Cant you see that your being manipulated by demigogues like Al Gore to justify draconian restrictions in human freedom and send ordinary citizens to the poor house through taxation..

The guy should be tarred and feathered, not worshipped, or given Nobel prize

Some of the following information was in a Readers Digest article called, “What’s Wrong with Global Warming?”, and some was in the Old farmer’s Almanac. The rest is from other sources.

Warm periods are part of this planet’s regular cycle. They cause increases in the amount of carbon dioxide. They are caused by the realignment of the planet with the sun. There were no SUV’s during the last warm period, which ended the era now known as the Dark Ages. That warm period is now known as the Renaissance.

The Renaissance was a time of greatly expanded knowledge, art, exploration, and construction: There were many more artists painting many more pictures, many more sculptors making many more sculptures, hundreds of churches/temples were built in Europe, and the Angor Wot temple was built in Asia. Many sailors sailed around much of the planet.

There was no flooding (not even in Venice) because the sea ice contracted when it melted, and the heat of the sun evaporated much of the ocean water into the atmosphere to provide rainfall where there previously was drought. This increased agriculture around the world. The growing season started sooner and lasted longer, which meant much more food was grown around the world, ending the previous famine.

The poles were warmer and the snow which fell there was wet, not the dry snow which falls in the extremely-bitter cold. This returned much of the atmospheric water to be the polar ice.

One thousand years ago, the Vikings sent groups of people to colonize Greenland, which had farmable land, not ice. This is what the last warm period was like, centuries ago.

Now, Greenland is returning to the way it used to be a millennium ago, farmable land not ice. A glacier in Greenland is melting, revealing the farmable land the Vikings originally went there to till. Larger crop yields already are the result, and the codfish have returned to the waters off Greenland.

When sea ice melts, it contracts, with the water taking up less space than the ice did. This is a benefit of thawing sea ice. This keeps the sea level from rising even one foot, let alone Algore’s twenty feet.

When glaciers melt, some of the water will run into the oceans to fill in space previously filled by sea ice. Some will thaw out the ground below where the glacier was and soak in to cause plant growth. Much of the water will evaporate into the upper atmosphere to become normal rainfall.

The heat of the sun and the absence of cold from glaciers and sea ice will evaporate more water from the oceans, lakes, and rivers into the upper atmosphere where winds will blow it evenly around the world, providing normal rain world-wide, even where there presently is drought and barren land. Moving all this water evenly around the world to become normal rainfall will prevent flooding. This rain would help contain forest fires.

The poles will be warmer and the snow which falls there will be wet, not the dry snow which falls in the extremely-bitter cold. This will return much of the atmospheric water to the poles to be the thicker polar ice.

Parts of the world are still experiencing record low temperatures. Hopefully, we are nearing the end of an ice age that has lasted many centuries; and hopefully, the planet is returning to a warmer normalcy which will also last for centuries. In Switzerland, a glacier is melting. The receding glacier revealed the silver mine under it, with the mining equipment still in it, waiting for someone to resume mining the silver ore. This is normalcy in Switzerland.

Glaciers still hold the water that is needed as condensation for the lands that are barren. This is the cause of drought which occurred because the water needed for condensation is frozen into glaciers. This is also the cause of flooding. The melting glaciers will provide water for the land which was previously frozen, and to be evaporated into the atmosphere to become normal rainfall worldwide.

The worldwide rain will cause long-dormant seeds in the barren lands to sprout and grow into new plants. Grasses will be food for livestock, and all the new plants will inhale carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen, which we breathe.

Carbon dioxide makes the trees and other plants bigger, taller, and stronger. This means that we get more wood and stronger wood which could resist hurricane damage and does resist termite damage. There will be so many new plants, that we might have to increase the amount of carbon dioxide we generate, to provide enough for all of them, except for the next volcanic eruption.

The polar bear experts in Canada report that the bears, which were originally grizzly bears located in the polar regions of the planet when it went into an ice age, are thriving. They evolved into polar bears when the ice age started, and they can swim 60 miles at a time.

Future Penguins: They might swim to their breeding grounds, instead of marching 70 miles over ice in subzero temperatures. They might feed while waiting for their eggs to form. The females might not have to march back 70 miles over ice in subzero temperatures to feed while the males tend the eggs. When they pass the eggs back and forth while taking turns feeding, the eggs won’t freeze and die if they touch the ground.

The melting of the glacier on Mount Ararat could enable the finding of the remains of Noah’s Ark, which was crushed by the ice which was not there when Noah landed.

Crops grow faster and larger.
Warm weather is safer and healthier than cold weather with snow and ice.
Warm weather saves energy that would have gone for heating.
More water is available around the world for crops, less worry about droughts.
Polar routes will cut shipping distances and save fuel.
Seasonal jobs will become year-round jobs.

As it was during the Renaissance, the next warm period will be a time of advancement for the world with all the additional agriculture and the end of barren land, drought, and famine. The people will be safer, healthier, more peaceful, and more prosperous, as long as they don’t give control over their lives to Algore, his fellow liberal traitors, and their Islamo-fascist-terrorist-murderer partners-in-crime!!!

The book, “Algore and his Nine Untruths” says that the world will be destroyed by global warming in ten years; but his Islamo-fascist-terrorist-murderer partners-in-crime say that the twelfth Imam will destroy the world in two years. They have the same credibility as Algore. If so, why should we worry about something that will happen eight years after the world is destroyed? We should all enjoy the warm weather as much as we can, as long as we can.

Well, at least you finally admit that mankind is (at least) partially responsible for it. I applaud you for that. But I take issue with some of you other comments. First, not everyone who believes in the threat of global warming considers it “a catastrophic threat, impending doom for all!” And most of do indeed take into consideration the cost and impact to the economy. So, please don’t lump us all together like most of these highly partisan sites do. The first step is to recognize that there is a problem (which you seem to do). We then need to take rational actions that will combat the problem without hysteria or panic. But make no mistake, this is not going to be free. It will indeed take money and more importantly a committment from each of us. But the worst thing we can do is to ignore it and pretend it does not exist.