damn if you are not correct and I am wrong on this...

My bad ..... Looks like I will have to go back to just lurking...

Although, I still want to start the 'save Social Security and Medicare revolution'.... maybe I should stick to that....

On edit: my apologies for forgetting my basic geometry and nomenclature.

[Kennah]

34. I like to think of the Earth as slightly squishy

[byeya]

44. Can I play? The earth is an oblate spheroid.

[bvar22]

50. WOW... now THAT is rare on DU these days.

Somebody actually admitted that they were mistaken!
It has become generally accepted on DU that you are NOT wrong if you NEVER admit it and get in the last post
no matter HOW obvious it is to everybody reading the thread.
.
.
.
.
Bookmarking this for inspiration,
and KUDOS to you for maturity, integrity, adult coping skills, strong EGO strengths, and modeling healthy behavior!~

[TheProgressive]

56. Not sure why my brain insisted it was a sphere...

I don't mind saying I was wrong on something. I see it as a learning experience.

When I learn something factual that contradicts what I thought was true - well,
I'll never make that mistake again.

And, this is what bugs me about republicans: you can show them an absolute true
about something that contradicts their established belief, yet they don't adjust their position based
on truth. You cannot learn and progress unless you embrace the truth.

Anyway, thanks for your post...

[bvar22]

57. Welcome to DU!

[woo me with science]

58. +1

[griloco]

15. the ones in Egypt aren't. n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Welcome to DU

[TheProgressive]

14. Thanks...!

112K posts...! I have read your posts...you like birds - right?

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. We share the house with two conures

Yes.

[TheProgressive]

17. Conure fan myself....

Thank heaven they sleep the entire night...until they wake up and then everyone has to wake up...!

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. Ours actually don't go off until we get up

So yes, it is possible to sleep somewhat in

[NYC Liberal]

20. To get even more technical: the Earth is an oblate spheroid

sphere = "a round solid figure, or its surface, with every point on its surface equidistant from its center"

The Earth isn't perfectly spherical.

[TheProgressive]

22. Of course, you are correct...

Darn...I should have posted that...!

[Phlem]

27. And it never will be if the moon and the sun have a say in it.

Gravity warps 3 dimensional objects.



-p

[Kennah]

35. "Gravity warps 3 dimensional objects."

Well that explains Grover Norquist.

[Phlem]

42. Nice.

I'd also classify the space between his ears Dark Matter.



-p

[Dont call me Shirley]

52. Or Black Hole

[Flatpicker]

9. I have to dispute some of this

Elvis is everywhere.

[Phlem]

28. I Found Him!

he's been hanging around my belly this whole. Where's my fried chicken...............



-p

[IdaBriggs]

23. No! Not ELVIS!

Where is my fainting couch???

I will go along with everything else, but NOT Elvis being dead. The man just needed to take a vacation, and now he is like Santa Claus - always there for his many fans when they need him.

[blackspade]

25. Word.

[MrMickeysMom]

30. WHY is this SO INCONVENIENT?

What are we waiting for, therefore?

Someone passed Carl Sagon's Episode 13 of "Who speaks for the Earth?" which I watched as if it were produced yesterday. These two things are interlinked.

Each was/is telling us what we have heard the American Lung Association say before and should well understand at this point... When you can't breathe, nothing else matters.

God, I'm tired, but we got to still try. I don't want to be one of the planets that has a less than 1% chance of survival.

Isn't this important?

[TheProgressive]

32. Sorry, but I disagree with your entire post...

Nothing of what you wrote makes sense...

[taylorgibbons]

33. cool diss bro

Yeah well your use of ellipses is illogical and self indulgent so I doubt your reading comprehension skills.

[Kennah]

36. Welcome to DU, and enjoy your short stay. Give my regards to Mittens.

[2naSalit]

38. !!!

[TheProgressive]

37. I just responded to your post - I don't even know how to alert a post...

And my use of ellipses is just how I write... poetic license if you will...

[2naSalit]

39. Made

perfect sense to me!

[Gregorian]

40. And the root cause is POPULATION.

If you deny this, then all of what Gore said doesn't mean a thing.

[TheProgressive]

41. As far as climate change - burning fuel is the root cause

Mother Nature spent millions of years to sequester the carbon from the atmosphere
into the ground. The climate stabilized and life, especially humans, flourished.

Now, humans take carbon in the form of coal, oil, and natural gas and burn it. This
releases the carbon back into the atmosphere. Earth, being a giant biological, chemical,
and physical laboratory, reacts to the reintroduction of the carbon. The added heat from
how the earth reacts with the carbon, changes the climate.

The earth could care less about the added carbon and climate changes, however, life
and humans are greatly impacted by the change.

[byeya]

45. I think the thawing tundra will release a devastating short term methane bomb

to raise the atmospheric temperature more rapidly than predicted and the increasing CO2 will sustain the rise and add to it.
It's going to get ugly quickly and I don't think there's anything to be done about it.
I do know what will make it worse and it's following the current fossil fuel regime.

[bvar22]

51. My fear is that you are correct.

The current projections are for a steady rise.
I fear that we will be faced with a catastrophic, Tipping Point scenario like you describe.
Some of the early warnings of this Tipping Point are already here.
Several times this year I have heard that the Warming is already exceeding the predictions.

[hrmjustin]

46. K&R!

[Uncle Joe]

47. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Playinghardball.

[allan01]

53. re:Al Gore calls it like it is.

the once and true legitimate president . not busco.