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Is Global Warming A Figment of Al Gore's Imagination?

Posted Sep 02, 2006 at 12:40AM by Alaric S. Listed in: Science Tags: Al Gore, Kevin Shapiro
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Voted Most Unlikely Box Office Star, Al Gore's global warming docu-movie "An Inconvenient Truth" scored well with audiences. In the film version of his environmental campaign, Gore blames global warming for Hurricane Katrina and Greenland's melting ice, among other things. But Kevin Shapiro disagrees with Gore and all proponents of global warming. Basically, he thinks Al and his gang are full of hot air. We don't think he means greenhouse gases.

Shapiro, a research fellow in neuroscience and a student at Harvard Medical School, says global warming is nothing more than  "a tool to embarrass the political Right, and especially the Bush administration." He cites data based on actual observations (not data extrapolation) of the earth’s climate indicates there's nothing to worry about.  Moreover, if the planet is heating up, Shapiro says there's nothing we can do about it.

He dismisses the carbon-free economy, which will wipe off both carbon dioxide emissions and greedy energy companies, as unrealistic. For Shapiro, the overall effect of limiting fossil-fuel consumption without enforcing viable substitutes (e.g. nuclear energy) will send the price of energy higher than Don King's hair.

"There are many good reasons to wean ourselves from a dependence on fossil fuels, not least to cease enriching unsavory regimes...like Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Venezuela. But in combating climate change, we should not ignore the damage done by the proponents of global-warning themselves in diverting money and energy away from more obvious and well-substantiated problems...many people seem to be more concerned with the supposed menace of global warming...which we can realistically do very little...than infectious disease, about which we can do quite a bit. Speaking of inconvenient truths, this is a real one."

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   by Kwyjibo (Unregistered) - 2006-09-02
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Shapiro, in his comment seems more worried about the impact of all this on the political right and the current Bush administration than on the impact on our environment. Moreover, he finds investment in a field where he will benefit from it financially (medical science)more important than investing in a healthly environment (something that will cause less health problem, thus less money for him). The next comment (if it is warming, there is nothing we can do anyway...) is the stance that has been maintained for way too long, and if by investing in different, cleaner energy sources we can create a cleaner environment and less reliance on 'unsavory regimes' (as he likes to call them) rather than putting money in hands of the goverment sponsored oil fat cat companies to destroy yet another nature reserve, than that can only be a good thing, right?

He has got his interests seriously mixed up to make a valuable comment on the scientific side of global warming, especially since his filed (neuroscience) isn't exactly the area of science that has to deal with these problems.

Scientists in general know very little about anything outside their field so his comments are as valuable as yours' and mine, but because he is 'a scientist' he assumes that his opinion is valuable and should be printed as truth.

You are not asking a plumber to do your electrics are you? I mean they are both builders, but have completely different fields of expertise.



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