Al Gore, Global Warming and 2008

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1. Melissa Magaliff said,

   April 17, 2007 @ 9:10 am

   Dear Mr. Gore,
   I saw your movie “An Inconvenient Truth” and i was very moved by it. I am a very strong believer of Global warming and that we should do something about it. I am in the 7th Grade and I am doing a report on global warming and I wish for you to please respond to this in hope that one day I could finally meet you and learn about Global Warming. I hope that I will be able to learn about global warming. Thank you for your time.

   Melissa Magaliff

2. Nick Taylor said,

   April 17, 2007 @ 12:01 pm

   If you really believe that there is such thing as global warming, I have one great question to ask which has not even been suggest by anyone who is intelligent and concerned about global warming.

   Why do people continue to reproduce? My wife and I decided not to have children. We are doing OUR part in participating in the effort. I had a vasectomy done back in 1990.

   Why don’t more people do? No, not after having 1-5 or more children and when a person is completely financially strapped. Just think about it for a minute. You know that I am right. There are millions of children already born and have a sad life.

   I don’t particually care for children, don’t have the patience for them, especially in this day and age. My wife and I own older cars that are very well taken care of by myself. I am a mechanic.

   The people that complain about how we should clean up this planet, say how we should do away with existing necessities, don’t practive what they preach.

   They don’t take their vehicle WHEN THEY ARE SUPPOSE TO and have it serviced, complain about how much fuel is per gallon, bitch and moan about the guy down the street with his or her big trucks and cars. These are kind of people that don’t check their tire pressure. Complain and bitch how much things cost, especially when they didn’t follow a schedule like they were suppose to.

   These are the people that should walk or ride a bicycle. They should also stop reproducing. You are doing just as much damage to the environment if not more than someone like me; who owns older auto and would like to keep them, and spend the time and money to take care of them.

   If only people could imagine how higher levels of carbon dioxide would drop if they followed the rules instead bitching and breaking them (which is much easier).

   Nick Taylor

3. vercamer robert C. said,

   April 20, 2007 @ 11:03 am

   Dear Mr. Gore,

   the “Stern”(a weekly magazine in Germany) carried a translation of your speech on a “green” world. I agree 100 % with the mode of the presentation.
   As the saying goes “The proof is in the pudding” or “seeing is believing” may I suggest ,that you and your camera team visits the several towns in Germany which are attaining almost total coverage of the village energy need via :solar energy, waste fermentation and ,,, methane production … electricity, home insulation and various warmth saving suggestions.The population is varying about 4000 people. There ought to be oodles of little towns in the U.S., who could fit the pattern of a similar development .
   I am quit sure, that the German government would more then eager to help you plan and execute such an endeavour.

   Sincerely yours,

   Robert C. Vercamer

4. Xavier Serrano said,

   April 20, 2007 @ 4:54 pm

   Mr Al Gore,

   I am a regular 34 years old advertiser in COlombia with non relationship of anykind with Colombian POlitics….Reason because I would love to invite you to Colombia and see for your self what the president Uribe means and do.

   I grew up between Farc´s bombs, kidnaps and Paramilitar shoots…Now, we only have Farc´s bombs. Now I feel my country is worth to work on it and my future son or daughter will grow up with fewer terrible events as I did.

   Please come to Bogota, speak with common/working people and see for your self that som politicians work towards against Uribe becuase is profitable for future campaigns.

   My time and knowledge to help you as you may need to do so…

   I am sure president Uribe has made some mistakes, but finally we have a president working for the working people.

   Regards,

   Xavier

   p.d. I lived in your country several years (graduate schooll) and as far as I know your leadership will be very helpful. My best wishes.

5. Jennifer Montgomery said,

   April 20, 2007 @ 6:04 pm

   Al,
   You should run for Pesident again. There is something we all can do to help but we need a good leader to make a good exsample for everyone to follow.
   I belive you can make a big change for the better if you became president.
   I am a 20 year old from Anchorage Alaska. I would like to be more apart of a greater cause for the better then contributing to the effects of global warming.
   Please contact me back, I would like more information on how I could help.
   I would vote for you if you ran for president, and I know a lot more people that would too.

6. Grant Dickinson said,

   April 20, 2007 @ 6:08 pm

   I am a very small Ford sharehold by virtue of having worked for them for six years. Today I got my proxy. It says the board of directors recommends a vote FOR them but against every proposal. Proposal (4) relates to adoption of goals to reduce greenhouse gases and (7) to publishing a report on Global Warming/Cooling. In response, I sent this: “I was a production supervisor at Claycomo for 6 years. I left because superintendents and area managers did not care about quality: i.e. It was not right to fix a rattle on a $30K F150 with a piece of double sided tape… Now, the company has lost #1 car and #2 sales! The officers and directors should apologize to the nation in abject shame. Henry Ford must not be resting peacefully today! Now, you urge us to vote against every proposal that might make the company a little more responsible. Greed! Greed! Try to start doing what is right for the nation and the world. You will find it is right for the company, as well.”

   This could be sent to most of the military industrial establishment. Do you have the guts to stand up to these people and make a change? If so, how can I help? I am now working in a lower-paying service industry job, one of those Bush “created’ to replace the millions of high paying manufacturing and technical jobs that have moved to foreign shores during his administration. Keep this in mind when you answer my question, please. Keep up the great work. You are a voice crying in the global warming wilderness, but your voice is being heard by more and more of us.

7. Mr. Pedro Aja said,

   April 22, 2007 @ 1:32 pm

   Dear Mr. Gore:

   I am a citizen of Colombia and was very surprised to know about your doubts about Mr. Alvaro Uribe, our president in terms of his possible connections with paramilitary groups. The origin of those commentaries are well known in Colombia, (marxist opposition) but it seems that you do not have updated information. Last Friday May 20, Mr. Uribe faced the sharp questioning of controversial journalists in a press conference that he gave at the presidential house. The badly intentioned presentation of senator Gustavo Petro was totally dismantled before journalists and our national audience. Do not believe me. Contact the security department of your American Embassy in Bogotá and learn from reliable sources of your own country the real status of Mr. Uribe’s ethical profile. Your lack of courtesy was an offense to our president and Colombia. The least that we expect from a world leader like you is to confront the lies as our president did in front of our most critical journalists. Senator. Petro, a marxist, does not represent the best interests of our country as his arguments are not supported by proven judicial facts, but debatable and biased circumstancial evidence, and sometimes lies. This Sunday April 22, El Tiempo published what the journalists found out “in situ” about the alledged massacres in one of Mr. Uribe’s home states which gave origin to the headlines of some American newspapers. For us Petro is a big liar. Talk to your embassy or Mr. Bill Clinton or Bill Gates that know Mr. Uribe.

8. Martha Le said,

   April 23, 2007 @ 8:29 am

   Hello,

   In an effort to put together a presentation for Working Solutions International, I’d like to request a copy of Mr. Gore’sresume.

   Many thanks in advance,
   Martha Le

9. Hernando Martínez said,

   April 23, 2007 @ 9:46 am

   Mr. Gore
   I thank your ethical lesson to the President of the Republic of Colombia in a Conference in Florida, last week. The media was not clear; however, Uribe’s words showed that you dislike people with not right behavior. Congratulations!
   Best regards
   Hernando Martínez

10. Hernando Martínez said,

    April 23, 2007 @ 9:48 am

    Mr. Gore
    I thank your ethical lesson to the President of the Republic of Colombia in a Conference in Florida, last week. The media was not clear; however, Uribe’s words showed that you dislike people with not right behavior. Congratulations!
    Best regards
    Hernando Martínez

11. Clemen Wilcox said,

    April 24, 2007 @ 10:34 am

    Mr. Gore,
    I admire you for your fight against pollution and polluters. I am with you in that one. I try to save water, recycle, etc. With respect, I am deeply disappointed on you and your last intervention against the president of my home land. Now you are going to create a movement not against Mr. Uribe, who will be out of office soon, but against Colombia and its economy. Please go back in history and see what the US did to my country at the end of the last decade. Now you have hundreds of Colombian-immigrants here, that had to abandon their country for lack of opportunities. Why don’t you fight against the fumigations in the Amazon or in farmers land in Colombia? That would be an environmental fight, which I believe is your first concern. At least that is what I understand. I don’t support any kinds of terrorism. I believe nobody should use violence against others. I don’t support paramilitaries or guerrilleros. I believe both of them are destroying my people. I believe in human rights.
    I just invite you to study Colombia’s history and its problems, before you attack a whole race. Don’t believe everything people tell you, go and talk to people in Colombia, find out what they believe and what happens their, before putting that bad the image of a country that has suffer so much.
    Sincerely,

    Clemen

12. chris hirst said,

    April 24, 2007 @ 10:25 pm

    We may prevent the polar caps from melting by spraying the polar caps with a non toxic chemical that will raise the melting point of the polar ice and therefore prevent a flood.

    Something like blue ice which stays frozen at higher temperatures.

13. Sean Harnett said,

    April 25, 2007 @ 10:31 am

    I will be writing Mr Gore, but I would also like to pass my comments along to you folks. I am a liberal and not afraid to admit it. I voted for Gore in 2000, and I have always supported him. But recently I’ve been VERY disappopinted.

    1. The utility bill: I understand carbon offsets. However, they do not offset the fact that his energy usage is simply obscene and provides a big fat target for his detractors. Just plain STUPID!!

    2. He refused to be interviewed for Frontline “Hot Politics of Global Warming”. WHY NOT? If anyone should have been interviewed for that excellent program it is Al Gore. I can only conclude that he is afraid of having to explain why he failed to make any significant progress toward global warming while he was VP. No doubt the utility bill question would ahve come up too — as it should.

    Al, you have lost my vote. The only way you’d get me to vote for you is to run against another Bush.

14. Scott Meller said,

    April 25, 2007 @ 1:19 pm

    Mr. Gore

    First off I would like applaud your efforts to bring climate control awareness to the forfront. When you have some down time I would ask that you have a look at this website www.mpbccc.com the site is for a documentary made by a friend of mine the documentary is titled, Mountain Pine Beetle :Climate Change Catastrophe. The documentary brings awareness to the fact that the Mountain Pine Beetle is killing many of British Columbia’s forests and therefore drastically effecting the climate and air quality. The documentary will be shown in Norway in June and the hopefully at a festival in Toronto in the fall of 2007. I am not asking for anything by providing you this website and information I just thought I would forward you this due to there being a common concern.

    Good luck with everything in the future,
    Scott Meller

15. charlotte kidd said,

    April 26, 2007 @ 6:43 am

    Hi there, my name is Charlotte Kidd and i am a student at college in England. i’m currently doing a project on designing an environmentally friendly home and were curious to know how you were trying to help green issues in America? As i have chosen to look at America as a case study for this project.

    Thank you very much for your time kind regaurds Charlotte Kidd

16. John Adams said,

    April 26, 2007 @ 12:38 pm

    Hi Al–My name is John Adams and I am a visiting professor at Hamilton College teaching a course entitled “Rhetoric and the Environment.” If you have any spare time today when you’re on campus, please feel free to drop by my classroon in the Science Center 3040–the students would love ot hear what you have to say about rhetoric and the environment!! The class meets from 2.30-3.45–it is a small class.

    I am 99.999% certain you won’t be able to come to my class–your day is probably too tightly organized–but hey–it never hurts to ask.

    Anyway, thanks for all you’re doing on behalf of the planet.

    Regards,
    John

17. elizabeth perkins said,

    April 26, 2007 @ 2:46 pm

    dear al gore you are my hero you are amazing and your movie definatley blew my mind and i really dont want to be the frog sitting in the hot water and im trying to think of ways to help like im trying to organize this thing to raise money for the cause but it is so hard and some people are not very aware i tried putting up signs but apparently im not allowed to put up signs without a permit please write back

18. Peter Molnar said,

    April 26, 2007 @ 10:32 pm

    Dear Mr. Al Gore,

    My name is Peter Molnar and I live in Lyons Township, Illinois. At my High school, Lyons Township High School kids do not recognize or respect the earth. They take it for granted, and they do not care for the environment. It seems like I am the only one that cares so deeply for the environment at my school. Everyday I try to educate other students into facts and real life consequences and effects of global warming, but not to many listen because they are all very narrow minded and do not care for the future. All I hear is global warming will not effect me… What a lie because it does effect everyone but no one person in my school can see through their black and white vision. In my lunchroom there are multiple recycling bins dedicated to collect recycables but bottles, cans, and paper are all thrown into the trash like some basketball game. I always ask them why can’t you do even the littlest things to save our planet, and like always I get the response relax it is just a bottle. I always say to this, what would happen if each person in the world threw away a bottle each day. That is around 6 billion bottles a day, and that is 2,190,000,000,000 bottles a year. Now what if everyone threw away 2 bottles a day, 12 billion bottles everyday, and 4,380,000,000,000 bottles each year. That is just bottles alone what about paper, food, plastic, oil, …. My school has recycling bins but most times maintance workers just throws out the recycables. I sincerely hope that you can visit my school and please educate the stubborn minded kids in my grade to change their views just as you have done with your book and movie. I try everyday to help make the world a better place and try to spread your cause.

    From,
    Peter Molnar a 16 year old helping the world live just a bit longer.

19. Paola Fernanda Neves said,

    April 27, 2007 @ 10:29 am

    I would like to invite Mr. Al Gore to speak on the global heating in our event of agriculture to be carried through in 24 of August of 2007.
    I wait brief return with the contact of responsible for the agenda of Mr. Al Gore.
    Thanks,
    PAOLA FERNANDA NEVES
    Biennial Executive Secretariat of Agriculture 2007
    Email: secretaria@bienaldaagricultura.com.br
    Tel.: +55-65-3617 4465 Fax: +55-65-3617 4402

20. Kevin Gill said,

    April 27, 2007 @ 2:20 pm

    To the highly Honorable Vice President Al Gore,

    Vice President Gore, you were sorely missed last night on the stage in South Carolina. Your elequence, knowledge of all aspects of global politics, wisdom, intelligence and frank manner of speaking would have shown the country and the world what a “Real” President of the United States looks like. Perhaps Senator Obama will be a “settling for” candidate, but your several Move On organized speeches and passion throughout this sad bush administration, have kept me sane and calm when I’ve thought I’d seen the destruction of this awesome and great country of ours. At times, because of the neglect that allowed 9/11 to happen, or the rape and invasion and murder of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, or the Katrina debacle or the endless counts of corruption, cronieism and criminal acts not to mention the retreat of long held peacful treaties and relationships with allies throughout the world, I’ve feel as though I’m watching the end of the world as we have known it. Please consider bringing all that you have to offer back to our much neglected government. We have a very long road of healing and repair to achieve, and you are the perfect man at the perfect time to lead us. I know there are vicious right wing mine fields out there just waiting to pounce on you, I mean look how they treated you as you were elequently trying to illuminate congress on the state of how serious climate change has become, and you were only trying to offer real solutions and had an optimistic “window of opportunity” that we could all work together on, and they still attacked you and your character. I say the only way to get our country back is to stand up to this ignorance, these last 6 1/2 years of bush have been unbearable, especially on the heels of the way they came to power, and we can’t allow them any more cover. They’ve used the flag, our Bill of Rights and the Constitution, not to mention claiming God as their own, to what seems to be a way of driving this country and our freedoms into the ground and we need to stand up and rout these demons out of power. Please, my good sir, PLEASE consider how much your country needs you, we need you. Please enter the race and save our country.

    Your biggest fan,

    Kevin Gill
    Los Angeles, CA

21. Jeff Hicks said,

    April 28, 2007 @ 6:30 pm

    I am trying to communicate with Al Gore in reference to my recycling efforts. I feel that it is very unique. I deal with the recycling of empty inkjet cartridges. My company is non-profit- we try to educate Americans that their empty ink cartridges are worth a lot of money when empty. When people mail their empties ina postage paid envelope to our recycling factory their agency gets $2.00 for every one that is good and my company donates our .75 commission to their cause also. We just need help in educating Americans!!!
    Thank you. Jeff Hicks

22. Mikaela Osborne said,

    April 30, 2007 @ 12:09 am

    Dear Mr. Gore
    I am in 8th grade and thave just recently seen your movie “an incovenient truth”
    im was moved deeply by it and wish that i could some how talk to you so could you please reply to my comment?

    Thank you

23. Rayne said,

    May 2, 2007 @ 1:22 pm

    TO Al Gore:

    I have seen your movie many times and you have one fact that I know to be unture.
    Yes the west nile wasnt truely in North America until a few years ago.
    BUT the truth is it was here over 20 years ago.
    I have tried many times to correct news and health officials on this fact but thy dont seem to care and tell me i’m wrong.
    But if I was wrong my grand mother would still be alive today, she was bit by a mosquito.

24. Shane Pickle said,

    May 3, 2007 @ 3:17 pm

    Dear Mr. Gore,

    I in my humble opinion, think that you are completely wrong about global warming. It is now 1314 Pacific Standard Time on May 3rd, 2007 in Central Oregon and snowing. Global warming is a crock. Please do the world a favor and get a clue. Perhaps expanding your understanding beyond a hypothetical model into the real world would help.

    Sincerely,

    Shane Pickle

25. Dag Skaug said,

    May 7, 2007 @ 3:17 am

    Apple trees

    I WOULD BUY A TREE – IF IT WAS POSSIBLE ON ITUNES

    I am a Norwegian citizen and therefore an inhabitant on the planet earth. Last night I saw the disturbing documentary “An Inconvenient truth” with Al Gore. The message of the film has already been clear to many of us, but nevertheless it’s frightening when presented in such an educational manner.

    I see myself as a fairly conscientious consumer but I still fear that we are coming up short. I am married with two children, and nothing would be more painful than knowing that we had a chance to alter our future but did nothing.

    Throughout the years I have seen a number of haphazard attempts to act, but none of them has had quite the impact on the public as they should. Maybe the case that they where presented by a bunch of longhaired, pot-smoking hippies had something to do with it, what do I know?

    But anyway the reason for me trying to communicate this to the world (or even better, Steve Jobs at Apple), is quite brilliant if you don’t mind me saying so. I believe that if Steve Jobs runs across this idea somewhere on the web, he would really grab on to it.
    So therefore it is important that this idea is forwarded to as many as possible. Let the internet do what it’s supposed to do; Get good information across!

    THE CONCEPT – “Apple-trees”

    The concept is this: On Apple’s outstanding internet store, ITunes you set up the possibility to buy an “Apple-tree”. This will be a non-profit project where the income goes to funding the project itself, aside from a small handling charge. (I know that this sounds bad for a commercial enterprise, but I predict that this will really establish Apple as an environmentally conscious company.)

    An “Apple-tree” is an audio- and/or a video-file where (hopefully!) Al Gore will thank you for buying an “Apple-tree”. He will then explain to you that by buying an “Apple-tree” you are actually buying endangered rainforests in the tropical belt around the world, which by itself is not enough to save the world but is an important contribution. Then he will give you a new tip with every purchase of an “Apple-tree”, of what you can do yourself to give the earth the upper hand in the battle against oblivion. There are several enterprises today that are planting or protecting the rainforest, so Apple would mainly be the front-end marketing arm.

    I predict that with your Apple’s impact on society, and how the conscientious consumers want to participate; this would be a way of getting control over the situation. In the near future people would meet at work, in school, in the neighbourhood and at home to compare the number of trees they have “planted”.

    This is good brand-building. Apple will make even more money while you are saving the planet.

    Now, doesn’t that sound cool?

    Dag Skauig
    dagskaug@gmail.com

26. Josh Wetherington said,

    May 8, 2007 @ 12:56 pm

    May 8, 2007

    Honorable Al Gore
    2100 West End Avenue
    Suite 620
    Nashville, TN 37203

    Joshua George Wetherington
    2211 NW 22nd Way #100
    Boynton Beach, FL. 33436

    Dear Mr. Gore,

    PLEASE RUN FOR PRESIDENT SIR.

    I am writing this letter to you as a very concerned citizen and patriot of this country, as well as the brother of an honorable serviceman. My brother is a 39-year-old father of three who is serving in the Coast Guard Reserve. He is a former Army soldier who served in combat in Panama and the Gulf War. He was stationed in Germany in the late 1980’s and helped to tear down the Berlin Wall; I don’t remember ever being prouder of him, or this county, than the day we received pieces of the wall in the mail.

    Last month he received orders and was shipped over to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan. The most devastating part to me was the fact that he was in the middle of a six-month service in New Orleans, clearing canals and rebuilding ports from the devastation of Katrina, when he received orders for the Middle East. He was taken out of New Orleans early in order to fight in this endless war. There is something seriously wrong with this country if our armed forces are so overdrawn to the point that we are using the Coast Guard Reserve to fight a war with no end in sight. It is clearly even more erroneous and immoral for the United States to pull our servicemen out of a tour of duty rebuilding our own country in order to go destroy another.

    Your efforts to save our environment are truly noble. I have been a surfer living on the East coast of Florida for over a decade. As I write this letter there is an extremely abnormal late season cold front that resembles a slightly weaker oversized hurricane sitting off of our coast. It is sending 15-20’ swells at our coast the likes of which I have never seen in my lifetime. My uncles have been surfing for over 40 years and have never seen waves like this hitting the Florida coastline in May either; the average wave height this time of year is 1-2’ with maybe a 3-4’ standout swell. I believe that this is further evidence and a result of Global Warming.

    President Eisenhower tried to warn us about the actions of the Industrial Military Complex. I am afraid that his wise presage has fallen on deaf ears, a collective unconscious easily distracted and manipulated by fear.

    Please sir, I urge you from the bottom of my heart to run for president. I truly believe that you are the last hope politically for our country, our planet, our generation, and future generations to come.

    PLEASE RUN FOR PRESIDENT SIR.

    With utmost sincerity,

    Joshua George Wetherington

27. Cristian Boarolo said,

    May 11, 2007 @ 8:41 am

    Dear Mr. Gore,
    I’m an Italian guy and ever since I’ve been really concerned about issues of our time. I would give you immediately my vote if I was an American citizen. This Mr. Bush looks too much forward lacking in watching where his own next step is gonna pass through. There’s a serious risk to fail if you lack on watching this. But, as everywhere and in every country, there’s always something to struggle with…
    I’ve been really moved by “An Inconvenient Truth” documentary.
    I’m 34 years old from Northern Italy. As you said in your movie where you were pride to get in contact with intellectual ferment, I hope to have the same opportunity in meeting you.
    I’d be pleasured in knowing about your Italian tour dates to be part of the hearing conference.
    I’d like to introduce you about a project of mine regarding on saving of electric power energy.
    My real problem is that I don’t have any powerful contacts or friends to get into an important trial as one of you conferences. At the less to seem reliable, you know?
    This project is as easy to be working as clear’s day. Simple ways always comes as to be the best ones.
    It talks about saving of all electric power concerning lighting ( common ratio worth of roughly 20% or more of the entire electric request) by a real and very easy new way. And it would reduce instantly the harmful emission on our earth already enough sick for that percentage at least.
    I think it’d takes maybe a year maximum to be realized and functionally operative world wide scale.
    It’s crazy to say that, after I’ve seen a documentary about Schonau town in Germany ( the citizens produce their own energy for their needing), I’ve tried to get in touch to them by a web link found in the internet. No replies yet. I though that I could have trusted them because of their pure spirit.
    Now, I’m asking if there will be the chance to talk about this project with you.
    I don’t have other kind of knowledgements to how to find somebody to talk with about this.
    I’ll wait wishing to see how it’s gonna be.
    Looking forward

    Cristian Boarolo

    e-mail contact : sohnrwk@yahoo.it

    Thanks for your time.

    I would like to be part of this issue.

    Looking forward

28. Charles Crispen said,

    May 15, 2007 @ 9:30 pm

    After reading Alexander Cockburn’s article about global warming in The Nation, I have to wonder if maybe the issue is not accumulation of CO2 due to man’s production of CO2, but perhaps is really due to the devastation man has done to the forests of the world. It seems to me that theoretically the re-establishment of significant forest lands as demonstrated most significantly by the burning of the Amazon jungles as well as the harvesting of trees for wood products throughout the world may be the real cause of the problem. Without this aspect of the Earth’s ecology it may be that the CO2 increases may not necessarily be due the the increased production of CO2 by man (which is undeniable) but rather be due to the losses from the other side of the equation….forests to utilize the CO2 created and convert it to O2.

    Cockburns’ article certainly brings into question the CO2 production side of the equation, which leaves the CO2 REDUCTION side which also cannot be denied.

29. Liisa Lampinen said,

    May 16, 2007 @ 2:13 pm

    Superthanks for Mr.Al Gore from very interesting document which was seen on television here in Finland at this evening, 16 May 2007! It was very clear to understand for “normal” people, and it was so fine, that I really almost cried!

    Please send this information and superthanks for Mr.Al Gore!

    SUPER!

30. James said,

    May 17, 2007 @ 8:03 am

    hi, my name is James. I was wondering if you know anything about Darfur, and if you have any pictures before the gencide or any other pictures that would give me a before and after effect for a High school project.

31. JOSEPH BOGGS said,

    May 18, 2007 @ 8:16 pm

    Mr. Gore,
    Ordinarily I have voted Republican or Independent. After seeing your
    documentary (An Inconvenient Truth) I was so impressed with you that
    I sat back and said openly “this is the man I’d want to be my President!”.

    I have since spoken with 12 other friends and 9 saw the documentary. Nine would want to have you as President. You have integrity, honesty,
    actual direction.

    From many of us to you, Please run. And don’t had Mrs Clinton as your
    running mate. (many of us have grave concerns about her)

    Sincerely,
    Joseph Boggs
    A active voter, and a Veteran

32. Egon Ruf said,

    May 19, 2007 @ 4:17 am

    Mr. Gore,
    We are in a desperate situation with the future of man hanging in a precarious balance by the ongoing environmental disaster.
    Please consider continuing your efforts to educate and lead on these issues as president of the United States.
    While you could not escape politics, your credentials as a visionary who clearly identified this global threat, places you far above anyone else who might occupy that office.
    Sincerely,
    Egon Ruf

33. Larry Carver said,

    May 19, 2007 @ 10:10 am

    Are you the same Al Gore that invented the internet?
    Good job if we can believe you at all, doubt it!

34. susana frankel said,

    May 19, 2007 @ 11:16 pm

    Dear Mr. Gore:
    I want to congratulate you on the terrific work you are doing for us all on earth and that will have such a huge impact on the future generations.
    I read today the article on Time Magazine (may 28, 07) The Last Temptation of Al Gore and I strongly hope that you decide to run for the Presidency of this country. This is what the US needs, human beings with a strong sense of purpose, high ideals and fighting for causes that are not necessarily money making opportunities.
    You would have my vote and my family’s vote as well.
    I also would like to have an unimportant question answered:
    where did you get the beautiful frog on your Nashville home office wall?
    I thank you so much for the attention you give to my message.
    Keep on the excellent work!

35. Wanda said,

    May 20, 2007 @ 9:41 pm

    Mr. Gore, I just rented the movie An Inconvient Truth. I was just in awe on the vast information that you gave. I knew about global warming, but you put it in a different perspective. As far as running for president, please consider. I am a repulican, but very unhappy with the present administration. Its time to stop the killing in IRAQ and give our people here at home some rest and money back in their pockets.

36. Bill Johnston said,

    May 21, 2007 @ 9:57 pm

    Mr. Gore,

    Do not run!!!! Right now, many Republicans and most Democrats and everyone else (well, almost) are listening to your message. The minute you declare for President, you will lose half of your audience. You will make Global Warming a partisan issue. Bad idea. Plus, being a candidate is not a good fit for your personality. Being a focused spokesman on an issue you really believe in, is.

37. Wendy P said,

    May 22, 2007 @ 4:09 pm

    I speak about this topic without enough time to fully get into it, because I have little time for the most part these days. I am 26, and I registered to vote in 2000. I spent every chance I could during that election to be inspired by Gore, and was let down by or systems inattention.
    When the “ should have been” President of the United States came out with a movie, I did not care much about what the topic pertained to, but I was excited that after years of wondering where he had been, he was interested in being viewed in the public eye.
    Inspired once again by his dedication to a good cause, the ability to over come, and being an intellectual speaker; we could only hope he would run for president again! Our Presidents job is to present a face as our leader. We have many leaders that make up a Union that is now so corrupt; it pains me to watch the medias programmed response. Gore speaks modestly, but with honesty when he shows that knowledge. A strong president has at least some impact on their cabinet, people, and several causes. In the end, we know that in the least he has to be able to show confidence and inspiration around the world.
    Our Country grows weak with corruption, lack of ideas, and promotion of original thought! Curriculums are walls that if well maintained can form stability, but if poorly maintained can deplete intelligence, create anarchy (which weakens systems as it strengthens self motives) and disregards progression.
    It is unfortunate, but a truth, that catastrophic events bring whole nations together. This world is going through a crisis! In Gores favor, he deals with scientists all over the world (some that hate American government as well as our people). He brings them together for a good cause, and gives them encouragement that there are some people from our side of the planet that care. We should not only be inspired by his fresh ideas, but let him give knowledge to people around the world that we have become as suppressed by our government as they have about the opinions they have formulated about the general public. Let him prove that leadership is still earned, and let us prove that there are still people motivated that by chance, an imperfect yet inspiring person can lead us. As Americans we are born into individuality, but you have to be an individual by separating yourself from the general consciences, and that takes work. It is not the leaders of this country that lead us as a people, but the people of this country inspired by their own judgment and choice that creates democracy. I would almost feel let down by our government if Gore did not run for president. How could one man want to do so many things, and be so unmotivated to become a super power leader? What does this tell you?
    Sadly, if he does not run, what is he trying to say?

    General Politics & My Opinions: conservative/ liberalists are looking at the picture at black and white perspective. I would consider myself a Democrat, but I do not agree with everything that the Democratic Party has to say. I just believe we need more of a democracy right now, the democrats seem to be the more ethical choice, and they have the less corrupt system.
    Right now, where the ground seems to be folding underneath our feet, we need to secure that ground. That means working from the ground up. It is obvious which groups do more for the people of this country. Being a politician is not a selfless act.
    You have to be capable of hard to reach financial status, fit in with the less “ life experienced/book smart” version of society, have an idealistic background which does not permit enough street smarts to relate with the majority, and be able to mingle in with the surrounding two percent that ruin this country.
    This point of view is harsh, but reality. I have thought of better ways to promote my ideas through weakened, yet intellectual tongue, but I would feel as if my point would be reaching the wrong people. Watered down language is politicians best defense in making idiots of a speaker, or small of the situation. It is their greatest achievement of suppression! While you are trying to relate, and expand your choice of words, you forget the concept of original thought is most important! I do not lack respect for anyone who chooses to speak with an extensive vocabulary, as long as they realize it is not as important as what the words symbolize! When you do that, you do not leave enough time and effort in your brain for original thought, “The very point of evolution”. This explains why we are falling behind. It is obvious that the systems we have are not working in the broad-spectrum point of view! Politicians should not view their ideas as a string selling point to win a high political status, but believe in the very system men have laid down their lives for! Working men/woman, farmers, business men/woman, and politicians alike to form all walks and create a communal society. The society in this nation creates the organization, which creates understanding and unites us together. Why do I speak of uniting us? We are going through a crisis, a recession, war, economy disaster, and we are the United States! We are a country created by many cultures, but recently are faced with a different type of culture. We are faced with a corrupt government, and media. We are forced to accept immigrants who do not respect our flag. This is not a time for error! The greedy are trying to profit off our negligence, the envious trying to weaken our defenses, the people we trust are trying to suppress our freedom, drugs are being used to solve issues we once worked through, and the true people in power are doing al they can to stop a rebellion THEY caused. The truth of the matter is, I speak about uniting us because great powers are destroyed from within rather then from without. Divided great nations fall!
    Without sounding to cliché, these thoughts have been on my mind a lot lately. I am not sure how many people are actually paying attention. I have many ideas, but I am not a politician or represented by a politician, and expect that people would disregard these words. Many subjects that I have in mind have not seen an empty piece of paper, or reached anyone’s ear yet. Gore has reached people, represented the cause, and proved that he in the least see through the corruption

38. Christie Hernandez said,

    May 22, 2007 @ 8:42 pm

    Mr Gore,
    I feel incredibly inspired by your work about global warming. I’ve always beleived in living a responsible life by protecting the environment, but in recent I dont JUST beleive it, I LIVE IT.
    Thank you for being such an inspiring figure to young people and everybody around the world. I really wish you could come and visit Puerto Rico.

    God Bless You

39. Zorigt Munhkjav said,

    May 23, 2007 @ 10:36 am

    Dear Mr Gore

    I really liked your contribution for our mother earth and love to support you and all the people who is going to do so.

    Yes, if we not going to take care of it who else would do? As you said on your movie, the clock is ticking.

    I am a Mongolian. My porfession is a geology drilling engineer, but now I have a construction company. As I am geologest and understanding the way of earth and nature, we MUST PROTECT the mother earth to give a longer life to it. Our age will not see this.

    I am planning to do similer thing in Mongolia as you do around the world which is giving lecture about global warming. I am planning this around september. To do so I have to prepare very hard for that and I will be greatfull if you could support regarding the global warming issues.

    For the future I would like to invite you to Mongolia and help the mongolians to understand how important it is to protect mother earth, just simply giving them your great lecture. I will do everything I can do to support you in Mongolia. Please visit Mongolia and see it your self how we are harming and producing the greenhouse gases, spiecialy in winter. Almost most of every single houses producing CO2 here in Mongolia.

    Please contact me, together all of us can help to support our world.
    Looking forward to hear from you. Please write me on email:zlsec@yahoo.com
    All the best

    Zorigt
    From stepps of Chingiss Khans Mongolia.

40. Martin Sturmer said,

    May 23, 2007 @ 2:16 pm

    Dear Mr. Gore,

    thank you for your new book about which I have heard today in German media. I think it is very important. (in Germany too) It reminded me of a speech by J.F.Kennedy before the American Newspaper Publishers Association, 1961:

    “Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed–and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment– the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution- -not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and the sentimental, not to simply “give the public what it wants”–but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold, educate and sometimes even anger public opinion.”

    President John F. Kennedy
    Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
    New York City, April 27, 1961:
    http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/Speeches/JFK/003POF03NewspaperPublishers04271961.htm

41. Natalia said,

    May 24, 2007 @ 6:21 pm

    Dear Mr. Gore,

    I am currently in the 9th grade and in leadership we are doing a project. We have to pick a person who we feel is a good leader and I picked you. I really think that your movie The inconvenient Truth was really touching in such a way. I really do agree with global warming etc. I really think that you need to run for president cause you make a good leader. As you may already know, 70% of Americans hate Bush and im sure that if you ran it would be the oppisite. So please run because you would make a really good leader.

    Thanks for your time. I look forward to your possible timely reply.

    Sincerely,

    Natalia

42. CJ said,

    May 24, 2007 @ 9:54 pm

    Are all you people on crack or what? I suppose we created the last globle warming…a bunch of cro-magnon and neanderthals?
    Oh I forgot it was the mastadon farts that started it all. In case you haven’t noticed the last ice age isn’t over! The poles still have large amounts of ice! So there’s less in the north but guess what the south is growing! Oh yeah another fallacy…Gore created the internet? What kind of barnyard deficant is that? Unless I miss my guess Gore is younger than I am and I was a member of the military in the late sixties and seventies and guess what? I never heard of Gore, yet I was using of all things mil.com to connect to other military sites. Sorry there wasn’t any civilian sites at that time but it was still the internet. I believe if you really look at the stats you will find that AOL, curse their evil, selfish, egotistical hearts, developed the first rudimentary form of the internet.
    Mr. Gore, I think you should take some more drugs and drink some more annie greensprings and go back to your28,000 square foot house and step in your own carbon footprint because there is no such thing! You are a sadistic, bi-polar fraud and take your crazy buddy Clinton with you

43. james walkowiak said,

    May 26, 2007 @ 3:20 pm

    Dear President Gore,

    With the current atmosphere hovering over the G8 proposals (and this administrations refusal to adhere to any of them) I implore you to rethink your stance on running for the office that, by right, is already yours. Even with your insight and influence, all Dem. candidates are too entwined in Corporate/political service, and though I’m sure with the best intentions, will still fall short of acheiving any real set goals regarding our position on this planet. They are too dependant on the “big money” from the same industries that are contributing to the loss of our great world, and in who’s influence the current “regime” makes all of their decisions. Running Dem’s don’t dare infuriate these powerfull industry leaders, but you sir, already have, and are still head and head with the rest of the running candidates, though you yourself are not running.

    In world news, I don’t hear enough from anyone regarding their positions on any thing other than Iraq. Though a quagmire, the problem with Iraq falls a little short of the problem of extinction of our way of life and species. It also falls short of our domestic situations, (healthcare, immigration, social security, national deficit.) Current candidates are reverting to the politics of fear and Iraq too often for a sound-byte as too why their presidency would be better than any-one other’s. I don’t feel there is enough credit given to the average American to make an intelligent decision. Given the proper, researched information, even a child will make an intelligent decision.

    To try and brind this to a close, you Mr. Gore, seem to be the only individual willing to allow American’s to make an intelligent decision.
    You, sir, seam to be the only person willing to take steps necessary to institute proposals brought forth at G8. You, sir, are the only person that is willing to discuss not only foreign policy with foreign nations, but domestic policy here at home. Lord knows we’ve had too many years with a certain group of individauls inwilling to have a discussion with anyone other than themselves.

    At close, you may be our last chance at a new America. The re-birth of true democracy. We are at a crucial turning point in which our nations is ready for a drastic change. This opportunity may never come again. Though I am confident that a Democrat will take office, if that candidate doesn’t follow through on their promises, or fails to appease th nation as a whole with their presidency, we will fall back in the hole we are in now. Corporate & media sponsored democracy is no democracy at all. I look forward to reading your new book “Assualt on Reason”, and will continue to push for a Gore Presidency in 2008.

    P.s. I’ve been an active Apple Computer user for over 8 years.

    Kind Regards,
    James Walkowiak

44. Nikki said,

    May 27, 2007 @ 5:40 pm

    Thank you SO much Al Gore for making an “Inconvenient Truth”!! It is alarming the changes that have been happening on this planet within the last century, with regards to global warming, air pollution and water pollution.

    It cannot be understated, that changes in how we fuel our automobiles, homes and industries needs to happen and now. In the movie you speak of two canaries in the coal mine, I say there are three. The third being the dramatic increase of respiratory illness such as asthma that is being seen.

    Thanks again for making this documentary and taking it world wide. I wish the fight over the electric car in the documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car” had been taken world wide when that was going on.

45. Bobby said,

    May 28, 2007 @ 5:57 am

    Dear Mr. Gore,

    I am beginning to wonder if CO2 is the reason for the warming or if it is just a coincidence during the process. I respect the hard science and the research but I have questions regarding the core of the earth. If it was heated to a temperature that was not conducive to an atmosphere we are used to we could find ourselves in trouble. I know the volcanoes are directly connected to the inner earth, and the cracks underneath the sea where underwater volcanic activity occurs would be heated as well. Everything in nature runs in cycles. I wonder if earth is approaching a cycle in which the atmosphere becomes affected in a detrimental way. I also wonder if the nuclear tests that have been reported over the years that take place underground are having an effect on warming the earth. If the waste or the tests are warming the earth the re-radiation alone may be warming our atmosphere. Analogy if the earth was a person and exposed to the radiation would the person heat up I think so.
    The next thing I am wondering is if the sun is heating up to temperatures in excess of what it has in the past because of the report regarding Mars. I have an analogy regarding the sun as well and it is this my gas grill has a tank of fuel and it of course runs out from time to time and when it does the temperature fluctuates at an extreme rate from 700 to 150 degrees to 0 degrees before running out of fuel and I am wondering if the sun would do so on a much less extreme scale as Millions of years pass. If we are being exposed to a power flow instead of ebb from the suns power it could also explain much of the global warming on a massive scale with horrible things happening all over the planet at a coincidental timetable of the occurrence of the excess heat being emulated from the sun.
    This of course is pure conjecture. I unfortunately am not an educated scientist with degrees from all of the finest and fanciest institutions in the world. I do however have common sense and listen to all sides without discounting possible explanations locking anybody out if they don’t have input that conforms to what I believe so I hope this might help to get some sort of rhetorical conversation started that may expose a new side to the possibilities of research on Global Warming.
    One other thing Calerpa Taxifolia is running rampant in the oceans last I heard on a special on PBS and I haven’t heard anything on it in a long time and the information given on it is that it clones itself and kills all wildlife in the vicinity. Wondering about its effect on the warming also or if it is the plant referred to in your Special Features on DVD just curious.

    Thanks,
    Bobby

46. Paul said,

    May 29, 2007 @ 9:53 am

    there is a renewable energy you didn’t consider that sits there unused. what do you think about putting all those incarcerated people on bikes or something to start generating energy? change their sentence from so many years to so many watts generated. . . possible?

47. Cyndy Chase said,

    June 2, 2007 @ 7:34 pm

    I am a huge fan of Al Gore but I hope he will not run for president. I just finished his book and saw him on CSpan. I was struck by the similarities between his role in 2007 and the role of Ben Franklin at the founding of our country. Franklin was never president but he was a huge force in the shaping of our country. We need a Ben Franklin now. Al is uniquely positioned to fill that role. We need Al as the Ben Franklin of the 21st century!

48. Benan Berhan said,

    June 5, 2007 @ 8:47 am

    Dear Mr. Gore,

    We are students of Enka High School in Istanbul, Turkey. We are writing to you this e-mail because we know that you are sensitive and interested in global problems as we are. We are hoping to get your support in our projects which are explained in more details in the following sentences.

    Our school has undertaken an international project that to solve some global problems. In November 2006 and May 2007, we have organized a conference called International Chain of Awareness (ICA). At the conference which was held in November 2006, the students from all over Turkey came together to discuss the crucial issues that prevail the world. Our goal was to find applicable solutions to those global issues. The conference was divided into seven different committees (Global Warming, Poverty and Hunger, Deforestation, Child Mortality, Education, Gender Inequality, Ecosystem Losses).

    In the first conference, we discussed the reasons and the effects of these problems and created realistic action plans. In between the time frame of the first conference and the second one we have accomplished our aims which were stated in our action plans. For example global warming committee chose a public school to create awareness. They planted the garden of the school which didn’t have any plants in it with the students of that school, so they participated and shared the excitement. Later that day committee members lectured them about the global warming. Water Deficits committee on the other hand organized a run and they named it “Run to the Future”. The purpose of the run was to show participants how water is involved in our lives and what happens when we can’t access to it. They divided the track into time phrases and awarded the winners with water. They also collected donations. With the money they raised they bought faucet caps which saves water for a school that they determined.

    The second conference took place in May 2007; the content of it was to share our experiences, accomplishments, failures and actions with other participants. We also conducted new and improved action plans for the next step of our conference which will be held in March 2008.

    We know that you will be in Turkey to talk about these issues, we would appreciate and honored if you could arrange sometime to meet with us.

    Sincerely,
    International Chain of Awareness
    Organization Committee
    Benan BERHAN

49. Bobby said,

    June 6, 2007 @ 1:30 pm

    Dear Mr. Gore,

    No sarcasm intended and I’m not being facetious however I truly wonder why Mars is heating up. Nobody is driving cars with high levels of CO2 being emitted and nobody is living on the planet with an increase in population expanding with an ever alarmingly increasing rate expelling carbon dioxide when they breathe. There aren’t even any huge factories with polluting smoke stacks on Mars so what do you think is causing its version of Global Warming in contrast to Planet Earths Global Warming. I also wonder why the earths natural process of convection heating is never mentioned when global warming is discussed it is a natural process with the way the earth operates just like it spins on an axis and I wonder why it is never mentioned. This is a natural heating process from within from the core to the mantle to the surface to the atmosphere as far as I can tell but I may have missed something. I am not a scientist just an average guy concerned with Global Warming. I just wonder why it is never mentioned since it does deal with the earths inherent core heat temperature which I would suspect fluctuates from time to time depending on whether or not a volcano erupts like the other day or other natural processes are occurring to change its average temperature. I also wonder how eliminating CO2 from the environment can have an effect from the earths natural convection process. I know it is better for our breathing and lack of pollution but I don’t know if it will actually help to cool the planet. I mean with all sincerity I have actually had cooling duct problems with an A/C Unit before and that is just to cool a house can you imagine trying to cool a complete planet. I know your only talking about a few degrees but still if the sun cranks up the natural power it radiates who’s gonna block its effect? With all sincerity I do wonder about Global Warming I just wonder why these issues aren’t mentioned or contended with because if they are ignored and are the root cause of Global Warming then what does that mean for everyone who is trying to prevent it by spinning wheels working on non-solution type of projects that are helpful for the environment overall but not having an effect on the problem. Just Curious. Please keep up the good work.

    Thanks,
    Bobby

50. Anya Wilson said,

    June 6, 2007 @ 3:26 pm

    Dear Al Gore,

    Hello, my name is Anya Wilson and I am from Oregon, currently living in Mexico City where I am teaching 5th grade at a bilingual school. I have recently had become dedicated to spreading the word about global warming. My class and I are now deeply interested in the issue and I am teaching them as much as I can, while researching more information on the side. My students are making visible changes in the way they use products, electricity and water at school and at home; in addition they are informing their peers and family members about the climate crisis and giving tips on how to change and take action. I am so excited by this issue and am enjoying teaching more than ever before because I feel this specific work is so important and effective.

    Now I have a question for you. I would like to only teach about global warming this next year, by giving presentations in elementary classrooms around Mexico starting in Fall. I was wondering if we could work together on this and if I could even have your support. I would like to talk with you more on this subject and will try other means of contacting you if this does not work. I look forward to spreading this message with you, but targeting students.

    Thank you for your inspiration!
    Anya

51. Chris LeGore said,

    June 7, 2007 @ 8:44 pm

    Dear anyone that can help,

    My name is Chris LeGore, no joke.

    As you may know a couple years ago we had a little problem with some wind, rain, and so forth down here in New Orleans. Since then the city as well as Tulane University has struggled to return to something similar if not possibly representative of the city and school we love so much. The reconstruction effort is not just the building of businesses and homes but also the reestablishment of Nolas traditions. One such tradition at Tulane Law School has been the Law School News Periodical DICTA, which has been unfortunately absent for the last two years.

    To reestablish DICTA, my fellow students and I have dedicated ourselves to making the new version of DICTA much more interactive for the entire academic, professional, and public community. It will be a very professional publication with a large staff, exciting commentary, and professional design staff. Without going into too much detail, DICTA will be a place where we will promote the same ideals expressed in Mr. Gore’s new book. We are involving students in serious discussion via print and intranet. These students will be very influential in the future and this is the place for them to find and establish their voices.

    That said, I am trying very hard to contact Mr. Gore to ask if he could contribute a very short introduction to the new first issue of DICTA which will go to print mid August. This introduction would give immediate credibility to DICTA and will promote the goals he has outlined in “The Assault on Reason.” His goals are the same as mine as the Editor In Chief of DICTA; those are, to get people discussing the important issues of our time, to realize that the problems effect us all, and to give a voice to those with the ideas needed to fix said problems.

    So please, I ask with all humility and sincerity, if you have any way to pass this email on the Mr. Gore, please do. Use my name as a funny aside if needed, tell him I’m from NOLA, anything that may get him to take a moment from his doubtless busy schedule. Additionally, if you have any way for me to get in touch with him, please let me know. As a man of great integrity I am sure this is something he’d at least like to be informed about.

    We are trying to do exactly what Mr. Gore outlines so precisely in his latest book. A word from him to get us started would be an incredible way to get the ball rolling. Thank you for your time. I can be contacted at the email below.

    Sincerely,
    Chris LeGore
    clegore@tulane.edu

52. Gabriel Cedres said,

    June 7, 2007 @ 9:05 pm

    Dear Mr. Gore:

    I have a big project and maybe help the world.
    I try to contact to all world in many opportunity but not
    all people believe that it’s possible and too many doors
    are closed. I try to contact NASA in about 3 years ago but
    only emails request info, but this info is delicate to send
    withouth a registry, patent or wheateaver.. But How i
    patent a BIG and a High Magnitude Project ???.. It’s no
    easy. If you have interest, please try to contact me
    or send me your Manager or Representative to send
    a letter with my project without compromises.

    I am from Miami, Florida.

    Many Thanks!.

53. Carolin Kolaas said,

    June 8, 2007 @ 9:49 am

    George Bush vs. Al Gore
    Body: LOOK OVER THE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FOLLOWING TWO HOUSES AND SEE IF YOU
    CAN TELL WHICH BELONGS TO AN ENVIRONMENTALIST. DON’T YOU JUST LOVE LIBERAL HYPOCRISY!!

    HOUSE # 1:
    A 20-room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas.
    Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house all heated
    by gas. In ONE MONTH ALONE this mansion consumes more energy than the
    average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for
    electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400.00 per month. In natural
    gas alone (which last time we checked was a fossil fuel), this property
    consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home.
    This house is not in a northern or Midwestern “snow belt,” either. It’s
    in the South.

    HOUSE # 2:
    Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university,
    this house incorporates every “green” feature current home construction
    can provide. The house contains only 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and
    is nestled on arid high prairie in the American southwest. A central
    closet in the house holds geothermal heat pumps drawing ground water
    through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67
    degrees F.) heats the house in winter and cools it in summer. The
    system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas, and it consumes
    25% of the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling
    system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000
    gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets
    goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The
    collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Flowers
    and shrubs native to the are! a blend the property into the surrounding
    rural landscape.

    HOUSE # 1 (20 room energy guzzling mansion) is outside of
    Nashville,Tennessee. It is the abode of that renowned environmentalist
    (and filmmaker) Al Gore.

    HOUSE # 2 (model eco-friendly house) is on a ranch near Crawford,
    Texas. Also known as “the Texas White House,” it is the private
    residence of the President of the United States, George W. Bush

54. Jeremy Haase said,

    June 9, 2007 @ 8:47 pm

    I Just got done reading an article about Global warming called Global Warming: The Origin and Nature of the Alleged Scientific Consensus
    Richard S. Lindzen
    Richard S. Lindzen is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
    At javascript:ol(’http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/reg15n2g.html’);
    I would like some feedback on this article, like can someone disprove it? I WAS a big believer of global warming now I don’t know.

55. Boris Mitov said,

    June 10, 2007 @ 2:15 pm

    Dear Mr. Al Gore:

    I would like to thank you for the movie “Inconvenient Truth”. It is waking up many people all over the globe. I have been strong supporter of yours and have admired your boldness in speaking the whole truth ! I would like to bring to your attention great SOLUTIONS to the global warming that I have been researching for quite some time.

    We can convert and run all our cars from pure water (H2O) ! Water Powered Cars or Hydrogen/Oxygen Powered Cars, using 100% water as fuel is real. By splitting water by electrolysis and creating hydrogen/oxygen gas, you can replace gasoline. There have been many people that have already done that - Stan Meyer’s Dune Buggy that ran on water, Denny Klein converted Ford and many others…

    Here are some resources available on the web:
    Stan Meyer’s Dune Buggy - http://www.waterfuelcell.org/
    Great resources on water powered cars - http://www.waterpoweredcar.com/
    Denny Klein water powered car:
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=ImGaraPrEo8

    Integrity Research Institute has researched many alternative energy solutions that are ready to implement right now and are awaiting funding. Please explore the information on IntegrityResearchInstitute.org
    and you can watch Tom Valone interview on clean energy solutions - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3098029432952001372&q=tom+valone+interview

    Please further research and add those solutions to your list for global warming solutions when you do your amazing awakening slide presentation. The more people are aware of that the faster the solutions will go in effect to save our precious planet Earth.

    Sincerely,
    Boris Mitov

56. Bobby said,

    June 11, 2007 @ 2:47 pm

    Dear Mr Gore,

    Global Warming never mentions Space Junk in our atmosphere and if anyone was to look up any research regarding Space Junk they would find that it is a serious concern. I am wondering what kind of effect it is having on heating up the atmosphere and contributing to the heating of our overall environment. This may be a large catalyst to the warming of our planet over the years since concern regarding Global Warming has flourished. I am curious why nobody even mentions it as a topic of discussion. Space Junk as far as I can tell is mostly metallic in nature and that would seem to be a great candidate for absorbing and retaining heat but I could be wrong. Just looking at it all from a logical standpoint but like I said I could be wrong. Just Curious. Thanks.

57. Evelyn Sackett said,

    June 11, 2007 @ 2:50 pm

    Since the world is running out of oil, and we don’t yet have a substitute that can be made in anywhere near the quantities we need to keep the world running, it is clear that we need GAS RATIONING. 70% of the oil used in the world today is used to make gasoline to power cars, so it’s clear that if we had gas rationing, it would be much easier to help conserve the supply of oil that we still have until a new energy source can be developed. It would give Mr. Gore HUGE political visibility and clout if he would undertake to publicize this need
    How about it, Mr. Gore?

58. BTX said,

    June 11, 2007 @ 4:31 pm

    Just curious with this being the Digital Age what sort of effect do broadcasts or any transmissions into the atmosphere or beyond have on our climate or atmospheric conditions in relation to Global Warming?

    Thanks.

59. JB said,

    June 12, 2007 @ 7:41 pm

    I saw on the news today they are considering taxing drivers in N.Y. city and don’t understand why the only focus on CO2 are on personal cars. What about Buses, Diesels, Over sized Commercial Trucks, Tractors, Bulldozers, Caterpillars, Tow Trucks, Firetrucks, Ambulances, and these are all ground Vehicles unrelated to regular vehicles that are owned for personal use. But in the atmosphere or the Sky I should say there are many types of vehicles depending on what you look at Lear Jets, Jumbo Jets, Small Jets, and Big Jets now I’m not saying these put anything in the atmosphere but they have big engines and you’ve gotta wonder. I mean it’s not like there are so many in the sky they have to have air traffic controllers oh yeah they do. Makes you kind of stop and wonder why the average Joe is the guy who’s gonna finance the cooling of the planet the way things seem to be going.

    Thanks

60. Achoo said,

    June 14, 2007 @ 3:16 am

    Dear Mr. Gore or Adminstrators,

    Can you please confirm or state the truth regarding the comparison for houses done by Caroline Kolaas under the heading

    “George Bush vs. Al Gore
    Body: LOOK OVER THE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FOLLOWING TWO HOUSES AND SEE IF YOU
    CAN TELL WHICH BELONGS TO AN ENVIRONMENTALIST. DON’T YOU JUST LOVE LIBERAL HYPOCRISY!!”

    Please let us know the TRUTH?

    Thanks.

    Achoo

61. Rick Bohleber said,

    June 14, 2007 @ 2:15 pm

    Dear Mr. Vice President,

    Knowing your time is precious, I will be as brief as possible. In 1990, you tried to assist me, as a fellow Tennesseean, when I had trouble while serving as an Army Officer in Ft. Riley, Kansas. Although your assistance backfired and I received retribution for having brought a congressional investigation into the issue, I have never forgotten your response that, “No Tennesseean will be treated that way. Not if I can help it.”
    I left the military and went on to become the Training and Development Manager for the State of Alaska as well as a private Business/Management Training Consultant, specializing in Leadership Development. I am also a motivational speaker, author, and inventor.
    I now stand at a crossroads in my life and feel a very strong conviction to direct my creativity, innovative mind, and interpersonal talents toward service. I am forty-eight years old and desire to have my efforts produce something more meaningful than earning someone else corporate profits.
    I want to return your favor, so many years ago, by making myself available to your organization in whatever capacity I would best serve. Among many other ideas, I have developed a non-electric household/office lighting system, which could possibly drastically reduce power needs throughout the world. More importantly, I have the ability to train people into personal paradigm shifts within the context of Global Stewardship.
    I currently reside in Waynesville, North Carolina and could meet with you in short notice.

    Thank you for your time and any consideration you offer.

    Rick Bohleber
    (828) 246-4389
    rbohleber@msn.com
    415-19-4121 (For any security reasons)

62. Luca Bianco said,

    June 18, 2007 @ 5:20 am

    To Mr. Al Gore:
    I do not think that you (personally) will read my mail but anyway I only want to tell you that your DVD was great especially because you have only shown data leaving the obvious conclusion to the people.
    We only hope that the blind powerful people will understand as well as ourselves (the normal workers).
    Thanks for your effort.
    Luca and Francesca

63. Howard Rubenbstein said,

    June 19, 2007 @ 10:41 am

    Mr. Gore:
    Your theme song should be” Nature’s Way” by Spirit. Please take a minute to listen to this song. It fits you message.
    Thank You for taking the time.

64. JB said,

    June 20, 2007 @ 8:48 pm

    The more exposition on Global Warming and I feel reminded of a past impending danger that man was facing that was according to many supposed to be the doom of all mankind Y2K. The date came and went and nobody skipped a beat. Many people were out to make a buck every and any way they could to protect and take preventative measures for the dire impending problem at hand Y2K and like I said it came and went without a hitch. The unbelievable paranoia stirred by that occasion seems unbelievable when I stop and remember it all. Many people believed it was a sham from the get go and others felt it was as if the end was near. All I know is we weren’t detrimentally affected in any unrecoverable ways by the situation Y2K. So when I stop and think of all of the aggregate forces involved in the circumstances affecting weather it makes you pause for reflection in the sense of whether or not CO2 is the only culpable source of being able to heat a planet. Planet earth goes through cycles and has built in preventative measures it takes to stop radical changes in environmental changes and thats why it has been here millions of years and why it will stay here for millions more. It can return to its normal stasis by measures in nature such as rain, cooler weather, etc. otherwise we would have one form of weather all day everyday. I just wonder why CO2 is the only culprit blamed for Global Warming. Thanks

65. christina said,

    June 22, 2007 @ 4:37 am

    a new consciousness is developing….thank you!

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8450558837192717138

66. NINA said,

    June 24, 2007 @ 9:08 pm

    PLEASE MR. GORE…
    RUN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2008…THIS COUNTRY NEEDS YOU… IF YOU WANT TO HELP THE U.S. THEN PLEASE DO US A FAVOR AND RUN….

67. Angie said,

    July 3, 2007 @ 9:18 am

    Your global warming theory is just face-time for you. I see you are now doing a big concert, hurray. Really. Scientific methods are not proven with concerts, they are proven with facts. The more face-time you get, and the more concerts your do, the sooner this fad will be gone.

    Here in New Hampshire, we are experiencing weather more similar to October than July. In fact, throughout 2007, our weather has not gotten warmer at all. What do you do when confronted with this? Hide your head in the sand? You must.

    I see you haven’t responded to the scientists who want to bet just $10,000 that your theory is wrong. And they have a method of proving it. Your prediction methods are way off, get off your lectern and listen, just ask the scientists.

    JB’s comment up a few was correct, the earth goes through cycles. How arrogant of you to presume you know why the earth is going through a warming cycle, or that it actually is going through a warming cycle.

    Your methods are flawed, your conclusions are flawed, your approach is arrogant and self-centered. Wisen-up and act like a scientist, not a performer. Or, actually, don’t. And the rest will take care of itself.

68. Angie said,

    July 3, 2007 @ 9:29 am

    Here’s another tidbit for all you blind people who love to follow celebrities and the media without thinking:

    “I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations in how dangerous (global warming) is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are.”

    – Al Gore, Grist magazine, May 9, 2006

69. Christopher D. "Chris" Kneisel said,

    July 5, 2007 @ 1:28 pm

    Dear Mr. and Mrs. Gore,

    Please rest assured that your son–and your entire family–are very much in our prayers. You have all done a great deal to put into effect John Kennedy’s words, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” Despite his problems, your son, by the very fact that he has been working for a philanthropic magazine, is carrying on the proud tradition of public service established long ago in your family. For him to do so in the face of great personnal crisis takes enormous courage on his part. I’ve nothing but the highest respect for him, having battled ADD, a visual processing problem, and debilitatingly extreme depression and anxiety for all of my life (it has recently cost me a job, but I am searching for another and am confident that I will find a new one soon). I salute you all with the greatest of respect, admiration, and compassion. Again, God bless and keep you all.

    Sincerest regards,
    Christopher D. “Chris” Kneisel

    PS You SHOULD have been the president. You would’ve done an immeasurably better job than Mr. Bush, whom I refuse to acknowledge as president.

70. Josef Nemcik said,

    July 5, 2007 @ 10:44 pm

    Dear Al Gore,
    It came to my attention that is not only our earth that is heating up but all planets in our solar system! If that is the case, it seems reasonable that we need to look at the phenomenon of global worming from broader perspective. Just listen to the native cultures spokespersons there are more in stake that just melting poles of our planet. Mayan prophecies of 2012 comes to my mind. Then lot more of issues need to be considered. Native from over the world are dancing and celebrating. Will you join them?

    JN

71. Fran said,

    July 6, 2007 @ 2:07 pm

    PLEASE, please enter the race for President, Mr. Gore…
    Our families desperately need you - and your experience…
    Our country desperately needs you - and your experience…
    Our planet desperately needs you - and your experience.

    You won the election in 2000 with the most votes, and it was stolen away by the Bush people.
    You can and will win it again. Reclaim it!
    For you, I’m sure it’d be a WALK-IN…

    I think everyone has learned to appreciate quality after Bush!

    Save our planet… be our President.

72. jed rothstein said,

    July 7, 2007 @ 2:25 am

    i would apreciat an e-mail address to contact Mr. Gore derectly. I have a very simple, but probably controversial way to temporarily stop global warming in the imidiate.

    the fact that it is a very sensitive temporary method, i would like to express it to him directly.

    thank you

73. David said,

    July 7, 2007 @ 8:50 am

    Global warming is a universal concern for all life on this planet. We have made our bed and now we must lie in it. We can with a true commitment yet make amends for the chaos we have caused the earth. The earth is a living and breathing organism with a consciousness. There are equal and opposite reactions for each action we have taken. We can ameliorate this current condition with a joint effort from those who have special gifts with the natural elements. Healing disciplines such as reiki will assist the earth in the process.The earth cannot continue to be bombarded with pollutants to the degree that she has and be expected to heal. Just feel a sense of empathy for one minute and see how the polar bear feels trying to survive with the loss of its habitat. None of this will be easy and the responsibility needs to be shouldered by all. The alternative of a lifeless planet is far worse than the sacrifice we can otherwise bear now before we no longer have this option available.

74. Dale Williams said,

    July 7, 2007 @ 3:27 pm

    Hello Mr. Gore, My name is Dale Williams CEO for Mama Louisa’s. Recently you may have caught the activity going on with the Spacestation, well my best friend and I built 6 out of the 8 deployable structures that deploy the Solar Array Panels for the Spacestation and even things for GPS satellites and Mars. I have been building things for space for 11 years now. But for the last three years my mom has got me into a new cookbook of hers with all kinds of recipes from our family and friends. This is a great cookbook and it is now on CD. I created the CD to save paper, I feel much like yourself on protecting the earth. I’m 48 and want to make my moms dream come true. Do you think you could help me in some way or another? Anything would be helpful. Take care and hope to hear for you very soon. Please go to e-bay and type in – mama recipes for some details on the cookbook.

75. Brad Jensen said,

    July 7, 2007 @ 5:24 pm

    Mr. and Mrs. Al Gore,

    There is much to thank-you for. Chiefly for being one of the best ambassadors for our planet, and taking on the issues of global warming. I have followed your endeavors through the years. You started out your campaign when ridicule and not praise was your pay for a noble cause. Now, I see that your life is most closely compared to a rock stars, with cheering crowds and international travel. Yet you continue to stay the course and plug away at this issue. Not letting things like Academy Awards and requests to be President sway your cause. Instead using these medias to further broadcast the need for reform. I believe you are one of the best Americans of all time. Not lightly said I might add. The planet is burning up. And if your efforts are able to stave off the inevitable, then you would be the grandest hero of all time. A reward you probably would pass on for a cooler planet. I have nothing but praise and admiration for you and your wife. Noble is your cause, sincere is your heart, steadfast is your resolve. With these attributes, and God’s grace, may your pursuits become reality for the rest of this earth.
    Thank-you, Brad Jensen
    PS And after you save the planet, it wouldn’t hurt to check into that Presidency thing. You won once.

76. Lina O'Day said,

    July 7, 2007 @ 5:34 pm

    Dear Mr Gore,

    I cant vote as I am not a US citizen (yet).
    I am from Holland and live here in the US, married an american.

    A message for you is, you can change the global warming problem. we see things on TV and we worry, but thats it.
    YOU SHOULD RUN FOR president and YOU CAN CHANGE THINGS.

    In Europe a lot is being done by government. if you dont run…………… I am afraid little will change in the environmental behaviour by the US…

    Please RUN FOR PRESIDENT !!!

77. NINA said,

    July 7, 2007 @ 10:49 pm

    ASKING AGAIN… PLEASE RUN FOR PRESIDENT MR. GORE… YOU HAD MY VOTE ONCE ,AND, YOU WILL GET IT AGAIN… WE NEED YOU IN THIS COUNTRY… I’M SURE YOU WILL WALK INTO A MESS AT THE WHITEHOUSE AS MR. BUSH HAS MADE A BIG MESS.. PLEASE DO THE U.S.A. A FAVOR AND RUN FOR PRESIDENT….!!!!!!

78. NINA said,

    July 7, 2007 @ 10:50 pm

    ASKING AGAIN… PLEASE RUN FOR PRESIDENT MR. GORE… YOU HAD MY VOTE ONCE ,AND, YOU WILL GET IT AGAIN… WE NEED YOU IN THIS COUNTRY… I’M SURE YOU WILL WALK INTO A MESS AT THE WHITEHOUSE AS MR. BUSH HAS MADE A BIG MESS.. PLEASE DO THE U.S.A. A FAVOR AND RUN FOR PRESIDENT….!!!!!!YES, I’VE ASKED IT ONCE AND I WILL KEEP ASKING…..

79. Sarah Brey said,

    July 8, 2007 @ 6:39 pm

    Dear Mr. Gore,

    I have been concerned about global warming since I was old enough to remember, and until you started reaching out to people I was starting to really loose hope. I am now a high school English and Art History teacher, and I currently am teaching summer school. I have decided that instead of teaching just literature though, I am focusing all of summer school on Global Warming. I am showing my classes your movie, and I am giving them excerpts from “The Assault on Reason”. I am doing this in conjunction with modern poetry by people such as Marge Piercy who are also concerned about the future of out world.

    So much of what I believe and what has always concerned me is being vocalized by you now, and because of that you are my hero. I feel I also have a great power by having my own class room and many young minds to impress, and I just wanted to let you know that I try my best to educate my studetns about global warming and the rights of a democracy like you, everyday. I can only hope some day I will be able to meet you.

    Please run for president again, the live earth concerts were so powerful I feel you already have the world’s respect and support to do what is right.

    Thank You for Everything,
    Sarah Brey, 26yrs
    NJ

80. Graciela R. Macias said,

    July 9, 2007 @ 12:23 pm

    Dear Honorable Al Gore:

    This letter is in regards to your honorary work in promoting global warming on behalf of all fellow Earth residents. I am a resident in the Pilsen community of Chicago, IL. We recently learned that a local developer stole (bought for cheap) our Cesar Chavez Community Garden and plans to tear down our 60+ trees to build a parking lot. These trees are our protection shield from congestion of the Dan Ryan Expressway. We the local residents have been caring for our garden using our own resources for the past two decades. We ask for your support and guidance with our problem. We join your efforts to protect our Earth and provide viable, affordable and healthy clean air for ALL people. Thank you for your attention.

    Graciela Macias, mother of two children and concern resident seeking help to protect our Cesar Chavez
    Community Garden

    (312) 243-0529 (home)
    (312 502-0294 (mob.)

81. john and candace manfredi said,

    July 9, 2007 @ 5:10 pm

    Dear Mr Gore,
    Environmental and energy conservation has been at the top of our most important issues list since the 70s. We were extremely discouraged by Republican dominance in the Reagan, Gingrich, and Bush years. We have become more hopeful again with the Nov 2006 elections and your global warming documentry. However, we do have two concerns and constructive criticism that we would like to express. The most important tenant of environment and energy conservation is wise use of resources, i.e. avoiding excess and self indulgence. We believe your personnel weight gain and obese appearance since 2001 does not reflect this tenant. Please consider dieting. Second we watched, or started to watch, your live earth concert on NBC. We were soon repulsed and embarrased by the vulgar, unintelligable entertainers you chose for the concert, we turned it off. We believe most of middle age America did the same and that you lost substantial support and credibility with this group. This is certainly an untended consequence and step backward for your cause. We are sure that your criticts were elated. For future events please choose entertainers and lyrics that reflect intelligence and decency. You must not turn off mainstream America by immoral, trash entertainers.
    Sincerely, John and Candace Manfredi

82. SV Nagappa said,

    July 11, 2007 @ 10:36 pm

    Dear Mr. Gore

    I commend your energy and enthusiam for changing the global warming situation and fianlly for me some one believes the scientists. In Australia as a scientists we constatly have to battle to any good scientific work. I have a request. Could you please campain for atleast some people working for part of their week from home? This is a critical thing that can cut down emissions in many ways at the same time reduce stress. Yes not all the people can work from home. But many millions of people in the world can. If proper checks and balances are maintained then productivity can go up due to reduced stress levles and more poople dont need to drive cars and cause congestion in the world. In developing economies where IT industries are fast growing such a system will nip the carbon emission increase atleast to some extent in the bud. How about it? Another campaign is to live locally and eat local produce whihc will prevent produce being carted miles together on roads reducing emissions. The whole notion of everyone wants everything all the time is a myth created by the big retail companies to compete with one another and does not serve the country’s or consumer interest in any meaningful way. America and Australia where one needs to travel long distances could also benefit from these campaigns. Please do it.

83. Katey Carson said,

    July 12, 2007 @ 1:11 pm

    Dear Mr Gore,

    I live in South Africa in a small town called Fish Hoek. Ihave always been concerned about the state of the world so as you can imagine I was extatic when I saw your movie, it showed me that people were actually doing something about Global warming.
    You inspired me to do something as well so I am starting my own campaign but for the youth using symbols and circumstances that they are interested in and can relate to educating my peers(and teachers)about the problems facing our planet.I am still putting it in motion but I am hoping to gather enough peoSaviple so we can start saving the world one step at a time.
    I would love some advice for my campaign or idears of how to improve it in a few weeks I will be launching a “Face Book” for the campaign please visit it (Katey Carson;The movement)

    Regards,

    Katey Carson

84. Theresa Starkes said,

    July 13, 2007 @ 11:23 am

    Dear Mr. Gore,

    Please visit my web page at http://theresastarkes.zaadz.com/. I am trying to do my part to make the world a better place and would appreciate your thoughtful feedback.

    Here is a summary if you do not have the time:

    About Me:

    I am a student at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, MN. I created my own Individualized Degree called “Language and Creativity.”

    I have a burning passion to travel the globe and interview incredible people who are changing the world! I saved up for my first passport and am anxiously awaiting it in the mail. I am currently investigating affordable laptops and digital cameras to document my travels. I scour the public library for books on traveling on a budget safely for women, inspirational material, etc. I am looking for people to interview and photograph who are making a commitment for change against all odds. My goal is to put together a book of inspiration. Real stories about real people complete with photographs to make these incredible people more accessible. I want to include contact information so that others can reach them and help.

    Although I have talent in writing, I need to network with people who are willing to support my vision. I would like to find a publisher, a financial adviser to help me transition off the system, a sponsor/sponsors to send me on my way who might help me with the costs of travel expenses. I am also looking for a photographer who might teach me to take digital photographs or join me and take the photos! I am also looking for a laptop computer durable enough to take into harsh environments … does this exist? Maybe a documentary film maker would like to come along and film the project to be released with the book! We could donate proceeds from the project to the people we interview.

    I am a person with a chemical imbalance disability. This does not effect my ability to function effectively. I believe that everyone on this planet was put here to to share their unique gifts with the planet to make a difference.

    I would be considered “below the poverty level” in the US, but I am so fortunate and filled with gratitude for what I do have.

    I have never owned a car.
    I walk or use public transportation.
    I recycle.
    I wash my clothes in cold water.
    I commit to replacing my light bulbs with earth friendly alternatives.
    I reuse my shopping bags at the grocery store and buy locally as much as possible.
    I am great with a budget: My income is just over $700.00/month and I save money (I have no debt),
    I submit all my schoolwork to my professors online to save paper.
    I check out books at the library.
    I live in a subsidized apartment and donate what I don’t need to my deserving neighbors, etc.

    What really inspired me to do this was a video I saw : www.miniature-earth.com

    For the last ten years I have been weaning myself off the system and reaching for the impossible. I went to college and graduated with honors. I worked part time as a work study student. I honed my craft in writing which I continue to do.

    I live in Minneapolis with my black cat Rhiannon. I have an A.S. Degree in Screenwriting.

    I am no longer afraid, I am ready to bust loose from this illusion and get busy!

    Please write with any suggestions or comments.

    Respectfully,
    Theresa Starkes

85. Leonor said,

    July 15, 2007 @ 10:46 am

    Dear Mr. Gore: Do you have facts regarding global warming precisely? I’ve done research and found this site on climate changes for the past 1,000 years.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature_record_of_the_past_1000_years.

    I hope that you can give us factual evidence of global warming.

86. Leonor said,

    July 15, 2007 @ 10:50 am

    I hope that people can understand the truth. I think that we are given non-factual contents on global warming. I hope that the politicians don’t play on stupid people intelligence by wanting to create a green tax.

87. Jean Jacques RAPHAEL said,

    July 16, 2007 @ 12:01 pm

    Global Warming
    To Whom It may concern

    First of all, I must apologize for my mistakes. English is not my native language. I am writing you to ask if you could help me to find someone to resolve the global warming problem. I conceived a filter and a motor to make the analysis of carbon oxide into C and O2. To realize this decomposition, I am searching for a chemistry laboratory to help me to realize the synthesis of chlorophylle or to make the cloning of cells containing chloroplast for realize photosynthesis reaction as we encounter it in natural process. This project will have two (2) major impacts:
    1- Solve the global warming problem
    2- Use Oxygen as a complementary energy source(besides petrol or biocarburant)
    If the synthesis or the cloning of chlorophylle is difficult or impossible, other methods could be considered as : electrolysis for instance.
    If I find a partnership to finalize and obtain a patent for this project, I think my filter could be used in automobile, aeronautic and naval industries without mentioning that it can also be used to purify urban atmosphere and prevent other industries from polluting the environnement. We must resolve the global warming problem as we do for polluted water : by collecting and decomposing the carbon oxide.

    Best regards,

    Jean Jacques RAPHAEL
    raphy50@yahoo.fr

88. José Collell said,

    July 16, 2007 @ 2:03 pm

    Dear Mr. Gore,

    I recently saw your film and found it to be a profound piece of work. I have my bachelor’s in Natural Resources Management, so I was already family with Global Warming as well as your book “Earth in the Balance.”

    What was Particularly effective, are the receding ice sheets and the photos of the glaciers which you included in your presentation. This immediatly triggered memories of a trip that I took to the Laguna San Rafael in southern Chile. What is interesting about this glacier is that in 1980 scientists had marked the the rocky walls of the lagoon, to indicate where the ice had been for that year. This has been done every year since and the results are both asounding and shocking, to say the least. This was the first time that I had a first hand look at the Global Warming in the Flesh. When we reached the1980 mark the glacier was still more than a mile away. And as depicted in your film, I heard the crack and thunder of huge chunks of ice breaking off and crashing into the waters. The year was 2001 and I try to imagine what the ice must look like now.

    My parents and I toasted the trip with a Scotch on the rocks. In this case the ice was 40,000 year old glacier ice from a floating berg. It took 40,000 years for the ice to make it to the water and look how long it has taken us to undo this beautiful piece of nature.

    There are people who still say that Global Warming does not exist. When I get in my car and drive off to work, I ask myself, “How can it not?”

    Thank you for the wonderful work and the awareness that you have brought to this most-important issue.

    Respectfully,

    José Collell

89. Cara Campbell said,

    July 17, 2007 @ 2:51 pm

    Mr. Gore,
    I’ve always thought you of all people should have won presidency, for you are the only one who would take positive action FOR THE PEOPLE. Your main priority, is to keep us alive for centurys to come, while Bush is still over in Iraq causing pollution. I’ve always been interested in global warming, sitting in Science class, i was never the social person but when the topic came up over global warming, i was the one preaching in front of the class about how every single one of us should take action so others could do so as well. Recently i have done a family tree, you are my fourth cousin.
    Please write back, i REALLY would like to help,
    Im only 17 and can help for years to come, and can convince future generations to do the same, just tell me how, and i shall.

90. Amy Kadori said,

    July 17, 2007 @ 7:35 pm

    I am concerned that we are encouraged to use fluorescent light bulbs but in my community ( 225,000 people) there is no way to dispose of them. Put them in the trash I was told. Or hold on to them until November (5 months away) for a hazardous waste pickup day.

    I now plan to return these new light bulbs and go back to irridenscent ones until a solution is found.
    Amy Kadori
    Scottsdale, Arizona

91. Jim Cipa said,

    July 18, 2007 @ 5:40 am

    I have no doubt that global warming is occurring at an alarming pace; with that said, I condemn the efforts to address this problem. By attempting to reduce personal and industrial carbon footprints the entire fissile fuel industry and their end users are being threatened. They will not change their practices without a fight; they are making to much money. The fissile fuel industry has vast financial and political resources at their disposal and any grass roots efforts to get them to change will not succeed. Such a grass roots failure will slow any progress at reducing carbon emissions greatly. I would strongly suggest confronting one component of the fissile fuel industry at a time, namely the oil industry. Support for greatly reducing our oil consumption has substantial financial and political support while the oil industries waning political support makes it particularly vulnerable. REAL progress can be made by supporting Cellulosic/Gasification Biofuel production. Coal and natural gas usage will fall when the oil industry is out of the picture.

92. Eduardo Tramontini said,

    July 18, 2007 @ 11:03 am

    Dear Mr. Gore:

    First of all my sincere congratulations for your documentary film, and my profound respect for your courage to persist in ideals not totally shared by many people of the most diverse levels of power.

    My name is Eduardo Tramontini (37), my Buddhist name is Karma Trinley Zangpo – “Excellent Buddha Activities”), I am a Mechanical Engineer (U. de los Andes) and MBA (U. of Cambridge), and would like to invite you to visit my web blog (http://www.eduardotramontini.com) for further information about myself.

    I am writing to you from Bogotá, Colombia, Hotel Dann Norte, in order to let you know about my effective activities against Gestapo organization here, with the help of some very valuable:
    - Identification of Adolf Hitler, who was living in Bogota with his closest friends under the name of Jorge Pivek, and who passed away last Friday 13 July after having been found with a rocket in his car and confessed having been very active in the bomb construction for the Guerilla they have always supported and directed in clandestine form.
    - Identification of their apocalyptic plan for 08,31,2007: “We, the superior Arian race, have been defeated 60 years ago in this world. Therefore, we will destroy it, i.e. exterminate human existence, in order to be entitled to go after death to the Nazi Paradise where Jesus Christ is waiting for us”. 60 years ago they were responsible for 60,000,000 deaths, today 60 years later, they want to cause the death of 6,000,000,000 persons, 100 times more, with 100 atomic bombs and many other criminal measures, including the contamination of lakes with cianuro, like lake Baikal for instance.
    - However, the very elite of Nazism, having lived here in Bogota, Colombia, for decades after WWII, has prepared at lest three bunkers to take refuge during destruction, and later fly with kept planes to one of their conserved paradise places, like the Pacific island west to the sea of “Del Corral” with “Vila” as capital: Vanuatu. Authorities here in Colombia, very much influenced by their multimillion bribing, took over one of the three bunkers (Sindamanoy, Parcela A6, under the name of Jochen Herold). Widespreading news about such a betreyal would certainly cause some demotivation among the 100,000 Nazi radical Arian in the world.
    - Through spiritual means and in mental dialogue with the Nazi leading members, they permeating my mind, ironically, I have come to discover around 20 or so potential Atomic Bomb centers under their control: please check findings in Roemer Spize, Innsbruck, Austria and Canaima, Venezuela yesterday. Strangely enough the other bomb centers, like the ones in Cuba (Virgen del Carmen - near Santiago, Santa Clara, Moron, Sierra Maestra, and probably others) have apparently not been deactivated.
    - Local authorities, intelligence organizations like CIA and others from Europe seem to be well aware of my case. However, considering the threat I might be imposing to their destructive plans, and the some very few of the highest level of global authorities which might be behind and cooperating with that plan of the Gestapo, I feel my life is each time at higher risk. If possible, please research about U.S. attention over me, to avoid me being murdered, and be able to continue to cooperate.
    - It is important to know that the CIA has been unable to identify and deactivate encovered Gestapo agents, like Arnim von Rodeck, which is behind the head of the Gestapo wordlwide.

    May I ask you if you or someone of your team could possibly permeate my mind in order to get better information about my case, and perhaps - besides helping in my protection - also consider the information who is being revealed for further verification and action.

    Sincerely, and with great admiration,

    Eduardo Tramontini
    Bogota, Colombia

93. Dave Collins said,

    July 18, 2007 @ 2:48 pm

    Al,
    I have studied nuclear energy quite a lot and have concluded what many major environmentalists have been concluding for a number of years now. We are not likely to solve global warming without applying all the tools available, and nuclear power is a major tool that could play a very major role as it does in many of the countries that signed the Kyoto protocol. There risk that Bin Laden or some terrorist group will mount a small Manhattan project and making nuclear weapons from US spent fuel is small. Nuclear is the only credible path to replace coal. Coal energy puts more carbon into the atmosphere than any other source, slightly more than the US transportation industry, all the trains planes and automobiles combined. Coal is the major source of airborne mercury and soot toxins causing brain damage, asthma, lung disease and cancer in hundreds of thousands of mostly young and old Americans yearly. Coal is double dangerous, a large GHG contributor, and disturbingly dangerous to the people. Check out this report vetted by Harvard medical http://www.net.org/relatives/4211.pdf. Let the nuclear weapons proliferation experts of today weight the modern risk of nuclear energy proliferation, staying with your expertise, the GHG part of the equation, which is current and cutting edge. Right now about 100 new coal plants are planned for construction in the US. Right now only a handful of new nukes are being planned. Only nukes have zero GHG emissions and the size to supplant the single largest source of carbon, coal energy, from the GHG equation. After TMI many nuclear sites built only one plant where 3 or 4 had been originally planned. If we set a national goal to go back and try to finish all the nukes we had planned to build in the 1970s, this would be a giant step in the right direction for addressing GHG issue. It is time for Al Gore to drink the same environmental coolaid that James Lovelock, Patrick Moore, Hugh Montefiore, Stewart Brand, Norris McDonald, Scott Howson have been drinking and start preaching the GHG benefits of nuclear.

94. Dave Collins said,

    July 18, 2007 @ 2:59 pm

    Here is that link, the summary of the abt report on health damage due to power plants. Didn’t work before because it had a period at the end:
    http://www.net.org/relatives/4211.pdf

95. Jessie Carr said,

    July 18, 2007 @ 3:45 pm

    I am writing to let you know about a report – The Rush to Ethanol: Not All Biofuels are Created Equal – from Food & Water Watch, Network for New Energy Choices and the Institute for Energy and the Environment at Vermont Law School.

    The report reviews the state of biofuel production and policy in the U.S., analyzes the implications of large-scale expansion and makes recommendations for U.S.-based biofuels policy.

    The rush is on, and it is our goal to inform the debate and shift the momentum of proposed biofuels expansion to a more sustainable direction. Climate change, energy security and transportation reform demand quick and decisive action, leaving no room for investing valuable time and resources on false solutions. The report assesses the ability of ethanol – corn and cellulosic – to play a meaningful role in addressing these most pressing questions.

    The Rush to Ethanol: Not All Biofuels Are Created Equal

    Link to the Report: http://www.newenergychoices.org/uploads/RushToEthanol-rep.pdf

    Link to the Brochure: http://www.newenergychoices.org//uploads/RushToEthanol-bro.pdf

    Visit our website: http://www.newenergychoices.org/index.php?page=ethanol_rush&sd=ru

    Please feel free to contact me for any further information or would like to any copies of the brochure or report for work in your area.

    Best Regards,

    Jessie Carr

96. Raj Mehta said,

    July 18, 2007 @ 4:23 pm

    Hi,

    I absolutely agree with you about Global Warming. I have some suggestion for you. Only the way we can minimize this problem by educating people. Three powerful contries are creating more pollution. USA, China and India.

    To educate India and China, You will have to take help of their movie industry just like you did in Hollywood.

    Thanks

97. Elizabeth said,

    July 18, 2007 @ 5:52 pm

    Dear Mr. Gore

    We in South Africa had the privilege of watching your interview with Oprah tonight approx. seven months after airing in America. A “sceptic” made a statement along the lines that temperature increases will remain to be “mild” and continue to increase in a mild manner as temperature increases are the result of a natural “climate change” of the earth. Boy, did he contradict himself! At the end of May the little country of South Africa had 54 new weather records set of minimum and maximum temperatures in the span of two days - see http://www.capetimes.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3844594. We are renowned as a country with blue skies and consistently beautiful weather, thus to witness 60% of the country covered with ice and snow whilst a half dozen wildfires ravage what remains is an absolute “gobsmack”. So please Mr. Sceptic, the evidence is very clear and not only contained in carefully worked-out scientific papers - please explain why the apricot and peach farmers’ trees are blossoming three to four months ahead of the usual time?, why wheat and corn fields stand dying on parched pieces of land where only months ago deluges took place, why our Southern Cape areas are so waterlogged that dams of water can be viewed as far as the eye can see from horizon to horizon which months of sunshine cannot seem to dry? These are only a few aspects of how the major shifts in climate is visibly altering in our still-largely unspoilt South Africa. All we need is a bit of common sense to realize that our incredibly unique planet is suffering and that something is RADICALLY wrong. THANK GOD THAT AN INDIVIDUAL LIKE YOURSELF IS TRYING TO EDUCATE OUR IGNORANT HUMAN RACE!!

98. Robert Zinke said,

    July 19, 2007 @ 3:38 pm

    It would be great to have you run again for President, but without SEN Lieberman this time. You don’t have to live in D.C. if that’s a problem, just have your V.P. stay there.
    I believe the Big Three auto manufacturers are a leading cause of individually discretionary excess carbon emissions and Michigan’s Auto Insurance regulations (and medical care costs) set the tone that influences Big Three management. The prevailing attitude is that if you’re in an accident here, you want the other driver to get hurt really bad while you yourself suffer no injury what so ever. The Big Three compete in trying to produce the biggest and heaviest vehicle and one with a bumper that’s outside the zone that normal vehicles must comply with.
    My solution is to ration all auto fuel that’s for personal use. This is not because of a fuel shortage but because of an excess. Each licensed driver would receive the same amount of gasoline/diesel rations. They can sell any or all of their unused portion to other people for whatever price they can get and do it tax free. The intent is to incentivize those who feel they’re making a sacrifice. We want the driver who lives close to work and drives a small vehicle to make money off of someone with a large vehicle who drives a lot.

99. Adam Ramirez said,

    July 19, 2007 @ 4:50 pm

    Dear Mr. Gore,

    Every time I see your movie, “An Inconvenient Truth,” I always feel inspired to do something about global warming. I want to tell as many people as I can, but I don’t know where to start or how to tell them. I, personally, try my best to prevent global warming from happening, by turning off lights, using less gas, and other major things.

    I need your help to convince and let others know what the effects of global warming will do. What should I do to convince and let others know? Please help me out, in any way that you can. I want to do as much as I can to help you spread the awareness of global warming. I know you are very busy, but please help.

    Respectfully,

    Adam Ramirez

100. Kristin Lehne said,

     July 19, 2007 @ 6:10 pm

     Ok! Now, where shall I begin? Recently I bought this film, “An Inconvenient Truth”.
     And to me, It was quite Inconvenient.
     Now I see what we, as human beings are doing to the world, and I ask myself; How can we just sit here and watch, as The Earth/The Blue Planet/OUR HOME, Is getting teared In to small pieces?
     I think, many people dosen’t really see what’s happening.
     Yes, sure, they hear of Global Warming. We all hear people talking about what Is going to happen to the world, the consequenses of our stupidity. But we don’t hear enough.
     We think “Hey, we’ve got plenty of time”, or “Well, why should I try to do something about this? I’m just one person, I can’t change the world”. But that’s all wrong. If every single person In this world, listen to what some people say, we are able to change everything.
     They think, as Al Gore said “The world are so big, that the humans can’t do any damage on It” and also, as he said, “That Is all wrong!”.
     It is all WRONG! I’m willing to do something about this, but I can’t do It all on my own. I’m a 14 year old girl, I come from Norway, and suddenly, this film just turned my life upside down. I see things In a different way, all though, I need some help, I need more knowledge. Someone to lead me, we all do. And I think we’ve got that. For example: Al Gore. Now,
     I am so very desperate of getting In touch with Al Gore. I can’t just go contact him personally, I live In Norway. I’ve never been anywhere outside Europe. So, I pray for that anyone can give me some help. I need his E-mail.
     This is something I’m really interested In.
     All though I’m a 14 year old girl, I’m as serious as a heart attack.

101. Amy said,

     July 19, 2007 @ 11:05 pm

     I absolutely repect and admire what Mr. Gore is doing. Whether or not you believe global warming is true, each of us must make an effort to reduce our waste. Our planet is overcrowded and each of us has a responsibility to preserve what we can for our children and grandchildren. By simply recycling what we can, we save trash buildup. By turning off the TV or lights when not in use, saves energy. By walking or cycling saves fuel AND money. Our society is so blatently ignorant to simplicity. Thank you for your efforts and ongoing desire to help us. I commend and applaud you.

102. sharon said,

     July 22, 2007 @ 9:26 pm

     Dear Al,

     Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for dedicating your life and energy to the rather thankless task of communicating this message.

     As I read the comments from others, I realize that many people are just as convinced about the immensity of this issue as I am. Yet there are a discouragingly number of people who continue to deny and denigrate both the honorable effort you are making, and the fact that our earth is fragile and needs our whole-hearted commitment to caring for it.

     I have also been inspired to commit my life to working on this issue. This problem is too big for one person to solve. I want to be a member of your team, Al. I want to work with you and for you, on this issue.

     I do not know how to successfully get my message across to you, but, I believe if it is my destiny, it will happen. Where there is a will, there is a way.

     Please don’t ever give up sharing this important message.

     Sincerely and with gratitude,
     sharon
     denver, colorado

103. Rick Sparks said,

     July 24, 2007 @ 3:27 pm

     Mr. Gore - and others - it is a fact that more and more evidence is appearing proving that the fear-mongering of the “Global Warming Movement” is little more than a parallel to Chicken Little’s cry, “The sky is falling!”

     Please, watch the following segments featuring respected scientist Freeman Dyson. Enjoy.

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTSxubKfTBU

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k69HUuyI5Mk

104. Nicholas said,

     July 24, 2007 @ 8:47 pm

     Dear Al Gore,

     My name is Nicholas and I like you am a strong believer in Global Warming and I want it to stop. Am am trying my best to tell everyone to stop global warming but (no offense), the only problem that I have is that Almost EVERYONE I talk to just ignores me or says that Global Warming is a scam or just encourages others to pollute more. What can I do about it?

     But most of all, theres crazy weather going around the world like major floodings in England and Extreme heat in Greece and it just makes me feel bad when people are making fun of Global Warming and I dont like how nobody cares. But Im still trying my best to tell everyone about this crisis.

     All we can do for now is try our best to preserve the planet by saving energy and water, using less gas, recycling and stop polluting.

     I also pray everyday that someday, Global Warming will stop and we can just live in a healthy world.

     Yours Truly,

     Nicholas

105. Scott Michael Smith said,

     July 24, 2007 @ 11:27 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,
     I am an American Tourism Management teacher at Assumption University (www.au.edu) in Bangkok Thailand. I read in the paper today that you will be visiting Bangkok on August 8/9 for talks with the government. As luck would have it, that week “An Inconvenient Truth” is scheduled to be shown to all of the tourism students followed by a discussion class. It would be an honor if you would visit our campus, we are the oldest International University in Thailand and very close to the airport.Feel free to have your staff contact me with questions, comments, and suggestions.
     Scott Michael Smith
     (scottsmith@au.edu)

106. Will W. said,

     July 25, 2007 @ 1:04 am

     We need save the our planet, Earth, our home.

107. Luis Avila said,

     July 26, 2007 @ 9:10 am

     I don’t know if you are already doing this, but I think the movie
     “An Inconvenient Truth” should be available for free.

     It should be available on iTunes so all people familiar with iTunes could download it.

     BitTorrent could also be used by more tech savvy people.

108. Jerry said,

     July 26, 2007 @ 12:55 pm

     Dear President Gore,
     Please run for the 2008 elections… we need you more then ever!

109. Dr. Gary Kono said,

     July 28, 2007 @ 3:53 am

     We have an exclusive contract to license a technology for
     turning solid municipal waste into products like particle board
     in China etc…thus avoiding toxic landfill and incineration of tires etc. The synthetic lumber means less trees can be cut down. Is there a non-profit company or for profit company that Al Gore can recommend we contact to partner with?
     Thank you

110. Leo Yip said,

     July 30, 2007 @ 4:22 am

     Hello Al Gore,

     I come from Hong Kong, and I was impressed by “An Inconvenient Truth”!

     Your movie focused on the release of carbon dioxide which causes global warming. And you are encouraging the people to control the CO2.

     I am not a scientist, but I know the only way to convert the CO2 content is - green plants. I may be asking a very stupid question, can we make the plants process the photosynthesis both at day and night? so that CO2 could be converted to O2 continuously. In other word, we have doubled the conversion time and much lower the CO2.

     Best regards,
     Leo

111. Darrel Hudson said,

     August 1, 2007 @ 5:05 pm

     Greetings Mr. Vice President

     My name is Darrel Hudson and I have worked and prepared very hard. I am primed and ready to volunteer my talent, ambition and drive.

     I am ready-made for the role of a volunteer with talent for chapter establishment. Without funding or financial backing I have created the personal domains at AxialAge.com and CommonSenseNOW.org .

     My formal training is as follows: 4 years of television production, film production, advertising and art at Pasadena City College, Los Angeles.

     I also have a community access program that airs at 7pm Wednesday evenings on Time Warner local channel 4 called Voice of The Revolution.

     I have written a 100 minute multimedia lecture/performance that is designed to turn apathetic bystanders into card-carrying members of a movement to save the planet.

     I have a ready-to-go canvassing program designed to raise money for just such a movement and bring people out to public speaking events.

     I can set up a local chapter of your organization here in Green Bay, and custom-fit the above elements and talents to match, but I need an officially recognized status.

     Additional bio: I am 48 years of age with a suitable life experience. If it matters my ancestors were among the framers of The Constitution. One sighed the Declaration of Independence and served as the 2n US President. My father was a Manhattan Project physicist and my mother the classic philanthropic housewife. I have spent my life absorbing as many documentaries and biographies that I could find along the way.

     Once again sir, I am primed and ready to volunteer my talent, ambition and drive.

     You may screen my film “The Paradigm Shift”. If I could accomplish that on my own with no money just imagine what I could do with proper collaboration and better tools.

     I look forward to speaking to you soon.

     D. Hudson
     Host: Voice of The Revolution
     Founder: Common Sense of America
     Soon: State Chapter Director Al Gore’s Movement to Save the Planet. (hopefully)

112. Hana Behrs said,

     August 2, 2007 @ 10:26 pm

     Dear Albert Gore,

     I send this message to you with the highest respect for your care of our planet. You have inspired me along with many millions of people to care for our fading environment. Though I am only 11 years old I believe that any one who does believe can have a voice in our government and there for our society. You have given me great inspiration to continue my search for peace and health for creatures and people every where. I have been saving up $500 to donate to heifer organization. After seeing your enlightening movie and watching you give environmental speeches across the world, I want to extend my goal and begin to create an environmental organization my self so I may donate money and time to endangered species and third world countries that do not yet have universal health care. I would like you to know that you have done a great thing to our world and my life and I now call you my idol. One day I hope to have the honor to meet you.

     Sincerely, your friend and follower,
     Hana Behrs

113. Kevin Emede said,

     August 3, 2007 @ 5:46 pm

     Political affiliation aside, Al Gore is by far the ultimate champion for the environment. Had Mr. Gores’ campaign succeeded, his hands would have been tied as to his ability to reach out and confront world leaders and their constituancy as to the harmful effects perpetuated against our planet by man. I would not vote for Mr. Gore to return to the White House. But I do believe he deserves the title “Man of The Century” for bringing to the doubters the facts of the peril our planet faces if we do not bring about serious change in our lives of excess and all it brings to bear. May God bless you Mr. Gore, and may He have mercy on us all as we strive to make the changes needed in that our planet survive in the decades and centuries to come.

114. Khristian Paterhan said,

     August 4, 2007 @ 4:15 pm

     Dear Mr. Al Gore
     I am a writer and the founder of IDHI Institute for the Whole Human Development in Brazil. I am originally from Chile but I have been living in Brazil for 18 years. Now I am here in the USA, with my wife Marina Bueno, participating in the International Enneagram Conference by IEA (International Enneagram Association) in Redwood City, California, where there are representatives of more than ten countries. Today I am going to make a speech about Global Unity Enneagram and New Leadership to Global Prosperity and Social Responsibility, a proposal to apply this extraordinary tool of self knowledge in Programs of Social Responsibility and Training of leaders and volunteers of NGOS who work in social-environmental projects . This program can also be part of other NGOS and especially in programs of your organization. I was lucky to find a copy of the DVD of your film here in Redwood City. I admire your work and I will talk about it in my presentation this afternoon, giving emphasis to your mission. I would like to help you in your mission with my expertise in Enneagram and Social Responsibility.
     I am at your disposal
     Khristian Paterhan Hotel Sofitel Redwood City
     San Franscisco Bay Area Room 657
     Escola.eneagrama@gmail.com
     Http://www.idhi.org.br & Http://www.escolaeneagrama.com.br

115. Kristin Lehne said,

     August 6, 2007 @ 2:29 pm

     Soon I’ll start in 10th grade, then, as fast as possible, i will have a chat with my teacher, and i’ll beg her so that “An inconvenient truth” can be shown to my school. It’s an amazing film, and i must say; i admire your hard work. The world need people like you, you are awesome! I’ll also ask my friends to see the film together with me. Every time i see your film, it encoruages me… I REAALLY ADMIRE YOUR HARD WORK! PLEASE, HANG IN THERE! YOU ARE JUST SO GREAT.
     I’ll do everything i can and so much more to be a part of saving this world. One day, i’d like to do the same kind of work you are doing… I don’t know if that’s ever going to happen, but i will try.
     Respectfully, Kristin Lehne

116. Ash said,

     August 7, 2007 @ 7:43 pm

     I saw an Inconvienent Truth and was amazed at the statistics. It’s one thing to read an article here and another there and go “Oh man we’re doomed” but to see them all in one sitting it really brings it all together. I’m trying to get in touch with a group called the New York Sun Works (nysunworks.org). A nonprofit group that built a solar/wind powered hydroponics lab on a barge in new york to show the wonders of hydroponics can bring to agriculture. Which leads me to the article on popsci.com (popular science) about Hydroponic Skyscrapers. 30 floor hydroponic facilities designed to produce 100 different kinds of fruits/vegetables home grown and within major cities. Growing several acres worth of produce in one multifloored building. Dr. Despommier of Columbia University was interviewed about the idea and is also an advisor for the New York Sun Works organization. The idea is nothing short of genius and could use your support in making these things a reality.

     Just think, take a city block and make it a hydroponic farm. Now, stack it on top of itself 2-30 times and you have more produce coming out of that one block then any farm in America!! Plus, the design is presented in the article is eco-friendly and recycles resources.

     I’m looking to push the idea here in the Orlando Florida area. Any ideas or support from you or people visiting your site can be sent to: greyfox150@aol.com

117. Michael McInnis said,

     August 7, 2007 @ 9:59 pm

     Hello, just a thought. What if: Millions of automobiles would have their engines stop automatically when the vehicle slowed to a speed of 5km an hour, but the driver could still drive and maneuver under electric power until the speed increased to 5km an hour where then, the vehicle would revert back to gas power. When traveling under 5km an hour the vehicle would run under electric power but not via a separate electric motor. Present vehicles could be retrofit and future vehicles could be remanufactured to run in this manner. This of course does not solve the pollution problem but it could lower the yearly emissions considerably. Vehicles at stop signals, in parking lot’s, drive through’s ect. would not be causing pollution. I have a degree in electronic technology and if this idea sounds intriguing I would have no problem in explaining in detail how this could be accomplished.

     Cheers
     Mike

118. Bill and Pat Van Dorn said,

     August 8, 2007 @ 9:03 am

     We believe in protecting the environment and we are doing what we can to do so; however, as we conserve and use less energy the big companies (power, gas) raise their rates. We believe this is so they can continue receiving an extremely high rate of return. The government can help by setting a reasonable rate of return for them AND by encouraging them to invest in alternative energy sources. Perhaps if they were penalized (so their immediate income was effected) if they didn’t invest in alternative energy sources they might be able to see the future a little better.

119. Scott Lincoln said,

     August 9, 2007 @ 9:26 am

     Al Gore,

     You stated in the Chicago Tribune, issue August 8, 2007, that some of the world’s largest energy companies, including Exxon Mobil Corp., are funding research aimed at disputing the scientific consensus on global warming as part of a campaign to mislead the public.

     You also stated that there is very little disagreement in the scientific community when it pertains to “global warming.” You are incorrect as there are well known scientists who disagree with the severity of global warming and you and the global warming police are trying to silence them. One scientist that does not agree with the severity of global warming is Fred Singer, an expert on global climate change and a pioneer in the development of rocket and satellite technology, he holds a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton and happens to be the guy who devised the basic instrument for measuring stratospheric ozone. Another is Bill Gray, who is perhaps the world’s foremost hurricane expert and his Tropical Storm Forecast sets the standard. If you would like further scientists who do not agree with the severity of global warming, you let me know, there are many others!

     In order to be fair about the debate on global warming, you need to listen to the scientists who do not agree with the hype around global warming. You talk about the media and the power of the media in your book, “The Assault On Reason,” and you should know all about that because you and your green organization have control of the media when it comes to the topic of global warming. There is no debate on the subject because you and many others in the “green” world are trying very hard to silence them.

     All parties need to be heard and not vilified by you or the scientists who believe global warming is going to destroy the earth. To end, I would like to ask you how the Great Lakes were created. They were glaciers and when the earth warmed, they melted and created lakes. Global warming is nothing new, it has been going on for 1,000 of years. The media hype and scare tactics you have created are outrageous!

120. Scott Lincoln said,

     August 9, 2007 @ 9:47 am

     Al Gore,

     More information for you on “global warming.” All parties need to be voiced in order to have a true debate on global warming.

     Another False Alarm on Global Warming

     Written By: David E. Wojick, Ph.D.
     Published In: Heartland Perspectives
     Publication Date: May 2, 2005
     Publisher: The Heartland Institute

     Global warming alarmists are once again saying a “new study” has proven them to be right. But once again, the study they are citing is inconclusive.

     The study is “Earth’s energy imbalance: Confirmation and implications,” by James Hansen et al., published in the April 28 issue of Science. Hansen, who has long been a leader of the alarmist pack, claims new research on ocean warming reveals the effects of human-made greenhouse gases (GHG) and aerosols and will cause additional global warming of about 0.6 degrees C and acceleration of ice sheet disintegration and sea level rise.

     Hansen, in a news release about his study, calls it the “smoking gun” that proves humans are causing global warming. In fact it is nothing more that a typical Hansen computer modeling exercise, the kind he has been trumpeting since the 1980s. Here’s how this one goes, in seven easy steps.

     1. Take some very shaky evidence and a draw firm conclusion, in this case that the oceans are warming. We don’t actually know this, certainly not how much, if at all.

     2. Assume all else in nature is constant. In this case Hansen assumes that solar input is constant, even though solar variability is the hottest thing in climate science today. This assumption made some sense in 1986, but it makes none today.

     3. Derive a precise value for what is actually unknown. In this case the Earth’s heat balance. We have no way of measuring the Earth’s heat balance.

     4. Demonstrate that the GHG model can be made to reproduce this value. The GHG model can be made to reproduce just about any value as long as it is part of a warming trend. Feedbacks make it very flexible.

     5. Conclude that the GHG model is proven, all other possible explanations for this actually unknown value having been ruled out by assumption. See above.

     6. Use the now proven model to predict the future. It is bad. The heat comes out of the ocean (though one wonders why it changes direction). Ice melts. Coasts flood.

     7. Sound the alarm. Again.

     In point of fact, the hypothesis that solar variability and not human activity is warming the oceans goes a long way to explain the puzzling idea that the Earth’s surface may be warming while the atmosphere is not. The GHG hypothesis does not do this. But I digress.

     Unfortunately, gullible reporters are likely to once again quote the news release and interview a small stable of government scientists and professional environmentalists rather than check the literature and call respected climate realists for their reactions.

     The public is not well served by this constant drumbeat of false alarms fed by computer models manipulated by advocates.

     David E. Wojick, Ph.D., is a consultant and columnist for The Electricity Daily. He writes on climate change, technology, and policy change.

121. Bobbi Morrison said,

     August 9, 2007 @ 10:07 am

     It makes me laugh that the inventor of the internet doesn’t have his own e-mail.

122. Willian Chia (RMNP) said,

     August 10, 2007 @ 12:00 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,
     I believe that the greatest power on earth that can make effective corrections to to abberations of our society’s contribution to the violations of the earth and it’s atmosphere, lies in the hands of the Americans… (and its allies and all governments of the global society) who are undisputedly the main driving force in effectuating policies around the globe.
     I wish and hope you would uptake the presidency of the American government to lead and forward the dossier on the fight to reduce global warming… to save the world, not only for our generation… but also for generations to come.
     Short of fear mongering, disaster seems inevitable if nothing was done… as per my visions as depicted in picturetrail.com/rmnp

     GOD bless.

123. Chris P said,

     August 11, 2007 @ 4:12 am

     Hello,
     I am curious, why is everything around this “moral” and “ethical” cause seems so commercial. The first step under “take action” on the www.climatecrisis.net website is to buy the DVD. Is this the best way to change people’s minds on a global scale? For me as an individual it is the only way I could legally share the words of Al Gore with others around me who desperately need to hear them.

     Shouldn’t there be somewhere that these ideas can be presented and challenged freely? I can appreciate that films are expensive to create, and even that sometimes a topic should be presented and absorbed by the audience. But given the magnitude of your claims shouldn’t these ideas be freely presented, so that people can get involved in the solution.

     If the goal is to change the minds of everyone, then you need a voice which speaks to all people. Having watched some clips of your talks you are obviously a persuasive speaker. The facts should be presented to everyone but so far “the media” is the strongest voice.

     There was another study of all the articles in the popular press. Over the last 14 years they looked at a sample of 636 articles. Over half of them said “well we’re not sure, it could be a problem may not be a problem.”
     So it’s no wonder people are confused.
     (Al Gore)

     What you are doing is excellent, we need to change our attitudes on a global scale. The simplest and cheapest method I know of to reach that sort of audience is through the internet. This is merely another avenue to consider.

124. Tim Hauck said,

     August 11, 2007 @ 5:10 pm

     Dear Mr. Vice President

     I just saw your documentary about Global Warming and I have a few comments (if you or your staff should actually ever read this) about things you missed or could spend more time on.

     First, my credentials I was an environmental regulator for both the state and federal government for over 21 years. Workling in both the regulation of hazardous waste and clenaup of petroleum spills

     1. Since the early 60’s, reputable scientists including many at the NAS (National Academy of Science) have been prediting that by between 2025 and 2050, the earth will have been reduced in its ability to supply a population estimated to be 10 billion, that food riots and other civil unrest due to massive shortages will be the norm.

     2. Since the early 70’s, this nation has had the technology to mass produce a line of vehicles that would average between 35 and 50 mpg city and 50 and 75 mpg highway. Why don’t we see them being produced? Hmmmm?

     3. As your show stated “People have trouble understanding what the people who pay their salary don’t want to them understand.” A main objection to increasing environmental protection has been its effect on the ecconomy. Almost every Republican president since Nixon stated such efforts would devastate our economy. In the 1970’s, the private sector involved in protecting and cleaning up the environment, was practically non-existent (much like any other business or industry - eg Mircosoft). When I entered the field in the late 1980’s, the PRIVATE SECTOR, (not lawyers) environmental protection and cleanup industry was a multi-BILLION dollar industry involving or employing directly over 7 million Americans. This does not include supply and other infrastructure businesses and industries that grew up in their wake. When I left the field in 2001, the private sector was approaching mid- 12 figures in gross revenue. It has created thousands of jobs nationally and if we put our money where our mouth is, thousands more WILL be created.

     4. The biggest problem in this area is not the actual damage that is being done, but those politicians and their “deep pocket” supporters whose interests lay in maintaining the status quo. They tend only to react after the baby has been thrown out with the bathwater.

125. KH Armstrong said,

     August 11, 2007 @ 5:22 pm

     One way to reduce auto emissions quickly is to encourage employers to let their employees work from home. It’s a win/win situation. Employees save time, energy and money in driving to and from work. And, employers can save on overhead. Employees can share offices or cubicles. And, to top it all off, studies (and my observations) show that productivity increases for employees who work from home.

     If 3 experienced employees worked from home 3 days a week. They could easily share one office or cubicle. Auto emissions would be cut significantly for all 3.

     At the very least, if each of these 3 employees either worked four 10 hour shifts or worked 1 out of 5 days from home, then their auto emissions could be cut as much as 20 percent per week automatically.

     We have the technology, why don’t we use it?

126. Tim Stephens said,

     August 12, 2007 @ 8:02 pm

     hello, Mr. Gore,
     I just have to tell you, in 4th grade, my teacher told us a little about global warming. At that age it seemed so simple,
     (fire=co2, people=fire) the more people, more fire, and more green house gasses. I still think it’s that simple and it should shame those people who say that there’s no problem. What did I understand then, that they cannot understand today?

127. Lyra said,

     August 13, 2007 @ 7:51 pm

     Mr. Gore

     I am so glad you were born and your college professor was born.
     i want to push all my friends to buy those 5 items that could help lower my CO2 contribution. you had spoken of on Oprah.

     I truly wish i could help as much has you are helping.

     and i understand the frustration of trying to tell people to help as well.
     i had a friend ask if i was high on something when i told her how much it bugs me that people are still not doing anything to slow down global warming.

     its not that hard to help
     and i wish i could honestly be by your side and learn more and spread more.

     what you are doing is great.
     i love your movie
     it is black and white.

     but what i hate… is how people can just.. forget everything by the next day of watching it.

     i am almost convinced its already too late.
     its so hard to tell people to change or to help.

     but for our planet… lets keep up the fight.

128. Lyra said,

     August 13, 2007 @ 7:54 pm

     wouldnt it be interesting to know how much help it would do to turn off all power
     just for one day.
     we lived without power for generations
     can we do it for a mere 12 hours? 24?

129. Jorge C. Cubillas said,

     August 14, 2007 @ 5:05 pm

     Hello Mr.Gore,My name is Jorge cubillas and i am a young inventor not in age but in the invention field, as a worker in new construction i am outdoors for most of the day and after years of working in smog poullutied areas i decided to do something about it and did 4 years of research in my spare time on smog,ground level ozone,particle matter,wind currents and engine emmisions,and came up with my invention it is a very delicate system which i would rather disscus in private than in public but the basic is that it cleans airborne particles on a large scale so if you get a chance or your people do i would be honored to share my research with you and hopefully you can steer this program in the right direction, because i am not very knowledgeable in enviromental sciences,but i belive i have a very good idea and with some help from some good people we can hopefully start helping our planet becoming healthy again and for our families and our future. Thank you Jorge Cubillas.

130. Bonga Nzuza said,

     August 15, 2007 @ 7:14 pm

     Dear Mr Gore

     Having recently seen “An Inconvenient Truth,” and finally seeing the dire need for change, I was left near shell shocked. I live in South Africa, so that makes us small fry in the relative world environment but even here, there is still a need for some action. As with many developing economies, economic growth and the well being of people seems to always over shadow any consideration as to the sustainability of the raw resources stripped to meeting those ends. I would love to find out ways to help and educate people as to how look beyond the here and now and suggestions to aid in reducings emissions in developing economies and developing realistic stratagies towards a shift to greener and more renewble enengy sources. It may only result in only minor changes, but every little bit helps, right?

131. Gary Martin said,

     August 17, 2007 @ 2:08 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,
     I saw your movie “An Inconvenient Truth” and i was very moved by it. Firstly, thank you for what you are doing. I know it must be disheartening to do so much and get so little response.

     I, personally want to do more. I want a plug-in hybrid car so badily I can taste it. I’m trying to find a used Prius I can afford
     and will convert it with larger batteries, etc. I will put in an automatic thermostat this month. I will try to get thin-film solar
     panels on the roof of my house by the end of next year at the latest

     And lastly, please, PLEASE, never stop what you are doing. The population of our “little blue marble” must know what is happening, who is doing it and why. You are making a huge difference - If not you then who?

     I will support you any way that I can. Let me know what more I can do personally.

     There is no more important endeavour than what you do now.
     Thank you once again.

     Sincerely, Gary Martin

132. Barbara Sabo said,

     August 18, 2007 @ 9:36 pm

     I am writing today to tell you about a remarkable green technology that our client has developed. This complete technology transforms everything from municipal waste, agri-waste and hazardous waste (from contaminated water to sludge or solid waste) into usable end products. The technology produces clean usable energy bi-products without polluting the environment; and, the bi-products power the technology for continuation of the processing. The excess energy can be sold or utilized on-site. There is absolutely no pollution created by this process, only re-usable energy. This technology is patented in the U.S. and internationally.

     One of the systems turns any sort of sludge waste into “hy-coal.” The process involves passing an aqueous or sludge mixture through an expanded plasma technology process wherein the combination of heat, electric current, and ultra-violet rays bakes the materials in suspension, creating a sterilized liquid. Carbonized solids are removed from the liquid using the patented process, these solids then being impregnated with hydrogen and the gas by-product. The end result is the “hy-coal.” The gas bi-product itself far exceeds EPA Standards:

     Hydro-carbons - 0.26 gm/mi
     Carbon Monoxide - 0.262 gm/mi
     Nitrogen Oxides - 0.281 gm/mi
     Carbon Dioxide - 235 gm/mi
     Oxygen - 9% - 12%

     The gas exhaust from converted vehicles contains about 1/15th of the EPA requirements without the need of a catalytic converter while emitting 9-12% breathable oxygen in the exhaust. The process also produces clear, sterilized water ideal for fertilzation or purification into drinking water, as it is nutrient-rich.

     This technology has been tested using all manner of waste including hospital, hazardous, and toxic. Based on our knowledge of Super-Fund Clean-up, especially regarding highly contaminated ground water in mining sites (active or abandoned), we feel that our technology can provide an immediate benefit to the U.S. government and tax-payers. Cleaning our environment offers future benefits to the entire planet.

     But this technology goes well beyond Super-Fund Clean-up. It can be utilized to solve current problems from animal waste contaminating California-grown produce to providing new sources of energy and drinking water—all without adding to pollution—and even contributing oyxgen to the atmosphere.

     We would welcome any information or assistance from your office regarding appropriate contacts on a State, Federal, or private level to develop this technology as rapidly as possible. Thank you in advance for your prompt consideration.

133. Sean Abrams said,

     August 18, 2007 @ 10:34 pm

     Mr. Gore,

     I am going to be in 10th grade this year and i want to know that when I get older I won’t have a huge check to pay. I know you say you want to concentrate on the climate crisis, well Mr. Gore, the President of the United States of America has the most power in the world. Imagine the things we could do to help solve this problem with you in the oval office. Thats not the only thing, I truly believe that you are the only person that can solve these problems in our government. So please do consider to run. Thank you

134. Renee McClendon said,

     August 19, 2007 @ 4:31 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,
     Thank you for your wonderful work for the health of our planet. Can you or someone in your organization help us? We recently moved from the Midwest to Hancock County in Southern Mississippi, where there is no opportunity for recycling (newspapers, plastics, aluminum), ever since Katrina. The Humane Society in Gulfport took my newspapers for awhile (to shred & use for pet bedding), but now they even have more than they can handle. I have contacted as many resources as I could think of - - to no avail. Thank you, Renee McClendon

135. Tim Raman said,

     August 20, 2007 @ 2:45 pm

     Dear Mr gore,

     I live in belgium and i have just seen your movie and i had a thought by it , do U think it could be possible that the earth is trying to thin out mankind to save itself ?
     seeing the enviromental disasters are getting bigger and bigger, also more people loose their lives in a natural disaster these days. so it gives me a sort of feeling the earth is on a selfpreservation mission by removing the biggest treath to itself ; us humans.

     like to know your thought on this one.

     thank you,

     Tim Raman

136. Janet E. Van Asten said,

     August 21, 2007 @ 4:28 am

     Our culture is too off-balanced in the use of money, when dealing with one another. We do not have a good system of person to person networking. We do not have PLACES where we “hang out”. Most projects need “more” money / capital.
     The answer to our problems is another source of money. This is called “social capital” , person to person networking, mentoring, bartering, etc. We do not have adequate “social capital” because we do not have places to “hang out” and interact with each other. We are an extremely separtated, personally isolated culture. I would like to see Al Gore use the material/ theories, I have collected and write another book explaining these. I would release all copyright. We have lost the family as a small interacting group. We have not replaced this with other small groups. Our public buildings, our churches and schools are often locked. With another way of functioning, these could be open more to create PLACES for “social capital” to occur. I have a website at chieffinc.org with a book draft written 3 years ago. The theory about our declining “social capital” is outlined in a book “bowling alone”.
     The other theory that I promote is that our k-12 education system is very antique in as much as it give “credit for time” rather than “credit for education”. We are training our people for an authoritarian, time controlled, culture, and thus do not have a people that can “act” in a democracy. Government social programs cannot do the job of the “housewife of the past”, this is a community interaction activity, but we have no places to gather and build community, except for the bars. All meetings are at a specific time and place and agenda for what will be said there. We have little debate, dialoug, discusion, etc. The “time/ money controlled” culture creates “rat race” which is a great developer of waste.
     Janet Van Asten
     jan@intsol.net

137. Lesley MOFFAT said,

     August 21, 2007 @ 7:13 am

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     I have just seen your impressive and inspiring film “An Inconvenient Truth” and want to congratulate you- you have really started a huge movement in this world!

     I spent my summers, like you, at a “beef”-cattle farm. My grandparents were farmers and had 50 Herefords. There I learned about the beauty of animals and the hard work that goes into farming. However, at the age of twelve I learned how pigs and chickens, and even veal calves were being raised, cramped in small overcrowded stalls or cages, with thousands to a barn. This was quite different from the image I had of farming at my grandparents’ farm. This truly did shock me as a kid. I was always in awe of animals and knew very well even at a young age that they could suffer and had an emotional repertoire just like us. I read everything I could get my hands on about factory farming. Although I was mostly focused on the animal suffering, the discussions in these books were almost always accompanied by the impact factory farming was having on the environment. In the early 1990’s I recall especially heated discussions in the media on the issue of pig farming. In my home province of Quebec, there are roughly 6 times more pigs than humans and the disposal of liquid manure was already a tremendous problem. I dropped meat from my plate at that point and formed a “Peace Club” at my high school, where we tackled issues such as human rights, animal rights and the environment.

     Now, some 15 years later (I am 32 years old) I have a Masters degree in Animal Science from Canada’s largest agricultural college at University of Guelph, and 7 years’ experience working as a farm-animal welfare inspector in Europe. Your film however has re-sparked my interest in how this massive change in the way we farm animals and the amount of meat we eat effects global warming. So I did some research on the web.

     I found a report called “Livestock’s Long Shadow” written by scientists from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. In it they state that “Livestock emit more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than all the cars, freight trucks, railways, airplanes and container ships combined in the entire world.” Furthermore, “70% of the planet’s agricultural land is used to grow crops to fatten the world’s livestock, i.e. 30% of the entire land surface.” This does not shock me. Two years ago our staff travelled to Brazil to inspect cattle being loaded onto ships and exported for slaughter in Lebanon. From one end of Brazil to the other they were amazed at just how much logging was going on. The number-one reason was to make room to grow soy beans for export to fatten livestock in Europe!

     The report goes on to say that “Economic growth in developing countries has driven the world’s recent increase in meat production. The Chinese account for 60% of the world’s increase in meat production in the past 25 years. They are now the world’s biggest producer of pork and consequently the world’s biggest producer of methane gas from pig manure. Things are equally depressing in the developed world: Canadians and Americans consume almost 100 kilograms of meat per capita per year which requires the killing (but of course also the feeding, housing and manure, respiration and flatulation) of 10 billion animals.”

     I bet that you can remember as a youngster eating meat maybe once a day, your parents probably only once or twice a week. Now, it is common to eat a McMuffin in the morning, a beef-taco for lunch and a steak at night. Our enormous appetite for meat requires the breeding and slaughtering of hundreds of billions of animals every year, and this leads to 18% of greenhouse gas emissions. What a huge burden on our planet, not to mention the suffering of the animals and the negative impact on our health.

     On your website, http//:www.climatecrisis.net you present 10 steps that people can do to help combat global warming. I’d like to encourage you to add an eleventh: that of eating less meat or going vegetarian (even vegan).
     I would also encourage you to add this point to your slide show, which continues to be widely presented around the world and thus enjoys considerable impact.

     Dr. David Suzuki, a renowned Canadian environmental scientist has said that “the best thing you can do for the environment nowadays is to go vegetarian”.

     I know that you are extremely busy, so I would be more than delighted to provide you with any more information on this matter. In the meantime, here is the link to the full UN Food and Agriculture Report on livestock’s impact on global warming:

     www.virtualcentre.org/en/library/key_pub/longshad/a0701e/A0701E00.pdf

     With very best wishes and continued success,

     Lesley Moffat
     Cologne, Germany

138. Richard Borders said,

     August 21, 2007 @ 10:27 am

     Al Gore is one of the biggest hypocrites walking the face of the earth. He talks the talk but doesn’t walk the walk when it come to global warming.

     He lives in a A 20 room mansion ( not including 8 bathrooms ) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool ( and a pool house) and a separate guest house, all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2400. In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not situated in a Northern or Midwestern “snow belt” area. It’s in the South.

     Can we say “HYPOCRITE” !

139. Jeff Dent said,

     August 21, 2007 @ 4:53 pm

     I live in fort collins, CO
     I have come up with a way to solve a problem as big as the enviroment issue in a way that will give back to every home involved. I emailed this address with a little more info Kalee@carthagegroup.com
     If Al has a chance to get involved into this project it will be a global changing event.
     Thank you,
     Jeff Dent

140. John Amos said,

     August 23, 2007 @ 4:17 am

     Dear Mr Gore , A point that needs to be apreciated in all the controversy regarding the global warming theory and your particular activity in that regard is that the controversy exist and that your promotion of this phenomenon has brought it to public atention, this is a very possative and successful result . Regardless of any discrediting argument on behalf of sceptics they themselves are pouring fuel on the fire in terms of making people more aware of the fact that there is potential for planetary side effects relating to our activities. The main point of argument seems to relate to a percentage debate as oposed to acceptance . I personaly am oposed to you running for president as I feel you are more effective as you are without the handcuffs and bridals associated with public office , I sincerely hope you consider this point before accepting nomination . I noted the quotation submitted in this “comments” facility, taken from speach given by JFK , Waldorf Astoria, 1961 , I,m sure you can relate to it as can I . I am currently facing similar uncomfortable and inconvenient truths in the work that I am engaged in ,operating a conservation project relating to degredation of coral reef/marine echo systems . Many of your concernes are parralelled with mine . I sincerely admire your tenacity in delivering your arguments and would wish that I have the same capability and stamina . I am trying to achieve a line of comunication with you or your office and hope that this submision will aid that end result leading to correspondence that could prove to be of be of imeasureable value to our activities here . I am sir , yours sincerely , John Amos

141. Christopher Witt said,

     August 24, 2007 @ 6:17 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     I am 13 and I actually believe that you should be President right now.

     I have seen your movie “An Incovienient Truth” like a thousand times by now. I believe that the information you presented in your slideshow is some of the mast amazing facts I had ever seen up to this point in my young life. I actually like some of the wisecracks you pulled in the movie. You are funny.

     I cannot close this without asking, have you considered running for president anymore? I think you should. You could make a big difference for the world.

142. Michelle said,

     August 25, 2007 @ 1:27 pm

     Al Gore.
     My name is Michelle, and I am from Denmark. I definately think that you should run for president again, you could do so much good from that position. You really opened up my eyes with the lecture on Global Warming. I used to think that is was something that was going ‘far away’, but the lecture made me think. There is so much we can do our selves, politician or not. The ones in the power position or not. Thank you for your lecture, you really got the message out, I could’nt take my eyes of the screen. Please stop by Denmark with your important message one day, I will definately be there. And thank you for trying to ake the world a better place, step by step.
     The best wishes:
     Michelle
     Denmark

143. Sylvie De Bruyne said,

     August 26, 2007 @ 11:35 am

     Dear mister Al Gore

     I just saw your movie a couple of minutes ago and i thought before i am ashamed of myself that we, people let all of this happen.
     I made a Dutch site about it,about the tragedies,about the global warming,about earth.
     especially I sent this comment here for you to thank you for making this movie because of that my mind of saving earth has grown even more.
     I know you care about earth, it is our home,the only one we have and we have to take care of it.
     and I ask you deeply from my heart.., please help earth!

     thank you
     Sylvie De Bruyne, Belgium

144. Randi Washik said,

     August 27, 2007 @ 7:57 pm

     Dear Mr.Gore,

     My name is Randi Washik, I am in the 8th grade. I have recently watched your move “An Inconvenient Truth” and have researched on global warming and climate crises. I have been very moved by all of this and think that we need to start to make a change. I am really concerned and worried about this because my generation will as will future generations.

     I try to do my part by turning off lights and appliances when they are not being used. I also tell my parents not to let our car idle when not in use. Is there anything I could do to help out my community.

     This year I plan on doing my speech on this subject because I feel we all need to be reminded about the importance of actively doing our part in slowing global warming.

     I would also like to learn more about Global warming.

     Thank you for you time. Please write back!

145. Levi Neshkoff said,

     August 29, 2007 @ 9:29 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     I would like to congratulate you on the success you are having from bringing awareness to the Global Warming and Climate Change. Although, awareness isn’t enough. We need radical changes that are immediate and, by no means, implement a plan with a 15% to 20% reduction of fuel dependancy over the next 20 years. In my opinion, as well as many others, that isn’t enough. How can we make radical changes now? We definitely have the power to do so.

     Also, I have just read your speech on Threat to American Democracy, nearly two years later, which that mere fact proves your point. How can we help advocate the reform of mass media entertainment news? The power has been taken from the american people.

     On the same subject, why haven’t we heard more on the American Union (AU) and the Amero? Since, you have strong support and many readers can you speak out about this? We need to be informed.

146. Tom Smith said,

     August 30, 2007 @ 3:54 pm

     Mr. Gore,

     Please lend your tremendous influence and resources to helping resolve the current porndemic that is plaguing the internet. There’s a simple solution available within current internet technology: the use of ports such as “http” , “smtp” etc. The internet can be delivered like cable TV with specific channels or ports for adult content and and a seperate one for general public access.

     Our children our suffering, our families are being torn apart and our businesses are losing vast amounts of producitivity and resources.

     Check out the following website for a full description of the propsed solution: www.cp80.org

     Thanks !

147. Aaron Roberts-Smith said,

     August 30, 2007 @ 10:08 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     I am a 19 year old living in Ontario and have recently begun my own attempts at bringing closure to the global warming and greenhouse gas emission crisis.

     As you already know greenhouse gases are raising the global temperature which is detrimental to the biomes and ecosystems of the world. Canada is among the highest of contributors in greenhouse gas emissions. And yet Canadian parliament persists in offering bandaid soultions to the issue at hand.

     I have recently messaged my local MP with concerns of global warming and requests of information on the standards and guidelines that should be followed when submitting a petition. I have been informed that an MP must submit the petition in the House and am waiting to see if our local MP will do just that.

     I am also in the process of writing and article that i intend to send to a newspaper for printing and started a group on the internet that promotes global warming and the effects it has on the environment.

     I was wondering if you had any suggestions for me as to what further actions i make take to better induce the politicians to wise up and go green. I am very passionate about this pursuit and wish to make a difference.

     Thank your time and efforts, i hope to hear from you soon.

     Sincerely,

     Aaron Roberts-Smith

     P.S. I believe that what you are doing and the motives behind your actions are virtuous and wish you a successful campaign

148. Mike Fletcher said,

     August 31, 2007 @ 1:20 pm

     To Mr. Gore or Anyone who can speak to this issue:

     I did my best to scan down through these comments but didn’t see one response/rebuttal to the “tale of two houses,” that has been reprinted/mentioned elsewhere here. Snopes.com says it’s true.

     I believe in global warming, but having received this article starts making me question Al Gore’s overall credibility. Is he really an advocate for the environment or just pulling a stunt to raise his visibility? As an advocate for the environment, how could he expose himself like this, especially in relation to George Bush? I would really like to see an answer.

     Wondering and Concerned,
     Mike Fletcher

149. Steven Sullivan said,

     September 1, 2007 @ 10:29 am

     We have a GREEN technology that we think you may find extremely beneficial to the environment which will significantly reduce the production of greenhouse gases by eliminating the fuel burn of aircraft during taxiing and ground maneuvers and would like to discuss our implementation plans.703.726.9370

150. Sandra Magone-Naro(Mystic Jayyd) said,

     September 5, 2007 @ 3:22 am

     Mr. Gore,
     Your Attention Please!!!!
     Our band is an All-Female Rock Band out of Buffalo, New York.
     WE have written a song pertaining to the Toxic Soils and Greenhouse Gasses.
     YOU Must have a listen to , The Enviromental song on our cd, which is # 4!!!!
     I will be sending a cd to you at the address on your website.
     Once again I say ,PLEASE listen to!!!!
     Sincerely,
     Sandra-Magone-Naro,
     (Mystic Jayyd!)

151. Dana Dzurko said,

     September 5, 2007 @ 4:01 pm

     I’m a supporter of Al Gore and recently heard that Al Gore lives in a non energy efficient home and President Bush lives in a “green” house. Is this true and if it is WHY? My family has been giving me a hard time about being “into” saving the environment and going green and for liking Al Gore. Please help me get the facts.
     Concerned,
     DD

152. Sheryl Johnson said,

     September 6, 2007 @ 6:22 am

     Dear Al -

     Simply put:

     You need to run in ‘08!! Look at the choices we have! You would make a great President with all your emphasis on the environment and global warming! Please run! None of the other candidates have what it takes! Many would like to see you run!! Thanks!

153. Miranda said,

     September 12, 2007 @ 9:50 pm

     Dear Al Gore:
     I have just finished watching your movie, An Inconvenient Truth, (underlined,) and I have to say, it moved me almost to tears. I had never realized how extreme the situation was, (considering I’m a teenager, that shouldn’t be surprising,) and now I am determined to become aware of the ways I can help. I also want to point out that I want to make others aware, specifically minor adolescents and children. I think you should direct a branch of your campaign at kids, because we are the future, and it is best for us to know now. I want to conclude this comment by telling a story. I was once asked if I believe in global warming. I answered along the lines of, “I don’t know. I think that it is getting hotter and hotter, and maybe the atmosphere is becoming more like Venus’. But I’m not sure.”

     Now I can assure you, Al Gore, and anyone else who reads this comment that yes, I do “believe” in global warming, and am excited to show the rest of the world that this is the most important subject in the agenda of Today’s important topics. After all, without land to live on and a functioning environment, would there really be terrorists, presidents, and racism?

154. Steve Old said,

     September 22, 2007 @ 7:27 pm

     Dear Mr Gore,
     I thought you may like this poem written by a 13 year-old school student in the Cook Islands.

     We wonder why
     Winning purua by Araura College third former Teiti Henry

     The swaying palms
     The gentle surf
     Lapping upon the sand.
     A gentle breeze
     So keen to please
     Slowly gusts across our land
     Our islands home.
     Is all we have known
     As centuries rolled by.
     Our Island people stood alone
     On reef so barren and dry
     But as years go by
     We wonder why
     The shoreline is not the same
     The things we knew
     As always true
     Somehow do not remain
     The breakers break on higher ground
     The outer palms falling down
     The taro pits begin to die
     And village elders wonder why
     For what is happening to the beautiful isles we know
     Cook Islands, Kiribati and Tuvalu
     The beautiful isles
     That place of smiles
     The rising sea will reclaim our ground
     Nothing but water will abound
     Our people forced to leave for higher ground
     While far away they pour their fumes into the clear blue sky
     Not knowing and never caring why
     The world is beginning to die
     The land of our forefathers despite how much we cared for you
     The time will soon be when we must bid you adieu.

155. Sebatianos said,

     September 23, 2007 @ 5:07 pm

     I have now finally seen the Inconvinient Truth and I have to say there is one thing I found it lacked. I can very well imagine the resouns why, but hopefully you didn’t overlook them (simply chose not to include them).

     It’s the feeling of guilt.

     It’s a very powerful emotion people feel every day and it’s one of the biggest factors of why people live in denial!

     If people would admit that it really is us and our ways of life that cause the global warming and that it is really us, who areresponsible for all the devistations around the globe, caused by unusual weather phenomena, then people would also feel the guilt for it. And just like a little child looks for every possible excuse why he did something wrong and there is always a “but” somewhere, it’s the same with the global warming issues. Everybody drives cars, uses electricity, produses trash… so everybody can feel guilty. It’s not so much the work needed to be put into not poluting more, it’s the unwillingness to admit the fact that until now we have been contributin to making the problem.

     Just thought I’d bring that up as something that wasn’t addresed in the documentary, especially since there was talk about what seem to be the factors why people do not want to change (in the last 20 minutes of the documentary).

     Sencirely, Sebatianos

156. Mr Ange Kenos (Australia) said,

     September 23, 2007 @ 5:37 pm

     Mr. Gore’s recent visit to Australia has been a resounding success, with the exception that our prime minister pathetically refused to meet with him. Hopefully the Opposition Leader, whose environmetal policies Mr Gore endorsed, will soon replace him.
     But one of my studentsfrom my former teaching days also just returned from the program aimed at her generation and her email is so full of inspiration and hope that I truly believe Mr Gore has laid the building blocks for future change.
     Thank you Sir, and if only you would run for President

157. Camille Timms said,

     September 27, 2007 @ 10:21 am

     Dear. Mr. Al Gore

     My name is camille i live in germany and i am curently in 7th grade. I am working on a report on global warming. I sall your movie “The inconvient Truth” in sixth grade science. I need a recent article about global warming and i couldnt think of any one else better than you Mr. Al Gore. I am praying that you will see this comment and email me something. I would love for you to do even just a simple sentence or word about global warming. Mr. Al Gore i truly understand if you are to busy to attend to my small needs . But thank you any way for all the information you have distributed about global warming!

158. Mahesh Dalvi said,

     September 27, 2007 @ 12:17 pm

     Mr.Gore,
     It would be lifetime achievement if given an oppertunity to work for the Drive u initiated.
     Watched “An Inconvinient Truth” and ready to volunteer or work lifetime for the same.
     Passionate about this Planet….One Nature Lover
     Always Urs
     Mahesh
     dalvi.mahesh@gmail.com

159. d vandale said,

     September 27, 2007 @ 12:18 pm

     Dear mr. gore
     you sir are an alarmist,trying to frighten people to believe
     your paranoic propoganda.
     The earth is presently in a warming cycle it dosen’t really matter
     what humans or failed poiticians have to say terra firma goes through these cycles every 10- 20,000 years.
     Global warming is one of the biggest deceitful money sucking scams the world has ever seen.
     I suspect you have watched far too many doomsday movies.
     click on link provided.
     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1350746/posts

160. CHAR said,

     September 27, 2007 @ 5:48 pm

     Mr Gore,

     I beg you Sir, PLEASE run for president again. I know you will win.

     Char

161. Joshua said,

     September 27, 2007 @ 6:43 pm

     Mr. Gore,

     Please run in 2008. We need you now more than ever. The time is right, take the opportunity and run with it.

162. d vandale said,

     September 28, 2007 @ 1:22 am

     Looking at annual global temperatures, it is apparent that the last decade shows no warming trend and recent successive annual global temperatures are well within each year’s measurement errors. Statistically the world’s temperature is flat. The world certainly warmed between 1975 and 1998, but in the past 10 years it has not been increasing at the rate it did. No scientist could honestly look at global temperatures over the past decade and see a rising curve. It is undisputed that the sun of the later part of the 20th century was behaving differently from that of the beginning. Its sunspot cycle is stronger and shorter and, technically speaking, its magnetic field leakage is weaker and its cosmic ray shielding effect stronger. So we see that when the sun’s activity was rising, the world warmed. When it peaked in activity in the late 1980s, within a few years global warming stalled.

163. Tomislav said,

     October 1, 2007 @ 8:42 am

     Dear Mr. Al Gore.

     I’m from Croatia, I saw your movie, and bunch others. I don’t know if you will ever read this, I must say it was all obvious long time before. And you are apsolutly right.

     But I have few other questions. You mentioned in movie change of people. People should change … Lots of people know about Global Warming, but thats not enough. What shall we do ? We all know that we need to eat, work … so whats future ? How to prevent big disasters ? I think there is no way !

     If we can’t solve our problems and we know solutions, how will we even think a way to solve BIG solution to question of global warming ? No way. We don’t breath as one we don’t act as one, whole earth is not as 1. Small ppl can watch what they buy, what they eat, dispose and so on, but they can’t change it.

     Ppl in big factories need their job, even if they know about polution they will still need their job.

     Maybe as President of USA, you would be able to do something but still I think it all over, sooner or later, we are going down for all of our mistakes.

     But I’m glad there is someone like you, keep up.

     Ow, 1 more little thing, aldo you do great job, I’m must say this: Dear Gore, you use car, MAC laptop, and rest of technology, what do you think where did that come from ? Sky ? Nope, it cames from big factories biggest reason for polution …

     If you ever read this mail, I would like hear from you. Thanks. Tomislav.

164. Christopher Garcia said,

     October 2, 2007 @ 3:09 pm

     Mr. Gore i would just like to say i recently watch your documentary “An Inconvient Truth” and i feel it was brillant very well done and it is very sad that our goverment is so ignorant to the fact that their more worried about making money then saving our planet. I would like to see you run for president again i believe strongly with your power and how your not ignorant to the fact that our earth needs our help because if not were going to cause damage we can not change and we need to seek alternative fuel sources and not depend on gas.

165. Dr. Mohamed Nagui said,

     October 4, 2007 @ 8:41 pm

     Dear Mr. Al Gore,

     I hope all is well with you. The 7abi Centre, Habi Center for Environmental Rights, is a non governmental organization, established as a non profit civil company.

     The center is interested in environmental issues from the society’s right perspective running its own resources, by participating in the decision making process regarding these resources.

     On November 29th we will be showing your global warming movie, “An Inconvenient Truth,” which aims to call attention to the dangers society faces from climate change, and suggests urgent actions that need to be taken immediately.

     We wish to host you to visit the 7abi Centre for that event to comment on the effect of the “Global Warming” for Egypt, or if thsi is not possibel wiht your work shcuelde, to receive a clip of you talking about this issue.

     Do you think you could help?

     Best regards,

     Mohamed Nagui
     Executive Director
     Habi Center for Environmental Rights
     116 Masr wa Sudan Street Hadayek El Koba
     Cairo, Egypt.
     Tel/Fax: +2 02 682 0615
     www.hcer.org
     email: habi_center1@yahoo.com

166. James Hong said,

     October 4, 2007 @ 9:37 pm

     Dear Mr. Albert Gore Jr,

     You are my personal hero. I have watched your movie on global warming and read your book on ecology.

     I write this message to urge you to run for president in 2008. Even though I am only 14 and below the legal voting age, I write to you on behalf of all of my friends and the future generations of the human species. I believe that you are the only person who as president can change the way Americans think and behave. As president you’ll have the power to set the course of the 21st century toward a lasting peace with nature. You yourself, said in “An Inconvenient Truth” that global warming is a moral issue and it would unethical if we as a species allowed it to continue.

     Your Loyal Suppoter,
     James Hong

167. Michael Iraninejad said,

     October 10, 2007 @ 9:22 pm

     Dear Mr Gore,

     I have just finished reading your book “Earth in the Balance” and I am mentally exhausted. In a nutshell you are abolutely correct in stating that unless we change our ways the future of man kind is in jeopardy. Mr Gore on a different topic, I am sure that many people have already begged you run for the presidency again and so please add my name to this list also. I truly do not think that anyone is more capable than you in changing the path the US has taken during the last 8 years. It may be very hard as there are a lot of special interest groups that may want to prevent you from doing so, but Mr Gore if you dont try now when the momentum is behind you then it will simply lead to another failed election where the final sufferers will not only be the citizens of the world but planet earth itself.

     Kind regards

     Michael Iraninejad

168. Dj said,

     October 11, 2007 @ 9:49 pm

     Here is how gore misleads Americans who DO NOT pay attention to ALL SIDES of an issue1 !!!!!

     “Justice Barton, although conceding that many of the claims made by the film were supported by the weight of scientific evidence, identified the following nine points as troubling:

     # The film claimed that low-lying inhabited Pacific atolls “are being inundated because of anthropogenic global warming,” but there was no evidence of any evacuation occurring.

     # It spoke of global warming “shutting down the ocean conveyor” - the process by which the gulf stream is carried over the north Atlantic to western Europe. The judge said that, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, it was “very unlikely” that the conveyor would shut down in the future, though it might slow down.

     # Gore had also claimed - by ridiculing the opposite view - that two graphs, one plotting a rise in C02 and the other the rise in temperature over a period of 650,000 years, showed “an exact fit.” The judge said although scientists agreed there was a connection, “the two graphs do not establish what Mr. Gore asserts.”

     # Gore said the disappearance of snow on Mt Kilimanjaro was expressly attributable to human-induced climate change. The judge said the consensus was that that could not be established.

     # The drying up of Lake Chad was used as an example of global warming. The judge said: “It is apparently considered to be more likely to result from … population increase, over-grazing and regional climate variability.”

     # Gore ascribed Hurricane Katrina to global warming, but there was “insufficient evidence to show that.”

     # Gore also referred to a study showing that polar bears were being found that had drowned “swimming long distances to find the ice”. The judge said: “The only scientific study that either side before me can find is one which indicates that four polar bears have recently been found drowned because of a storm.”

     # The film said that coral reefs all over the world were bleaching because of global warming and other factors. The judge said separating the impacts of stresses due to climate change from other stresses, such as over-fishing, and pollution, was difficult.”

     gore you are a LIAR and BAG OF WIND….!!!

     GOD Bless America !!!!
     GOD Bless Our Troops !!!!
     GOD Bless George W. Bush !!!!
     GOD Cherish Ronald Reagan !!!!
     GOD Bless the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth !!!!

169. Sandy said,

     October 12, 2007 @ 8:28 am

     Hello,

     I would just like to say that I am thrilled to hear that Al Gore received the Nobel Peace Award. I feel he really deserves such a thing.

     The man got cheated out of becoming President, held his head up high and went on to help this Country much more than the President did. JMO

     I really hope he doesn’t decide to run for President, because I feel he can do much more for this country if he is not President. The President has too many things to deal with to focus on the environment. And the Presidents hands seem to always be tied by Congress no matter what party is in office. When we have someone like Al Gore that is selflessly putting his full efforts into the issue, we cannot ask for more. I believe he is right where he belongs and has found his calling.

     Well deserved award. Congrats Al Gore!

170. Mike said,

     October 12, 2007 @ 10:28 am

     Mr. Gore:
     If you think that you can win the hearts of the People in The USA With your antics. You sir Are sadly mistaken. I thnk that your “GLOBAL WARMING” is a load of crap. HOW CAN YOU EXPLAIUN THE RECORD LOW TEMPERATURES IN THE USA DURING THE WINTER WITH GLOBAL “WARMING”! NOT GLOBAL COOLING!!!!!

171. jane skafte said,

     October 12, 2007 @ 11:36 am

     Mr. Gore, I extend my congratulations on winning the Nobel Prize. I am frankly disgusted by the BBC’s commentary this morning about whether or not the Nobel was “deserved”. I think that Nobels aren’t given by mistake: only the US Presidency is given by mistake. Please keep working for us, your contributions are invaluable.
     Sincerely,
     Jane Skafte

172. Dirk Valk said,

     October 12, 2007 @ 2:54 pm

     Mr. Gore,

     The daily news rarely gives me hope, but today … today is a good day.

     I beg you, sir, to consider the best application of your talent. You were ill-used in 2000 at the hands of a vicious campaign and a faulty electoral process, and your reticence to campaign for office is understandable.

     To effect change in crucial issues we must first understand them in the light of scientific study, and you have played your role in enabling the study of climate change. To effect change, the populace must be convinced of the necessity of change, and through your stunningly effective documentary you have provided a more effective vehicle for education than we could have hoped for. But the final element in effecting change is strong, informed, and accountable leadership; and I am not sure if either of our Democrats can meet the challenge.

     Forty-five years ago, an administration that made great social strides against a backdrop of international fear and conflict was hailed as ‘Camelot’. No administration since has been worthy of that kind of accolade. To truly change the direction of the world we need a new Camelot. We need a new Arthur.

     You sir, with your experience, your intelligence, your attention to detail and your openness to advice — you could bring us to a new Camelot. You could be our new Arthur. We will not save the world with compromise and half-measures. We will save it only with bold, seasoned, charismatic leadership.

     Run.

     Please.

173. chris columby said,

     October 12, 2007 @ 3:02 pm

     Please review the sit above or go to http;//home.mindspring.com/~grapevine
     Baby steps or snails pace movement will not get it . We don’t have the luxury of time to be so procrastinating.
     We need to really get serious and make Giant steps Now and have them spread through out the world.
     If we got serious we could solve our polution problems within a year !
     We would first have to Restrain Political Investors and Oil companies and Auto Companies. We need to Indight them for selling the people a dangerous and Hazardess Product. Also , the Auto Companies have bought -up 200 -300MPG.
     fuel delivery systems for gasoline powered engines in cars. They have INTENTINALLY Withheld them from the public in order to sell 20 -35 MPG. systems to help Oil Companies make More Profits. This Is Criminal to say the Least. It’s Greed and Corruption. and they shopuld be held Liable.
     Someone Like Mr. Gore Or the EPA or a combination of these entities needs to Bring forth the Indightment before Congress. They will Kill Me If I Try To Do It My Self. But you Mr. Gore and the EPA would have protection.
     Please do it soon before it’s too late! you can also visit website -
     http://www.waterpoweredcar.com . It has many links and much vital information.
     Thank you for listening to some very old facts,
     chris

174. Manjit Padawale said,

     October 12, 2007 @ 3:20 pm

     Congratulations for winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

     The Prize has prepared a strong platform for ‘Mankind’s’ fight against global warming. But can the ‘ Auto Manufacturing Industry’ understands our plea??

175. EAS said,

     October 12, 2007 @ 3:26 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     I think it’s great that your creating awareness about global warming. People need to hear the truth. However, I’m wondering if you’re not overlooking something important.

     Factory Farms and Fisheries are one of the major causes for global warming and if global warming is the threat you say it is, why aren’t you a vegetarian?

     Al it’s time to put your money where your mouth is and “be the change” instead always talking about it.

     EAS

     “be the change” from a quote by Ghandi

176. Richard Boyle said,

     October 12, 2007 @ 6:01 pm

     Congratulations on receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. It is an honor well-deserved and I am delighted that you have received it. Should you decide to run for the office of President, you can count on my vote; not only because of your forthright position on global warming, but more importantly for the honesty and integrity which are apparent in the things you say and the things you do. I wish you and your family every blessings.

177. Em Williams said,

     October 12, 2007 @ 6:28 pm

     Dear Mr Gore:

     There are products out there that will help with the “Global Warming” and “Environmental issues”. We need to educate people that these things are there to be used, now.

     Our vision is that we provide people around the world with a product, that helps in the savings of ever-rising fuel costs by increasing the miles per gallon and reducing gasoline usage. By doing so, it also reduces the harmful emissions spewed into the environment by 75% or more. If we do reduce our usage and get more miles to the gallon, that actually cuts down as a nation on the importation of foreign oil, which is a serious issue for our country.

     Visit: www.capitalize.mpgproduct.com

     for more information on reducing your vehicles emissions.

     Thank you.

     Em Williams.

178. Susan said,

     October 12, 2007 @ 7:25 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore: Please check out the afore mentioned URL. The Corp of Engineers and the levee board have plans to cut down all the trees and growth anywhere from 15 to 100 feet near the levees along all rivers and streams and lakes. Just because of the broken levees in New Orleans, they want to do this countrywide. Please contact the webmasters of the Ouachita River site and help us put a stop to this “mandate” before any more dire consequences occur. Not only will they destroy the natural beauty of the river, many historical sites will be altered and / or destroyed for ever. Never to be renewed. Thank you for any help and consideration you can offer. Respectfully

179. Govinda Reinhalter said,

     October 12, 2007 @ 7:59 pm

     I am so very proud of Al Gore - Who else do you know who has won an academy award and Nobel Peace Prize in the same year? He has truly made a difference in educating and informing the world about this very real threat to our earth. It only proves again what one passionate human is capable of doing. And to think just a few years ago, he was laughed out of politics - Now they beg him to return. Don’t go back to that corrupt world Mr. Gore. You have much more power and can effect more change doing just what you are doing. Just look at what has been accomplished already. Many congratulations to you. Govinda Reinhalter

180. John Zuijdveld said,

     October 12, 2007 @ 9:25 pm

     Dear Mr. Al Gore.

     First I would like to congratulate you on your winning along with the IPCC. of the Nobel peace prise, you deserve it for your tireless efforts and because you as a person of quite some fame have taken the risks involved to work for the good of humanity, obviously a big passion for you and bravo to you sir, I have nothing but admiration for you.

     Secondly please do not be disheartened by the ignorant likes of B.J. above, ppl. like that can never learn anything if it means having to make a mental effort or to change their wasteful habits, but to him I say “sir it takes no ignoramus to work out that if you take the fossilised carbonic material [witch happened over millions of yrs!!!] out of the safety of the Earth and burn it, then you inevitably WILL return the planet to the state it was in BEFORE humanity could evolve!!!
     I am 53yrs. and since I was 15or so I have been trying to warn ppl. that the model of Capitalism that we all seem to aspire to is unsustainable, and that we risk making our beautiful planet unfriendly or uninhabitable for us!
     The end result is that unless we can remove the problem we have created [in around only 100yrs. and that means restoring the carbon content in the atmosphere to around 1940’s levels or less] by 2030 or 2050 at the absolute latest! we will not be able to stop the CO2 [presently trapped/dissolved within the “now” cooler oceans] from again being expelled by the oceans as it has in the past, resulting I might add in seas that were 100-300feet deeper!!!. This is the reason that those graphs show that it was after the global temps rose due most likely to sunspot activity, that the carbon levels in the atmosphere rose in the past. BUT it has been clearly demonstrated that in recent times the sun has been relatively quiet as far as sunspots go, so the only conclusion has to be that it is due entirely to something more localised …. guess who??? One could say the planet has a lung problem now.
     One needs to understand that the atmosphere acts as a heat/cold distributor ans as the heat increases at the equator air movements will change in BOTH ways IE: more heat reaches the poles and also more cold tries to reach the equator, THIS is why we are now seeing freezing temps in places that were NEVER in our history that cold, but don’t worry that event won’t happen anymore once the ice packs are gone, then there will be NOTHING to stop the ever increasing heat! Hello! runaway greenhouse here we go!

181. Doug and Sharon Morrisey said,

     October 12, 2007 @ 10:11 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore:

     We are extremely pleased that you have won the distinguished Nobel Peace Prize for 2007. You are more than deserving of the award.

     We also hope that you will choose not to campaign for the United States Presidency in 2008. You are far more valuable to the world as our ambassador dedicated to the sustainability of the planet.

     If you must hold office, then perhaps chair of the United Nations would be more appropriate. That organization will be far more consequential for the future of Earth as a habitable planet over the long duration.

     Again, congratulations! A job exceedingly well done. Thank you.

     Doug and Sharon Morrisey
     Emporia, Kansas

182. Laura Isby said,

     October 12, 2007 @ 10:39 pm

     I am now in eighth grade and last year i had to see your movie on global warming. Half of the facts were oppinions or facts. I can not belive you won the nobel peace prize, that is an insult to real people who won the peace prize by making a real difference in the world.

183. Mario E. Giovanelli said,

     October 13, 2007 @ 11:51 am

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     First of all, I would like to thank you - in the name of any existence on earth - for your full and frank work and I would like to congratulate you on your Oscar and the Nobel Prize for Peace.

     Second I take the liberty to send you this important request:

     My name is Mario E. Giovanelli, I’m an Austrian, living in Vienna and I’m the author of the book, ‘you should SURVIVE - react now’, as well as the initiator and president of the initiatives, ‘HELP - International Organization for Humanity, Ecology, Life & Peace’ (USA) and ‘EPHPO - Environmental Protection, Humanity & Peace’ (EU) and the environmental holding, ‘ABH - Alternative Business Holding Inc.’ (USA).

     Believe it or not, but I really developed a global working solution to avoid the ‘point of no return’ and therefore the ‘global collapse’.

     I’m monitoring the global situation (since the year 2000) very well and I’m 100% sure and claim, that my, respectively the projects and services of HELP, EPHPO and ABH, currently provides the only effective and rational solution for most of the global problems and offers advantages for everyone (both consumers and producers) through the use of numerous benefits.
     Seemingly as an afterthought, my concepts will prevent the threatening ‘global collapse’ and save our planet and the environment.
     Find out more about at: http://www.help-org.org

     To continue in my efforts and to reach best possible results - FOR US ALL - I need the contact to some world-wide well known and trustworthy persons who are already involved or the minimum highly interested in our environmental and human problems, respectively a concrete solution, such as - TOP PRIORITY - YOU, Mr. Gore.

     All I’m expecting from you / asking you for, will not take lots of your time, as well as no special efforts and consists only in a minimum of mentoring, e.g. attendance in global media presentations and live acts and assistance in finding interesting partners and/or futher mentors (scientists, business persons, …) in form of simple recommendations.

     Therefore I’m willing and able to offer you some really interesting, valuable profitable equivalents (returns). To get an idea visit my portal and read about the TRILLION ECO-$ PROJECT (Menu: New & Importan >> HELPs TRILLION ECO-$).

     I’m kindly asking you to get back in thouch with me and to spent only 10 minutes for a private dialogue.

     I’m absolutely sure, that such an interchange of ideas will not only grant effective further help in global environmental protection, it will become the beginning of an interesting and lucrative cooperation with a minimum on efforts but sensational global results.

     I’m writing this comment 4 days before the planned panel discussion, ‘mobile.futuretalk 07′ you have been invited to Vienna, Austria.
     Your abidance in Vienna would hold the unique chance for a private 10-minute face-to-face dialogue.

     We all, headmost you, Mr. Gore, have been informing and warning the world for many years.
     NOW IT’S TIME FOR STRIKING ACTIONS!

     Please contact my at my email address or call me by phone (you will find at our site: ‘About us’) as soon as possible.

     I would be very glad to hear from you and I wish you

     a nice and successful day

     Mario E. Giovanelli
     [President of HELP, EPHPO & ABH]

     P.S.: I sent a similar information to your spokesperson today.

184. Dimanche Yaméogo said,

     October 13, 2007 @ 6:43 pm

     Bonjour son Excellence AL Gore, permettez moi tout d’abord de vous féliciter de votre engagement et de votre mérite! Je suis un jeune Burkinabé, et j’a fondé une association du Nom de association des Artisans de la Nature, pour la protection de l’environnement. Cette année je souhaite organiser des projection débats dans les établissements décondaire de ma ville qui est Koudougou au Burkina Faso. Mon choix est tombé sur votre film documentaire, une vérité qui dérange! Je me rejouis de vos mérites et je vous prends pour idole et référence! Ma volonté va loin car je souhaite que vous envisagez la mise en place d’une fondation Al Gore! Mon contact est: Yaméogo Koudbi Dimanche 01 BP: 4334 Ouagadougou Burkina Faso E-mail: yamdim@yahoo.fr.

185. Doug Stewart said,

     October 16, 2007 @ 10:35 am

     Dear Mr. Gore, et al.,

     I was tempted to save this remark until United Nations Day on October 24, but decided to go ahead and send it a day early.

     The Sun and the earth’s oceans have far more effect on cooling and warming cycles, than does CO2 and it’s relatively small emission when compared to the chemical processes/reactions produced on earth by the Sun and the oceans.

     In the earth’s oxygen/carbon dioxide cycle, an unusual increase in CO2 would act like a large application of plant fertilizer all around the earth, producing visible and measurable growth outside the norm in plants all around the world. This hasn’t happened.

     Because the scientific and political communities were all in a stir 50 years ago, due to perceived global cooling, it’s clear to anyone with a modicum of common sense that this global cooling/warming/cooling/warming is a cyclical process, far beyond the control of puny human beings.

     I feel certain that YOUR personal interest in all this brou-haha, is desire for the money it is already bringing to you, accompanied by power via perhaps a role with the UN or some other international governing body, not to mention the fame. All this is a huge application of political salve in the face of having lost a presidential election.

     However, I do congratulate you on an incredibly opportunistic job of hoodwinking a worldwide public which, for some unknown reason at this point, actually desires to be hoodwinked. They’ve decided to throw away truth and common sense. You are also very good at throwing away truth and common sense when you have opportunity to illogically stir the fires of public opinion in your favor.

     Must be the fine upbringing of a good ol’ Southern Baptist boy!

186. Jennifer Rubin said,

     October 16, 2007 @ 10:33 pm

     Mr Vice President,

     I had an epiphany the other day after reading about the Nobel Peace Prize you and the UN Committee won (congratulations). I felt so strongly and instinctively that you are the only one that can be President - meaning, you are the only one that can do the job, do it well and to put it a bit starkly - “save our country”. The task at hand after the last 6 years of Bush is too great for anyone else. You have the experience, the stature, the intelligence, and respect that will help move our country forward. Please, please consider running.

187. Tony Ng said,

     October 17, 2007 @ 6:19 am

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     You will be the president someday, just not sure when. Who would be more suitable to be the president than the winner of the Nobel Prize in peace? Perhaps today is the day as the people need you the most. You have proven yourself over and over again to be more than a citizen of the world, you have the biggest heart I even known, and you have achieved far more than anyone that I know in such a short time. If you ever need my unconditional help, my family has the best tourist location at Fisherman Wharf in San Francisco with a foot traffic of 4 million unique individuals to display multiple banners for you, and we will do it for free, so go for it.

     Sincerely,

     Tony Ng

188. Alina said,

     October 17, 2007 @ 5:53 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,
     I am very happy about what you have done to protect our environment. I truly hope that America can come together as one body and fight congress and sign the Kyoto Protocal. Thanks for all you are doing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

189. kiwi said,

     October 18, 2007 @ 4:16 pm

     i just watched your movie and i want to help you speak to groups of people. i know im only in high school, but i believe i could help
     Thanks
     kiwi

190. Mac said,

     October 18, 2007 @ 9:41 pm

     AlGore04.com is a grassroots organization and is not affiliated with the wise and honorable Al Gore.

     So why are you dumb asses wasting your time leaving a comment here. Al Gore is not going to see them. Look at the bottom of the page. Yes, scroll down - keep scrolling all the way down. What does it say?

191. Richard Rolloff said,

     October 19, 2007 @ 12:04 pm

     How can the “Global Warming” presentation ignore the population explosion? Our species will breed itself into poverty/oblivion. Look at the root cause, and all factors in the equation.

192. Abby Carrillo said,

     October 21, 2007 @ 9:18 pm

     Hello Mr. Gore,

     I am part of a team that through our university is in case competition. The topic is tax incentives for companies going green. With the knowledge you have on this topic, could you tell us which green product or service is most beneficiary cost-wise? In other words, what can a whole industry do to make the greatest impact for the good of the planet, but is also cost-efficient? “What method gives you the most bang for your buck?” - as we like to say.

     THANK YOU, AND PLEASE HELP!

193. Genesis Mattey said,

     October 23, 2007 @ 11:35 am

     This is in response to Nick Taylor:

     Nick,

     For someone who thinks he’s intelligent, you really should proof-read your writing. First of all, you have some grammatical errors that I’m not going to point out, because it’s not the topic of my response.

     Secondly, reproducing has nothing to do with the environment. I do believe there are many children out there who need homes, and I for one don’t plan on having any children just yet (I’m going to adopt first). However, that doesn’t mean that reproducing is hurting the environment anymore than your older cars. People can and will reproduce in the future because it is a natural part of life. How they raise their children to treat the environment is a different story. I know plenty of environment conscience mothers who have children who recycle, live in environment healthy homes and don’t mind being a “hippie”!

     How people treat their cars is totally different from how they shall treat their children. You’re talking about an inanimate object for Christmas sake! I understand that a car can be like a child, it needs its normal “check-ups” and what not, but substituting a life for a car is just simply pathetic.

     It’s plain and simple Mr. Taylor, people reproduce because their HUMAN. Who would’ve thought! There are other people out there Nick who don’t share the same views as you, and bashing them for “not doing their part” in helping the environment when you’ve got old cars that are polluting our air more than a family with 5 children doesn’t make you seem smart, or aware of global warming. It makes you look like a contradicting hypocrite.

     Well, that’s my two cents. You should be a little more nicer in your posts when you’re talking in general terms, you never know when a 17 year old might stump yah!

     Pleasant day, and good luck with your cars!

     - Genesis
     Member of Project Planet

194. Jakob Halkjaer Brams said,

     October 23, 2007 @ 1:37 pm

     Dear mr. Gore
     I’m a young man from Denmark.

     Currently, we are making project studies in my school class. I am working on a project about global warming. We have studiet a lot of material about the current clima changes and we have notet that there is a lot of discussion about the reasons for the changes in the global climate - whether these are man made or natural.

     I saw your movie “An Inconvenient Truth”, and I think it’s a very interesting movie with a lot of important messages, but we still got a few questions - “What is the most important think a single person can do, if he wan’t to change the future in the righjt direction?”.

195. Teresa Chacon said,

     October 25, 2007 @ 1:30 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore:

     Congratulations on your winning the nobel prize. God Bless You! I am so tired of people questioning whether there really is “global warming”. If they are well informed they could just turn on the tv and see what is happening to our planet. And what person could not be touched by what is happening in the rain forest or even the ice packs. I just wish it was more economical for us working people to go green. I would love to have solar panel on my home but just can’t afford it. Maybe if people realize how benefitial it would be to do away with fossil fuel things like solar panels would be more reasonably priced. Again, congratulations and please keep up the good work.

196. James Coburn said,

     October 26, 2007 @ 12:25 pm

     Dear Al,

     I am extremely grateful to you for your work and the progress you have made in making the global community more aware about climate change. After winning the Nobel Peace Price for your efforts you must be experiencing much joy about your achievements. You do indeed deserve the praise.

     I wish, however, to express my concern about the lack of real action taken around the world in combating climate change. I also wish to warn you that the comfort you now feel in light of such success is a potential trap for the entire human race.

     I believe with great conviction that education and talk is only one small step. It is vital that the next president of the United States is entirely committed to combating global warming. Countries such as China, India and Russia will not do anything until the United States takes the lead.

     Given the fickle nature of politicians and their inherent lack of progressive will, there is absolutely no guarantee that the right action will be taken. Those who seek power value power above all else. They would suffice to merely appear to be taking action. It is sadly more likely that your efforts will amount to very little in real terms.

     The magnitude of the economic reforms necessary are so great that leaders are not prepared to risk their political careers to take action on issues where the benefits will not be seen for years to come. I very much doubt that unless you are the next president, action will not be taken soon enough.

     We cannot leave this up to choice. It is not enough for action to be taken only by individuals and a few ‘ethical’ companies. Company directors hold only their shareholders as top priority. Buying carbon offsets and turning off lights are not enough. Real action must occur at the level of industry with guidance of government. We need to make our economy work for us, not just work for our economy.

     I urge you not to be lulled into a false sense of security about your awards and the praise you are currently receiving. It may also be difficult to jump back into to political frame. But any supporters you may lose by doing so are ultimately not true friends, they are power seekers, determined to throw you off course at the critical time. Your achievements to date are only the precursor for what can really be achieved. Yes you might be disillusioned with the political process and you may not think you are a good campaigner but you have won the hearts and prayers of many. Your campaign is already complete and the political climate is ripe for your final redemption.

     You are an instrument of god. All it takes is a leap of faith. Please do not waste this opportunity.

     Yours Sincerely

     James Coburn

197. Andrea Kuenster said,

     October 26, 2007 @ 3:12 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,
     I have written a childrens book titled Forevergreen. It is about an alternative idea to cutting down Christmas trees, which is getting a live Christmas tree that can be planted when Christmas time is over. I have also written a song to accompany it. I was wondering if you could help me get it published, seeing that nature and the preservation of the earth are near and dear to your heart.
     Thank you for your time, and thanks for all your hard work!
     Andrea Kuenster Marquis
     805 493-2528

198. Matthew R. Workens said,

     October 28, 2007 @ 1:34 am

     To the Honorable Mr. Al Gore, I just wanted to urge you to run for President this coming year. The American people need you. Please help us.

199. james baumert said,

     October 28, 2007 @ 7:43 pm

     after reading your latest book ,attack on reason, I feel It’s mr. al gore’s responsibility to run for president of the US as an independent . He must stop the war in iraq. he must return our constitution to its previous state. he must get rid of the lobyiest from their influence on congress and the house of rep’s. he needs to stop all present trade agreements, and renegotiate a fair and equal trade agrements with the rest of the world.he needs to close our borders to illegal immigration. fine any company or state that hires or becomes a sacturary to illegals (states or cities would loss federal funding) above all he needs to take care of america first -get rid of the bergermisters

200. Cherie Bowman said,

     November 2, 2007 @ 5:52 am

     Yo Al,

     Listen here. Your talk of global warming and its imminent repercussions only brings to mind one question: when you’re traveling the globe, spreading the horrors of mass transit and toxic emissions, I can only ponder one thing - what is the ratio of your air travel in comparison to your bicycling activities? I think this question might once and for all solve the never-ending dinner table discussions as to your true global leanings.

     P.S. Rick wants to know if you want a bike. He can get you a fine one.

201. Stacy said,

     November 3, 2007 @ 7:33 am

     I just wanted to say that I am truly amazed by An Inconvenient Truth. It was a movie that I was interested to see but had just never gotten around to it. I have recently become very involved in the environmental movement on my college campus and as a student body we have been able to switch our entire public transit system to biodiesel, as well as make plans to build LEED certified buildings, create energy audits of buildings, look into placing solar panels on several buildings, and creating recycling centers in each Residence Hall. I think that you documentary should be something every student must watch before graduating from high school. I was moved by it, I had many questions going into the film but as I watched my questions were answered, and it really created a bigger drive within me to DO SOMETHING. I think everyone should watch your film.
     Warmest Regards!

202. Marleen Wintermans said,

     November 4, 2007 @ 7:00 am

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     I’m from Germany and I’m very interested in your work. I also saw your film “an Inconvenient truth” and I was shocked. I never thought that the world is in great danger. I want to say thank you for clear up all the unknowable people. I’ve done things you said in the of the film like writing a letter to the government or writing to newspapers. I hope more people will do something against the climate change. Also congratulations to you for the Nobel Prize! Lots of love,
     Marleen

203. Anand.Khed said,

     November 5, 2007 @ 3:26 am

     Dear Sir,
     I have seen your documentary film on the global issue “Global Warming” and it really moved me and made me to act immediately. People say that its too late to do anything about this issue but i stronlgy say no to it…we can still make a diffrence. Its just that it is instilled in our minds that it cannot be done. I am really hoping that this problem is solved as soon as possible. The consequences are so visible to us that it is very difficult to ignore and we must act immediately.
     Dear Sir, this is my sincere request to you to come down to India and share your thoghts and views about Global Warming and change our peopl’s minds to act immediately upon this. I wish you all the sucess Sir.
     Thank You!!!

204. Hector said,

     November 8, 2007 @ 5:05 pm

     Global warming i snot a religion and Mr Gore is not the pope
     Posted on 11/07/2007 1:18:27 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
     Comments About Global Warming (by John Coleman, founder of The Weather Channel)

     Global Warming
     It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a SCAM. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create in allusion of rapid global warming. Other scientists of the same environmental whacko type jumped into the circle to support and broaden the “research” to further enhance the totally slanted, bogus global warming claims. Their friends in government steered huge research grants their way to keep the movement going. Soon they claimed to be a consensus.

     Environmental extremists, notable politicians among them, then teamed up with movie, media and other liberal, environmentalist journalists to create this wild “scientific” scenario of the civilization threatening environmental consequences from Global Warming unless we adhere to their radical agenda. Now their ridiculous manipulated science has been accepted as fact and become a cornerstone issue for CNN, CBS, NBC, the Democratic Political Party, the Governor of California, school teachers and, in many cases, well informed but very gullible environmental conscientious citizens. Only one reporter at ABC has been allowed to counter the Global Warming frenzy with one 15 minutes documentary segment.

     I do not oppose environmentalism. I do not oppose the political positions of either party. However, Global Warming, ie Climate Change, is not about environmentalism or politics. It is not a religion. It is not something you “believe in.” It is science; the science of meteorology. This is my field of life-long expertise. And I am telling you Global Warming is a non-event, a manufactured crisis and a total scam. I say this knowing you probably won’t believe a me, a mere TV weatherman, challenging a Nobel Prize, Academy Award and Emmy Award winning former Vice President of United States. So be it.

     I have read dozens of scientific papers. I have talked with numerous scientists. I have studied. I have thought about it. I know I am correct. There is no run away climate change. The impact of humans on climate is not catastrophic. Our planet is not in peril. I am incensed by the incredible media glamour, the politically correct silliness and rude dismissal of counter arguments by the high priest of Global Warming.

     In time, a decade or two, the outrageous scam will be obvious. As the temperature rises, polar ice cap melting, coastal flooding and super storm pattern all fail to occur as predicted everyone will come to realize we have been duped. The sky is not falling. And, natural cycles and drifts in climate are as much if not more responsible for any climate changes underway. I strongly believe that the next twenty years are equally as likely to see a cooling trend as they are to see a warming trend.

205. Edward A Knowles said,

     November 11, 2007 @ 1:53 pm

     November 11, 2007
     Dear Mister Gore,

     I am angry because people are putting garbage in the ocean and cutting down trees in the rain forest which scientist use to make medicines for people who are allergic to stuff and need the medicine from the rain forest. I am angry because people are destroying our main oxygen source that helps us breath which is the plants in the ocean and the trees.
     The only way to live longer is to stop polluting the ocean and stop over fishing and stop cutting down trees for no reason.

     What are your plans and how will you fix this problem?

     From,
     Edward A Knowles
     Age 8
     Middlebury, CT

206. Eric Anbergen said,

     November 13, 2007 @ 4:39 pm

     Dear Mr Al Gore,
     I know, I don’t have one chance on thousand that you will read this mail.
     I am engineer, inventor, living in Belgium and having been working on a desalination project since many years.
     Main advantages of this project:
     1) uses mainly the sun as energy source
     2) should produce water for irrigation at 0,3 US$/ cubic meter (1/2 of the price of cheapest current systems (RO))
     3) A prototype allowing exact evaluation could be build for a few ten thousands US$
     4) water for irrigation will become a world concern and source of dangerous conflicts in 2040/2050 (see http://www.unesco.org/water/wwap/wwdr1/table_contents/index.shtml)
     4) my project will be in hands of a multinational group “Bouygues” and its public works subsidery “Colas” very soon… But why not in your hands ?
     5) I should like to speak with you about it… 10 minutes will be sufficient.

207. Joshua said,

     November 13, 2007 @ 6:26 pm

     What does Al Gore think about Ballard Power Systems and Cognex Corp.? Couldn’t these two help in your campain against Carbon emissions?

208. Maggie Keane said,

     November 14, 2007 @ 10:12 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,
     I was watching dancing with the stars and as you may know one of the stars is a racecar driver and I think racecar driving is just adding to global warming. I mean all those cars circling a track 100 times and they aren’t even going some where and they’re just doing it for entertanment. Now I know football and other sports add to global warming too but that’s more because of all the food that has to be prepared for the fans. What do you think? Thank you for your time.

     Maggie Keane age 10

209. Kelly Steedman said,

     November 15, 2007 @ 8:06 am

     Dear Mr. Gore

     I am 16 years of age and I live in South Africa. I have just finished watching ‘The inconvenient Truth’ and I was compelled to write to you and ask what I can do. Our family recycles, we use energy efficient lighting and our school holds big recycling days, yet I still feel that there is more which I can do. I realise that we are the future generation of this world, and if todays generation’s leaders do not want to wake up and make a difference, then I feel it is our responsibility to do so. I am so grateful that an adult has finally made a public statement. My ultimate dream is to climb Mt. Kilamanjaro. But I no longer want to climb it after seeing the damage that it has had to endure. Our planet is beautiful, yet we are wrecking it. There is an Indian Cree Prophet that goes something like this: ‘Only after the last river has dried up, only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last fish has been caught, only then will we realise that money cannot be eaten.’ To me this just summed up what you were trying to say about having a balance between the economy and saving our earth. Please help our generation though. We are only kids, yet we have the biggest responsibility of all.

     Yours sincerely
     Kelly Steedman

210. Javier Carvajal said,

     November 15, 2007 @ 2:54 pm

     Hi Mr Gore,
     I am very worried about the situation in Chile the Project Pascua Lama. They are trying to destroy glaciers to get silver and other minerals.
     Is there something you can do?? Like a presentation or something?
     It would be very bad if they were able to destroy the glaciers.
     You have all of the back up of the young crowd but with emails we can’t do anything. We need big support.

     Thank you for you time. I hope you can answer me.

     Javier Carvajal

211. Louis Koenigsberger said,

     November 16, 2007 @ 9:43 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,
     I’ve just finished viewing your documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” for the first time, and was amazed at the scientific evidence suporting your views. I remember as a child visiting Austria with my father in the mid 1970’s, who was returning for the first time since leaving Europe in 1951. We visited the Gros Glockner which he climbed on his 18th birthday. In order to reach the base of the mountain, it was necessary to cross a glacier. As a young child I recall asking him if it had changed, to which he replied that it was half of what it was in 1949. I’ve not returned since, yet can imagine what it looks like now.
     Anyway, the reason for my note is to ask you a few personal questions. Please note that I do not ask these to embarrass you as they are likely representative of most North Americans.
     I noted that you had travelled to many cities in the US and around the world to deliver your show.
     How did you travel to this engagements?
     I would think by air travel, and motor vehicle, likely a North American vehicle, which according to your documentary are the least fuel efficient vehicles available.
     I also noted that you were not driving a fuel efficient vehicle to the family farm either, as again, it appeared to be a NA manufactured vehicle.
     And, as your family no longer grows tobacco, have you considered replanting these fields with native trees that were once present prior to the land being stripped for agriculture?
     My point is this, for things to truly change, it must change one person at a time. Which means that we, including you and me, must set an example of how we should all be living.
     Just as drinking & driving have gone from socially acceptable in my father’s time to socially unacceptable today, and with smoking going from ashtrays in the offices to bans almost everywhere, it will take the leaders of today to demonstrate the required changes before the masses will follow.
     Please continue your efforts, and thank you for your time.
     Regards,

212. Dr. Sean Barrett said,

     November 17, 2007 @ 11:11 pm

     To the Honorable Mr. Gore,

     I enjoyed your film, as it was informative, concise and addressed issues in a language understandable to the common man.

     However, I believe we are past the point of no return. My theory is that by the time we (meaning the world) reduce CO2 emissions
     on a global scale the damage will be done.

     We have under estimated the current heating potentional of a number of factors, Humans (humans cooking), cattle, Meythal hydrate in the Oceans, being released in quantity, (and will increase as Ocean temps increase) the rest of the developing world, the increase in open Ocean in the artic, and the systematic destruction of forests around the globe. When all of these are taken into account then and only then will we have a predictable timeline of the ocean level increases.

     I am predicting that the Global sea levels will rise by 2015 at least 23 feet. This loss of coastal habitat will cause great economic distress to many countries. As the heat levels rise in the temp zones, long term draughts will ravage our farm belts (US) as it will the rest of the world. This will cause famine, wars, conflicts, lawlessness on a scale never before seen in Human history.

     My suggestion is to tell the scientists to come up with a way that we could cool the planet (especially the artic regions)
     Because if we don’t we are looking at the end of our civilization as we know it.

213. davor pavlin said,

     November 18, 2007 @ 6:56 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore!
     I congratulate You for Nobel Prize.
     But I bag You to take a look on Internet at Google “water car” and “free energy” It will show You how we can solve problems of energy and ecology. Research it and tell the World about it as You know it. Get another Nobel Prize.
     Thank You
     Davor Pavlin
     Croatia

214. Sekou Conde said,

     November 19, 2007 @ 1:39 pm

     Hello Mr Gore ,

     I hope you can read this message and see what i can do to say i care .In fact ,I have some work on global warmimg and need you r hand to publish in the some of the world best known environmental journal .

     Hope to read you soon,

     Sekou Conde

215. Terry Moore said,

     November 26, 2007 @ 9:49 am

     Thinking about global warming , reminds me of what grandma always would say, “More ice in the ice box the colder the milk”…We pipe oil from Alaska , Why can’t we pipe water North ? Pumping enough water Just 10,000 gallons an hour…(it has to freeze).. which could increse size of polar caps by..?? Enough suply could regulate the water temp.,less storms,water rising,,”More ICE in the ICEBOX” Terry Moore

216. Charles Prichard said,

     November 27, 2007 @ 3:19 pm

     Numbers Don’t Lie

     380 KW / gallon of gasoline

     At 25% efficiency, we waste 285 kilowatts of energy in each gallon consumed.

     That does not include mechanical conversion and its associated losses.

     Electric cars require about 1 kilowatt to travel a mile of distance.

     If the average mileage for internal combustion vehicles is 25 miles per gallon, they require fully 3.8 kilowatts per mile. New 2007 Toyota hybrids averaging 48 miles per gallon are about half as efficient as the first electric vehicles that were on the road as early as 1890.

     These are facts.

     The energy required to travel 36 miles round trip to get your hair done at 18 miles per gallon is 5.27 kilowatts per mile. The haircut will require burning 4 gallons of gasoline of which fully 3 gallons will be wasted in conversion. The haircut requires 1,520 kilowatts for YOUR transportation. That is reality.

     Using an electric car at 1 kilowatt per mile represents energy savings of about 1,400 kilowatts or 92 percent.

     These are the numbers that American need to understand.

     Regulation and Rationing is ugently necessary.

     -

217. Ken Wilson said,

     December 10, 2007 @ 11:14 am

     Here is Paul Krugman’s column from the NY Times. It gives one the information to respond to people who repeat the lie that Al Gore claimed to have invented the internet.

     December 9, 2007
     Al Gore and the Internet
     Paul Krugman

     To this day people repeat the lie that Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet. Chris Matthews did it just a couple of weeks ago.

     Al Gore, he’s the one who said he created the Internet.

     Meanwhile, the reality is that Gore played a crucial role in the Internet’s creation:

     IN the 2000 election, Al Gore, then the vice president, was derided by opponents who claimed that he had said he “created” the Internet. But many of the scientists, engineers and technology executives who gathered here to celebrate the Web’s birth say he played a crucial role in its development, and they expressed bitterness that his vision had been so discredited.

     Mr. Gore had been instrumental in introducing legislation, beginning in 1988, to finance what he originally called a “national data highway.”

     “Our corporations are not taking advantage of high-performance computing to enhance their productivity,” Mr. Gore, then a senator, said in an interview at the time. “With greater access to supercomputers, virtually every business in America could achieve tremendous gains.”

     Ultimately, in 1991, his bill to create a National Research and Education Network did pass. Funded by the National Science Foundation, it was instrumental in upgrading the speed of the academic and scientific network backbone leading up to the commercialized Internet.

     “He is a hero in this field,” said Lawrence H. Landweber, a computer scientist at the University of Wisconsin who in 1980 made the pioneering decision to use the basic TCP/IP Internet protocol for CSNET, an academic network that preceded NSFnet and laid the foundation for “internetworking.”

218. Bob Drake said,

     December 10, 2007 @ 8:07 pm

     read the article written by Elizabeth Salemme in Time magazine and sympathize with the issue of excessive energy consumption by electric clothes dryers.

     Interestingly if you go to any appliance store or washer / dryer appliance manufacturer you will find copious Energy Star ratings 7 data on all the washing machines but none on dryers . There are no dryers that have an Energy Star rating and that is because they are so inefficient and such huge consumers of electricity.

     As you know electric clothes dryers are basically large rotating toasters. The only accommodation that the manufactures have done is to add moisture sensors to tell when the clothes are dry. But in most cases the home owner turns on the dryer for 1 hr no matter what is in it .
     Why do I bring this up? There is a proven solution and although a clothes line is the most efficient it may not be practicable for most of the population because of urban living conditions and the fact that most people do not want the unsightly display of everyone under wear.

     I have been working for a number of years with a European company that developed and sold thousands of Heat pump clothes dryers that use 50-60% less energy and 60 % less demand. It is called ECODRY .The proven concept uses a Refrigeration compressor to generate heat and circulates it in a traditional dryer drum. These is no electrical coil.

     This small company could nor compete with the appliance giants who have no interest in energy saving dryers . They sell all that they can produce of the rotating toaster design.

     Being a skeptic applied for and received a research grant from my local utility (LIPA) and with the cooperation of the NYIT engineering dept confirmed the claims of this heat pump design. We also received approval from DOE and had an independent US lab (ETL) certify the results.

     Great success story except the European ran out of fund and support and the product is now looking for a new home in the US. or China , which will become the largest consumer of these appliances and the single highest consumer of energy.

     I can send you data an reports if you are interested. I know this is a good idea and have proven it.
     Let me know what you think

     Best Regards,
     Bob Drake

219. Morrell said,

     December 11, 2007 @ 12:42 am

     I was not smart person when it came to global warming, but I was able to research this topic and using multiple resources. Personally I believe in global warming but the facts do not show that it is man made. It is the sun that has a solar cycle that is responsible. My question is how can CO2 gas, which makes up 0.03% of the atmosphere, have more influence than the sun or water vapor?

     Global warming is not a hoax, but it is caused by the big ball of fire we see in the daytime…..the sun!

     Here is a site that includes water vapor in the equation:

     http://mysite.verizon.net/mhieb/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html

     A must see film is “The Great Global Warming Swindle”.

     Morrell

220. Ms. Anneli M. Sumen said,

     December 12, 2007 @ 6:27 am

     Dear Mr. Gore:

     I would like to compliment you on your speach to the Swedish Riksdag on Wednesday December 12th, 2007. I cannot express in words how impressed I was by both the contents of your speach, as well as by the passion with which you spoke.

     I have heard you speak on previous occations and know that you are an excellent speaker. You appear very knowledgeable on climate issues, and it was touching to see you speak directly from your heart without often referring to written notes. I was especially touched by your words that our local problems have a global effect.

     I was also horrified to learn that with a 1-meter increase in sea levels we would have 100 million climate refugees, and that we might have less than 10 years to turn our destructive behaviour around. I had already begun act more environmentally friendly, but your words have inspired me to seek more information on how to lessen my wear on the climate.

     I rarely write letters to the leaders of our world, but I feel the issue of climate change is far too important to ignore. You are truly a leader of our world, and I belive you can do more good as a spokes person for the climate than as a politician in the United States. I wish you all success.

     Sincerely,
     Ms. Anneli M. Sumen,
     Sweden

221. Jan Statman said,

     December 13, 2007 @ 10:23 am

     Have you looked in your mail lately? Are there catalogues that you DID not order? We all get them and what do 99% of us do with them? Throw them in the trash in disgust and say “How did I get on that list?”
     I’m doing something about it and have been for months. I’ve written to most of the people I have in my address book and asked them to call the companies that send these out and cancel the subscription to them, then if they need to buy from these catalogues, do it online. I have also suggested to each catalogue that I have cancelled, that they be environmentally conscious and give people their web sites and the option to NOT get a paper catalogue.
     With my friends and business associates I’ve told them that they can help save the following:
     Cutting down trees to make catalogues;
     Cost of electricity to make the paper, print the catalogues;
     Less chemicals in the environment because less ink and chemicals are used in making the paper and printing on it;
     Less waste in land fills from old catalogues;
     Less for the postman to carry which leads to less gas used because they have less to carry;
     Less gas used by vehicles in the land fills.
     There are many more reasons not to continue with these catalogues, there is no reason that we cannot go online to buy things from these catalogues. I’m sure that these catalogues amount to many thousands of pounds of waste and many cubic feet of waste that could be saved for other things. I would guess that to date we have cancelled at least 15-20 catalogues, of which we have asked for 2-3. Each time I call I ask them to take us off the list of every catalogue they produce.
     I have never spoken to anyone who has done this. I think it is an important way to help save the Earth and the animals and other life that live on it.
     Sincerely,
     Jan Statman

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222. Catherine Besonen said,

     December 14, 2007 @ 5:41 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     I don’t agree with you regarding Global Warming. You and I are both entitled to our opinion and I respect your right to speak your mind on this subject. However, you lose all my respect when you denigrate our great country on foreign soil. If you were an honorable American, you wouldn’t fall into Bill Clinton’s steps and receive foreign applause at the expense of the country who gives you this very freedom of free speech. I expected more from you.

223. Branka said,

     December 18, 2007 @ 7:34 am

     Dear Mr Gore,

     run for the presidency and win it and make a difference. It is the harder path to follow, but if you can pull it through you can truly, truly make a difference. I know that that would make you less popular, that your opponents would direct all their powers in destroying you while now they do not because they do not perceive you as a real threat. I know that it is the far riskier, less rewarding, more dangerous path. But it is also a chance for you to truly make a difference and put into action what you are saying should be done

224. Bob Montgomery said,

     December 18, 2007 @ 2:36 pm

     What are your feelings on the DOE’s Futuregen project? I have land near where it’s going to be built and have concernes. How would the site be cleand up if the experiment fails?
     How much energy would be produced if we built wind turbines and solar panels instead?
     Seems like a terable idea to inject pollution into the ground instead of the atmosphere.

225. vishal said,

     December 18, 2007 @ 11:27 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore.

     I had watch the inconvenient truth and it is amazing, though I ride to my university daily as it is impossible to cycle in Jakarta, Indonesia. How ever I had done some electricity saving and I’m trying to adopt a more fuel efficient riding and trying to walk around for short trip.
     I had a suggestion, as it would take time for the world to developed a policy on fighting global warming, you could to make a suggestion to all the country that were there in the Bali meeting to broadcast the ‘inconvenient truth’ at least twice. Further more by doing this at least we could create a global awareness on the fact of global warming. This would really help us to fight global warming and finally when all the nation had agree upon a policy (which wont come in short time), the world can start to work on it right away.

     Thank you for your attention.

226. Michel Briand said,

     December 19, 2007 @ 6:38 am

     Dear Mr. Gore

     Im Michel, me and 3 other stundens from denmark have a report about Global warming. We have some questions for you, and we would like it if you would like to answer?

     1. What can we do against global warming?

     2. Why did you make your movie “An Inconvenient Truth” ?

227. Mary Heaney said,

     December 19, 2007 @ 11:42 am

     YOU are the HERO ! I could not help but think this upon reading Patrick Heaney’s debut novel “Living The Fall”
     (www.tapiolapublishing.com) because the theme is the global catastrophe which will result from global warming due to our disastrous alienation from Nature - and the ONE person -the HERO -who sees what is happening and brings this message to society so that the world can be created anew.
     Heaney, because he is articles editor for Law Journal , was also instrumental in bringing a symposium on environmental law to St Thomas University School of Law , Minneapolis, MN.

228. Mary Heaney said,

     December 20, 2007 @ 8:09 pm

     You ARE STILL the HERO !!! See above comments

229. Patricia L. Frick said,

     December 22, 2007 @ 8:44 am

     Respected Al Gore, Greetings from Puducherry, South India!
     Below I send you a copy of the letter I just posted to CNN about their Future Summit program with Richard Quest, to express to you some thoughts I have had for quite some time about the environmental problem.
     “Today I watched the CNN Future Summit Forum from Singapore and wondered why there is no talk of using filters — on everything from motor vehicles to industries to aircraft to nuclear power stations to space ships! It seems to me this would be a relatively low cost solution adaptable everywhere, but especially in a place like where I live in South India. If the autorickshaws, taxis, buses and lorries had these devices, as well as the industries, like food plants, I feel things would shape up on the ground in short order. If they would be made mandatory, like license plates, and also required in manufacture, somebody, like the tech-oriented Bjorn from Denmark could make some money producing and selling them and the Indian lady would be satisfied that carbon emissions are reduced. Of course, education is also needed, but if movie stars in India, for example, would come out in favor of these things and also encourage children and adults to get interested in keeping things and streets clean, (and not to smoke or burn rubbish, esp. plastics) then children esp. could feel it is fun and do it. Let’s be simple and practical and first implement what will work at the grass-roots level. it can and must be done because CLEANLINESS IS THE FIRST INDISPENSBLE STEP TO THE MANIFESTATION OF THE TRUTH. And Truth will bring Peace and Harmony. It can be done and it will be done.
     Thank you and God bless us all for the Best Holiday Season ever ,”

     I want to express my deep thanks and admiration for your work and your calm persistence! I wonder if you might put in a blurb in your talks also against smoking, as that can be a polluter of half a block on the streets here! I think your word on that would go far since your family repented of their involvement in it!
     I feel you are a Great Servant of Truth and I thank God for you and Tipper. On to the Total Victory! by God’s Grace !
     Affectionately,
     aspiring for SELF-PERFECTION AND ALL-PERFECTION! ~ patti

230. Mike Marko said,

     December 26, 2007 @ 5:24 pm

     Greetings,

     The following is a letter I wrote to the Secretary of the Department of Energy:

     I am located in Southern California. I perceive that the time is right to develop a small business in the local area offering homeowners Solar and Wind Energy options to be installed in their homes. With gasoline in our area at $3.50 a gallon, and the outlook that it will only be increasing, home energy production will be a more financially viable option than it has been previously. Factor in the decreasing costs of Photovoltaic and Wind-powered units, and it seems clear that the such a business would be a good thing to start.

     I live in Big Bear City, California (elevation of 6500′) above sea level. Strong sunlight is one of our best natural resources here. In fact, we even have a Solar Observatory out on the lake because of the high number of days of clear skies. It is a prime candidate for developing photovoltaic array installations on individual homes.

     Just to the North of us, lies the High-Desert where 20 Knot winds are reliably constant. There are many commercial wind farms in the high desert areas which surround the mountain area I live in. They are a short drive away, and there are a number of homes in these high-desert areas who already have wind-energy plants functioning on their property.

     Unfortunately, there are few businesses within a 150 mile radius to serve the public installing such systems. The closest one, quotes $30,000 to install a wind generator that can be bought new on Ebay for $7,500, and can be installed for under $5,000 more. This guy doesn’t return phone calls, and evidently doesn’t even know his trade very well, based on information I learned from one of his customers.

     It was this customer who approached me and asked me why I didn’t consider abandoning flying (burning a LOT of fuel, and contributing to global warming) and instead, open a business that helped to REVERSE the process a bit.

     It is truly a great idea, but unfortunately, 2 years ago I had to close down my otherwise successful Jet Charter business, because a business partner had embezzled $750,000 from the company. I lost everything. Now, I find myself among a growing number of Americans who are barely able to survive, let alone start a business — one desperately needed by the local community — that can actually do the planet some good.

     Hence, my question to you:

     Are there any programs or grants available from the Department of Energy available to the Common Man, that can enable the creation of small businesses devoted to alternative energy development?

     I have the education and skills (except perhaps, recognizing a crooked business partner in time…) to develop a successful business, and I recognize the need of the community, and am ready to step forward and do the work. Unfortunately, without some financial assistance, I will not be able to make it a reality.

     Instead, I’ll have to continue flying — which seems entirely the WRONG direction to go — as it exacerbates the problem, rather than working towards a solution in the long-term. We might be able to accomplish far more with energy independence, if we can provide the means for enterprising individuals to abandon their existing energy-consumptive jobs and professions, in pursuit of energy-creating or efficiency-improving lines of work or professions.

     Am I making some sense here?

     Please let me know if perhaps the DOE has any programs, either by itself, or in cooperation with other agencies, that might help me to be able to help out my community, by creating a business (and employment for others) in the energy-creation business.

     It seems to me that every worker who is induced to leave a job that wastes energy — in favor of taking employment in energy-production — causes a DOUBLE benefit for the environment.

     If you don’t presently have any programs that would be of assistance to me in my quest. Would you consider possibly proposing one for the reasons and benefits that I articulate? It might not be of any personal assistance to me, but I bet our Country and the Planet would find them a worthy manner to expend Federal Funds.

     Thank you for your time.

     Mike Marko
     Big Bear City, California.

231. Jamesie Alariaq said,

     December 27, 2007 @ 1:00 pm

     Man made Global Warming A.K.A. Climate Change is a farce in my opinion. The climate changes from day to day, from month to month, from year to year from century to century. The climate has been changing since the beginning of time, since the beginning of man kind and we are still here today.

     The real problem we are facing today in my opinion is pollution. If we keep on polluting our planet the way we are today man kind will be done for. Not because the climate is changing but because the air we breathe will be too polluted to breathe, the water we drink will be too toxic to drink and wildlife and vegetation we eat will be too contaminated to eat.

     Get with the real program, man made pollution is the real issue!

232. Tim Norman said,

     December 31, 2007 @ 12:05 pm

     Dear Al Gore,
     First let me say I commend you on your extraordinary efforts in stopping global warming. This is an uphill battle to put it mildly. Corporate greed is a strong advisary especially when the present administration is corporate based. The Bush administration is about to deliver another blow. Here in the Pacific Northwest, we are blessed to live among some of the most beautiful forests on earth. These forests and roadless areas are presently protected from the timber industry but the injunctions are in jeapordy. The Bush administration plans on lifting these injunctions so they can proceed in selling off our resources because they need money to continue to fund this war. I don’t need to tell you how important trees are to our atmosphere. Trees are our most efficient source of oxygen. Our forests are only 30% of what they were 50 years ago. This is WITH the injunctions in place. If these injunctions are lifted, that 30% won’t last long. I might sound extreme but I remember the famous “Black Forest” of Europe which is now just a memory. The timber corporation didn’t care about history there. They don’t care about our environment here either. If you are truly trying to stop this progression, please help us in stopping the insanity. We need to protect our nation’s forests for our air, first and foremost, our heritage, and for fellow living things that share this planet with us.

233. David B. said,

     December 31, 2007 @ 1:22 pm

     We hear so much about Global Warming these days. Why are not more people debating what type of impact the underground coal fire at Centralia, Pennsylvania might have on global warming? I was just reminded that it has been burning since the 1960’s and is expected to continue (non-stop) for another 250 years! You talk about cars being a problem…that fire seems to be the ‘odd uncle’ that nobody seems to talk about anymore!

     Just curious,

     Dave

234. JAAFAR BOUZOMITA said,

     January 4, 2008 @ 5:08 am

     Dear Mr Gore;
     I would like to know what you could propose as a support for me to create “Al Gore Center for environment protection” in a my city to sensibilize the people and be active to reduce pollution and protect environment.

     Thank you for your time
     JAAFAR BOUZOMITA

235. Carolyn Russo said,

     January 5, 2008 @ 12:52 am

     Dear Mr. Gore,
     I believe we need to address the terrible situation with regard to our food and the chemical companies (ie Monsanto). Would you please view this. You could be the one to bring about change here.
     Thank you
     http://www.mercola.com/future-of-food

236. Cailey Metcalf, Mackenzie Pierce, Jordan Chester and Kendyl VanHout said,

     January 8, 2008 @ 1:18 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     We are doing a project on Air Pollution for our school. If it is humidly possible, we would like to ask you a few questions about what we can do as students to help prevent Air Pollution and Global Warming.

     Yours most sincerely,
     Micailey Metcalf, Kendyl VanHout, Mackenzie Pierce and Jordan Chester

237. Micailey Metcalf, Mackenzie Pierce, Kendyl VanHout and Jordan Chester said,

     January 8, 2008 @ 2:43 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     We are doing a project on air pollution for our school and we were hoping that maybe we could interview you over email, on the phone or even possibly in person. It would really mean a lot to us if you could email us at keekeecrash@gmail.com.

     Yours sincerely,
     Micailey Metcalf, Kendyl VanHout, Mackenzie Pierce and Jordan Chester

     Thank you!

238. Sang Lee said,

     January 8, 2008 @ 6:06 pm

     Where can we get a video for the film that you made? My kids want to present this at his elementary school for proteciton of nature.

     Regards,
     Sang

239. Nancy Matera said,

     January 8, 2008 @ 6:18 pm

     I have just a simple question - if we’re so concerned about going Green, why are certain states exempt from recycling? I live in New Jersey and recycle EVERYTHING. My relatives in MA can chose whether they want to recycle or not, so when I visit there, I cringe everytime I throw a can or jar into their trash. We all really need to be on the same page if it’s going to work.

     Thanks,

     Nancy

240. Jill Benezra said,

     January 10, 2008 @ 1:53 pm

     With hopes that the Al Gore endorsement will come soon.
     Barack Obama can make all the difference as Al Gore leads to save our physical world. Al Gore backing Barack Obama holds enormous promise.

241. josiane charlet said,

     January 10, 2008 @ 5:33 pm

     Cher Monsieur Al Gore

     Tout d’abord je vous demande de bien vouloir m’excuser pour l’utilisation du français dans ce courrier, je vis en france et je suis très mauvaise en anglais. Ma fille Mathilde 14 ans, a été très touchée par votre film et souhaite sensibiliser les habitants de notre ville au réchauffement climatique en organisant une conférence débat pour une cinquantaine de personne à partir de ce film. C’est une manifestation gratuite qui ne lui rapportera aucun bénéfice. Elle vous demande l’autorisation de projeter ce film.
     Cette manifestation devrait se dérouler à Fenain dans le nord de la France le samedi 23 février 2008.
     Consentez vous à ce qu’elle réalise son projet grâce à la projection gratuite de votre film ?

     Merci beaucoup pour votre oeuvre

242. Maggie McCarley and Colleen Clifford said,

     January 11, 2008 @ 8:04 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,
     we are freshman in high school and we would really appreciate it if you would come and make a speech at our school about global warming becuase we are doing a comunitty action project and about it and we really care about the issue. We wouldn’t be able to pay you very much but we would do a fund raiser to pay you something. Please e-mail me at my email adress above
     thanks so much!

243. josiane charlet said,

     January 12, 2008 @ 2:27 pm

     Dear Mr Al Gore,
     We are French and we live in the North of France. We saw your movie, and my daughter, 14 years old, has been really impressed. she would like to make the inhabitants of our town sensitive to Global Warming : she plans a conference based on your movie in our town on February, the 23. The conference is free, non profit-making.
     Would you agree to her projecting your movie during that conference?
     Thanks for your work

244. Randy L Averitte said,

     January 14, 2008 @ 2:06 am

     I have the answer. It came to m in a dream and I know that it is the solution. I’m just a 34 year old Tennessean with ideas that will boggle your mind. I have submitted my contact information and I am just waitng to here from Al Gore. All I need is a moment of your time.

     Thanks for everything you have done and will do for the environment,
     Randy L. Averitte

245. Ted said,

     January 16, 2008 @ 11:13 pm

     Dear Al,

     Please take this test:

     http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/GlobWarmTest/start.html

     I’m guessing you’ll score, hmmm I dunno, 0.

246. Ted said,

     January 16, 2008 @ 11:15 pm

     Dear Al,

     Please take this test:

     http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/GlobWarmTest/start.html

     I’m guessing you’ll score, hmmm I dunno, 0.

247. Daryl said,

     January 21, 2008 @ 9:32 pm

     Mr. Gore, you notice no great and honorable with your name. Can’t you find a real job? How can you explain away warmest temperatures were in the 1930s’ and cooling down in 1970s’? You can’t. Now your camp says that all of the snow fall and icy mid- West is all part global warming also. If the sky is falling for everybody, because of your propaganda, there is truly not a damn thing you can do about it. When I was a 10 year old boy Roseburg, OR had 3 feet of snow fall and our elevation is only @350 above sea level. Damn, how did that slip by the CO2? Do you know that CO2 is actually one of the lesser gases in the atmosphere? I would place money on you agreeing that Y2K was a sure threat. 2000 rolled on by but so many people, as yourself just knew that man made computers would not recognize it. Global warming ought to keep you in the public eye for the rest of your life, I, for one, believe that is your’e true venue anyway. Sorry about your loss in the run for president. You were very childish in that loss too. Do you still see hanging chads in your sleep? Grow up and stop puttting all of that CO2 in the air for a flight to another area to spread your,,I won’t say it.

248. Bob Higgins said,

     January 24, 2008 @ 9:16 pm

     Good God Al, Are you going to just sit back and watch Bill and Hill crush Obama with their ruthless distortions. We need your help. He needs that endorsement. Before it’s too late. You’ve never let your country down before and I trust you won’t this time. Thanks for your extraordinary service. Bob

249. Jenna said,

     January 31, 2008 @ 8:05 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     My name is Jenna, I am a 7th grader. We have this project called personal projects. I chose to do mine on global warming because this issue greatly concerns me. This project is a huge part of my grade. I watched your movie and found it amazing. The information awed me. This planet needs help. And i am prepared to do something about it. Your information would be excellent! For my project we are writing letter to someone who is expert at our topics. I decided to write to you. Your intelligence is key. I hope you can help. My project is due Mid-March. Even sending me some information would be greatly appreciated. Im very interesting in rising of the seas, temerature, and the earth. I will be writing a letter from my school adress so you will hear of me again. you are one of my greatest heroes. I understand your busy. If you do not respond it’s okay. I hope even one day to meet you. I am just a 13 year old girl concerned about our earths environment seeking facts.

     Sincerely,
     Jenna.

250. Casey Steinman said,

     February 1, 2008 @ 12:46 am

     Mr. Gore

     I have recently learned that it takes nearly 200 gallons of water to wash one car. I have found a product that uses waterless technology. It is called ultraluster.com/904. It is the most amazing product I have ever been introduced to. I am a college student and I’m currently trying to start a program at school to educated people of such alternatives. Please take the time to read it. Thank you kindly.

251. Tony Bianchino said,

     February 2, 2008 @ 10:01 am

     Al,

     Although I was not a supporter in your 2000 presidential bid, I am absolutely a supporter now. Your work in raising the awareness of global warming shows how a true leader can affect change despite a difficult loss (in the presidential election).

     The fact that you pushed ahead on another major initiative of such tremendous social and environmental impact demonstrates the ability of a man to move forward and continue to be a leader on world issues.

     I applaud and commend you for continuing your career of contributing to society and dedicating your life to better mankind - and the world in which we live.

     You have my unwavering support in any endeavor on which you choose to embark in the future… including leader of the free world. Best wishes and warmest regards.

252. kathryn said,

     February 4, 2008 @ 12:44 am

     I just wanted to ask you to endorse Hillary Clinton… We love you Al and all that you are doing for our environment.

253. Raymond Wongr said,

     February 6, 2008 @ 11:26 pm

     Mr. Al Gore,
     Chairman of the Board
     The Alliance of Climate Protection

     Dear Sir,

     I have invented a completely new kind of Alternative Power Generating Device with these outstanding features as follows: -

     1) Capable of generating Power at virtually any location where there is water or could be made available – a hydro-hybrid power generating device – recycles the water over and over again – therefore it is unlike a hydro dam where there is a requirement for a constant flow of water from a higher level to a lower level
     2) The energy source is renewable, sustainable and green - water
     3) The device is capable of generating power at a constant and steady rate round the clock irregardless of virtually any weather conditions
     4) The device could be designed to generate virtually any volume of power
     5) It is a very cost effective method of power generation
     6) It requires virtually no maintenance

     The Hydro-hybrid Power Generation Device has the real potential to become the Main Stream power generation technology in this Millennium.

     Climate Change will be greatly minimized if the world embraces this new and exciting technology in power generation that requires no fuel of any kind. It will have minimum impact if any to the environment. All this may sound just too good to be true and difficult for anyone to comprehend that the above stated are achievable with the Hydro-hybrid Power Generation Technology.

     Please take the initiative to meet me for a carefully prepared PowerPoint Presentation that will illustrate the various aspects of technologies in the device and how it works. I would also to answer any question or questions that may arise.

     In the meanwhile, please find the Abstract and the Objectives of the Invention – “Hydro-hybrid Power Generation Device” for your kind perusal. Enclosed herewith is a preview of the Hydro-Hybrid Device. Any further disclosure of the technology will only be available on a confidential basis in a face-to-face meeting with you or your representative.

     Looking forward to hear from you soon to form a possible alliance on Climate Protection. You will not be disappointed as the technologies will assist you, Sir, to achieve most if not all your goals on Climate Change.

     Yours sincerely,

     Raymond Wong
     Inventor
     Malaysia

254. Walt in PA said,

     February 7, 2008 @ 8:22 pm

     Al Gore, you are a coward. How is it that everyone else in this country but you knows that you would have been… and still would be the best leader of the century?? If you are truly this much of a coward that you can’t come back and do what you started, then you had no business running for president in the first place. What excuses do you possibly make to your own concience to justify running away from the presidency? Shame on you for abandoning your country. You are the reason you lost the 2000 race. Had you simply stood up and told the country that you did not condone what Clinton did, but that you simply continued to do your job as you were sworn to do, you could have disassociated yourself from the man who brought you down. Everyone voted opposite from Clinton. Had you presented yourself as opposite, you would have clearly won. Get a perspective, man. Get a spine and come finish what you started and lead this country. Everyone constantly talks about how much they want you to win even now, but you refuse to hear it. You are one mixed up fellow. Get it together.

255. maddie geiman said,

     February 10, 2008 @ 8:01 pm

     hi i am 13 yrs old and i think i’ve got something for economists. an increase of sunspots might be an answer to global warming. i can understand that i am only just a 13 yr old but i strongly believe that this might be the answer to global warming and would appreciate it if they thought of this because its has to do with tempurature.

256. Michelle Lev said,

     February 13, 2008 @ 5:32 pm

     Mr. Gore,

     I first want to say, “hello”. I have much respect for you and the good you are doing for “Man Kind”. This is my first time contacting a former Vice-President of the United States.

     I am writing you to “thank you” in bringing “global warming” to the forefront to everyone, especially in the political forum.

     When you were running against George W. Bush, my vote was for you.

     Now, it is coming down to the wire in deciding the Democrat Candidate. As you well know the stats, Barack Obama is leading. I was wondering, if and who you would endorse?

     As for myself, I feel “Barack Obama” would be best for our Country.

     Thank you for your time.

     God Bless,

     Michelle

     I appreciate your time.

257. Randy said,

     February 14, 2008 @ 8:32 pm

     Al
     I have no way to send you a personal e-mail so I posted this hear and I hope you will find it, although by allowing anyone to read this posses a large threat to me for by telling you what I need to tell you will endanger my life.
     I think god has givin me the technolagy that I have, although its so simple and has been around for such a long time there are no equasions to figure this out its been right in front of our eyes the hole time. the technology I have will immedetly put a large impact on global warming and allow us to travel possibley at the speed of light and travel for infinity which will take space travel into a new evelotion as well as our own personal travel, this technology will also end some of the war thats going on. with this technology I’m able to power cars, boats, planes, space craft and even flying saucers with out having engines to power them, and also able to travel at speeds we’ve never seen before.
     I’m not looking to be involved in the harnesing of this techniology although I am able to do so, it posses great threat to me, I only wish to sell it and have some one else take the credibility, and leave me out of it.
     From what I understant from the messages from god is that we have 4 years to fully implement this technology or the world will change and a new world will begin the 5th world due to our own destruction. Believe it or not I’m not even a relgious person but we can all see whats going on here so I truly believe this. get back to me please so we can begin to discuss this , its so simple it would take me less then 20 min to explain the technology. I would be able to sell this technology to any car manufacturer or engine manufacturer or air line very easyily but I think it needs to go to the right hands…

258. Randy said,

     February 14, 2008 @ 8:56 pm

     al
     would you kindly contact me as i’ve got the technology to stop global warming as well as war over oil and gas, although I risk my life by even posting this. this technology will will allow us to travel at speeds we would never imagined before for an infinate amount of time allowing us to explore areas of the universe weve never seen, weve got only 4 years for this technology to be implemented or the new world will begin the 5th world due to our destuction. I will wait 10 days for a responce then procced to sellining it to arirlines, car manufactures, and so on. we must act now this technology is so simple it has been right in front of us for a long long time we just haven’t seen it and it could be learned in about 20 minutes.
     thanks

259. John Montle said,

     February 14, 2008 @ 9:41 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,
     I have seen and appreciated your movie ” An Inconvient truth” and am concerned that we are not doing enough to counter global warning. I believe that the best thing you cn do to further your concerns at this time is to endorse Obama for President now. The young, new voters he has excited are the group you need to fulfill your mission. If Obama ends up with a plurality of elective delegates and the superdelegates give the election to Hillary, this group will feel so disenfranchised that they will not paricipate in politics for years. Whatever you feel about these two, I urge you to recognize the signifance of this message and endorse Obama asap! Sincerely, John Montle

260. Seth Ward said,

     February 22, 2008 @ 3:30 pm

     Has anyone seen the commercial by GE about harvesting over 3 billion gallons of water from the sea each year and turning it into fresh drinking water?

     In a world where so many diseases are caused by a lack of water or hydration, one would think that if the United States and or other countries would get behind this kind of technology, alot of issues could be dealt with.

     Just a thought from someone who cares.

     Take care and be good to someone.

261. Alexander James said,

     February 24, 2008 @ 2:59 am

     Dear Gore:
     I’m a chinese and a strong believer of the global envirmental protection, and I have seen your movie “An inconvenient truth” several times, I was moved by it and so startled by the consequence of the global warming. As you know, china is facing the serious natural disasters, tremendous snowfalling that causes a lot damages in the south of the China and the temperature in the north that continues to go up. so I would like to urge the international community to take some measures to slow the process down. Hope you can take some time out of your busy schedule to read my comments, and I look forward to working with you to increase the public awareness of the environmental protection. I think your efforts will pay off.
     thanks AJ

262. Bodge said,

     February 24, 2008 @ 8:27 am

     Hello Mr. & Mrs Gore,
     I pray this email message finds you and your family well. As a democratic voter for over 35 years, I have to say I’m dissapointed that you are not running for President of our great but troubled country! also my family and friends have become extremely concerned how the mainstream media has pushed Obama down our throats and refusing to tell the American voters his true record. In my life I have never seen such a poor way of electing the Commander and Chief of our troubled country, again my family and friends have extremely grown concerned and fearful of an in-experienced Obama presidency. For the first time in my life, I will not vote democrat if Obama is the nominee. I feel although he may be a good talker, we need more and that more is Hillary Clinton, I believe she is the strongest role model for everyone, not just black voters, but hard working middle class white males as well as ALL minorities and all women in American history. Who esle has lived through the constant unfair biased media attacks and scrutiny. I’m confused as to why ALL women are not screaming from the roof tops. With that being said, I humbly and respectfully urge you to endorse Senator Clinton before TX and OH. I honestly feel she is the best choice running. I’m concerned for the future of our great but troubled country when the media is electing the president based on skin color.
     Thank you and God bless you

263. Kelly Ong said,

     February 25, 2008 @ 11:59 am

     Dear Mr Gore:

     My name is Kelly, lives in Malaysia. I had watched “An Inconvenient Truth” in my science society yesterday. It made me cry. I am so admire to your determination to stop the global warming.We decided to show this film to all of the teachers and students in our school, and any school that we able to show this film. And I wish to tell sir:” Just keep going! Although we are so young, 17 yrs old, normal high school student in Malaysia, but we’ll try our best and always support to you! Let us fight with climate crisis together! ”

     P/S: Please forgive me for my broken English…

     Sincerely,

     Kelly

264. Kelly Ong said,

     February 26, 2008 @ 10:19 am

     Dear Mr Gore:

     My name is Kelly, I lives in Malaysia. I had watch” An Inconvenient Truth on last Saturday in my science society class, it made me cry. I am so admire to your determination to stop the global warming…We decided to show this film to all of the teachers and students in our school, and any school that we able to show this film. And I wish to tell Mr Gore:” Just keep going! Altough we are so young, 17 yrs old, normal high school student in Malaysia, but we’ll try our best and always support to you! Let us fight with climate crisis together!”

     P/S: Please forgive me for my broken English.

     Yours sincerely,

     Kelly

265. Deborah Carter said,

     February 26, 2008 @ 10:20 pm

     Hi Mr. Gore, In the news coverage about the melting ice caps, I have heard scientists talking about how the white color of the ice reflects far more heat than the darker color of the open water. It occurs to me that we could mimic that reflectivity by making the tops of manmade surfaces white - roofs, cars, boats, trains, roads, pipelines, shipping containers. What about a campaign to make white the new green? I was able to find a few statistics just now on U.S. government sites - in the U.S. alone we have 4 million miles of public roads, 2 million miles of natural gas and oil pipelines, and 9 million mobile homes. If just a larger percentage of new stuff was white, it would translate into a lot of reflective surface area. It certainly wont fix the greenhouse gas problem, but how could it fail to help? I’m not going to be able to create much of a buzz about this. How about you?

     Thank you sincerely for reading this and caring!
     Debi Carter

266. Cezar Palaghita said,

     February 28, 2008 @ 3:39 pm

     Dear Mr Gore,
     I believe that future isn’t something that just happens to us. We are responsible for much of it. This is my modest contribution in trying to influence the course of events and I pray to God that you read these lines.
     I’m a Romanian and am not a very learned man and the most I have achieved in my live in terms of education are a couple of A-levels obtained in England after having previously acquired a modest command of the English language. But during high school in Romania I remember learning about static electricity and a few of the things stuck in my mind (positive and negative ions and how they interact and so on). Recently I have come across some books about an Austrian inventor as I was sharing a room with an engineer in London and I glanced through the books that this engineer was keeping by his bed. The name of the inventor is Viktor Schauberger and after having read more about his life and about his inventions I believe that he was one of the visionaries of this millennium. He was of the opinion that there are two movements in nature, one which promotes friction, decay and heating up, and the other which lessens friction, builds up energy, concentrates, and cools. He built various machines, that worked by cooling, instead of heating. He was one of the first truly “green” men, one of the first ecologically minded people, who foresaw that unless we plant trees, and get rid of this friction/heat/explosion/fire-producing technology, eventually, a bottle of water will cost more than a bottle of wine. He wrote “Our Senseless Toil - The Source Of The World Crisis”.
     I know that you are a busy man but we may reach our goals of dramatically changing the self-destructive way in which we live if enlightened people like you take half an hour a week and try to find out more about this insightful inventor.

267. Shelagh Salisbury said,

     February 28, 2008 @ 8:50 pm

     To Mr. Gore
     Hello, My name is Shelagh and I am a Canadian music and technology student. I recently saw your TED Talk (I get the podcast version) and noted that you asked for help for a slogan, saying that it was “not difficult” to save energy. I thought a good slogan would be “it IS easy, being green” I hope that this is useful to your cause.
     Sincerely,
     Shelagh Salisbury

268. christina said,

     March 1, 2008 @ 1:33 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,
     I understand the concern for global warming and hear the call to conserve and cut back on my families consumption of natural resources; this is why I’ve been trying to find someone to contact about corporate mass consumption. Currently companies for example OFFICE MAX on a daily basis destroy perfectly good products, computers, chairs , staplers etc…. All of these items are destroyed to get credit from the distributor. Why destroy? Donate to a local charity or school goodness knows it would save us all money. Book publishers do it (rip off the cover send it to them and toss the book. Why not send to homeless shelters, nursing homes, schools… We could be shipping this stuff to people in need instead we line the pockets of CEO’s. It is this mentality that has put us all in danger. You can see evidence of this on You Tube and I personally know someone who works for Office Max logistics. Why would you toss wrapping paper into a compactor when you could sell it for something? Sad when the world will cut down a tree and not even utilize the product they destroyed it for……………

269. DENNIS CALVACHE said,

     March 3, 2008 @ 4:42 pm

     hi,
     i’m Dennis Calvache and i live in Ecuador, Southamerica, as you know we are having enormous problems with the weather, i`m concerned about global warming and i want to do something for the earth. i would like to have a real response from Al Gore, and maybe the possibility of an event with Gore here in Ecuador.

     Thanks!!!

     my e-mail: djcssite@whoever.com

     If any of you are interested in coming to Ecuador and talk about global warning, please let me know.

270. jennie said,

     March 4, 2008 @ 11:15 am

     hey i think that there is alot of ice melting in antartica and i wanna help. this world is going to die if we don’t do anything now. i mean everyday i see a new house or building being put up,trees are getting cut down every day. if theres no trees theres no oxygen. if theres no antartica,greenland,or iceland,we’re gonna burn up.i love this planet why doesn’t anyone else? we need to stand together and say whats wrong with you people,don’t you love the place you live,or do you wanna ruin it some more? thanks for listening.love ya al gore you should of been president.

271. Leonard Tuomi said,

     March 4, 2008 @ 12:24 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     Would a four day, ten hours a day, work week be something to consider and or daylight savings time year around?

     Leonard Tuomi

272. Sidney P. said,

     March 5, 2008 @ 12:42 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore:

     This country greatly needs your help. You are in a position to help like no one else. You can save us from the Clintons and give us the President I feel we truly deserve in Barack Obama. Please, please endorse him and offer to run as his Vice President. That would put an end to the Clintons and with you and Obama as the Democratic ticket, John McCain will not stand a chance. Please, please, it would be a perfect fit and you would be able to continue in your great environmental efforts. Our country is in so much trouble and McCain only offers a continuation of the Bush presidency (and we are barely surviving it). I am a senior and don’t have that much longer to live, but I have grandchildren and want them to have some type of a future with promise. Please, please, I am begging you.

     All my best to you,

     Sidney P.

273. Lisa said,

     March 6, 2008 @ 10:25 pm

     Mr. Gore,

     I want to thank you for all you do in protecting the environment. You have made me aware and I want to do my part. I am in the military in Montana and I can’t believe that there is no recycling of plastics here. How can we make that happen? I am drinking tap water and try not to buy bottled water as much but what about everything else. I am hoping to open a resturant when I get out of the military and am planning on my place being”Organic and Green” I will use biodegradeable take outs and make the place as green as possible. What do you think of this?

274. Peter said,

     March 8, 2008 @ 7:28 am

     It seams the Virgin earth chalange is a hoax

     yep mark my lips “VIRGIN IS A HOAX !!!”
     There is no link to to submit ideas there.
     Which makes me beleive it’s only a publicity stunt of Virgin to attract more people for their poluting airliners.
     Bad tweety boys..

     It’s strange there are no places to submit solutions there are only places where people do fund raising to rent scientists.
     And those scientist only tell you how bad it is, or try to proove it. None of them starts buiding a solution. Scientist are thinkers not acters. While politican don’t act and don’t think (yep they only follow the masses to get your vote)

     This makes me angry such waste of money. While solutions are there, tought out by several smart people.

     Since i dont care of money races (but do like drye feet)
     The solution is simple :

     The biggest lung of our earth is the sea.
     Algea breakdown CO2 naturaly (much more then forests do)
     So the question should be how the get these lungs (the sea) in the most optimal condition.

     Currently their condition is like a man with a breathing disease.
     As deu to the high amount of CO2 in the air our seas becomes more acid.

     Acid areas in the sea kill algea and other life forms since the acid makes an environment with to little oxygen in the sea. Deadzones in sea heve been in the news topics these last years.

     Some scientist just only think of putting Fe-OH solutions in sea which would natrulize this acid and as a bonus put more iron in the sea. Iron is an esential part of live chemics and algea populations will bloom by it. (and thus strenghten earths lungs)
     Also Fe-OH would be intresting since it’s a chemical waste by-product. It’s not something difficult to make.

     However since scientist never stop thinking they’re afraid to put the oceans bioligy upside down because of this extra iron.
     While dont realizing its allready upside down.
     It should even be known by them that in earth’s history sea -iron levels have been much higher, and the sea wasn’t as acid as it is these days.

     If they are so afraid of that then simply find the natural concentration of spore elements in the sea. Then for each spore create a hydroxide variant (-OH), the OH part will cancel out acidification) while the other distribution of parts would be naturaly. It would be like fertilizating our seas.

     That’s not so strange to do fertilizating we know this allready from argycluture and in our historical past, we did it with phosphates, phosphate are an industrial waste product, on which algea also bloomed. These days phospahtes dumping is forbidden….

     But in those past times phosphate dumping was legal, here in the Netherlands it has turned out then that not only algey bloomed by it but also verious fish types. As algea are first in the food chain. more algea means more fish. With our current clean acid sea there is less algea and less fish, actualy fish populations are still shrinking despite fishing regulations.

     Mark my words
     If people don’t act then this green thing
     Is like a mafia fund scientist rat-race
     Ohyeah we can think and calculate use computers.

     Should we do one more calculation again ???
     Or should we be actualy doing something ???
     Where is the money for acting ???
     Should there be done real hand work ???
     Who will be doing this ???
     Your scientists ???
     Tax payers ???

     well keep dreaming and calculating all of you.
     i’ll wake you when it’s time to swim.

     Or do you treuly believe Shell Texaco, or BMW Jaguar etc..
     will solve this. Stop dreaming.

275. Rebecca Brown said,

     March 8, 2008 @ 12:38 pm

     This is being written from central Ohio in the midst of our worst winter storm in 10 years. My question is, Mr. Gore, if your schedule permits, do you care to come and help us shovel all this “Global Warming” from our driveway and sidewalks!? thanks

276. FARID FAHIM said,

     March 8, 2008 @ 8:31 pm

     DEAR SIR

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     THE RATE OF LIGHTNING IS 100 FLASH PER SECOND ALLOVER THE GLOBE.
     IF USA HAS 1% OF THE TOTAL FLASHES THIS MEANS
     ONE FLASH PER SECOND.
     FOR YOUR KNOWLEDGE, ONE FLASH HAS 4 X (10)^12 WATT.
     THAT IS EQUAL TO A POWER STATION 0F 360 MW WORKS FOR
     3 HOURS CONTINOUSELY.

     BENEFITS:
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     c- SAFTY: ALL THE LIGHTNING FLASHES CONTROLLED, THIS MEANS SFETY FOR PERSONS AND PROPERTIES

     NOW LOGIC-CO IS SEEKING FOR A LOAN OF 200 M$ OR FINANCIAL PARTENER IN USA TO ESTABLISH THE FIRST POWER STATION IN FLORIDA STATE.

     N.B. REMEMBER THAT THE LIGHTNING LOSSES IN USA 5-6 B$ YEARLY.

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277. Clay Grant said,

     March 9, 2008 @ 7:24 pm

     Dear Vice President Gore,

     I am writing today because I would like to see you and former President Carter send out a message in regard to the current primary race.

     My bottom line is this: I am fully convinced that The Clintons are narcissistic, and care little about winning the 2008 election if Hillary’s name isn’t on the ballot. Their strategy is: “At the worst, there is always 2012.”

     What kind of Democrat campaigns with a Scorched Earth plan against their primary opponent? Who would do the red telephone ad? Who would want the Florida and Michigan votes to count after they had pledged otherwise? Who would bash caucuses and accuse the other candidate of plagiarizing from a friend, and whose husband would compare her opponent’s win in South Carolina to Jesse Jackson’s?

     Should I keep going?

     I believe it’s time for someone of your and President Carter’s stature to step up and tell the two of them, “Enough already.”

     It would be one thing if there was a chance of her catching up in the pledged delegate count, but there isn’t. She’s left with hoping to get a rise out of her opponent, but at what cost for November?

     Only one candidate in this race has a chance to win in big red states across the country in Virginia, Missouri and Colorado. It would be nice to have a strategy for once that isn’t “Florida, Ohio or bust.

     And guess what? That candidate is not from Arkansas.

     Sincerely,

     Clay Grant
     Atlanta

278. Mike Markovina said,

     March 11, 2008 @ 1:53 am

     I am leaving to drive around Africa, Europe and Asia in August 2008. I am filming a documentary on Marine Resource Use and exploitation. Having worked in central Africa in fisheries complience and spent time in the forests, it is obvious to me climate change is a major factor in fisheries conflicts. I would like to ask Al Gore to advise me as to where I can find the best up to date data regarding climate change and fisheries. It will be much appreciated.

     Thank you Mike Markovina

279. Todd G. said,

     March 11, 2008 @ 10:11 am

     Hello, to you and yours Mr. Gore.
     My family and I believe in everything we do makes a different in our yesterday. But with so many people whom do not believe that this world is changing in a globel way. It is like the movie ( Ice Age) but I have to ask for help in a company that is not doing anything ( in my eyes ) that hurt people like you when you speak out..
     The Environmental Defence Action fund has no call or email center to get help, Like we need someone to look at AMP of Ohio building a coal burning Electric plant..
     Our Village has signed a agreement on 40 yrs of electric. So I had been looking at the group ( ED action) and I called them to have them reply and they said they would but 4 weeks and no one. Plus I called more office location off the web site and they are all donation lines..
     This is a wrong deal and someone bigger then me should look into them…
     We thank you…

280. Isaac Sanchez said,

     March 17, 2008 @ 10:49 pm

     I is an honor to me you read this letter.
     I need to know , who could finance my invention, the government, a private investor or any institution worried about the global warming.

     I designed a generator to create electric energy without use of fuel. Just using combinations of different forces and energy like KINETIC ENERGY, POTENTIAL, CENTRIFUGE FORCE, PRYING FORCE AND OTHERS.

     Actually I´m working on that, but I need resources to dedicate my self to work exclusively in this project…
     Could you help to find this people or sponsor company ??

     Thanks a lot..
     I live in Miami Florida.
     Isaac

281. johnathan cleveland said,

     March 20, 2008 @ 3:03 pm

     hi i recently saw your film in my chemistry class at my high school. now i am an eleventh grader and i was really moved, but one thing i noticed was that you are always talking to the older group of people and never the younger ones. i feel that since we are the people of the future why not talk to us. i feel that you would have more of a success if you talked to the teenagers more than anybody, get them worried and alot more would be accomplished. thanks for the chance of leaving this comment

282. Dolores Denadija said,

     March 21, 2008 @ 10:28 am

     I am a 22 year old girl from Rijeka, Croatia and have just this instant watched The inconvenient truth. For years I have been gathering informations about astronomy and ecology. I have also watched every documentary available. I love nature. And your film made me feel something that I do from time to time but this time in a larger scale. This time I have resolved to do something about it. And I thank you so much.
     I would also be honored if you would concider comming to Croatia and giving us an opportunity to see your presentation.
     Thank you for everything you’ve done but most of all for the inspiration you give all of us…
     Thank you…

283. Mita said,

     March 22, 2008 @ 5:16 pm

     Vice President Gore, As a great admirer of you and someone who voted for you in 2000, I urge you to endorse Senator Barack Obama for the Democratic party nomination in 2008. This can be a historic election and only you can stop the Democrats from imploding and tearing each other down. Please endorse Barack Obama and help restore decency and hope in our politics again! Thank you, sincerely..Mita

284. Jesse said,

     March 23, 2008 @ 3:15 am

     Hi, Mr. Gore. I have proof that your claim of man causing global warming is a fraud, and this is for all the rest of you too. See if you can dispute anything I say as not being truthful. I remember when I was a kid these same scientists who are saying man is causing global warming were saying we were in or about to enter an ice age. That is a fact. Obviously they were wrong. Since I’m only in my thirties, this wasn’t all that long ago. This was in the late 70s and early 80s. I remember global warming critic John Coleman back then taking on these same scientists saying the ice age hysteria was a fraud. He was right then. The blame for the cooler weather in the 60s and 70s was lack of sunspot activity.

     Within a decade scientists went from “ice age” to “global warming”. Shortly afterward, scientists blamed man because people in this generation are very self-empathetic. I saw one guy post saying he’s doing his part to not affect the climate with not reproducing by getting fixed. I think that’s a good thing just so that gene line stops. Scientists blame man for everything, and gee whiz that means the United States gets blamed as we do with everything else.

     Then not long ago NASA reported that Mars has been warming even more than Earth has in the same time period. While Earth has gone up .6 degrees celsius in the last couple of decades, Mars has gone up .65 degrees celsius. Hmm, that “there should be no debate about man causing global warming” thing is looking pretty stupid. Why is Mars going up even more than Earth, Mr. Gore and all you lemmings? That’s a fact as well. Prove me wrong.

     Then this winter I was freezing my butt off. Within a three week period we had four cold snaps, each of which the high temperature in the Chicago area was down to zero degrees. That’s not wind chill either. Then I read from the Galactic Federation some interesting findings. This winter in the northern hemisphere we’re having the coldest collective winter since before 1900. The northern hemisphere has had a 42 year high as far as snowfall is concerned, and ice at the North Pole is at its thickest point since 1979. This winter the cold has killed cattle and crops in Vietnam. Around the Korean peninsula the cold has killed tons of tropical fish. The reason for this winter’s cold weather has been attributed to lack of sunspot activity.

     Let’s see, the cold weather in the 60s and 70s was blamed on lack of sunspot activity. The cold this winter is being caused on lack of sunspot activity. Couldn’t any imbecile conclude that the warming trend of the last 25 years is due to an increase in sunspot activity? Damn, that’s just too easy! That explains everything. That’s why Mars has also been warming faster than Earth. That’s how within a decade scientists went from “we’re gonna freeze to death” to “we’re going to melt because of the United States”. Man cannot cause warming by pollution to go from the talk of ice age to global warming within a decade. It’s impossible. The Sun is the only plausible explanation. It’s also the SIMPLE explanation. Damn, I’m good!

     Scientists were wrong thirty years ago and they’re wrong again, and you all fell for it. Al Gore, you even said people who didn’t think man was the cause for this warming shouldn’t be heard. That’s mighty democratic of you, sir. So what do you all have to say about what I laid out? Can any of you prove that anything I said was wrong? Nope, you can’t. Mars has warmed more than Earth. Scientists did say thirty years ago we were in an ice age. We are having the coldest winter on average for the last hundred plus years. I’m wondering, Mr. Gore and the lemmings that follow you, when scientists predict a few years from now we are about to enter an ice age again, will you follow them along their desperation to be in the news for a third time? How can you seriously with any sensibilities accuse President Bush of fearmongering about terror and talk about this nonsense about our world ending because of man? Give me a break.

285. Hilgard said,

     March 23, 2008 @ 4:11 am

     Good day Mr Gore

     I live in South Africa and would like to congratulate you on your pioneering work you do for the world we live in. I enjoyed movie “An Inconvenient Truth”. I think that an alternative solution should be found to supply electricity and also power vehicles to bring all the harmful gasses down and stabilize the earth.

     I did manage to design and manufacture a self-sustainable energy unit.
     It has been tested in residential, commercial and vehicle use.
     It does not need Gas, Sun, Wind, - it is Self-Sustainable.

     Yours truly,
     H

286. Damon Marshall said,

     March 23, 2008 @ 6:26 pm

     March 12, 2008

     Mr. Gore,

     Let me apologize in advance for I am sure there is some sort of protocol that I’m failing to observe and I know there is a more eloquent and/or politically correct approach to this endeavor but I fear time will not permit finding it. We (as in WE the People) are in desperate need of your help. Your absence in the current Presidential race has caused a vacuum of reality and apparently common sense.

     Although I truly thought you would run this year I respect your decision not to. It is clearly our loss not to have you as the Democratic nominee and inevitable President Elect. However, there may be a mixed blessing involved because I believe there is a candidate that will bring a lot of the qualities you possess to the White House, if given the opportunity.

     Before I try to make the case for which candidate is best, permit me to make the presupposition that the vast majority would agree the campaign for the Democratic nominee has taken an almost assured fatal turn for the worst. One candidate’s scorched earth, “kitchen sink” approach to this campaign will only serve to elect Sen. McCain to the office of President and undoubtedly give us at least four more years of the current administration for all intents and purposes.

     I freely admit I am not one of the all knowing, all seeing pundits, political devotees or extremists by any stretch of the imagination. To be brutally honest I’ve never been all that concerned about politics past its intrinsic entertainment value. What little interest I did have was thoroughly depleted by the current administration. And much to my disgrace, I’ve never actually voted or even registered to vote – until now. I registered as a Democrat and voted in the California primary for the first time, as did many others. Like those others I was inspired by Sen. Barack Obama to actually get in the game, if you will, instead of merely jeering from the peanut gallery.

     Pardon the digression but for what it’s worth, I did stay up all night in 1999 to make sure you had won and I went to bed happy and secure in the thought of you as President, narrowly avoiding what I knew would be a catastrophe in the making. Man, that next morning sucked in ways I can’t even pronounce, as I’m sure you are quite aware.

     To put it bluntly, what we need is someone of your stature to put an end to the divisive, win at any and ALL cost politics that will undoubtedly rip the Democratic Party apart and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory once again. It is clear the so called “Super Delegates” will decide the outcome of our primary season. If this is a forgone conclusion what purpose is served by letting an egomaniacal campaign destroy the domestic tranquility that would be brought forth by a campaign of unity and hope?

     Clearly the country needs a diametric change from the policies of the current administration. Senators Clinton and McCain are running on their respective experience which quite frankly translates to politics as usual in the long run. Sen. Obama will have to find a fresh approach by simple default. His very being automatically excludes him from the “good ‘ol boys” network that has put us in the position we are in presently. Although he will have to adapt and overcome many obstacles, which is assuredly nothing new for him, he will have to do it in a way that has never been done before thus guaranteeing the change we so desperately need.

     Please, for the general welfare - lead the way for the other party officials and Super Delegates to end the attack on common decency, race/gender relations, hope and unity. Throw your complete support behind the candidate you see as most fit for the job that was rightfully yours with as much alacrity as possible. Use your considerable clout and keep Napoleon’s dogs at bay.

     Sincerely,

     Damon Marshall
     1745 Buckingham Rd
     Los Angeles CA, 90019
     (310) 722-3136

287. Terry A Zheutlin said,

     March 25, 2008 @ 11:37 am

     Vice President Gore
     I am writing to ask you to come forward and and make your endorsement for President. My wish is that you would support Sen Obama. However, I know that you are a man of conscience and I would never presume to tell you who to support. I am just a “regular voter” who was very excited about the prospect of change in the White House and about the end of the Bush years. I now fear that with the help of former President Clinton, the tone of the campaign has started to discourage other voters such as myself and to create irrevocable divisions within the Democratic party that will help McCain win in November. The cynic in me believes the theories that the Clinton’s would rather drive Obama’s negatives up so far that McCain has the best chance to win and opens the door for HRC in 2012. The cost of this approach is the loss of hope and inspiration and a feeling that we can be better and move forward both at home and in the world.
     Thank you for your time.
     Terry Zheutlin

288. joel sotelo said,

     March 27, 2008 @ 3:13 am

     i wanted al gor to look at Nova transcripts of a documentary they made that was called the Dimming of the Sun!

     I goes on to explain first the path of both global cooling and global warming in the sense that the pollution that we are producing has not allowed the sunlight that used to reach the earth in the beginning of the industrial revolution. tha sun shown brighter, and mow the particulate matter is blocking the sun from reaching the earth by dimming the sunlight and prventing the complete global warming from the fities through the eighties. now we are more conscious and are reducing the greenhouse gases again allowing more light ot again reach the earth and heat the planet. The sensors were placed out int the forties and fifties to monitor sunlight and we now being surprised by the effects of the green house gas emmissions. What the documentatry entails is just the start of what you are trying to deny that has already been justified long ago in many diffenrent way, but noone wants to believe. Look at the NOVA documentary and see if you can believe what waas stateed in the the seventiesanrestated in the nineties again and again, now that the ice is being reduced and the planet is changing …..

289. Pete said,

     March 28, 2008 @ 11:14 am

     You know I don’t understand, if you truly believe in global warming why you continue to use fossil fuels? I notice that Al Gore still uses a private plane to ferry himself. The anti-global warming movement doesn’t seem to criticize him for that. I don’t get the global warming advocates; if you all stopped using them perhaps it would be enough so the rest of us who don’t believe that hoopla don’t have to change our lifestyles. Then you all can shut up and leave us alone.

290. Jeppe B. Jensen said,

     March 28, 2008 @ 12:33 pm

     Dear mr. Gore.
     My name is Jeppe B. Jensen, i am 15 years old and i live in Denmark. I am working on a school project about Global Warming. I think that the global warming is something that nobody thinks so much about, and i also have a big interest in the global warming. I have a few questions for you, and i would appreciate it a lot if you wrote me on my e-mail.

291. Natisha McGrandles said,

     March 30, 2008 @ 12:58 pm

     Hello, my name is Natisha McGrandles i’m from Brantford Ontario just a 2 hour drive from Toronto. I know you must get this alot but your movie really inspired me i saw it the first time in my grade 11 Field Ecology class. Where i came more familiar to the consequences that we now face today. This movie instantly jumped to the number one spot of my most favourite movies. On March 29/08 my home town Brantford had a Earth Hour which premiered your movie, this excited me for i could bring my family to see your movie and open their eyes to change and crisis we face. To my success they really did start to see through my eyes. I really respect you for all that you’ve done for instead of sitting around and just saying ” yah one day maybe” you got up and did something about it. In my position i try to do alot, last summer i worked for The Ministry Of Natural Resources in Guelph where i did various different activites to improve environmental issues in my community. We did such activites like the removal of invasive species, tree planting, many clean ups, and worked with scientists who focus their studies on indangered species. Ive also done alot of volunteer work around Brantford specifying my work was displayed in local newspapers. Im proud of my accomplishments as i hope you are too. I hope after highschool to go to College and University for Environmental Sciences to further promote myself to the Climate Crisis. My dream is to go to Fleming College in Lindsay. So for now ill leave on that note but i to hope to meet you one day and hope to make a impact as huge as yours someday.
     Love Natisha McGrandles
     contact: greenpancakes@hotmail.com

292. pamela bloom said,

     March 30, 2008 @ 7:41 pm

     Hello,
     I’d love to work with you-you inspired me to do something about global warming. I have an e-card site with the tag line “healing the planet one e-card at a time-it’s a subscription service-$20 year-send as many as you want then we give back 5% to environmental orgs. I was thinking pehaps we could partner-you could use my site to send out messages. The e-cards are all photography and music-all have a philosophical, nature or eco-theme. I’d be honored if you would visit the site and then we can take it from there.
     www.ibizasoundcards.com (sorry I can’t leave a live link)
     Thank you!
     =) Pamela Bloom
     Founder

293. Paul B Elwell said,

     March 31, 2008 @ 12:49 am

     This is the biggest SCAM in the world. Get your facts right. Since when did Mr. Gore get his doctorate in Science of the WORLD. Get Real. Use Common sense and WAKE UP. Enough Sed

294. Jesse said,

     March 31, 2008 @ 5:25 am

     So those who are like me are like the ones who thought the Earth was flat centuries ago. Nothing like demeaning those that disagree with your views even though I have all the proof I need to show man isn’t causing global warming, eh Mr. Gore? By the way, my iq is 178. What is yours? What were the people like who didn’t think thirty years ago that we weren’t in or about to enter an ice age? I’d like to know that. All these scientists said back then we were in or about to enter an ice age. Tell me what kind of feeble mind did the ones who opposed that view possess. Who cares if history proved them right and the scientists wrong eh? I’ll be more than happy to take an iq test against you anytime Mr. Gore. I’d also be more than happy to debate with you as well. I’m just a high school educated man in his 30’s. You can take me, especially since I have a feeble mind. For someone who takes this man causing global warming so seriously, you have an awfully big carbon footprint. Instead of flying in private jets all over the world to meet with people, why don’t you meet them over some internet teleconference and reduce carbon emissions? Afterall, you did invent the internet.

295. Matt C said,

     March 31, 2008 @ 1:24 pm

     Mr.Gore,
     I was wondering if there was anyway in which I could sign up to give your Slideshow to people in New Hampshier. I’m a Sophmore at ConVal High School in Peterborough, NH. I love speaking to people and I am a true believer in saving our earth. I believe something that i can do is getting other people to do something about it. I’ve gone on your new site and it is great. I think everyone should go to WeCanSolveIt.com. Please Mr.Gore, I would really like to give your slideshow, please contact me.
     -Matt C

296. Central Spacelab said,

     March 31, 2008 @ 4:52 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     We are a FIRST Lego League team from Kokomo, IN. Lego League is a competition that takes place all over the world. We have a robot competition and must conduct research. This year’s theme is called “Power Puzzle.” It is all about using alternative energy sources.

     As part of our research, we watched your documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” and think you would make a great guest at our World Festival in Atlanta, GA. 84 teams of students from 24 different countries will be competing in the Georgia Dome on April 17th and 18th.

     We would like to invite you to attend this event to reach thousands of students world-wide.

     Blake Brutus (8th grade)
     Mei-Ling Ewbank (8th grade)

297. frank said,

     April 2, 2008 @ 1:39 am

     Hi al gore, i am 18 years old and believe that my idea can fix global warming permanently, it would not cost anywhere near a billion dollars and is simply genius in my oppinion. Help me help the world, if you read this get me back at my email, thanks

298. John Dameon said,

     April 2, 2008 @ 7:13 pm

     Mr. Gore,
     I have been following your work on the problem of global warming, itself but one of many, inter-related environmental issues (as in man-made) that threaten our planet. I have been actively trying to help reverse these things since the early 1970s, from re-cycling to pollution (I have always been painfully aware of the atmosphere-poisoning effect of internal-combustion, and done my level best to reduce my own personal carbon foot-print.) In addition, I have actively tried to spread the word to the world about these problems, their causes, and what we can (well, actually MUST) do to solve them. My ultimate effort to deal with these issues has been the creation of GLOBAL*PARTY, a multi-media performing group involving live music, group drumming, light projection
     shows, and much much more. My main thrust has been to encourage people of all walks of life to come together on behalf of healing our planet. Primarily, by raising people’s consciousness, and encouraging their personal/group creativity, in a positive fashion (we don’t show pictures of slaughtered whales. Instead, we show videos of them swimming free and majestic in the ocean) I have done shows at EarthDay Events, The San Diego Rock N Roll Marathon, as well as coffeehouses and clubs through-out Southern California. I truly believe in the 60’s concept of opening peoples’ minds (and hearts and souls) with the proven positive tools of music, celebration, information, and net-working. As well, GLOBAL *PARTY has a strong political message that should be obvious in the name. Like The International GREEN PARTY, GLOBAL*PARTY seeks to grow spontaneously, not simply locally, or nationally, but, ultimately, globally. I don’t see how we can work these things out alone. It has to be a heartfelt world-wide phenomena.
     To be totally honest, from the 60s and 70s on, I have not noticed people in this country heeding the call. In fact,unfortunately, I have seen the exact opposite, as myself and my co-workers in these areas have been pretty much marginalized by our culture. Actually, laughed off the stage you know? Then when 9/11 came along, followed by the first real messages from your camp about the actual severity of the global warming problem, I really felt ineffective. It was obvious that we were going to have lots of global terrorism, and lots of global warming/pollution (I live in Southern California, and I still see a mind-boggling number of huge, CO2 producing vehicles all day every day. (I myself do not own or operate a motor-vehicle, and it doesn’t make my work any easier) but not so much Global Party.
     I truly feel that the ideas I have worked-on for the last 3-4 decades not only hold alot of promise for working things-out for the better, I believe they are inperative. I have alot of documentation of GLOBAL *PARTY, photos, videos, etc. that I would love to share with you, in the hopes of moving the music and the healing forward. Until you stepped-up, I was definitely feeling like a voice in the wilderness.
     Please feel free to contact me at my e-mail address. I look forward to hearing from you soon.

299. Per Nystedt said,

     April 3, 2008 @ 5:17 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore and fellow inhabitants of the earth

     It is interesting to see that the interest of “earth” is now far greater than the interest of technology on the internet
     http://www.google.com/trends?q=technology%2C+earth%2C&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

     even though in the US
     http://www.google.com/trends?q=technology%2C+earth%2C&ctab=0&geo=US&date=all&sort=0
     it seems that the difference is not that big.

     In china
     http://www.google.com/trends?q=technology%2C+earth%2C&ctab=0&geo=CN&date=all&sort=0
     The trend looks not so good.

     In India
     http://www.google.com/trends?q=technology,+earth,&date=all&geo=ind&ctab=0&ctab=1&sa=N
     They seem awfully interested in technology

     In Argentina
     http://www.google.com/trends?q=technology,+earth,&date=all&geo=arg&ctab=0&ctab=1&sa=N
     They care more for the earth. Perhaps it has something to do with culture?

     In my home country Sweden, it seems that even though technology is very present in the news
     http://www.google.com/trends?q=technology%2C+earth%2C&ctab=0&geo=SE&geor=all&date=all&sort=0
     Technology has never received more interest than the earth.

     This may not be scientifically valid, but it is still very interesting.

     Mr. Gore, thank you for helping out saving our home.

300. Turks and Caicos concerned said,

     April 4, 2008 @ 3:22 pm

     Dear Mr Gore,

     We recently watched you give your typically inspiring speach regarding global warming in the ‘beautiful by nature’ Turks and Caicos islands where the local government had recently sponsored a conference on the environment. this was the first of it’s kind in the caribbean we believe and a thoroughly forward thinking move for such a small and fragile community. Well it appears that either the government officials were not listening to you or perhaps this was in fact a very clever PR exercise?

     That same government that invited you so readily to this most fragile of environments has since agreed to deals with a private developer who aims to build a ‘Dubai style’ man made (Star) island in the most fragile of their own marine corridors, the Leeward channel. The enormous dredging operation required to do this is already destroting massive tracts of established marine shelters and silting over miles of previously abundant coral reef. This being the same reef that at your conference was described as being the Turks and Caicos most valuable asset in the fight against the threat from effects of global warming!

     The desperate fight to stop this most ridiculous project is just beginning so we would appreciate that you take one second to think back at your time in the TCI please sign the petition that has been started locally and is just starting to reach a world audience:

     http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/368682450

     Please then forward to all who may join us in stopping this continuing madness, it is just one small project but it represents a much bigger movement to change the attitudes of the dollar greedy and retain the vast wealth of natural resources which will ensure long term health for our planet.
     Thank you.

301. Thain Dikkers said,

     April 4, 2008 @ 5:13 pm

     How does global warming explain the fact that the same rise in temperature on planet earth is also taking place on other planets in our universe? They do no have overpopulation and greenhouse gases to blame that on. Lets start blaming Global Warming on increased sun activity, sunspots etc where that activity is cyclic.
     Mr. Gore’s global warming concept is one of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetuated on mankind and for some reason is putting a lot of money in his pocket. Why people believe this stuff is completely without reason. Temperatures have actually cooled since the dust bowl days of the 20’s and 30’s.
     It will not be long before the global warming principles will be applied to the planet to explain global cooling.

302. Dr Sanjay Kulkarni said,

     April 5, 2008 @ 10:59 am

     Dear Mr Gore,
     I saw your presentation- An Inconvenient Truth - and many things i had seen clicked into place. The film is simply great!! I would like to convey my respect to your vast experience, vision, intelligence and the mission you have undertaken. If I can help in any way, I will.
     May I suggest that you take a look at the vedic lifestyle which was followed in ancient India? (I am from india). I think you will be surprised at the ecofriendliness of it and may also come possible solutions to some current problems.
     Thanks once again for the film.

303. Fizza Manzoor said,

     April 8, 2008 @ 5:26 am

     I am a Grade 7 student at the ICARDA International School of Aleppo (IISA) writing on the behalf of my class. Currently, we are trying to revive our school pond, which is polluted, and has barely any plant or animal life.

     As a class, we watched the movie, An Inconvenient Truth. We found it very convincing and it brought awareness about the consequences of global warming. Therefore, we are planning to show this movie to the entire Secondary School.

     Our class has been split into five groups, each group focusing on a certain aspect of our pond revival. My group is focusing on the importance of plant species in the present scenario of global climate change and variability. We want to know how global warming affects plants, and no one can explain it better to us than you. We need to convince our school community about the importance of plants for environment and human well-being. We hope that you will be able to help us; it is a matter of our Earth. Although you may be very busy, we request you to write us whenever you find time. You may send the e-mail to fizzamanzoor@hotmail.com or fizz_fizza@yahoo.com.

     We cordially invite you to visit us in Aleppo, Syria when you have time. We eagerly look forward to your reply. We anticipate that your attention to address our request will help us in reviving our pond with great success.

304. Jo Hazelhurst said,

     April 13, 2008 @ 6:16 am

     Dear Mr Al Gore,

     Having finally watched the Inconvenient Truth, I was deeply saddened that Americans lacked the foresight to vote for you. How different these last years might have turned out to be. The US desperately needs leadership. And thank you for providing it, not as a President, but in your current capacity. Perhaps this is how it is meant to be.

     Perhaps you capacity to create change is stronger from this role. If you can assist people to change their mind set, leaders in power will finally grow as human beings and do the right thing for the world.

     My request: What is missing from your research is the impact of eating meat on the environment. From carbon emissions, to the use of land, water and vegetation- all of which add up way more than the use of electricity, cars and other technologies.

     You mentioned a quote in your presentation around people can only hear something if their salaries are not dependent on it. This also applies to people’s lifestyles. People can only hear something if their current lifestyle is not threatened in any way.

     Mr Al Gore, I request that you research in to these scientific finding and include it on your websites and in your presentation. The UN supports as do many other scientists.

     Here are just a few articles that look into these finding:

     “Stop eating meat” is unlikely to be the favourite slogan of the new Stop Climate Chaos …
     http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2006/jan/04/guardiansocietysupplement3

     UN Findings http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/3956

     Christian Monitor Site
     http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0220/p03s01-ussc.html

     Mr Gore, as someone who sits on the other side of the world to you, I am grateful to the work that you are doing.

     Wishing you well.

     Regards,
     Jo

     (ps. I would have loved to have seen how these changes might impact the Southern Hemisphere)

     Jo Hazelhurst
     Johannesburg, South Africa
     www.kalavati.org

305. CR Masterson said,

     April 15, 2008 @ 1:53 am

     Dear Mr. Gore:
     Saw your presentation on TED, and appreciated your comments about the Crisis in Democracy. Your comments immediately brought Frances Moore Lappe to mind, especially her book GETTING A GRIP. Further, as she has long understood the junction of poverty and democracy, she seems in particular suitable for a major role in the Alliance for Climate Protection.

     Not to mention it would be so gratifying to see more women included on the board, and advisory council of ACP. Hopefully Ms. Lappe, and the likes of her would be included…. or at the least courted for such.

     Thanks for all that you do,
     Christine

306. Josh Theobald said,

     April 19, 2008 @ 1:55 pm

     Hey Al!

     Okay, you drive a compelling argument on this whole global warming thing. But for some time now I’ve been doubting what you’ve been saying. My doubts were solidified this morning when I woke up, looked out my window and saw 3 inches of snow on the ground! Global Warming you say? IT’S 14 DEGREES (Celsius) BELOW THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE!! If anything, I haven’t been polluting enough! I was looking forward to the warm weather and the nice things that come with spring but now all the progress the vegetation in my region has been shot! Agriculture is a huge part of my cities economy and now it’s been set back about a month. I blame this entirely on you!

307. Esther said,

     April 22, 2008 @ 6:54 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     I just had a few questions about your theories on global warming. It was mainly about the polar ice caps and if they melt. I believe that you said that the land will be covered with water. If this is so how come the land would not be lifted because of the equilibrium of the ice flowing off the land. Thus causing the land to rise. I know it seems kind of not point, but it is a problem that i have with this theory. If you could answer that would be great.
     Thank you,
     Esther

308. Shivsai said,

     April 23, 2008 @ 12:41 pm

     Respected Sir,
     Am a 18 yr old student from INDIA.Actually the place doesnt matter becoz this is a fyt of a humanity and for a better living.I am a big fan of earth n am ready 2 donate ma whole lyf 4 it.I wld lyk 2 do sumthin wich can help d humanity.All dese topicz shld b of greatr concern than issuesz sch as politics,terrorsim..etc etc becoz if the earth itself is not safe how cn d ppl in it b safe.ma only wsh in ma lyf is 2 protect our beautifl earth.plz help n gimme sum suggestnz

309. Esther said,

     April 23, 2008 @ 9:21 pm

     Dear Al gore,
     I just have a few questions on your theory. Like why if the polar ice caps are melting then wouldn’t equilibrium cause the land to rise. It is a common known scientific fact.

     Thanks,
     Esther

310. Jesse said,

     April 24, 2008 @ 8:45 am

     Gee, Al. An Australian scientist who works for NASA says that we shouldn’t be worried about global warming for the foreseeable future, but beware of an ice age looming. Does that sound familiar to you, Al? It certainly does to me. Scientists said this thirty years ago because of the cooler weather we had during the 60’s and 70’s. The reason we had the cooler weather was because of a lack of sunspot activity. The reason for this cold winter and early spring is because of a lack of sunspot activity. This is why this scientist, instead of just saying we’re headed towards cooler weather for the time being, had to show he’s a middle-child by being an alarmist saying “we’re going to freeze” again. In my previous post to you I said that any idiot, including me, can deduce that if we’re having cold weather because of a lack of sunspot activity and why we had cold weather in the 60’s and 70’s was because of a lack of sunspot activity that the warming over the last 25 years was due to an INCREASE of sunspot activity. Come on, Al. This is just too easy. I’m just a high school educated, disabled man in his thirties and you’re going to tell me that I’m smarter than all these scientists? Maybe so, since I was the first to say that not only the increase of sunspot activity was the cause for the warming, but that also there will be a cooling trend and that scientists will act like Chicken Little saying the sky is falling once again.

     This NASA scientist is just the first one to jump off the “man causing global warming” hysteria bandwagon because he knows that we’re headed towards cooler weather since sunspot activity doesn’t just go up and down on a moment’s notice. He’ll have followers. Over time, nearly all the scientists who said man was causing global warming will say we’re entering an ice age again. Will you follow them, Al? Will you buy fifty coats because you will believe them again saying we’re headed towards an ice age? Will you insult people like me saying we’re “flat-Earthers” for not believing these scientists’ third lie? I bet you will.

     Learn this, you lemmings. Al Gore has no idea what he’s talking about. He took this “man causing global warming” hysteria as a platform like Miss America takes on teen pregnancy, all the while having a bigger carbon footprint than all of you put together on this thread. Not only that, but he’s wrong. The scientists he staked his reputation on were wrong. We’re headed towards cooler weather but I know 100% that they will not just leave it at that. They will say that we’re headed for an ice age, and Al will believe them. He already did. In two years when we are continuing this cooling trend, Al will jump off that bandwagon and onto the “ice age” hysteria bandwagon and blaming man inexplicably for it. If you think I’m wrong, look up and read my prior post and see if I’m wrong. Al, I want you around in five years and I want an apology from you for insulting me. I think you owe it to me, since I will be proven right. I want you to take care of yourself. Wear a lot of padding just in case you fall. Say your prayers and eat your vitamins. Drive a Volvo. Wear your seatbelt. Be as careful as you can. Jog. You are kind of chunky in the mid-section. Go on that Nutrasystem diet. You can eat man food like pizza, burgers, and pot roast. I just want you around in five years so you can say you were wrong and I was right. That I’m not a flat-Earther afterall. I bet you won’t though. You won’t admit you were wrong and will somehow insult me again for being right. Lot of character you have, Al.

311. Linda said,

     April 27, 2008 @ 2:19 pm

     Dear Mr.Gore,

     I am Linda Gutierrez.I am a 14 years old,10th grade student in Nicaragua.I am well aware of the damage of global warming, recently in 2007 Nicaragua was hit by a devastating hurracaine (Felix).This hurracainne destroyed 121 acres of beutiful green forest and with that half of our wild fauna.We expected our president Mr.Daniel Ortega to do something about it since after the hurracaine he had a coference at UN which if i can remember well had an emphasis in climate issues and problems concerning each country.Instead of him asking for help for the hundreds of people that died and for the land that was destroyed, he began to talk about the American goverment and did not say a word about our very serious problems.We havent completly recovered from this horrible disaster and no one is doing anything to try to recover this forest in which many animals that were important to our ecosystem died.This is what i wanted to talk with you about.

     In Nicaragua we have 1 only zoo, this zoo has several species in danger of extinction like the bengal tiger there are only 8,000 in the world, Nicaragua has 2.The zoo has lots of animals but it doesnt have the resources to maintain them.The zoo needs food for the animals, a clinic, a laboratory, staff for the animals to receive specialized atention and funds to support them.We plan to launch a campaign to help the zoo(ZOOTELETON) which includes all Televison, radio, and written press support.We were hoping we could count with your help, to support this cause with your foundation.I understand that you are a very busy man, but we would really appreciate it if you were here to help us.Specially because there is no one that could help us better than you.I can remember a frase i heard a while a go which is “Think Global act Local”.This is what we are trying to do to help make this world a better place.We would really apreciate if you reply here is some e-mail adresses were you can contact me and the zoo organization: linda7228_97@hotmail.com,sacasamarina1@yahoo.com and elbagutierrez71@hotmail.com.

     Thank You for all your help,
     Linda Gutierrez.

312. Cayla said,

     April 27, 2008 @ 9:50 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     My name is Cayla. I am in 8th grade. My best friend, Morgan, and I had to make a song for a science class about enviornmental problems. I know you’re busy and all, but I thought maybe you would want to see it since you’re big on global warming and all that. So, I was looking for someway to email you video thing. We put it on a powerpoint and had pictures to go with the song…anyways. If you could maybe show me some way to do that if you’re interested. Thank you so much.

     Cayla

313. jeff said,

     April 28, 2008 @ 9:28 pm

     you all are crazy. let us drill here for oil. Gods in controll of this planet not you crazy people involved in the church of the latter day saints of global warming. His return is closer than you think and we are watching Bible prophecy unfold right before our eyes. Oh ya, I am sick of paying high cost of gas because you rich morons wont let us drill on our own land. educate your self don’t let some guy tell you we are all doomed. the ice bridge melted long before we were here, (things that maky you say Huu?) i love to use incondesent light bulbs, i love driving a big car, i love to eat fried food i love to read my bible all things you morons are trying to take away once again educate your self don’t just take the word of pop al. what a mess we are in and it is not global warming its end day bible prophecy. P.s Its freezing right now i wish i had a little global warming. yah. Drill for oil, drill real deap, drill in the ocean and upon the land make gas cheep so i can drive again.

314. John Locke said,

     April 30, 2008 @ 1:48 pm

     I am in 6th grade. I am very astonished of your presentation at my school. Your my inspiration to doing this thing. I am going to try to help others understand our problem today. God bless you

315. Sabrina said,

     April 30, 2008 @ 8:34 pm

     Loved the movie and think that a copy should be in every home!

     Nick Taylor is definatly right about the kids. I say ADOPT. your not creating a problem and you are saving a life.

     Second, there is one part of Global Warming that Al Gore. The careless and abundant meat production in the world is one of the number one contributors to global warming. Many major studies have been conducted on this issue, and prove undoubtably that this is true. As a huge figure in the fight to end global warming i strongly beleive that Al Gore should adopt a vegitarian/vegan lifestyle. You’ll find a lot more information and facts at http://www.goveg.com/environment.asp

     Sabrina

316. Symon Russell said,

     May 1, 2008 @ 6:31 pm

     For sometime it has been bothering me that with all the evidence that there is such a thing as global warning; those that are in power seem only to do the bare minimal as to help stop the possible consequences of our actions to our planet.
     Things happening in the world like the Tsunami are awful but at the end of the day its nature taking action to try and balance itself. This may not be nice for those effected by the disaster but these things are happening for a reason.
     We keep saying that if if the poles keep melting then the flood of fresh water will not only cause major flooding around the world but also knock out the Atlantic conveyor belt. Is this not a good thing, surely this would plunge us into another ice age and hopefully correct the damage we have caused. It will probably cause the death’s of millions of people around the world but surely that’s better than the path we are on where we could damage the world beyond repair and slowly destroy everything.
     At present the world is being plagued by terrorism so a wake up call from the world like an other ice age could possibly be a good thing. Surely then the differences would have to be put aside and we work together to survive. Then the world might get the chance to reset itself and we learn to respect nature again.
     I’m no scientist but after all that my question is: WOULDN’T AN OTHER ICE AGE BE A GOOD THING?

317. Kristen said,

     May 2, 2008 @ 9:40 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,
     I have just watched An Inconvenient Truth. Never in my life have I liked documentaries, but this really moved me. Going into highschool, I have given speechs and written many reports about Global Warming. I do believe that if we as a society decided to make even the smallest changes in our everyday lives, such as switching to flourescent lightbubls, we could make a huge impact on the world. I am a strong supporter of you and your beliefs about Global Warming, and I am very thankful for what you do to try to make this world we live in a better place.
     Thankyou,
     Kristen

318. Jesse said,

     May 3, 2008 @ 1:39 am

     You see what this global warming nonsense is making teachers do? This girl has to make a song for science class? Is this girl’s teacher Mr. Van Driessen? I feel sorry for her and anyone in that class. This is what your fear-mongering causes. Songs for science class, not in third grade but in eighth grade. Great job, Al.

319. Craig Mollins said,

     May 5, 2008 @ 9:38 am

     Dear Mr. Gore, and other readers,

     I just watched your March 08 filmed presentation on Ted.com where you said we need a change in our consciousness if we are going to meet the climate crisis with an effective response. My name is Craig Mollins and I have a realistic plan for how we could achieve such a change.

     I have been aware for some time now that we need such a change if humanity is to survive and thrive, and I think achieving this widespread change of consciousness is something we actually CAN make happen. I have laid out how we could do this at http://www.mindstreaming.com.

     Love and best wishes for all,
     Craig Mollins

320. Brian Webber said,

     May 5, 2008 @ 9:04 pm

     I just watched your film for the first time today. I have to say it is the most moving documentary I have ever seen. I was shocked to see how similar the future looks in comparison to the movie “The Day After Tomorrow”. I live and was raised in California. My parents always emphasized how important it was to be energy efficient and recycle, so I have always made a point to minimize my footprint on the environment. I love to go camping, and visit nature and would really hate to lose that. I really felt moved by your film and felt it strike home. I wish more people could see it, and I have tried to show it to some of my friends, but they dismiss it as unimportant and boring.

     If more people were educated and had the brainpower and will to comprehend that our world might not be here in as little as 10 years I think that this problem would actually be easy to take care of. As the Human race we have the power to avert “The Day After Tomorrow”, and ensure that our children and their children have a planet to live on. Being only 1 person out of 6.8 Billion people, it’s easy to say, “I can’t make a difference, I am only 1 person”. It has to start somewhere, and I feel proud to be 1 of the 6.8 Billion people in the world who realizes the dangers and consequences of our actions and feels compelled enough to change.

     It really pisses me off when I meet other people who just are not educated enough to realize that their actions have GLOBAL consequences. As everybody is only 1 person out of 6.8 Billion, each and every person makes a change and impact on the world if they like to or not. So you can consciously choose to make a positive change in the world, or consciously choose to ignore the problem and thus make a negative impact.

     If only more people could see your film and learn the Inconvenient Truth I think we could actually reverse this. Maybe some television stations like PBS would be interested in airing the Inconvenient Truth. Maybe right after they should show “The Day After Tomorrow” just to put things into perspective.

     Thank you so much for your effort in educating people about the Inconvenient Truth, as it has undoubtably touched millions of people around the world.

     Brian

321. Carolyn Chapman said,

     May 6, 2008 @ 4:22 am

     Please give your public support to Barack Obama soon. The younger generation who are the future of the Democratic party and this country are open minded, and they support Barack Obama by a huge margin. Listen to the younger generation. They are the ones inheriting the massive problems created by the old politics. They are the ones who will need to solve the problems created by past generations.

     Secondly, please speak out against the Clinton’s misleading and damaging tactics. Hillary Clinton should not be rewarded for misleading the American people. We do not believe that she is fighting for us when she offers a gas tax gimmick that no economist will support. We do not believe her when she said she was simply tired when she told a story over and over about running from gunfire. We do not believe that she never supported NAFTA when it was her husband that brought it into being as President. We cannot afford another president who does not tell the truth.

     Thirdly, the Democratic party must embrace the opportunity to bring Independents and Republicans into their party- to be the party of truth which truly represents the good of all Americans. The Democratic party has been blessed to have large numbers of new voters, Independents and Republicans supporting Barack Obama! These, if superdelegates override the pledged delegate vote, will not stay with the Democratic party, nor will the energized youth, nor the millions of energized new voters. Republicans will go back to the Republlican party and vote for McCain. Independents who would have voted for Barack Obama, will also likely vote for McCain. The new Democrats and the youth who have come out in droves to vote, may not continue to support the party if they perceive injustice. They will likely sit out. I think I would place myself in this category- because nothing will change. There will be more gridlock and misleading politics. Nothing will get done. Nothing will change.

     Now is the opportunity for the Democratic party to show that they are the party of a new type of politics. This is the chance for the democratic party to expand their base of support, to include people like me who have never been active politically until Barack Obama came along, who have never sent money to a political candidate until Barack Obama, who have never sent emails or gone door to door until Barack Obama. Don’t pass up this opportunity to remake the Democratic party into the party that truly represents and works for the good of all Americans.

322. kimberly lanz said,

     May 6, 2008 @ 10:00 pm

     Dear Mr Gore,
     I am wanting to appeal to you to endorse Senator Barack Obama for the Democratic Presidential nominee.
     Sincerely,
     Kimberly Lanz

323. vaibhav said,

     May 7, 2008 @ 3:57 am

     Dear Sir/madam
     My name is Vaibhav.I live in a small city named Amritsar in Punjab(India).This city is known as city of Golden Temple.The Golden Temple is culturally the most significant shrine of the Sikhs.I recently watched the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” by Mr. Al Gore and was totally shocked by the result of global warming . I also regret that why i haven’t watched this earlier.

     Sir/madam the point why i am writing this mail to you is to tell you that in a country like India majority of the people are unaware of the word Global Warming, although the the contribution of India toward Global warming is not significant but its rising.
     The contribution of will rise because many people still consider the old electric bulbs and know nothing about clf bulbs.There are no euro standard on the 80% vehicles on the road,very less appliance like refrigerator or Air-conditioner are cfc free and there are several more reasons.
     Now there are untimely rains in this region and the temperature this summer is more than 2-10C than last summer.Our city was never this hot in May than any year before.
     The main point is that unless anybody in this country know about global warming they are not going to do anything about it.
     So i humbly request you to do something about this problem….because in a country like this you don’t even know where to start from.Although its a kind of not possible but if you convey my message to Mr. Al Gore or any responsible Authority and if there is something which can be done like seminars,programs etc. or something more satisfying,then it will be truly a noble gesture.

324. RJ Winbourne said,

     May 7, 2008 @ 11:14 am

     You are a f=====g idiot if you believe the recent cyclone was caused by “earth warming”, but they you are a f—–g idiot in any event. Further you’re dishonest by making yourself rich with this ridiculous claim.

325. Sandy said,

     May 7, 2008 @ 10:31 pm

     Hi Vaibhav,

     I read your email and it touched me. I know that Al Gore does go to many countries with his presentation - the one you see in the movie - and teaches people how to go from village to village and present it themselves. He must give them copies of it and there must be a way to do it with batteries so you wouldn’t need electricity. I’m sorry, but that’s all I know.

     Someone in a large city might know who might be doing this in your Punjab. Otherwise, you might explain it like a car. If you get in a car with closed windows that has been in the sun, inside the car it is much hotter than outside. Certain gases in the atmosphere around the Earth act like the glass of the car - they hold in heat. The more of these gases, the more heat they hold in. Burning coal for electricity and gasoline for cars are the two biggest producers of these gases, so the more these are used and the more inefficient they are, the more the Earth will heat up. The people of India need to be aware of this, not so each person will feel guilty, but so each person everywhere can bring change and especially push their government to follow development policies that will rely on alternative energy.

     Nice “talking” to you, best of luck.

326. Dan Donley said,

     May 11, 2008 @ 2:15 pm

     “Buy Better, Buy Green”

     I think this idea will help you sell your idea better.

     Dan

327. Jesse said,

     May 14, 2008 @ 7:55 am

     What’s wrong, Al? Couldn’t find a way to make the tragic earthquake in China to be an indicator of global warming? You did blame a much more tragic event in Myanmar on global warming. Yeah, doing that with an earthquake is hard to do, although I’m sure you gave it the old college try. Hey Al, I have falling arches. They hurt like the dickens. Can you find a way to blame that on global warming? Just wondering.

328. Terian Turner said,

     May 17, 2008 @ 4:31 pm

     Al Gore
     Hello my name is Terian Turner and I am presenting a speech to our local Garden Club on Global Warming. I was hoping that you could send me some informaition on Global Warming to my E-mail address so I could finish my report.I am very thankful that I have you to look up too on the subject.I have your movie the inconvienient Truth ans I think it is great. I am very proud that you are taking up for this Earth as well as the other 10% of us.I have also asked our School to put in the Energy saving lights and they said that they would consider it.I asked them last year and they never did so this year I made a petition and they have put 32 Bulbs in our school that are energy saving. I was very pleased and I did it because you inspired me to take action because everything I do to help this Earth makes a difference.

     I thank you so much for caring for this world and I think because of you the world is starting to understand taht our Earth is dying.People are finally realizing this because you put your self out there to make a difference in this world. If you ever need a partner for helping get this subject out there in the world you can call on me and I will help as much as I can. Well, Mr. Gore I hope you will respond to this E-mail and remember this if you don’t remember anything else I have said, ” The Earth is getting better lillte by little because of you.”Thank you for your time.

     Your follower of Global Warming,

     Terian Turner

329. Anirban Chaklader said,

     May 18, 2008 @ 4:20 pm

     Sir,

     I am an Indian. I recently saw your “Inconvenient Truth - an update” aired at HBO. Watching the presentation, I am really moved. Despite the fact that I read a lot about the “Green House Effects”, CFC and Ozone layer, unrecyclable materials, etc. I failed to perceive the bigger picture till I watched your presentation twice at HBO. You have inspired me to think and act on the delicate global situation. I’ll try my best to come up with some innovative idea to cope with the situation.

     I am more than glad to have the “Inconvenient Truth” as a source of inspiration for me. I am really out of words to convey my whole hearted gratitude to you. It will be my guide to consider the different sources of global warming in unison and devise an effective and long term method to neutralize the sources of global warming, as far as possible. In doing so, I will be more than honored to have your invaluable guidance by my side.

     Thanks and regards,

     Yours sincerely,
     Anirban Chaklader

     Calcutta, India

330. T.Sampath Kumar said,

     May 20, 2008 @ 10:10 am

     Dear sir,
     Most of the oceans are devoid of algal productivity. Growing diatom algae in the oceans will suck up excess CO2 from the oceans and convert it to food for zooplankton and release equivalent amount of oxygen by photosynthesis. The food chain will thus be produced and you can solve two problems in one stroke. Also energy from the ocean waves should be tapped fully to replace fossil fuel based power plants. Please see web page www.nualgi.com/new for full details on the processes involved.

331. Bill Edwards said,

     May 21, 2008 @ 4:32 pm

     Mr. Gore you probably only have about 2 more years before everone knows what your agenda really is. I read your book and watched your movie. In 2 week after that I found fault with all of your statements on global warming. How are you and your partners doing on the 1.8 Billion $ investment you have made into things that will be funded after the 1.3 Trillion carbon tax you are seeking. I am just a typical white man but I figured you out very quickly. Why don’t you really do something good for the world before you are labeled as a bafoon, even your co person on the Nobel Prize has said you are wrong. The Copenhagen Consenses 2004 lists 17 things the world should do to make it a better place. Your Global warming agenda was #17. The chickens will come home to roost soon and don’t forget Karma. Someone that lies all the time and lies to children will someday get their just reward. So please do the right thing for a change.

332. David Allen said,

     May 21, 2008 @ 10:44 pm

     Dear Al,

     I would ask you one question about your theory on climate change. I believe this is nothing more than chicken little tactics to bring about fear in under educated people. I have been in an airplane at 33,000 ft. and looked down upon mankind. and in wonder I see how little impact on the earth man has. Looks like ant hills from up there. Also it seems that the fact that snow melts in Alaska during the 2 months of summer is not new. Snow also melts in other parts of the world during summer. Now if you can show me snow melting in Alaska or any where else in the world during winter that would be something. As for ice melting during summer. This could not possibly raise water levels because matter neither can be created or destroyed, it simply changes form. Since Ice is water, and as a solid displaces water, I fail to see how more water can be created by melting snow and Ice. I think the thought of man being able to warm the earth by any means would be welcome, since you say we are running out of every source of energy, except for the sun. Oh yah the sun seems to warm the earth quite well ! I don’t take that for granted

     David Allen
     Bakersfield California

333. CT said,

     June 4, 2008 @ 2:59 am

     Mr. Gore,

     I just watched your “global warming” movie. I am appalled that a former vice president of the United States would push such false claims and rhetoric. The movie was not engaging in any sense, and truly pitiful in general. Meteorologists have stated there’s no alarm about global warming (but I forgot YOU are the meteorological expert- not the professionals), yet you seem to have created a sense of “panic” about the issue among many Americans, particularly the Democrats. In plain English, you should be ashamed of yourself. In the movie you claimed to know something about this as early as the 60’s. If that is truly the case, why did it take you 40 years to design a “bandwagon” for people to jump on? Do you really think this is a noble cause? It’s hideous, and I think you should be held liable for causing a sense of panic among the American public! “Going Green” is the biggest jargon-laden slogan I’ve ever heard. Seriously, Mr. Gore, any one who knows about your father, the house you reside in, and the money you have would lend itself to the reasonableness that you should be absolutely appalled to spew the lies you do. As one last point, may I add the lie about smokers adding to global warming was priceless! Only a brainwashed ninny would believe that. Apparently you have quite a “brainwashed ninny” following.

     Maybe next time you can tell the truth, if you can find it in your conscience to stop being a typical lie throwing politician. The only reason people seem to give you any credibility is because of your political status. There are still many of us who think for ourselves and know your “global warming” video is garbage! Hopefully more Americans will become wise to your giant lie.

334. CT said,

     June 4, 2008 @ 3:12 am

     …I forgot- please thank your wife for the PMRC. Clearly you’re mentality is slanted, but we know it’s not from the music you listen to since the Mrs. likely wouldn’t allow any “freedom” in your choice of songs!

335. Judith Williams said,

     June 10, 2008 @ 8:11 pm

     Mr Gore,
     I am very glad that you did the speech. I do believe you are on to something very big.The government wants to control everything. If they don’t understand something logecal then they refuse to believe.I have a question for you. Do you think that drilling so much oil from the earths core, that it may have something to do with the earth worming?
     Sinserely Judith Williams, Maine

336. Davis Galindez said,

     June 24, 2008 @ 5:09 pm

     Hi Mr. Gore my name is Davis i was seeing your documented video about Global Warming it really shocked me how everything in this world is changing so rapidly. Point is Mr. Gore I live in puerto rico and i feel alot of contamination is not being solved i just don’t get it. Now that we got Hybrid cars and Solar systems invention how come we can’t use them now. I know many jobs would fall but the planet is first our life is first i wanna see if you can drop by to puerto rico and make people understand about this situation like u did in your video. Here in Puerto Rico we need a Governer like you or as a President please contact me by (dvs.galindez@gmail.com) take care Al

337. Kathy Paluczak said,

     June 25, 2008 @ 9:39 pm

     When people like Al Gore and all the other rich people sell some of their mansions, private jets, yachts and luxury cars and start driving economy car like the little guys do; it is hard for me to take all this stuff on “Global Warming” seriously. Don’t Al Gore and the other rich people know they should lead by example? Some people are just happy if they can put food on the table three times a day. They usually get only two meals a day. They can’t afford any more than two. The wealthy people should take the responsibility because they are the ones doing the damage!

     Another thing I am upset with is Al Gore receiving the Nobel Prize. You have someone like Mother Theresa taking care of the “down and out” of all the poor and sick in the world and she never asked from anything. I am pleased that someone like her received the Nobel Prize.

338. Alaina said,

     June 29, 2008 @ 2:56 pm

     Hello there fine leader of Global Warming I am Alaina I am trying to do my part in the efforts to stop Global Warming just like you. I have put alot of effort in my lens on squidoo about Global Warming and focusing on the facts and ways to make life green. First of all I want to thank you and your team because you are the leader in trying to save our planet. The thing is I want to get more involved and would really like to make a full time job/life about helping with Global Warming like you, but the thing is I dont know what more I can do. Can I join your team (lol) wishful thinking anyways well I hope you can stop by my lens and maybe give me some ideas. Thank you so much for you time sir and have a blessed day. Alaina

339. Gilbert Jones said,

     July 13, 2008 @ 2:23 am

     The most important solution and ignored completely is what I will say and however this can be broadcast to the world, for it benefits all of nature including mankind profoundly.
     Simply, place God first as Jesus described, no matter the costs.
     People valuing material wealth had it all backwards and this is what now is occuring and nature is being destroyed by it.
     Focus inward and become the God that Jesus promised.
     There is an intelligence behind and the same for all nature.
     Humans need to be receptive to this one way street that flows through them and are completely dependent upon for life.
     This intelligence provides the answers but the human needs to be receptive to it and it is by turning focus inward openly and ignoring the outer focus to activate it or awaken it or provide a better blend of lower self and higher self. We are nourished by a mere trickle of higher self and dominance of lower self.
     Jesus attributed all his miracles to this intelligence. Einstein said the same thing - it came from outside and nothing he created. He was just receptive to it and it is the inward focus.
     Plenty of support for this is written - it needs to be broadcast to the world and let the nations adjust to support people in the pursuit of it. Each person on this planet can become Gods.
     Think of the benefits when 1 billion people have powers even greater than Jesus displayed. I hope this happens before the fish are gone and there is nothing left to feed the masses.
     My personal efforts full time for over 4 years now prove it too.
     I have a deep respect for nature and feel no right to destroy it.
     As an American, I drive my car much less and not at all when I focus within and ignore the focus without. Right now, we are focusing outward and ignoring the inward, and look at the results. Lets work on a better blend of lower and higher self.
     Lets increase the flow of nourishment from trickle to flow and get people away from this material comfort by destroying nature. A world broadcast needs to be made to let people be aware of their ignorance and just look at nature now and how ignorance has destroyed this very planet we depend on.

     Thanks to all taking heed of this and I hope that Al Gore will include this in his arsenal of global warming solutions. This also creates the world unity respecting all of nature and we have the structures in place now to help make the adjustment.
     Support the divine right for each of us to become Gods now.

340. Randall E. Jouvenas said,

     July 17, 2008 @ 1:09 pm

     Sir,
     I remember years ago, during Reagan times, that Ronald Reagan approved 1 billion for nuclear (sp) research each year. Why couldn’t we take that same 1 billion and solarize a complete city picked by lottery. We could charge the customer less than they pay now, use the money to maintain the equipment, and put the excess into a fund for the next city to solarize. Each year a new billion would come from the government, etc. etc.

     Thoughts?

341. Brad Trostel said,

     July 17, 2008 @ 3:57 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     Our company is trying to preserve the rapidly depleating rainforest by selling land tiles for preservation. Please let the people know how important it is to stop destroying the rainforest. Over 2.7 million acres are destroyed each year and literally one out of every five breaths of air every soul on planet earth takes comes from the amazon rain forest. Thanks again. Brad (www.ownforest.com)

342. fred may sr said,

     July 17, 2008 @ 8:54 pm

     Dear Al
     I think it is about time for the world to go to Hydro Electric Power. With all the rivers around the world that have strong flows,there should be dams built to drive generators. In the northeast area of the country there are tidal flows that could drive several hydro plants. Right here in this country we have several rivers that could do the same thing. With all the speaches you have given you should start talking more about hydro power, wind power and solar power. I am starting to look into solar power for my sons home. I think the Federal Government should start a program to assist homeowners in the instalation of solar panels.

     Frederick L May Sr
     21702 43rd ave ct e
     Spanaway, WA. 98387-6844
     email-flmaysr@yahoo.com

343. Penny Clarke said,

     July 18, 2008 @ 9:23 pm

     I would like to see Al Gore and T Boone Pickens join in a united front to help change the US and change the world. Our dependency on foreign oil and its affects on our earth must stop. We need to get legislation to aid us.

344. Ben said,

     July 19, 2008 @ 11:35 am

     I’ve recently read Al’s challenge to America and I couldn’t agree more. We have both the resources and the sources to accomplish an energy strategy that would enhance our economy as well as our national security, while at the same time passing along the promise that every American generation so far has enjoyed, that of a better tomorrow. However, he seems to have fallen victim to a slight oversight that is likely to turn out to be the most significant component of any strategy for America’s independence, and that is Americans’ independence. I agree that we need to harness the wind of the Midwest and the sun in the Southwest, but, as has been noted, this leaves the nontrivial challenge of restructuring almost the entire national grid. Do get me wrong this will have to be done eventually, but will take years if not decades to complete. Why not engage the tried and true mechanisms of American independence and free market capital allocation? Take the average annual American power bill and multiply that by the number of years it would take to purchase an energy system (likely some combination of wind and solar) that is strong enough to completely power an individual’s house. After 15-20 years of paying the note on the equipment, instead of the power company, the individual would then be beginning to approach the real idea of energy independence. Now, of course, not everyone can do this and the other measures will have to be implemented, but for those who can, and I would wager that’s a lot, there would be no need to restructure the grid. It must be obvious that the extent to which an nation’s citizens are independent is THE standard by which one measures that nation’s independence, whether that independence be from tyranny or Middle-eastern oil. Of course, I would also need the ability to purchase an all-electric car, but that shouldn’t be long now: better late than never. Whatever we do, let’s do SOMETHING, and fast before all of American’s individual capital is pissed away by the corporations and bureaucrats who are under the illusion that they are running the show. It’s already a shame that one of the greatest sources of that wealth, America’s home equity, has already been greatly tapped and used to fuel the growth of CHINA’S economy!

345. John Franklin said,

     July 20, 2008 @ 11:23 am

     Greetings,
     Where is the Net metering requirement (if any) for our local utilities?
     Our family has been very interested in installing a photovoltaic grid connected system. After months of research, I found we just can’t afford it. The tax incentives are nice but they are after the fact and not cash. I need Cash to do it. Then after looking at my local utility for assistance, I found them to sing help, but yet they will not even have a net metering program. With the cost of new gas/coal generation reaching $4000/Kw, why doesn’t the utility help finance photovoltaic systems by loan reimbursement through net metering. Granted the costs are still about $2000/Kw, but this technology has and continues to grow in performance and actually decrease in cost. I am a customer of Sulphur Springs Electric Cooperative a somewhat small utility in ‘of all places’ sunny Arizona. They are basically are blaming the Arizona Corporation Commission for not having a net metering program. I then contacted the ACC. They blamed the FEDS. And basically said it was not a priority. My family and I truly would like to contribute to a solution. We just can’t afford it.
     !!! Why is it only those who can afford to GO GREEN are the ones that can afford not to? (Financially speaking)!!!
     I’m sure you have all kinds of “green installations” in your backyard. Let’s give Tboone credit. He is at least fronting money for solutions. Using current technology, I personally have enough area, sunshine and will to supply my home and three others.
     Just no money.

346. jerry rubin said,

     July 20, 2008 @ 4:09 pm

     I listened to your Meet the Press interview today and have heard your recent speeches. I believe you are leaving out of your mix of Self Sustainable Energy resources, Tidal Wave Technology which is extremely due-able as well as Hydrogen/Electric based cars.

     As for Tidal Wave technology, there are many companies that have already had success in Spain, Hawaii, plans in Oregon and California.

     As for Hydrogen/Electric based cars, Toyota has been working on this for years. Iceland is totally committed to this and already has public transports and private cars running on this. Ovonics in Michigan has a safe way of making cars and is working with many auto companies to make it happen.

     With our governor’s help, Wisconsin, I was able to put solar cells on my roof and make sure my house was tight and yet breathable. A full audit on the house and the mechanical system was done. We hope to introduce Geothermal in a few years.

347. Robin said,

     July 20, 2008 @ 6:56 pm

     I see that others are facing the same issues I am, cost. I too have explored it but find that not being a millionaire will prevent us from considering it.

     I also heard a comment on Meet the Press this morning, that the main component of the solar cells is sand. That is so far from being correct. Mr. Gore failed to mention that its Silica sand and the reason that photovoltaic remains so expensive.

     When you look at the numbers the majority of grid users are those that are not millionares and also not the people who can afford to get off the grid.

     As mentioned above, tax write off incentives are not enough to make this technology affordable for most of us. Find a way to make that happen and I can guarantee there will be a great many people moving towards green power.

348. Annette Gillman said,

     July 21, 2008 @ 3:23 pm

     If you are so positively sure of your belief in the global warming hoax, why won’t you agree to debate reputable scientists who have asked for a debate? Perhaps you’re afraid you will be discovered to be a disgruntled loser of a presidential race, out to make all the money you can off of the ridiculous “carbon footprints” you claim is the salvation for those who just feel they have to eat meat, must fly in private jets, and are not willing to ride bicycles to work!! This is infantile!!!

     Sir, Global Warming from cars and humans, etc. has NEVER been proven!!! This is the new religion of people who have no belief in God and refuse to follow the Judeo Christian laws that this country was built upon. When you no longer believe that “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth”, then you began looking for “another god” to fill the void of your empty soul, created by God. Global Warming is a religion followed by fanatics of the “mother earth” religion thinking they actually have the power to stop the natural climate changes that have happened to this planet earth since God created it!!

     This is America, the greatest nation on earth, the home of the FREE that EVERYBODY wants to come to! We will NEVER be dictated by you and your “believers” what temperture we can have our A/Conditioners on, what kind of lights we can use and WHAT KIND OF CAR WE WANT TO DRIVE!!!!

     With all the restrictions you and your fanatics want to place on the American people, for the sake of “Mother Earth” we are headed back to the Stone Age and fast!! Most of us have visited 3rd world countries and it is not a pretty sight. It is no wonder people are willing to die to get into our beautiful, free America!!

     I totally disagree with your Global Warming “hoax”. I can say “hoax” with confidence because your “carbon footprints” philosophy is so transparent - makes it all clear what your REAL motives are!

349. bcole said,

     July 21, 2008 @ 10:24 pm

     We need to get off of forein oil and create energy security here in the United States.

     Algae oil is totally renewable, does not affect the food channel and eats co2 emissions.

     www.nationalalgaeassociation.com

350. b cole said,

     July 22, 2008 @ 8:26 am

     Algae is the only biofuel to get us off foreign oil and make the United States energy independent. It is renewable, does not affect the food channel and eats co2.

351. Carol Donovan said,

     July 22, 2008 @ 8:51 pm

     7/22/2008

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     I am from Canada and need to let you know what I saw or did not see on my recent vacation in the USA. I rode my motorcycle through 4 of the states - New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. We stayed in various hotels, motels along the way. We went to many tourist sites e.g. Marthas Vineyard, Hyannis Port, etc and never once did I see one recycling bin to put my empty pop container or finished newspaper in. Not one. Not in a hotel … not at a tourist site. Nowhere.

     We crossed miles and miles of highway and back roads. I did not see one wind power tower. Nothing. None.

     Yet on a drive just a few hours from my home in Southwest Ontario I can see field of windmills being erected to harness wind energy. Every hotel I travel to have recycling bins in each room. Every hospital, every tourist site, every restaurant is doing its part to preserve the ecology. I too am concerned about the environment and I am very proud of the steps we have taken in Canada to do what we can on all levels.

     I was really disappointed in what I did not see on my trip. I know of the concerns you express about the future of our earth but in 4 of your states there are not even recycling … What is with that? We need to start small to make big changes. I am so proud to be Canadian.

352. Scott said,

     July 23, 2008 @ 3:40 am

     In reference to the idiot that didnt have any children , I would say good thing you had a vasectomy , we wouldnt want idiots running around having children , and too bad your parents didnt think the same way , then we wouldnt have to worry about you bitchen and whining about it. Its not having children that is the problem and it doesnt even contribute to it in any way .

353. Earl Wilcox said,

     July 24, 2008 @ 5:32 am

     I would just like to know how use less fortunate people can upgrate to natural energy when its so expencive i can barely pay my bills now there should be some help with that hqw about a loan ?

354. Earl Wilcox said,

     July 24, 2008 @ 5:36 am

     Anyone know how i can make a homade solar panel or windmill for electric

355. b cole said,

     July 24, 2008 @ 1:38 pm

     Algae is as GREEN as you can get. It is the only biofuel that is totally renewable, does not affect the food chain and eats co2.
     It is the only biofuel that an help the US get off of foreign oil.

     The biocrude can be made into biodiesel and biogasoline. The biomass can be used in pharmacueticals, green plastics and green packaging.

     It can also create green jobs in the United States.

356. Paul Wightman said,

     July 28, 2008 @ 10:22 am

     Thanks for your tireless efforts, Mr. Gore!

     We are building a solar greenhouse and are adding solar to our home!

357. Jesse said,

     August 8, 2008 @ 3:06 pm

     Kathy, you are correct. Al and his ilk should lead by example if they truly believe that we are melting. They show studies and twist them to the most fearful conclusions. They keep repeating that study saying that the north pole might lose all of its ice in the next five years. They won’t tell you that after last winter the ice at the north pole thickened by ten percent and that it was one of the coldest winters on record. That never happened to them. They still go by that two year old study about ice melting at the north pole.

     Al and his pals won’t tell anyone that Mars has warmed even more than Earth did in the last couple of decades. Al and his pals won’t remind people that these same middle-child, attention-craving scientists swore up and down we were in or about to enter an ice age thirty years ago. That never happened either. They won’t also say the reason for the cold weather during that period of time was due to lack of sunspot activity, just like this past winter’s cold was blamed also on a lack of sunspot activity. That would provide everyone with an easy conclusion that the reason why we had warmer weather for a couple of decades was due to an increase of sunspot activity. That’s too easy and you can’t blame man for that. Hence, you can’t blame the US for that.

     I also agree with you that Al Gore should not have won the Nobel Peace Prize. Irena Sendler should have won. While Al was making speeches, and making a lot of money from them all the while flying in private jets, all Irena Sendler did was save hundreds of Jewish children from the Nazis during WWII. For this she was imprisoned and tortured by the Gestapo. If Al had any character, he would have given her the money he earned from his “biggest critic of the US” award. But being that he’s fearmongering about the Earth melting and using more energy than most entire family trees have, we all know character is something he is sorely lacking.

358. Steve S said,

     August 14, 2008 @ 9:21 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     I am a big fan of yours. You can’t even begin to know how much good you are doing in the world. Some people say that you use too much electricity yourself. I don’t think so. People don’t understand how much pressure you are under and need to relax, turn up the A/C and sit in a Jacuzzi. I don’t even care that you are making millions through your zero carbon footprint mutual fund. We are lucky to have the mutual fund. And I am even glad you have convinced the world governments to burn their food supply instead of lousy oil. We should burn food, it was too cheap anyway (that’s why you and I are overweight).

     How do I convince my children about Global Warming? They tell me that they agree with global warming and even agree with you that most of life on earth will be underwater in the next couple years. The trouble is, they don’t walk the walk. Maggie, my oldest always turns on two lights when she comes in the room. Then, she’ll leave the room and leave the lights on. Ugh!! And Mary Alice, my youngest is very snooty about using energy. Listening to her, you’d think that God just left all that oil under the earth to allow us to heat our homes and transport us around the planet. Ugh x2!!

     Al, I am at my wits end. How did you convince your two bright and socially daughters to be the way they are. I keep telling them, I don’t have the money to pay for all this energy, then I joke, “I’m not Al Gore, you know” Ha Ha.

     Please give me some advice. I wait anxiously to hear from you.

     Your friend and idol,
     Steve S.

359. Nick England said,

     August 27, 2008 @ 3:45 pm

     Dear Al,

     I am a 25 year old under graduate from Western Australia. I am studying renewable energy management in the hope of helping humanity reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.

     I have always been a bit left of centre and grew up being taught to be environmentally aware, but I must tell you that your film has inspired me. Every time I watch it it saddens me, to see the world in such peril, when out side it is all so beautiful. But my reaction to this is that of hope, and to rise to the challenge and help take control of our collective future.

     I call upon all others out there who feel that change is needed to join this revolution. If we all contribute, anything is possible. If you think the last 100 years has seen change in our society, you haven’t seen anything yet. We are living in what I believe to be one of the most exciting times in history.

     Installing PV systems and buying hybrid cars, although may help, is not really the answer. The answer is to change your lifestyle. You don’t need the air-conditioner, you don’t need to drive to the shops, you don’t need that big screen TV. You can save more energy (and money) each year by simplifying your life than by looking towards technology to have all the answers.

     And what you will find is happiness. Simplicity will free you from technology and reunite you with your community, your family, and with nature and bring true meaning to your life. Don’t give in to the advertising. Think of the next generation. Think of the PLANET.

     Thank you for your contribution, and may many others follow in your footsteps.

360. Karuna Vishwakarma said,

     August 31, 2008 @ 8:07 am

     Hello!

     Mr. Al Gore

     I am a MBA student and i have subject called Environmental Management. even i m very much concerned about our environment.
     On 29 august 2008, i along with my class mates I saw the movie “The Inconvenient Truth” that shook my heart after seeing about Global Warming & increase in Carbon Dioxide in our Atmosphere.

     Sir even i like to join ur team in saving our mother Nature………
     I am very much inspired by Ur work in the favor of Environment…

361. Vishnu Kumar said,

     September 8, 2008 @ 5:40 am

     Hi,To Mr. Al Gore and his supporters,

     I am a System Administrator in Bangalore,India.

     I happened to see your movie on HBO. I was taken back by the consequences we are causing to Earth.

     So, I would like to pass this ‘ An Inconvenient Truth’ video to all whom i know.

     But, there are two restrictions to it.

     One, its copyrighted which disables our right to share.

     Two, the same copyright does not let us legally release a Hindi version of the movie so that the message will reach more publicly into the Indian people.

     Sir, since its a fight against everything we use, we have get the message to them via all possible media but without any restrictions.

     If my suggestion does matter anything then i would like to suggest to release the video under Creative Commons License.
     Creative Commons enables sharing and derivation legal and also restricts commercialisation of the video.
     Please visit the link http://creativecommons.org/

     Lets this message be taken to Public.

     Thank You

     Vishnu Kumar

362. Ramses Garcia said,

     September 12, 2008 @ 11:32 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore I want tell you that you are my hero because I think that you are a very great person.
     I saw your movie “An Inconvenient Truth” and i was very moved by it. I am a very strong believer of Global warming and that we should do something about it. So I’m a student of the environmentalist engeneer in Mexico in Ciudad Guzman Jalisco. (sorry but my English is so bad)
     So I hope that you Mr. Gore someday you can came to my Univesity (Instituto Tecnologico de Ciudad Guzman) for tell us about your movie and your books.
     So Thaks for your time Mr. Gore and sorry for my bad english.

363. Dr. János Czeglédi said,

     September 17, 2008 @ 4:11 am

     Dear Mr. Gore,
     Please be informed that the algorithmical distillation of social regulations integrating laws of nature is depicted by the most recent phase of the Communication Catalyzing Middleware project as one of the prime climate change coun¬termeasures. Attention is drawn to the feats performed by particular international forums devoted to government reinvention, red tape reduction, consolidation of administration and regulatory reform that are significant potentialities to facilitate the establishment of a trust magnetizing low-carbon society (2008 G8 Summit). In particular, it is taken for granted that the GFRG (UN; 1999-), the ISAB (EC; 2009-) as well as the IRRC (Bertelsmann; 2007-) might effortlessly
      lay the foundations of automated public and corporate administration based on
     governance (administrative) soft¬ware equivalent to regulations;
      part, in a transferable way, the reduction of unneces¬sary bureaucracy and the
     automation of administration stemming from EU and other regulations integrating
     laws of nature as a conditio sine qua non of reducing officialdom at the grassroots
     level; finally
      shore up the equilibration of vertical and horizontal transpar¬ency of regulations to
     incorporate laws of nature,
     respectively.

     Regards,
     Dr. János Czeglédi
     H-1012 Budapest
     Hungary

364. Tracy Hall said,

     September 18, 2008 @ 1:39 pm

     I am not sure if this is going to get to where it needs to be but I sure hope it does. Mr. Gore, I am a Military Spouse and I know exactly what is needed to help this Country, this Planet to become more energy efficient. It all needs to begin here. Not here as in the U.S., but here as in, on every Military Base in the U.S. and abroad. The Government pays millions of dollars to private contractors so that Military Service Members and their Families can live on Base in houses, technically rent free. I have yet to be anywhere, that the homes are energy efficient. I have lobbied to have these homes equipped with energy efficient light bulbs, water-heater blankets, weather stripping, a steady supply of air filters, and I have gotten NOWHERE! I am 1 person, a peon in the eyes of Father Government. I need your help! Please contact me so we may be able to work together to stop the problem that is so obvious! My next step is to go to the media with this. Thank You.

     Tracy A. Hall
     128 Turner Street
     Ft Leonardwood, MO.
     65473
     573-433-4351
     khth2@new.rr.com

365. Benette Makhalemele said,

     September 20, 2008 @ 5:54 am

     thank you mr Gore for consciontizing me and the rest of the world,but I think the fight cannot be thought by you alone and the scientists that are helping you.It needs all of us as indivuduals,because one way or the other we all are contributing to the global warming

366. Patrick said,

     September 20, 2008 @ 8:38 pm

     Mr Gore, For the next 20 years we are going into a global cooling. Due to no sun spots please explain your very in convient truth of lies?

367. Bristol Pitts said,

     September 26, 2008 @ 7:24 pm

     Global Warming is not only the result of dependence upon the Oil oligarchy, but also upon the global financial oligarchy, e.g., Wall Street and the banking industry. As we have just seen with the “Privatized Profit and Socialized Loss” scandals in both sectors, America needs to free itself from dependence upon these twin life-destroying industries.

368. MARTÍN said,

     September 29, 2008 @ 9:39 pm

     triple fraternal hug
     i want to contacto you.
     martin, from argentina

369. melvi said,

     October 8, 2008 @ 3:36 pm

     Regarding Global Economy, Energy, Climate Change and Global Poverty issues :
     A humble suggestion….

     The gov’t has shown it can easily raise a trillion (or 5 during the Bush term alone) so why not raise a couple more to set up a Manhattan - Apollo Project to produce solar cells dirt cheap. We probably can pay easily pay off this additional debt (no more $700B a year for oil imports). Plus if we get our act together before others can start we have a pretty good chance of paying off the rest of our national debt by selling these to the world.

     Then the whole world gets unlimited supply of cheap and clean energy.

     It sounds so simple or am I just being naive? If you agree there’s something to this - please help bring this suggestion to the politicians or people in gov’t who might be interested in seeing something like this done.

     Thanks

370. Vishnu Kumar said,

     October 16, 2008 @ 4:46 am

     Hi,To Mr. Al Gore and his supporters,

     I am a System Administrator in Bangalore,India.

     I happened to see your movie on HBO. I was taken back by the consequences we are causing to Earth.

     So, I would like to pass this ‘ An Inconvenient Truth’ video to all whom i know.

     But, there are two restrictions to it.

     One, its copyrighted which disables our right to share.

     Two, the same copyright does not let us legally release a Hindi version of the movie so that the message will reach more publicly into the Indian people.

     Sir, since its a fight against everything we use, we have get the message to them via all possible media but without any restrictions.

     If my suggestion does matter anything then i would like to suggest to release the video under Creative Commons License.
     Creative Commons enables sharing and derivation legal and also restricts commercialisation of the video.
     Please visit the link http://creativecommons.org/

     Lets this message be taken to Public.

     Thank You

371. Cindy Gentry said,

     October 19, 2008 @ 6:45 pm

     Dear VP Gore,
     My name is Cindy and first off I do applaud you on your efforts and concern on Global Warming!
     But I came here to say that I really regret voting for Bush in the last 2 elections. I know I can’t turn back time, none of us can. But the country would sure of been better off in your hands!
     Keep up the good work!

372. Sam Hutcheson said,

     October 20, 2008 @ 11:57 am

     Dear Senator Gore,

     My friends and I are doing a project on global warming, and are hoping we can have an interview with you about it. My email is phutcheson1@hotmail.com. If you actually read this Senator Gore, thank you.

373. Pascal Selle said,

     October 20, 2008 @ 3:34 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore
     I’m from Germany and my Englisch isn’t very good.. sorry.
     But i love the environment more than my parents, it hurts me when is see how peolpe destroy our environment.
     I think its more important to safe the jungles, than reducing the co² emissions, because of the foto synthesis. It’s horrible to see how people burn the jungles in South-America and Afrika…
     We have to fight against this, you Mr. Gore are very important, you can do something, I can do nothing…

     I wish you would be president of the United Staates!

374. Private Name said,

     October 25, 2008 @ 10:22 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     Hello, I am a child who very much cares about his/her environment and thank you sincerely for doing everything you have done to prevent a disasterous future. The future will not be sound but you have certainly made your mark on people. I am the creator of a website called The Big Cool Down, dedicated to Mother Earth and not letting her temperature rise one more degree. I would be honored more than anything if you were to visit it. The URL is http://thebigcooldown.wetpaint.com. I am aware of how busy you are and will not be offened if you cannot find the time to visit or read this message.
     My friends and I set up a walk-a-thon for 2009 in my hometown and will be donating to the Climate Project, We Can Solve It, and many others.

     Thank you!

     Sincerely,
     The Big Cool Down Creator

375. blake newman said,

     November 6, 2008 @ 4:11 pm

     I agree with one of the other commentors, stop having babies. Baby diapers contribute to the global problem of trash and garbage dispoal. Baby feces contributes significantly to our water pollution problem. Baby bottles, baby food, baby clothes, baby strollers, baby dolls. All are killing our environment, consuming more precious fossil fuels, taxing our economy and healthcare system. We definitely have too many babies. Men, go snip yourselves. Women, gobble gobble.

376. Lotte Boots said,

     November 17, 2008 @ 11:10 am

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     I’m a 10 year old child from Nijmegen, the Netherlands. As you know our country is for the most part below sea level. Global warming might cause parts of my country to disappear into the sea. Would it be a good idea to dig huge holes into the sea bedding to compensate for the sea level rising. The soil dug out from the sea floor could be used to strengthen dikes or to make them higher.

     Sincerely,

     Lotte Boots
     The Netherlands

377. Holly Pressimone said,

     December 9, 2008 @ 9:29 am

     Dear Mr. Gore,
     Congratulations on the Nobel Peace Prize. Only thing is; what was it all for? I know my family is ready to step up and do the right thing for mother earth. (if mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy) We need you! Say yes to Obama.

     Thank you,
     Holly Pressimone

378. chuck sellers said,

     January 11, 2009 @ 7:15 pm

     I wish you could do something to help us go green…

     Our family wants to get an electric car just like the rest of the nation, but

     The car makers are not letting the majority of the nation purchase electric cars by — charging $40,000 and up.

     Our nation will never “get there” at this greedy rate.

     Electric cars are not worth that much. There’s not that much to them.

     We ALL need to go electric cars. Can you do something with the car makers?

379. Wonjun Lee said,

     January 18, 2009 @ 10:04 pm

     Dear. Mr. Al Gore

     Hello Sir, I am a high school studnet living in Canada and i have few questions for you. (please respond) I am doing global warming project.
     I respect you the most and i think you should keep up with your enviormental campaign.

     Well, i watched your movie An Inconvient Truth and something didn’t make sense to me and with global warming theories.

     1. How can you tell if global warming is happening based on 100 year temperature chart? Don’t you need more proof than that?

     2. I researched global warming and it said some part of the earth is heating up and some part of earth is actually cooling down than can you tell global warming is actually true?.

     3. I think going green is really good idea but, if you change the laws for people and for industries such as carbon taxing than shouldn’t this bring financial crisis to the people and to the industires?

     4. I read Global Warming Conspircay theories and i agree little on this and is it ture that A United Nations and its supporters are promoting a system of world governance to control our ideology?

     5. If Global warming is true than how can we prevent it?

     Again, I think you are really good politican and environmental activist.
     Thanks for reading my opinion

380. A. Keane said,

     January 20, 2009 @ 10:42 pm

     Dear Al Gore,

     Yesterday, where I live in in Vermont it was -23 degrees, feeling as if it were -43 degrees. Please share with us how that fits into global warming?

     Thanks so much.

381. lisa said,

     January 20, 2009 @ 11:49 pm

     Just wanted to know how these blasts of artic air reaching clear down to florida factors into this global warming theory. Kind of knocks that right out the window don’t it? I don’t believe in it. History shows cycles of both warming and cold trends. I do think we need to be enviormently friendly but I truly think you are taking this global warming thing too far. Anyone with common sense should see right through this. You cannot convince me there is global warming when temps are well below zero in alot of states right now. As a matter of fact this seems to be the coldest winter in 2 particular states where I used to live in a long time. Quit making a mountain out of a molehill.

382. Robert Rootes said,

     January 21, 2009 @ 4:53 am

     Dear Mr Gore.
     Thanks to Netflix we were able to watch your documentary, albeit, I was apprehensive because I live in Alaska (since 1999). Since my time here, the climate changes I have seen in that short period are horrifying. I lived 32 miles above the Arctic Circle when I moved to Alaska in 1999. In 2003 we moved to Wasilla (a city that comes now more frequently now) and it’s a nightmare to see the changes here. Our local electric power company (MEA) wants to build its own coal burning plant. They have been voted down; however, they have taken steps to raise the price of our power in the Matanuska Valley because of this.
     The one thing that bothers me the most in Alaska is: No One Cares! The indigenous people want the money that comes to them from the oil reserves here. Everyone in this state gets a PFD (Permanent Fund Dividend); however, the indigenous people of the region get even more. They don’t care about the environment at all.
     I lived in Kotzebue for years. I stopped eating fish (salmon) altogether after I found out that they do NOT monitor or filter RAW SEWAGE that dumps into Kotzebue Sound from the city. When I tried asking questions when I lived there, the mayor’s office refused to respond. I saw people of the villages throwing away plastic bags, beer cans and bottles, and all other forms of garbage into the Sound. I told someone to stop once and almost got into a fight with the whole village. The people are still under the impression that once it goes into the water they don’t have to worry about it. The drinking water that comes from the reservoir in Kotzebue (Fire Lake) is filled with old earth moving equipment, bottles, rusting bicycles; etc.
     There are NO recycling programs in Alaska! We have half-managed recycling centers where items are brought to be stored and shipped back on containers to Seattle, Wa. Yet there are no actual facilities that can manage the waste that we produce. Our landfills are bursting with Styrofoam, and I learned that tires are layered every five to ten feet underground because they don’t know what else to do with them.
     Two weeks ago the temperature in Wasilla was -20 to -30 degrees, Fairbanks was -40. This week it was 50 degrees! Nowhere did I see in the newspaper, radio, or television reporting the 75 degree difference. There is NO snow in Wasilla now, two week ago there was average 3 to 5 inches.
     Would you consider coming to Alaska to speak on the behalf of the people who want to make changes here? We need a strong voice, something that doesn’t put lipstick on pitbulls! Would you please consider bringing your Inconvenient Truth to the one state in the Union that will see the last of the polar bears become extinct in the next 5 years because oil is more important than life?

     Respectfully,
     A father Without a Good Answer for His Son

383. DEBBIE THOMPSON said,

     January 23, 2009 @ 11:29 am

     I would like to know why the residents of Al Gore’s home state, Tennessee and in addition Alabama and Mississippi are not allowed to have net metering agreements with Local Utilities because of TVA’s greed. It seems to me he should have enough influence, especially in light of TVA’s disasters with “clean” coal fired plants to change that situation and make some headlines doing it. NOW is the time!

384. stephen g powers said,

     January 23, 2009 @ 5:34 pm

     Mr.Gore,
     Your full of bull shit,threw research they will find a way on a mass scale to burn coal cleanly.Look at the polution you put out flying your on personal jet and the power used on your over sized house.Your a hipaqurite and full of shit.Your house is not green friendly and your jet really puts out allot of damage to the air,best you keep your mouth shut,you don’t know jack squat,plus you need to lose some serious weight,as your fat body produces more unfriendy stuff in the air.

385. John Crutchfield said,

     January 24, 2009 @ 4:39 pm

     For the children reading this site.
     It is quite clear that many of you have become terrified by Mr. Gore and his dire warnings of global warming. Please don’t be afraid. Mr. Gore is only playing a little joke on us right now. Global warming and cooling happens as a result of natural things, like solar activity, earth’s inconsistent orbit around the sun and many other reasons. You cannot control earth’s temperature no matter what you do or don’t do. There are many scientific studies to support this, so please don’t be afraid. Mr. Gore is simply involved in a little scam to make a few hundred million bucks off of your mom and dad and to set you up as the next generation of people to be swindled. But that won’t happen now that you know the real inconvenient truth. Global warming is a hoax and that bad Mr. Gore is a fraud. Isn’t he silly looking? Just ignore him.

386. Boaz said,

     January 25, 2009 @ 7:32 pm

     Mr Goreacle, in repsonse to the recent snowfall in the UAE, have you changed your mind about Global Warming perhaps being an incident of Global Cooling and a New Ice Age on the brink?

     Also, during the upcoming Ice Age which we seem to be heading into at the moment. If you find yourself in need of more sunlight, try taking your head out of your anal orifice.
     Not only will you recieve more light and Vitamin D but also the view might be better.

387. Jacqueline A. Anstrom said,

     January 29, 2009 @ 5:26 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,
     I voted for you back when I was a resident of Tennessee. I had the utmost respect for you and your ideal.

     Boy, was I wrong.

     You are trying to push AGENDA 21….THE NEW WORLD ORDER…AND I’M GOING FIGHT YOU TOOTH AND NAIL

     TO LINE YOUR OWN POCKETS…HOW UN-AMERICAN CAN YOU BE?

     YOU ARE A FRAUD AND SO IS YOUR GLOBAL WARMING GARBAGE.

     HAVE A WONDERDAY DAY…

388. Brian said,

     January 29, 2009 @ 5:26 pm

     When are all you Global warming sycophants going to throw in the towel and admit that the science doe not support the claims that the world is heading into a crisis?
     Science does support the demonstratable fact that the planet does go through climate cycles. Give it up and focus on more important issues.

389. Sandie said,

     February 1, 2009 @ 7:43 pm

     I TRULY wish I could have figured out how to have sent a page sent to me via e-mail about the icebergs of Antarctica and the beautiful different colors sometimes trapped in it,absolutely BEAUTIFUL. I know you DO NOT believe in GOD, for it is beneath you to believe in a HIGHER power than yourself, but maybe GOD melted some of the icebergs to show that HE exists through them. Too bad that you just can`t understand the wonderfulness and awesomeness of GOD and what HE is doing. Your piece of garbage carbon footprint is a big fat LIE and all it`s doing is making you money for any and every idiot that wishes to follow your non-existing fictitious money making scam. I cannot believe there a so many people that will go along with anything that a X-Blood-sucking tick comes up with. How about,people, thinking for yourselves and find GOD and Gore, stop your scamming. God Bless.

390. Ray Viohl said,

     February 5, 2009 @ 11:08 pm

     My thoughts on man-made climate change… just put the theory (yes, it is only a theory) through the scientific method. See if it still holds up. That is science… not science by consensus. Just science!

391. Jesse said,

     March 1, 2009 @ 11:15 am

     Hey Al, good call on us melting again. 2008 was one of the coldest winters on record in the northern hemisphere. 2009 was just as cold, if not colder than 2008. That’s two very cold winters due to a lack of sunspot activity. I know you’re going to say these are isolated incidents, but I’ll challenge you with this prediction. The 2009-10 winter season will also be colder than average. Wanna take that bet? I’ll have it here on record that I predicted the 09-10 winter season will be cold. If I’m wrong, then you and your lemmings can point it out to me. If I’m right, then three winters in a row of cold temperatures can’t be called isolated anymore. Want to take that challenge? I’m just waiting until the scientists start admitting man causing global warming isn’t here anymore (really never existed, but they won’t admit that… neither will you), but to look out for an ice age. Just like they did in the 70s. Do your lemmings know that scientists said that we were in or about to enter an ice age in the 70s, and that they were predicting much of the northern hemisphere was going to be covered by ice by the late 1990s? I bet they don’t. Some point soon, scientists are again going to predict we are in or about to enter an ice age. Are you going to fall for it again, Al? Or will you look at it as a way to make more money? You can fly all over the world in polar bear fur coats and alpaca hats telling the world these crazy Chicken Little stories that the sky is falling because of the ice age coming. As I said, you have my prediction on record. As a flat-Earther, I expect an apology after it’s conclusively proven that I was right and you were wrong. By the way, you really should have given that Nobel money to Irena Sendler. She deserved it a lot more than you did.

392. davecatbone said,

     March 1, 2009 @ 11:45 am

     Mr Gore, your science is a fraud perpetrated on the free world to make you rich. Now, you’re backpedaling from your claims of disaster? Fraud, phony!

393. Ralph Anderson said,

     March 1, 2009 @ 11:59 am

     …..I am still stunned……..

     so many people with absolutely NO clue……..

     “global warming”……….now “climate change” because the facts wern’t staying within the pre-concieved parameters…..

     CLIMATE CHANGES PEOPLE!!! It has been changing long before humans..and will continue to change after we are gone…our existence just a tiny footnote in earths historty thats says…”no impact”

394. Ralph Anderson said,

     March 5, 2009 @ 12:57 pm

     sir,

     It’s nice to a comment (mine) ,that takes an opposite view all all those that fawn over your man-made crisis (yes..the crisis is man-made,not “climate-change) is unceremoniously deleted.
     I find that not only disengenuous, but somewhat childish and petty.
     I would have thought that anyone, including you would appreciate a little discourse on said subject……..I was wrong….
     ..this obviously is a board only for the fully ndocrinated among us

     My sicere apology for expecting more from a past VP, and self-proclaimed savior of our planet

     good day sir….

395. Michael said,

     March 6, 2009 @ 5:10 pm

     Dear Mr Gore.

     I know you are busy and I just wanted to say hi. and I saw your movie “An Inconvenient Truth”. I was pushed to go green but when I did the power company laid charges on me.

     I used four solar panels and two roof top wind mills and I used the power created from it to extract hydrogen and made a Hydrogen powered generator.

     the power company is now charging me for stealing hydro because I have three building off the grid and I wont let them see how I am doing it.

396. Glenn Flowers said,

     March 9, 2009 @ 1:20 am

     Your Highness;
     Fact: CO2 is NOT toxic.
     Fact: CO2 is NOT a pollutant
     Fact: CO2 is the least of all greenhouse gasses
     Fact: CO2 is necessary for the existance of ALL life on Earth
     Fact: CO2 does NOT cause climate temperature to rise, climate temperature increase causes more CO2.
     Fact: More CO2 in the atmosphere is causing the Amazon rain forest to regenerate many times faster on its own than any action by man.
     Fact: Higher levels of CO2 cause increased crop production per acre, more acres of farm land to be usable, increased flora on a global basis, and has been evident in the most productive and socially beneficial time periods in history
     Fact: The number one factor in climate change is the fluctuating output of the Sun.
     Fact: The IPCC reports were flawed in their science, their conclusions, their writing, and their impartiality, which was absent. The IPCC was a governmentally funded search for evidence that climate change was manmade, not a search for whether it was or was not manmade. It had a predetermined conclusion, used modeling that is in no way indicative of real, observable data.

     Fact: This entire climate change fear campaign is nothing more than your attempt to make billions by TAXING AIR.

     What an evil, inhumanitarian, selfish, greedy liar and huckster you are. You will go down in history as being likened to Stahlin, Hitler, Tojo, bin Laden, Lucifer, Acccchhmedinjihad, Ayatollah Komenei, etc. You know the truth, yet you spread the lies that rob wealth, create animosities, beguile the innocent, promote your own image, and, in general, make the world a harder place in which to live in peace.

     As one TV marine used to say, “Shame shame shame shame shame”.

     May God have mercy on your unGodly soul.

     Glenn Flowers
     researcher of truth in all things

397. Jesse said,

     March 10, 2009 @ 1:32 am

     Why don’t you debate anyone on this issue? You were willing to debate shimmy shim sham sham shimmy Ross Perot on Larry King about NAFTA. If this is such a global crisis, then convince those you need to convince. Debate someone on national tv. I’ll debate you. I’m just a high school educated man. You can take me. That one scientist challenged you at that global forum you spoke at, but you declined saying you really can’t debate the science. Do you know how silly that sounds? You are telling a renowned scientist that you cannot debate the science when you are not a scientist? What planet am I living on? You know what, Mr. Gore. You’re right. You cannot debate the science.

398. Erasmo Muñoz Giraldo said,

     March 17, 2009 @ 12:42 pm

     Dear Mr Gore

     Thanks for your interest to fight to protect our world.
     I like to see different videos about the climate crisis mainly throught TED VIDEOS.

     I live in a little town near to Medellín, Colombia and it would be very important to generate concious about this big problem because sometimes people don´t know the real situation.

     I would like to be a volunteer to expand the information about global warming, so I need your help and the autorization to do it.

     sincerely

     ERASMO MUÑOZ GIRALDO
     MEDELLÍN, COLOMBIA

399. Lore Herchen said,

     March 19, 2009 @ 1:15 am

     You will freeze to death , hopefully

400. Harold von Borck, Ph.D. said,

     March 20, 2009 @ 5:58 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore.
     All efforts to solve climate change must fail, unless ” world population explosion” is reduced first.
     Population growth can be curbed by mandatory ” sterilization” of all male infants at birth; rendering couples incapable to foster children.

401. Carolyn said,

     March 23, 2009 @ 10:33 am

     Dear Mr Gore,
     I watched Rep. Rohrabacher on the floor last week. He talked about global wrming and how it is a natural thing that occurs and that trends of cooling and warming are a part of the Earth’s cycles. He totally convinced me that the global warming fear mongerers are scaring people into beliving that we are all going to suffer grave consequences if something is not done. Also it is not the fault of humans but that is whatt we are being led to believe! Actually, this has been one of the coldest years on record in several years!!!! A scene in your movie “An inconveinet Truth” was done with styrofoam to try to lead people to think they were witnessing a horrific event where an ice chunk was breaking away…..this is a farse to make money and impose more taxes and it’s wrong!!! I know you own a carbon tax company and this scam of global warming has been in the making for several years. Top scientists are debunking you’re theories and you just ingnore them .
     How about ” The Real Truth” Mr. Gore? How about answering all the questions honestly and stop trying to make money off our backs…..if the fed keeps going at the rate it is, it won’t be worth anything anyway………

402. Pallavi Verma said,

     March 25, 2009 @ 9:39 am

     Dear Mr.Gore,

     I saw your documentary “an Inconvenient Truth” and i was totally moved by it. I really appreciate what you doing for this planet.
     Well i belong to a small state in India where people are not very much aware of climatic changes. To make conditions even worse people here are burning forests to such an extent that 80% of the forests have already been destroyed. The reason behind is some people think by burning forest they can form clouds for rains and some want to have more land for agriculture. People here are not so educated and does not know what all happening in this world. Even the forest officials are ignoring the problem. The government here is not ready to take any serious action. I really dont know where to complain about it.
     After watching your documentary i thought to write to you, so that u can help me out with this serious problem. I want my grandchildrens to see this beautiful world not to see it destroying.

     With reagrds
     Pallavi Verma, India

403. Diana said,

     March 25, 2009 @ 2:35 pm

     Mr. Gore….i recently found out that Irena Sendler was nominated for the noble peace prize for saving the lives of 2500 infants and children during the Holacaust,she was german and knew what was going to happen to these children,so she asked and was granted permision to be a plummbing and sewer specialist in the Warsaw getto,she was also caught and the germans broke both her arms and both legs,and beat her severly,she tried to re-unite the children w\ their parents,but most had already been gassed,she found homes for these children,she lost the peace prize to YOU,for a slide show on Global Warming,,,,,,

404. Murray said,

     March 26, 2009 @ 5:53 am

     Manbearpig is real. I’m super serial. Al Gore you have opened my eyes.

405. Murray said,

     March 26, 2009 @ 5:54 am

     I spell colour with a U. I’m not a retard american.

406. Murray said,

     March 26, 2009 @ 5:54 am

     lols

407. Dave W. said,

     March 30, 2009 @ 11:03 am

     Dear Al Gore,
     Where is this global warming you promised us?
     I’m freezing my butt off. It snowed again yesterday on the flowers that are trying to come up, I hope they don’t freeze again and die.
     April is coming this week and I am trying to think of a way to dump more carbon into the air and bring on this global warming so me and my friends won’t freeze to death.
     If you want to learn about Global warming, read 2 Peter chapter 3. It also covers the Big Bang!
     Thank you!

408. Pete Cunningham said,

     April 3, 2009 @ 11:10 am

     Mr. Gore,
     You should be ashamed for accepting the Nobel Prize for your slide show on “global warming”, a slide show that I understand was created FOR you, not by you. You should have been gracious enough to refuse and tell the Nobel committee they should have awarded the prize to the family of Irena Sendler who single handedly saved over 2500 children from the Holocaust during WWII, but maybe you’re one of the few who don’t believe the Holocaust happened.

409. Nour Hamidaddin said,

     April 5, 2009 @ 10:51 am

     Dear Mr. Al Gore,
     I am 11 years old girl from Saudi Arabia. I would love to help with global warming and would like to open a place where people can try to stop global warming. For example we could send out flyers written on them tips to help stop global warming . Mr. Gore you are my role model in this issue and would be inspiration to the group I am trying to create here.Please write me back to help me start such an effort. This is my E-mail : nouriee_cutie@hotmail.com
     sincerely,
     Nour Hamidaddin
     Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

410. Alan Robertson said,

     April 5, 2009 @ 12:05 pm

     Has anybody thought to paint their roof white? If polar ice caps reflect heat back out to space why cannot your roof of your house? How many houses would you need to add up to a polar ice cap reflecting heat back?

     Why don’t we take sea water, remove the salt and irrigate desert land? You could even sell the salt left over - just like a giant still powered naturally by the sun. The water could be pumped in land and used for irrigation of most of Africa! Vast swathes of uninhabited desert suddenly become available for crop growth.

411. Joseph G. De Leo Jr said,

     April 6, 2009 @ 8:12 am

     I am 37 year old family of five. I am a big fan and follower of Gore’s views of Global warming, and the effects its having on the Earth as a whole. Big Oil and the blind eye of the governments of the world that want profits from special interest groups are the biggest problem in today’s time.

     People as a whole cant fight global warming efficient enough without the governments help with creating more rules and laws to stop Greenhouse Gasses.

     Sure we can make a difference but we need to petition government and world leaders to make a stand with us. I would like my children and their children to have the same Earth as I did to enjoy growing up.

     I blog about this issue on myspce.com/josephgdeleojr if anyone would like to read more of my opinions on global warming or other political issues even if Al Gore himself would like to read what i rite to see if he agrees.

     Thanks
     Joseph G De Leo Jr

412. Beth Jetton said,

     April 6, 2009 @ 3:15 pm

     Dear Al Gore,

     I am very upset about the New World Order, the Bilderberg Group, the Global Elite, the Illuminati, 9/11 being an inside job . . Project Northwoods, False Flag Attack: Problem. Reaction. Solution. What about the FEMA coffins, the concentration camps with barbed wire. What are they for??? US??

     Are you sure you are not pretending Global Warming is a problem so you can charge us all a Carbon Tax?? Are you a puppet for the Global Elite?? All the other politicians are. Even Clinton was. So you must be . . .

     I don’t trust ANYONE anymore. If I spit on and burn an American Flag to the ground will that negatively affect the environment? Do I need to pay a tax on that? ‘Cause I will ya know. If I owe it and all. That is what I feel like doing right now. The Fascist American Flag . . spat upon and burned to the ground. Our government killed innocent Americans on 9/11.

     You are all a sham. Shame on you. Contact me. Let’s discuss

413. noorjehaan ismail said,

     April 11, 2009 @ 7:35 pm

     dear mr al gore

     i am a south african and i am extremely moed by your movie inconvenient truth. i am an extremely strong believer of global warming. i am currently doing a paper on your movie and global warming itself. you have taught me alot by this movie. however, i would like to know whether you would ever consider doing a presentation in South Africa. i know of many that would be moved by this that needs to know more about global warming. i find it important that people are aware of this and i am surely making small changes to the environment i am living in. thank you i am deeply grateful we have people like you on this planet

414. Jesse B said,

     April 15, 2009 @ 4:09 pm

     Mr. Gore,

     Please explain to me why it is colder than it has ever been in the history of our State? Please explain to all of us how Global Warming is making it snow on the 15th of April 2009.

     Please start telling the truth. You could start here… I did not invent the internet. The second one could be… Global Warming is a hoax..

415. Tim said,

     April 18, 2009 @ 11:46 am

     Global Warming, Global Climate Change whatever you want to call it IS the biggest load of crap I’ve ever heard. For starters what is the optimal planet temperature? The planet has been here for over 4 billion years and we’re suppose to believe that little ol’ man has that big of an effect? The biggest cause of warming is that big bright star in the sky. I believe we call it the SUN. What a bunch of idiots. If you really want to impress me start living like the Amish. Sell your corporate jets, mansions, SUVs, & start riding a bike & walking. What a bunch of hyocrits. Do as I say, not as I do.

416. linda digiacomo said,

     April 18, 2009 @ 6:49 pm

     al i think you should debate you claims on the global hoax with some scientists. today on april 18 2009 there is another 3 foot of snow in denver. im sitting in my house again freezing its been the coldest in history. i do not know how you did it but you did. I look forward to a great debate on this issue because all indicaators are that its just not a good thing to believe in. a fairy tale of the most ridiculous nature. you have frightened children and madr fools out of parents that know better. If its raining you can see it if its freezing you can feel it. you have made up a story out of whole cloth. not nice.

417. linda digiacomo said,

     April 18, 2009 @ 6:55 pm

     how can polar bears be disappering if their are more of them now than 15 years ago. How is this even possible? is more less or is more more. I think more is more. so the bear deal is not true either.I think this calls for a debate on whether the bears are disappearing also. please think about these debates. can you talk jet butt lagosie out of her jet . she is a major polluter also. how stupid is that. flying around like she is something special. just a blatant polluter.

418. pinnie said,

     April 18, 2009 @ 6:58 pm

     we have lived in our town forever. we have snow some winters and then theres none the next year . the temperatures are always low and its very rare that we are warmer than our records. if the air is moisture filled it will snow. if there is none then guess what no snow. gee that was easy.

419. Brian Dreyer said,

     April 19, 2009 @ 4:02 pm

     The Vice President of the United States, Mr. Al Gore,

     Mr. Gore,

     I am not always in agreement with any political party’s belief. I am an Independent. But I would dearly like to see the debate over the environment brought as closely to conclusion as it can be. And at the same time allow it to be as widely viewed as possible. You have championed this cause and you can not be complimented enough for doing so. I feel you are our only political voice of reason in this area. I feel if we were to accumulate all of the subject pertinent scientists in one place, regardless of their individual believes or political orientation. Identify their expertise, so that, if possible provide a weighted vote, as some opinions would be more on point than others. And set a forum for debate much like what Ted Koppel did some years ago. And have details presented on where each scientist opinion falls in a yes, no or don’t know. Then have a document drafted showing who they are and where their opinion landed for distribution to the world. This would certainly help me. Seems like the media finds the scientist that supports their particular views and there by really providing zero value.

     Thank you for your time, sincerely,
     Brian Dreyer

420. Michael Clark said,

     April 19, 2009 @ 4:15 pm

     Mr. Gore:
     I commend and respect your scientific information on Global Warming. It is not a scare tactic, and I am sure that is a fact it is caused by corporations and our dependence on coal and fossil fuels. Finally there is an administration that is hopefully going to address this issue that will effect all of us if we do not change our present direction. This would have happened sooner if you had been given the election that I feel you won. I was ashamed of Florida which is my place of birth. Keep up the great work!

421. Karl Laviolette said,

     April 19, 2009 @ 10:50 pm

     I was watching “An Inconvenient Truth” on the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. tonight and as I was watching, I asked myself, is that Al Gore riding on a private Jet ? Seriously, was he riding on a private jet while trying to warn us about global warming? Please tell I didn’t really see this…

422. Andrea Wood said,

     April 20, 2009 @ 12:07 am

     I have just finished watching your movie An Inconvient Truth, and was heart broken to know these facts. I want to help!
     Im doing the little things but want to do more.

     If any one reading this could give me any more information on how else to help, I would more than love it.

     My son is only 7 months old and I want him to be able to enjoy the world the way it once was. The way I enjoyed it.

     Help me Help!

423. Terrence Chetty said,

     April 20, 2009 @ 9:21 am

     Hi Mr. Gore,

     “An Inconvenient Truth” - Absolutley brilliant, you should be knighted for that!

     I have a concept that could reduce global warming by a significant amount. The concept eliminates the need of burning fossil fuels and is not wind or geothermal generated.

     I will be creating a prototype in the near future and would like to get you to present this.

     Hope to hear from you.

424. Lee Rigsby said,

     April 20, 2009 @ 3:41 pm

     I watched An Inconvenient truth last night and was very affected. I started thinking that we should as a people, should start teaching and recognizing the effort of people who recycle. We could start in our elementary schools. We have letters after people’s names for the amount of education they have. It recognizes their degrees and such. Why not recognize people for what they do to save the environment. We could start there and maybe expand on this. Recognize common people for their contributions too. It would read like this. Lee Rigsby (ES) (Environment supporter). There could be levels of support and such as (ES1), which means I support and recycle at home, (ES2), support and recycle at home and work and so on. If the governments of the world would support such an effort, people could be paid at tax time according to how much they recycle. At recycle depots, a simple program could be run to keep track of this. People’s blue boxes could be scanned and the amount kept track of. I realize that there would be difficulties but some of it could be on the honor system and some government controlled. Expanding on this, programs could be run through credit cards to see how much environment friendly products are bought in stores, and as people continue to buy stuff, it would accrue on the letters after their names. This would recognize their contributions to helping save our earth. People who ride bicycles and take mass transit would be given a credit for not having a car. People with electric cars or those that are very energy efficient would be recognized as Lee Rigsby (ES3EC) (Environment Supporter at home at work and Environment friendly Electric Car).
     There could be a system put into place where the amount of water and electricity a household uses would be compared to the number of residents and a ratio computed. After taking an average, certain households could be recognized and rewarded for their contributions. Conceivably, if a household of four saved more than the gross national average, they could be given a tax relief and title for their household.
     Just some thoughts on this dire situation.
     Thank you
     Lee Rigsby

425. Donna in Texas said,

     April 22, 2009 @ 11:42 pm

     The people have a right to know the truth about real global warming! What about the two nuclear bombs we dropped causing a change in our atmosphere and causing it to really heat up? Now that is real global warming! What about the ongoing nuclear testing? What about the melt down at Grenoble. You’ve got to be kidding. It is actually the governments who have been destroying our world. I dare you to do the research and show it!

426. Pete Hensel said,

     April 24, 2009 @ 2:48 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore:
     My fifth grade students and I have noticed that people tend to drink water or whatever water based drink from plastic bottles, put the cap back on it, and then discard them with the caps on. If the bottle gets recycled that trapped water is released back to the Earth’s water cycle. But, if that bottle gets thrown in the trash or littered, that water will possibly be trapped for many decades. My students and I are concerned about water being trapped in plastic or even aluminum sealed containers. Water is not garbage, but people are apparently throwing out water by the millions of containers each day trapping billions of drops of water inside. We calculated that a million drops of water is about 28 gallons. This has to be adding up to a substantial amount world wide each day. We have never heard anything about this concern from any environmental group. Please help!

427. John said,

     April 24, 2009 @ 6:17 pm

     Everyone besides YOU, Mr. Dickhead, says ‘global warming’ is not
     caused by human action. Get your head out of your ass.
     I think it’s time to bad mouth you continually. Mr. uses more electricity at home than many businesses and flies around on his goddam private jet.

     Give it up, asshole.

428. David Ables said,

     April 24, 2009 @ 11:18 pm

     Mr. Honorable Al Gore,
     Would you please just shut the hell up about your famous in you own mind GLOBAL WARMING! Hey, just asking.
     By the way, what kind of milage you getting with that huge
     YACHT you have? Is it a HYBRID? Do you fly in AIRPLANES? are they HYBRID? Is your HOUSE powered by ELECTRICITY? Do you drive a CAR or Im sorry, Do you get drivin in a CAR? Is it HYBRID? Do you use TOILET PAPER when you, well you know!
     Is it RECYCLED? Do you use PLASTIC products? Is your GARBAGE picked up, or do you use it as FUEL in your YACHT?
     HONORABLE? I THINK NOT!

429. bob barr said,

     April 25, 2009 @ 8:36 am

     UK’s Lord Christopher Monckton, a former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, claimed House Democrats have refused to allow him to appear alongside former Vice President Al Gore at a high profile global warming hearing on Friday April 24, 2009 at 10am in Washington. Monckton told Climate Depot that the Democrats rescinded his scheduled joint appearance at the House Energy and Commerce hearing on Friday. Monckton said he was informed that he would not be allowed to testify alongside Gore when his plane landed from England Thursday afternoon.

     “The House Democrats don’t want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face,” Monckton told Climate Depot in an exclusive interview. “They are cowards.”

     According to Monckton, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), Ranking Member on the Energy & Commerce Committee, had invited him to go head to head with Gore and testify at the hearing on Capitol Hill Friday. But Monckton now says that when his airplane from London landed in the U.S. on Thursday, he was informed that the former Vice-President had “chickened out” and there would be no joint appearance. Gore is scheduled to testify on Friday to the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment’s fourth day of hearings on the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. The hearing will be held in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building.

     According to Monckton, House Democrats told the Republican committee staff earlier this week that they would be putting forward an unnamed ‘celebrity’ as their star witness Friday at a multi-panel climate hearing examining the House global warming bill. The “celebrity” witness turned out to be Gore. Monckton said the GOP replied they would respond to the Democrats’ “celebrity” with an unnamed “celebrity” of their own. But Monckton claims that when the Democrats were told who the GOP witness would be, they refused to allow him to testify alongside Gore.

     [ Update: 1:55 PM EST: A GOP House source told Climate Depot that the Democrats on the Committee said “absolutely not” to allowing Monckton to appear during today’s Gore hearing. The GOP committee “pushed at multiple levels” to bring Monckton in to testify but the Democrats “refused,” according to the GOP source. Former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich was called in to testify after Monckton was rejected by the committee Democrats, according to the Congressional source.]

     “The Democrats have a lot to learn about the right of free speech under the US Constitution. Congress Henry Waxman’s (D-CA) refusal to expose Al Gore’s sci-fi comedy-horror testimony to proper, independent scrutiny by the House minority reeks of naked fear,” Monckton said from the airport Thursday evening.

     “Waxman knows there has been no ‘global warming’ for at least a decade. Waxman knows there has been seven and a half years’ global cooling. Waxman knows that, in the words of the UK High Court judge who condemned Gore’s mawkish movie as materially, seriously, serially inaccurate, ‘the Armageddon scenario that he depicts is not based on any scientific view,’” Monckton explained. Monckton has previously testified before the House Committee in March. (See: Monckton: Have the courage to do nothing…US Congress told climate change is not real ) Monckton has also publicly challenged Gore to a debate. (See: Al Gore Challenged to International TV Debate on Global Warming By Lord Monckton - March 19, 2007 )

430. mjg said,

     April 26, 2009 @ 2:51 am

     thanks to you and those zealots who believe as you do, the grain of salt that i (and any other reasonable person) take regarding the scientific method, has been replaced by a gigantic boulder of salt. the line between science and politics has been blurred by you, your minions, and those who believe as you do, to the point that natural and appropriate skepticism has been replaced by a tendency toward disbelief when it comes to anything any scientist has to say. this is on your head; is your fault. you should be ashamed by the damage you have done in the name of science. i wonder, will this be posted, or discarded (i.e. censored)?????

431. Chadwick Bacon said,

     April 27, 2009 @ 3:48 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     It is no great secret that we as a society are at a crucial point in time…..a fork in the road if you will. A point in time when hope seems to be in the forefront of everyone’s mind who believes change is coming. We either continue heading down a path that will indefinitely lead to the end. The end of growth and the end of virtues and commonalities that we seem to be taking for granted. Or we choose to veer off course; we choose to set the stage for an unprecedented chain of events that will reshape the world.

     My name is Chadwick Bacon and I am an Industrial Arts teacher in Florida. In order to become an industrial arts teacher I had to gain a culmination of techniques including technical methods, skills, and processes that encompassed areas such as automotive, design, fabrication, and manufacturing methodologies. Learning how the world interacts with relation to raw materials and humans presence on these materials is what drove me to pursue this career.

     Over the course of the last 5 years I have stepped back and observed changes in the fundamentals that I was raised around. The core beliefs that shaped who I am, what I believe in, and what I stand for,……have been rewritten. The fine line between what is right and wrong has become so blurred, that many can’t recognize when they themselves are crossing it.

     Mr. Gore I have always seemed to have an aptitude to look at problems and solve them from a logical standpoint. Real world solutions for real world problems are what I stand for and truly believe in. I come to you in all sincerity in saying that I have solutions to serious problems. I ask you to give me the chance to sit before you and explain myself. I ask you to give me the chance and funding that will allow me to put together and lead a team of colleagues, cohorts, designers, and engineers.

     I have a self developed and prototyped idea that I have been refining for the past year that will reshape and revolutionize the way we create motion. Sectors such as the internal combustion engine and electrical generation have been relatively unchanged for the last century. It will reshape the way power is created and goods are transported. It will not only transform our country back into the global economic engine it once was, but it will also give the world the ability to run on a daily basis without the harmful side effects of fossil fuels.

     In this time of need I feel that the most important asset that our country has available to it is being ignored. Collectively as a society there is an ability to persevere through means of innovation, talent, and determination. After all necessity is the mother of invention and these are without a doubt necessary times. A new idea takes on average 3-5 years from concept to creation in an ideal circumstance. However we do not have 3-5 years to sit by watching and wondering.

     I must ask you not to dismiss this as accusations or fallacies and allow me to sit with you and show you the plan that I am proposing. Mr. Gore I truly feel that you are the salvation that not only this country needs but this world needs as well. Give me 30minutes of your time and I promise you that I can show you the light at the end of the tunnel.

     Thank you,

     Chadwick Bacon

     “Hope is righteous……just……and necessary. Without hope we accept what is now, and what will be.”

     -Chadwick Bacon-

432. Dean Joseph Webber said,

     April 28, 2009 @ 3:48 am

     Hi,

     For the record - you have my absolute support…need more people who think on this planet……

433. Romney Dickinson said,

     April 28, 2009 @ 10:11 am

     Gore is the perfect example of a politician in the 21st century; gluttonous, hypocritic, involved in self/graft/profit. A fool could determine this if they would open their eyes (and mind). The flooding of two rivers for photo ops, polluting streams, flying high consumption private jets (he and Tipper), living in a home that could support 10 families and docking a huge boat on a lake with no fuel as he reports, leaving lights on, being chauffered around in a fleet of limos and SUVs and leaving them running, and certainly he is NOT starving for food.
     The simple facts that he hides his contact information but easily makes contribution and “sales” marketing available. The most recent example of a lowlife is him having his anti/opponent banned from speaking; oh, but yes,, he did not do this. It was some staff member I am sure. The same story this idiot has given all his life for miscues. This man should just stop using the food, energy, air, amenities that he is using that the rest of us could use prudently. He can however, go to hell and keep warm in winter…..spring, summer, and fall. The damned fat fool.

434. Ben Allport said,

     April 28, 2009 @ 12:50 pm

     “An Inconvenient Truth” was a fraud. I should never have been made and should not be aired again. According to the judge at a court case it has “nine scientific inaccuracies”. It is political alarmism dressed up as science and delivered by someone who is not a scientist. A Gore’s Noble Prize should be taken off him!

435. will hirst said,

     May 2, 2009 @ 4:50 pm

     mr Gore,
     just want to say what a fantastic thing you’ve doing- speading the word and getting awareness of global warming and climate change out.

     i know its too much to ask but, would there eva be a possibilty that you are too make another movie like an inconvient truth? because it was a fantastic film, but i think that it would be great that you could talk about any achivements or problems or any other statistics that have recently changed? this would be brillient!!

     100per cent support!!!

436. Common Sense said,

     May 2, 2009 @ 6:55 pm

     Travel through time back to:

     Earth Day Predicitions from 1970 (about Global-COOLING)
     —————————————————-

     “We have about five more years at the outside to do something.”
     • Kenneth Watt, ecologist

     “Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
     • George Wald, Harvard Biologist

     “We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.”
     • Barry Commoner, Washington University biologist

     “Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
     • New York Times editorial, the day after the first Earth Day

     “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
     • Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

     “By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”
     • Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

     “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,”
     • Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day

     “Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”
     • Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University

     “Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”
     • Life Magazine, January 1970

     “At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”
     • Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

     Stanford’s Paul Ehrlich announces that the sky is falling.
     “Air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.”
     • Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

     “We are prospecting for the very last of our resources and using up the nonrenewable things many times faster than we are finding new ones.”
     • Martin Litton, Sierra Club director

     “By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.’”
     • Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

     “Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
     • Sen. Gaylord Nelson

     “The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years,” he declared. “If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”
     • Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

     —————————————————-

     Seems to me “environmentalists” should just be meteorologists (aka weather forecasters) since they both have crappy ‘prediction’ records.

     -Common Sense

437. Jock Litterick said,

     May 3, 2009 @ 5:53 am

     Dear Al,

     I’ve just watched, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, for the third time. Each time I see it, I am more convinced that you are right and that we are heading for disaster unless we change our ways.

     In my little corner of the world, a village called Waterfall situated in the hills 40km outside Durban, South Africa, in November we had a mini cyclone, (the first in living memory), which caused much damage in its wake to houses and trees alike, so much so that a friend joked that our neighbouring suburb, Forresthills would from now on be known only as Hills. We had a milder than usual summer, (Durban gets stinking hot in summer), punctuated by worse than normal downpours, and our winter seems to have arrived earlier than usual.

     Unfortunately, changing things for the better will be a bit like changing the direction of one of those super tankers, if we start now we will only achieve our goals several years down the road.

     As an apolitical, naturally sceptical WASP who thinks that all politicians are self serving individuals, it is refreshing to think that you have broken out of the mould, or were you ever in the mould in the first place?

     Kind regards,

     Jock Litterick

438. RT LUKE said,

     May 3, 2009 @ 8:52 pm

     Some truths (inconvenient or otherwise)

     Sunspots have a much greater and more closely corresponding effect on earth temperature and climate trends than CO2, though much harder to regulate.

     CO2 is a gas necessary for our survival, not a pollutant.

     My family uses less energy than your family.

     Nuclear fuel and coal are both produced in your home state. You seem to be irrationally opposed to the clean choice of the two and OK with the other one.

     And the most inconvenient truth. Aborting a third trimester baby that is out-of-the-womb-viable may be a choice, but it also state-sponsored murder. If you truly want to do something good for society, work on this one.

439. R. Snaauw said,

     May 4, 2009 @ 10:28 am

     Until he practices what he preaches, who is going to listen? http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp

440. John P. Noone said,

     May 12, 2009 @ 2:57 pm

     I wish to check on the validity of the statements I received in the following email:

     Tale of Two Houses

     House #1
     A 20 room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house, all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2400 per month. In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home.. This house is not situated in a Northern or Midwestern “snow belt” area. It’s in the South.

     HOUSE #1 is outside of Nashville , Tennessee ;
     it is the abode of the “environmentalist” Al Gore..

     House #2
     Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university. This house incorporates every “green” feature current home construction can provide. The house is 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on a high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat-pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground.

     The water (usually 67 degrees F) heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape.

     HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near Crawford,Texas;
     it is the residence of former President of the United States ,
     George W. Bush.

     I do not beleive anything until I check it out- is this true???

     Thank You

441. David Arthur M.Quimpo said,

     May 12, 2009 @ 11:49 pm

     Dear Mr. Al Gore

     I am a college teacher of the College of Mass Communications at the West Visayas State University in Iloilo City, Philippines. I am currently working for my Masters Degree in Mass Communications and one of the requirements I would need to accomplish would be for me to pass my thesis. For my study I have decided to use your environmental documentary film “An Inconvenient Truth” presented by you as material for evaluation as a campaign tool for awareness. I deem this material as most appropriate to detrermine the level of awareness of the residents of this city about global warming, its peripheral and extended effects. I Intend to take advantage of the recent effects of Typhoon Feng Shen (local name “Frank”)that devastated the whole region last June 22,2008 that resulted to 121 deaths and 1 Billion pesos (1,212,721,500.00) worth of property destroyed, not including the capsizing of two vessels claiming more lives outside the region,if only to emphasize the importance of what it is to be environmentally aware, after this recent tragedy. Personally, I believe your film provides extensive technical explanation to the processes involved regarding global warming and other adverse inconsistencies that we are experiencing in our local weather right now,inclusive of root causes. I Intend to present your documentary film in an appropriate forum that may give residents of selected local communities (Baranggays) the opportunity to see and listen to your message regarding global warming that may possibly provide enlightenment to these communities, that they may begin to realize how important it is to know such facts so as to be better prepared should a similar disaster may occur in the future. My study is entitled THE ACCEPTABILITY AND IMPACT OF AL GORE’S ENVIRONMENTAL FILM AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH AS AN INFORMATION CAMPAIGN MATERIAL AMONG THE RESIDENTS OF SELECTED ENVIRONMENTALLY-CHALLENGED BARANGGAYS (communities) OF ILOILO CITY. With this intention in mind I would like to ask permission from you to allow me the use of your film as a possible campaign material to further awarness of global warming?

     Your immediate and positive response will be most appreciated. You may e-mail your reply to my e-mail address at sa2guideline69@yahoo.com Thank you very much in advance.

     Respectfully yours,

     David Arthur M.Quimpo

     Instructor

     WVSU-CMC

442. roger gordon said,

     May 17, 2009 @ 6:12 pm

     We are making and using zero emission fuel in all our vehicles and gensets for next to nothing

     We make the fuel in a patent pending machine
     which uses only air and water powered
     by wind electric. Even govt scientists are amazed.

     We have sent numerous letters,faxes emails to Mr Gore with no reply. Would it be possible to get a letter of support for our technology.
     We have lots of supporting documents an you can come and touch and use it.

     Roger Gordon Georgetown On Can 905 877 7389

443. Carol Mason said,

     May 23, 2009 @ 5:48 pm

     Take a deep breath and get a grip, everyone! We need some perspective on global warming and I can recommend two excellent sites to eduate you.

     http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Carboniferous_climate.html

     http://www.scotese.com/climate.htm

444. Mustofa Munir said,

     May 26, 2009 @ 5:32 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     When the world has plunged into an alarming climate change situation, the country like India has built dozens of dams on the rivers flowing from its territory (upstream) into Bangladesh (downstream) without any consultation with the government of Bangladesh. Bangladesh could not reach into any concrete agreement with India on river issue since its birth.
     Most of the small rivers in Bangladesh are dried up and other major rivers are gradually drying up, their courses are being changed causing direct impact on the entire ecosystem of the country due to huge number of dams constructed by Indian government in the upstream. The agriculture and fishery sectors of Bangladesh are severely affected. Almost two third of its 130 million population is exposed to arsenic poisoning through drinking water and other radio active minerals deposited in ground water due to shortage of water flow.
     India did not stop. It has planned to construct another dam near TIPAIMUKH in its eastern part- in Manipur state. Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the Southeast Asia, will face another ecological devastation if India completes the construction of that Tipaimukh dam which is located 500 meters downstream from the confluence of Barak River, and lies on the south-western corner of Manipur State of India.
     “Construction of the proposed high dam in a very geologically sensitive zone above the long recognized Taithu Fault line will only serve to provoke frequent and major earthquakes inviting a major tsunami-like disaster and endangering the lives, land and forest of both India and Bangladesh,” reads a Dhaka Declaration, adopted at the International Tipaimukh Dam Conference (ITDC-2005) in Dhaka held on December 30-31 with participants (academics, rights activists and experts) from both India and Bangladesh expressing deep concern.

     “The Tipaimukh project was entirely developed and approved without once informing the government of Bangladesh or involving its people in any meaningful exercise to assess the downstream impacts of the dam,” says a report prepared by Action AID Bangladesh.
     On behalf of many Bangladeshi residents in USA I put this appeal to you earnestly to look into the issue and save millions of poor people from the adverse ecological, environmental and climatic changes that cover vast agricultural areas in Bangladesh before it is too late. It is not a geo-political issue but a genuine issue of climate change. Your help could save million poor people from food gap and water crisis.

     With best regards,

     Mustofa Munir

445. Mustofa Munir said,

     May 26, 2009 @ 5:36 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     When the world has plunged into an alarming climate change situation, the country like India has built dozens of dams on the rivers flowing from its territory (upstream) into Bangladesh (downstream) without any consultation with the government of Bangladesh. Bangladesh could not reach into any concrete agreement with India on river issue since its birth.
     Most of the small rivers in Bangladesh are dried up and other major rivers are gradually drying up, their courses are being changed causing direct impact on the entire ecosystem of the country due to huge number of dams constructed by Indian government in the upstream. The agriculture and fishery sectors of Bangladesh are severely affected. Almost two third of its 130 million population is exposed to arsenic poisoning through drinking water and other radio active minerals deposited in ground water due to shortage of water flow.
     India did not stop. It has planned to construct another dam near TIPAIMUKH in its eastern part- in Manipur state. Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the Southeast Asia, will face another ecological devastation if India completes the construction of that Tipaimukh dam which is located 500 meters downstream from the confluence of Barak River, and lies on the south-western corner of Manipur State of India.
     “Construction of the proposed high dam in a very geologically sensitive zone above the long recognized Taithu Fault line will only serve to provoke frequent and major earthquakes inviting a major tsunami-like disaster and endangering the lives, land and forest of both India and Bangladesh,” reads a Dhaka Declaration, adopted at the International Tipaimukh Dam Conference (ITDC-2005) in Dhaka held on December 30-31 with participants (academics, rights activists and experts) from both India and Bangladesh expressing deep concern.

     “The Tipaimukh project was entirely developed and approved without once informing the government of Bangladesh or involving its people in any meaningful exercise to assess the downstream impacts of the dam,” says a report prepared by Action AID Bangladesh.
     On behalf of many Bangladeshi residents in USA I put this appeal to you earnestly to look into the issue and save millions of poor people from the adverse ecological, environmental and climatic changes that cover vast agricultural areas in Bangladesh before it is too late. It is not a geo-political issue but a genuine issue of climate change. Your help could save million poor people from food gap and water crisis.

     With best regards,

     Mustofa Munir

446. Scott said,

     May 27, 2009 @ 1:07 am

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     Hi, My name is Scott and I am a Junior at Fairfield Union High School. My Social Studies teacher had us creating posters for Earth Day. For fun, i created a short rap song on Earth Day that alot of my teachers and classmates enjoyed. I would love to hear what you had to say about it. I really hope you get the chance to watch it! Here is a link to the youtube site that it is posted on… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73T4m8WSFrw

447. wayne said,

     May 29, 2009 @ 3:47 am

     I am interested to know why we (the people) are being told to stop driving our cars,yet one rocket launch would be equel to 100 people driving cars for a year. Necular testing would be ten times that, why dose that not get adressed. If a nucular bomb is tested in the earth it would be heating up from the inside,therefore melting ice from below,warming the oceans,upsetting the tectonic plates,that has to be a recipe for disaster. Not to metion taking away the ability of the marine life’s sonar.(beached whales). So i don’t think we are wholy responible for global warming.

448. Richie Abel said,

     May 29, 2009 @ 4:59 pm

     There is an old saying the when nature presents a problem it also produces the solution, I thought about this one night and thought what taks more co2 out of the atmosphere than any thing else the answer, Alge. then I thought where does alge thrive the answer, in high tempatures and in high co2 levels. so if like many “experts” say co2 makes the atmosphere warmer then the alge population will expand a huge rate and that will make the co2 levels go down and the tempature along with it. Please contact me if this explaination makes sense I am a 7th grade student at canfield village middle school my emal adressis richieabel51@gmail.com

449. Luis Zardo said,

     June 23, 2009 @ 11:50 am

     Mr Gore

     I Live in Brazil, I´m 38, married and I have no children, it was a decision I make when I was very young, because, even doing all the stuff we can do to preserve our planet and the nature, without reducing our numbers I think we are doomed, by the way, I do whatever i can, avoid mead, walk by feet whenever its possible.

     But, in my country, the complete decimation of our forests are not only neglected by our government, but even sponsored by it.
     Our government not just avoid family planning, but also regards miserable people who have a lot of babies…
     Our forests, rivers and everything else are being completely depleted.
     The amazon forest is becoming a huge area to raise cattle and, many other places becoming cana de açucar crops to produce ethanol…

     I know, it´s not your country, but its our world, and, the amazon forest is here, and, to be sincere, it couldn´t be it worse hands.

     Our mostly corrupt governement will destroy it in a few years if nothing is done.

     sorry for my poor english, and I really appreciate your attention

     kind regards

     Luis Zardo

450. Mary McKie said,

     June 24, 2009 @ 2:50 pm

     Dear Al, Tipper & Co.,

     Now that I’ve watched the DVD, I’m a little shocked that it’s taken me so long to get on board, to even watch the magnificent work of yours. I worked and voted for you, have since worked to help turn the very red state of PA into shades of blue … though I suppose our present president helped immensely

     Born and raised in Washington, I know well the private schools that you experienced; Graduated from GW, I worked for Wilmer Cutler for 10+ years, traveling the country managing securities litigation cases as a paralegal, putting in 12+ hour days, years on end. Had I not given that life up for this bike-riding, farm-loving life I’d not have enjoyed your Inconvenient Truth quite as much as I did. I believe you and your extraordinary film have awakened my inner hippy and I couldn’t be more grateful.

     I am left feeling very troubled by the notion that someone as respected and credentialed as yourself, armed with a committment to the cause failed to make changes until your were outside the government. This stirs me as much as the destruction of our planet, truth be told. If you should know of a way that I might help to change this, I would be happy to hear form you and your group.

     Regardless, I am very proud to have worked for you and pleased that the powerful information is out there and you have gained the appropriate recognition for the superb work.

     Mary McKie

451. Glenda said,

     June 25, 2009 @ 10:46 am

     I was born and raised in TN and when I see you and your scam on global warming that you are raking in millions from, I’m embarrassed to let people know my roots go back to TN.

     You are the most dispicable left-over politician (other that Jimmy Carter) around. Just evaporate and go away. We are all sick of you.

452. derrill said,

     June 30, 2009 @ 2:24 pm

     dear mr. gore the co2 building is a concern but not the whole problem methane and other gases contribute to the problem.we don’t have the plant and tree population we had to cover all we are spewing into our atmosphere.that is mother-nature’s way of balance and we have tilted it.plants and trees are filters and we don’t have enough to filter what we produce.my only question is there a plant that can grow 30 ft tall in one season,grows anywhere that we can make cheap affordable fuel and make all the similar products we use and simultaneously remove huge amounts of co2.something we can even take chipper shredders to grind it up for compost.something we used before in ww2 when our oil supply was cut,that we used to fuel-cloth and keep our machines lubed.if you look hard enough the answer gets clearer.but like alot of good info it will be looked at just like rotten meat.america lacks the spine and will. ps i hope someone hears this cry and does something before it’s to late to do anything.

453. Sue Robinson said,

     June 30, 2009 @ 8:30 pm

     Mr. Gore

     Time for you to recognize that your arguments on global warming are NOT supported by good (emphasis added) science. The newly discovered suppression of a report by our own EPA indicating that there is no correlation of C02 with climatic temperatures is astounding and you should be ashamed to push this RIDICULOUS notion of carbon trading due to “global warming”. As we follow the money trail we see how you are poised to enrich your family should cap and trade become law (god forbid) because that is what folks like you are all about…chasing money (the environment and its protection are a means to an end for you and a way to whip up the crazie greenies). I happen to BE an environmental scientist and am appalled at how you are pushing your junk science on a gullable constituency in the USA and globally. Have been watching to see if you really walk the talk (so far you DON’T with your energy guzzling home, private plane rides, parties that utilize lots of energy, etc.). SHAME ON YOU. Good thing you are no longer in public office.

454. lou said,

     July 1, 2009 @ 1:25 pm

     the cap and trade bill you are pushing is going to benifit you more than anybody else …you should be ashamed of yourself.this will not do anything if the rest of the word is not on the same page…it will cause factories to close and move to china.it will burden people who are struggling now to keep their homes.this is preditory politics.i as a taxpayer greatly oppose this bill and will do whatever it takes to stop it .even if we need to march on washington

455. Karen Short said,

     July 1, 2009 @ 1:32 pm

     Mr. Gore,
     I am aware you have made millions of dollars on global warming. I could take you a little more serious if you would have donated all proceeds to the cause. You expect us to pay higher electric bills and ration out our utilities but you sit back and make millions of dollars. Shame on you. Your just as crooked as the rest of the Washington Thugs. Thank God you never made it to president.

456. Brandi said,

     July 3, 2009 @ 4:17 pm

     Al Gore - Everyone now knows there is no such thing as global warming. It has been proven by not only the EPA, but also over 31,478 Scientist have testified to this fact. You and Hillary Clinton have refused to acknowledge these scientist and instead have tried to cover up document that the EPA put out to hide your dirty little scam. Now the Obama administration has introduced a the CAP and TRADE bill, which is really a CAP & TAX “global warming” or “climate change” bill. The American people will be paying taxes for something that DOESN’T exist because of your scam. People NOW know that you have lied. People are waking up to the truth and I declare that you make you lies known. You have cheated the American people and now is the time to make your deception known before this bill goes to the Senate for a vote. You should be ashamed of yourself Al Gore for stealing from the American people, and you should go to jail for it. You are a charlatan and a sorry excuse for a human being!

457. Cameron Bird said,

     July 4, 2009 @ 7:54 pm

     And the Al Gore lie continues:

     But if there is one scientist who knows more about sea levels than anyone else in the world it is the Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel Mörner, formerly chairman of the INQUA International Commission on Sea Level Change. And the uncompromising verdict of Dr Mörner, who for 35 years has been using every known scientific method to study sea levels all over the globe, is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story.

     Despite fluctuations down as well as up, “the sea is not rising,” he says. “It hasn’t risen in 50 years.” If there is any rise this century it will “not be more than 10cm (four inches), with an uncertainty of plus or minus 10cm”. And quite apart from examining the hard evidence, he says, the elementary laws of physics (latent heat needed to melt ice) tell us that the apocalypse conjured up by
     Al Gore and Co could not possibly come about.

     The reason why Dr Mörner, formerly a Stockholm professor, is so certain that these claims about sea level rise are 100 per cent wrong is that they are all based on computer model predictions, whereas his findings are based on “going into the field to observe what is actually happening in the real world”.

458. Winton Reinstein said,

     July 7, 2009 @ 6:45 am

     Dear Mr. Gore,
     I would challange you to come and live in Nothern Michigan for a year and see if, at the end of that time, you still believe in global warming.

459. nisa mccall said,

     July 7, 2009 @ 10:55 am

     Where you gonna be in 2050 by Nisa McCall
     Think about it!!!!
     View this on You Tube

460. R said,

     July 7, 2009 @ 11:10 am

     Dear Al,

     You want to compare me to a Nazi? You lowlife scumbag. Your false, money making scheme to swindle millions out of people for the sole reason to line your pockets is disgusting.

     If you had the balls I’d tell you to call me so we can discuss where your brain is located. Calling me a Nazi is beneath contempt.

     So here’s to you, asshole, FUCK YOU!

461. Mike Cass said,

     July 7, 2009 @ 3:37 pm

     Mr. Gore ,

     You pompous ass how dare you call me a Nazi. I am a small business owner in America and you sir are a liar and thief. Since you lost the election in 2000 your net worth has grown by over 100 million dollars most of the additional worth attributed to your global warming scam. I will fight you every step of the way on global warming, because this is only about money to you just like all the other politicians in America and for I one am sick of you getting wealthy on mine and the others backs of hard working individuals.

462. Arthur McCrea said,

     July 7, 2009 @ 4:25 pm

     You say that Global Warming support is like fighting the Nazis, I agree with you on that. Except you are the German Nazi representing “Global Warming” as Joseph Paul Goebbels the Nazi propaganda chief. You are one of the most ignorant people on earth. All you have to do is look up the geophysical history of the earth, but you are too stubborn to do that, or is it all the money you are making of this propaganda?

463. Don't Believe Your Crap said,

     July 7, 2009 @ 8:10 pm

     I am amazed that you’ve managed to brainwash so many people with your GLOBAL WARMING SCAM! The only warming is the heat coming from the biggest pile of manure coming out of your mouth! THERE IS NO PROOF THAT MAN HAS CREATED ANY WARMING! YOU ARE A LIAR! YOU KNOW IT…AND SO DO MILLIONS OF AMERICANS. YOU TRY TO SHOVE THIS HOAX DOWN OUR THROATS AND YOU ARE A FOOL! YOU REFUSE TO ADMIT THAT THE EARTH GOES THROUGH CYCLES…I SUPPOSE YOU’LL TRY TO BLAME HUMANS FOR WARMING THE GLOBE WHEN THE ICE AGE COVERED THE EARTH? YOU ARE A JOKE!
     SHAME ON YOU FOR LYING TO AMERICA….DESPITE WHAT YOU THINK….WE CAN’T STAND YOU FOR BEING SUCH A DISGRACE!
     YOU ARE THE BIGGEST SCAM THIS COUNTRY HAS SEEN..AND WE KNOW THE ONLY REASON YOU PUSH YOUR AGENDA IS TO TAKE MONEY FROM ‘WE THE PEOPLE’ AND PUT IT IN YOUR DAMN POCKET. DAMN YOU!

464. Jack Shields said,

     July 7, 2009 @ 9:22 pm

     Al, are you completely off of your rocker. Why don’t you use what credibility you have left to address a cause that doesn’t require hypothetical notions which are simply another mortals opinion, they also will be dust someday. Are you so shamed by your defeat in the presidential election of which you where your own worst enemy that you feel you should retaliate against our nation by adding to our worsening financial crisis by chasing a scenario created by you. Dedicate your efforts to something tangible that no one can deny like maybe “STARVING CHILDREN”! Jump on your Gulfstream and fly to any destination of your choice and you will not have to look far for the proof instead of having to fabricate it! Best Regards, Jack Shields Mulvane, KS

465. Phillip Sampley said,

     July 8, 2009 @ 1:00 pm

     Dr. Mr Gore,

     I am not sure how you can preport to be a Christian and continue to promote the lie of Climate Change! Is your only interest in getting more money to your bank account through your Carbon Credit Company. If Climat Change (changed from Global Warming) since the earth has been cooling for the last decade. Why wont you and other liberals sit down and listen to a growing group of Climate scientist that reject your claims…oh, bye the way, why would the courts of England not let your film, an inconvenient truth not be shown without several (i believe it was 10 “facts” ) were addressed. You sir are are selling your soul for money and in the process, you are selling out the United States of America…I do not consider you a patriot! I know you will never see this and even if you did, you will not reconsider and do the right thing. I am not sure how your crusade affects Tipper’s relationship with Christ and you but it must be hard. I pray for you and your family that you will be honest

466. Tom Toren said,

     July 12, 2009 @ 11:45 pm

     Dear Al Gore,

     I would like to submit to you an essay that I wrote, presenting certain remarkable but little publicized facts on how to effectively halt global warming. Please feel free to make use of this material. You would, no doubt, be able to research this subject further and publicize these facts much more effectively than I could.

     It is a short 3-page essay but it would not fit well into this small allocated space. Please let me have your email address, so that I can submit it to you as an attachment.

     Tom Toren, BSc (Hons), MIE Aust, CP Eng
     Managing Director
     Toren Consulting Pty Ltd
     Consulting Engineers
     PO Box 63
     Bondi NSW 2026
     Sydney, AUSTRALIA
     Tel: +612 9387 2514
     Fax: +612 9389 3595

467. Tom Toren said,

     July 13, 2009 @ 12:02 am

     Dear Mr Al Gore,

     I would like to submit to you an essay that I wrote, presenting certain remarkable but little publicized facts on how to effectively halt global warming. Please feel free to make use of this material. You would, no doubt, be able to research this subject further and publicize these facts much more effectively than I could.

     It is a short 3-page essay but it would not fit well into this small allocated space. Please let me have your email address, so that I can submit it to you as an attachment.

     Tom Toren, BSc (Hons), MIE Aust, CP Eng

     Saving our planet and all its inhabitants:

     Our global climate can be stabilized without major sacrifices within as little as 10 to 15 years if we reduce not only carbon dioxide but also methane emissions.

     NASA’s top climate scientist, James Hansen, has called for a 40% reduction in anthropogenic methane [1], i.e. methane caused or produced by humans.

     1. The IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) calculated that a single kg of methane (CH4) has the same greenhouse effect as 62 kg of carbon dioxide (CO2) over the initial 20 year period [2]. This 1 to 62 potency ratio diminishes with time, but it is the next 20 years that are of such critical importance to us all.
     2. Methane breaks down in the atmosphere within 10 to 15 years, compared to carbon dioxide that stays in the atmosphere for 100 years or more. Hence, the reduction of methane has a much faster effect than the reduction of carbon dioxide.
     To reduce methane we must reduce the number of ruminants, i.e. cattle and sheep. We must reduce wool consumption and we must reduce their particular meat consumption. The following Australian example illustrates the positive effect of doing so:
     Australia has 28 million cattle and 110 million sheep, producing about 3 megatonnes of methane per annum [3]. The greenhouse gas emissions effect of 3 megatonnes of methane is equivalent to 186 megatonnes of carbon dioxide, based on the above-mentioned ratio of 1 to 62 for the first 20 years. This is more than the 180 megatonnes of carbon dioxide produced by all the coal fired power stations, which are our prime power generators in Australia!

     Reducing the number of cattle and sheep goes to the very heart of saving our planet, all its inhabitants, our cities and our economies from the most serious threat that mankind and the rest of the animal world have experienced since the extinction of the dinosaurs. The sad fact is that our leading scientists warn us that beyond a certain point in the further deterioration of our climate, the situation will become irreversible, whatever we do. Therefore, instead of drifting along with soft options proposed by our politicians around the world, we must take decisive action with short-term effective remedies that will produce results within 10 to 15 years, such as the reduction in methane by reducing the number of ruminants, cattle and sheep.

     To achieve this, we must replace wool with synthetic fibers and reduce that particular meat consumption. This will require large scale international promotion and lobbying. We must engage the support of prominent figures like Al Gore and other international celebrities. Many of the popular actors, film and TV stars, pop stars, musicians and sport personalities who have chosen to be vegetarians would, no doubt, also be keen to lend their support to this worthy cause:

     Pamela Anderson, Ashley Judd, Brigitte Bardot, John Cleese, David Duchovny, Danny Devito, Cameron Diaz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Richard Gere, Josh Hartnett, Daryl Hannah, Dustin Hoffman, Katie Holmes, Steve Martin, Demi Moore, Ian McKellen, Tobey Maguire, Paul Newman, Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow, Joaquin Phoenix, Steven Segal, Brooke Shields, Liv Tyler, Jerry Seinfeld, Naomi Watts, Kate Winslet, Reese Witherspoon, Joan Baez, Leonard Cohen, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Morrissey, Olivia Newton John, Sinead O’Conner, Ozzy Osborne, Pink, Prince, Justin Timberlake, Tina Turner, Shania Twain, Vanessa Williams, Christie Brinkley, Christy Turlington, Billie Jean King, Martina Navratilova.

     Although it is not directly relevant to this discussion, it is nevertheless interesting to realize how many of the great thinkers of the past chose to be vegetarians and vegans:

     Socrates, Jesus Chris and early Christians, Confucius, Shakyamuni Buddha, Yogi Maharishi Mahesh, Leo Tolstoy, Pythagoras, Leonardo Da Vinci, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Bernard Shaw, John Robbins, Mark Twain, Albert Schweitzer, Plutarch, Voltaire, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Sir Isaac Newton.

     If we succeed to halt the deterioration in our climate before it is too late to do so, every human being and many animal species on this planet would benefit from the improvement in their quality of life. Many of us and our fellow non-human inhabitants would benefit from the continuation of life itself.

     This would reduce the melting of polar ice caps and the rising of sea levels; it will prevent the flooding of Polynesian islands and our coastal cities; it will reduce the rising temperatures and extreme weather fluctuations; it will reduce and eventually stop world hunger; it will preserve some of the species that would otherwise die out; and it will reduce the severity of droughts and hurricanes etc., all the dreadful things that we have been warned about and some of which we have already begun to experience.

     Richard Schwartz, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Mathematics, College of Staten Island, analyses on his website the factors contributing to increasing hunger, namely rapid population growth, increasing affluence, water scarcity, decreasing arable land, climate change and decreasing land productivity [4]. Here are some shocking statistics that you can find on his website :
     1. The world’s cattle consume an amount of food equivalent to the calorie requirements of 8.7 billion people. Livestock in the U. S. consume ten times the grain that Americans eat directly.
     2. Harvard nutritionist Jean Mayer estimates that if people reduced their meat consumption by just 10 percent, enough grain would be released to feed 60 million people.
     3. The wealthy nations feed more grain to their livestock than the people of India and China (more than one-third of the human race) consume directly.
     4. Contrary to the common belief that our grain exports help feed a hungry world, two-thirds of our agricultural exports go to feed livestock, rather than hungry people.
     The initial steps required to get this action off the ground are:

     • To engage some of the leading scientists and/or universities to contribute their time on a voluntary basis to agree upon, confirm and record the known facts regarding the relative greenhouse effects of CH4 and CO2 emissions on global warming and its consequences;
     • To adopt an existing protocol or establish a new one for measuring the critical indicators on the state of our “global health” on an annual basis, e.g. seasonal atmospheric and ocean temperatures, sea levels, reduction in area and mass of ice caps and glaciers, recording the number and severity of hurricanes, the gradual reduction in global cattle and sheep numbers etc. These procedures must be agreed upon by the above-mentioned scientists to avoid any disagreement as annual monitoring progresses;
     • To promote the critically urgent action required in reducing meat and wool consumption from cattle and sheep.

     The optimal outcome of a successful implementation of this action would be:

     1. Halting global warming and all its above-mentioned negative consequences. The results must be measured by the above-mentioned annual protocol.
     2. The freed up grazing land will be converted to crop growing agricultural land, thereby making a major contribution towards eliminating hunger around the world. Crop harvests are already not coping with the demand for grain exports to under-developed countries.
     3. The reduction in the number of cattle and sheep will also result in very significant saving of precious water. According to Dr Georg Borgstrom, Chairman of Food Science and Human Nutrition Department, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Michigan State University, as well as the US Water Education Foundation, the water required to produce one pound (454 gm) of beef is 2,500 US gallons (9,462 litres). By comparison, the water required to produce one pound (454 gm) of wheat, potatoes, tomatoes or lettuce requires only 23 to 25 US gallons (87 to 94 litres) of water, according to Soil and Water Specialists, University of California Agricultural Extension.

     [1] James Hansen and Makiko Sato. Greenhouse gas growth rates. Proc. Natl.
     Acad. Sci., 101(46):16109–16114, 2004.
     [2] V. Ramaswamy et al. Radiative Forcing of Climate Change. In J. Houghton
     et al, editor, Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis. IPCC, 2001.
     [3] Australian Greenhouse Office. National Greenhouse Gas Inventory, 2003.
     [4] Richard Schwartz, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Mathematics, College of Staten Island,USA.

468. Nathan and Chris Hill said,

     July 13, 2009 @ 5:36 pm

     Hi, my name is Nathan and I am 10 and my brothers name is Chris,he is 13. We are going to make an eco-friendly lawn service. We are using only battery powered equipment. We are trying to save the environment. We would like to include a disk of the “Inconvenient Truth” for our advertisement and we were wondering if you could send us some copies.

     Thank you so much!

469. wayne mosdell said,

     July 13, 2009 @ 6:10 pm

     Mr. Gore, You have heard this statement ” you can fool some of the people some of the time etc. ” Please quit dupping the American people concerning your global warming issue. It is false and you know it. It is a ruse for you and your buddies to amass a personal fortune at the expense of the American people. Please be honest , as now your credibility is nil.

470. B Murray said,

     July 13, 2009 @ 11:58 pm

     I don’t beleive the hysteria about global warming. And I don’t believe your propaganda. A lot of people are catching on to the global warming inaccuracies. I can understand now why there’s an urgency to pass cap and trade. I’ve heard that you stand to make millions of dollars in ‘carbon credits’. We are all going to end up paying the price for this deceit.

471. vivek.v.nair said,

     July 15, 2009 @ 5:37 am

     Dear Professor Gore,

     I am a student living in India (kerala).I am going to an awareness for global warming. I try to do it us an animation.Now i finish one animation based on global warming but i don’t know is it good or bad,i want to improve my concept and to develop a good awareness for global warming. So please send me your suggestions and your ideas. If you give me any other email id or and other contact link i send my finished animation,then you can able to evaluate that also. so please send me your suggestions and your ideas.

     —–:Loka Samastha Sukhino Bhavantu:—–

472. jimbo said,

     July 15, 2009 @ 3:07 pm

     I’m sure of one thing. This will never show up here or anywhere else. But, I’ll say it anyway You are a coniving, lying traitor.

473. jimbo said,

     July 15, 2009 @ 3:14 pm

     I can’t believe it.But since I’m here…I would like to know your qualifications for becoming THE EXpert on global warming???You must have taken general science in high school.You are a perfect example of what is required to become a billionaire without needing a brain! Be YOUR father’s son. How does that silver spoon taste?

474. Zelsdorf Ragshaft III said,

     July 15, 2009 @ 3:29 pm

     Mr. Gore:

     You and Madoff have a lot in common. I understand you wealth has increased 5000 percent since you begin campaigning about the lie that is called global warming. Real science, that being checking the mean temperature of earth over the last few years actually shows a cooling trend. There is not such thing as settle science. I wonder what you are going to do when the people come to get you for what you are doing? Notice one thing, if they give you the chance before they extract justice. The people doing the extracting of that justice. The ones who are howling for your blood the loudest are those who were on your side because of the lies you told and they have turned on you. What ever our fate, you deserve it. I just hope we don’t have to wait too long.

475. Danny said,

     July 16, 2009 @ 10:26 pm

     Three types of heat transfer are conduction, convection and radiation. The earth is heated by radiation from the sun. Anyone believing we humans can generate global warming is a fool. In the seventies the same type of people thought we had global cooling. Don’t you people realize how wealthy this is making Al and his pals?

476. Mom age 47 said,

     July 19, 2009 @ 8:37 pm

     I live in Minnesota. It is mid July. Two nights ago we went to our community park to enjoy a family night “movie in the park” sponsored by local business. We brought blankets, chairs, winter coats and hot chocolate. The temperature was in the low 50’s. Normal temps are 20 degrees higher. Is this really global warming?

     In the 70’s “Time Magazine” had an article warning about global cooling! Our earth takes care of herself. I don’t understand the alarm and quite frankly, lies. Check out globalwarmingisafarce.com for the other side of the “issue.” We are not killing the planet. Why are you planting these seeds? What do YOU gain? Do you sleep at night?

     Sincerely,

     Mom

477. Debasish Roy said,

     July 21, 2009 @ 6:36 am

     Dear Al Gore, I would have loved it if you became President of the United States. However, I feel you should get in touch with Mikhail Gorbachev and team up. He is another guy who changed the world in his own way. Just like you. Please get in touch with Indian website www.delhiforwater.com and try to work from India, the least contributor to global warming per head as Indians don’t own cars or any electrical appliances in the non-city areas.

478. jeff said,

     July 22, 2009 @ 9:38 am

     Dear Al,

     I think you are a moron.

     http://www.whnt.com/news/sns-ap-tn–recordcool,0,4032125.story

479. Nevi said,

     July 23, 2009 @ 6:29 pm

     hi:)
     I’ll just be brief, seeing that most US offices seem to have just autoresponders.
     I tried contacting most since 2008, but perhaps I’m ludicrously ’small’.

     I attempted to offer US a solution to the meltdown.Naturally, there are too many experts, but as you might notice, the deficit is expanding dramatically. Perhaps I seem to rant, because its not pleasant to watch millions lose their jobs and livelihoods.

     I’d like to contact Mr Gore if possible, since he seems to be in a position to assist. If it’s interesting to him that it is possible to outpower solar/wind/biofuel energy yields many times, at a lesser cost, in a clean method and create jobs for millions, then perhaps you can help me reach him. If lowering US dependance on foreign oil is still an issue, and reigning in the massive deficit is important, then perhaps assist me.

     http://sites.google.com/site/newenergyworldfirst/

     I suppose its true that many people in government office forget they’re actually civil servants, and probably believe they have ascended to celebrity status..so, when you consider that politicians can NOT put any solutions on the table, we have to wonder what they really do there!

480. randy said,

     July 23, 2009 @ 11:56 pm

     hi al my name is randolph i recycle tires in ny. i would like to know if there are gov grants to help me expand, and how do i go about getting those grants. please reply.

481. Anna Jean M. Bantilan said,

     July 28, 2009 @ 8:17 am

     Dear Mr. Al Gore,

     I’m Anna Jean M. Bantilan, a high school student from Cebu Institute of Technology in the Philippines. I saw your documentary about our Earth cause by Global Warming “An Inconvenient Truth”. It is indeed humanity cause the destruction of the Earth’s natural beauty. Before, the World that we live in is far from what we see and experience now. We are really a full scale planetary emergency. That the world is facing the real atrocities humankind has never experienced.

     I would like to press the idea of thanking you for opening my sleeping piece of mind, for opening my inner self to be dutiful citizen. Perhaps, change is what we need and change will always begin in oneself. I wouldn’t say that I can change the World, but rather, I would say I can help lessen the destructive hands of humankind. In my own little way, I would do the things that will make nature back to its normal fidelity and I will make every effort of mine to do the best in making the Earth more brilliance than it is to day. I will also make other people love everything about it as well.

     With this letter, may the World know and learn to value the things that we have for it. It’s not easy to be in the widest of something so destructive. And yet, we are part of the reason why the destructions happened.

     I request also that you continue advising, telling and keep us aware about our Earth’s situation at the same time informing us the pattern of its own condition.

     Respectfully yours,

     Anna Jean M. Bantilan

482. Lonnie G. Kelley said,

     July 28, 2009 @ 8:59 am

     Mr Gore, I have been a suporter of yours but I recieved an email from my brother that broke my heart. It was about a lady named Erema of Warsaw who rescued thousands of children from the Nasi deth camp.
     She was nominated for the Nobel Pease Prize but lost to you for a much much dersiving reason.
     I do not understand how you had the Heart to except the medal over her.

483. Brent A. Brumfield said,

     July 29, 2009 @ 2:39 pm

     Dear Honorable Al Gore,
     I have a Green energy process solution that utilizes renewable energy of Air and Water and contributes to purifying air as a part of it’s process. The FES system can be applied to existing energy generating facilities or can be implenemted as a stand alone project. Please have a your Clean Green Energy Engineering Rep contact me at (208) 350-3718. this is the best way to contact me as I travel approximately 27 days a month.

484. Linda Hartsock Garrett said,

     July 29, 2009 @ 3:09 pm

     Anything to throw LIGHT on the issue I am for it. Education is key

     Just for you..
     Shopping bags

     Shops that give and shops that don’t
     Those who give make us grieve
     Those who don’t want us to note
     We will grieve about a dying earth
     And take note of our earth dying
     See the plastic bags around
     Inter meshing with trees and stomps
     The plastic cups like crops
     Growing on garbage heaps
     Waiting for the recyclers teeth
     That grinds the whole into bits.
     I hear the heart beat of the earth fainting
     I see the fog painting the skyline
     And now my lungs are filled
     With what– I do not know
     Our Rome was killed in a day
     And the aroma of death held its sway
     Greece is mixed with water
     And its land now begs the flood
     Nigeria buried in waste
     brought in from other stations
     Looking the other way when
     Palms are greased you can
     Lease a whole city as your garbage heap
     We will grieve for leaders who lie
     And followers whose rights won’t rise
     beyond the pages in which they are written
     Take note and sound the alarm

     ( c ) Kole 3:50am Wednesday

     my facebook friend, Oluwatoyin Kole, asked me if I could get this to you

485. Erika Hein said,

     July 29, 2009 @ 8:12 pm

     Mr. Gore:

     I just watched your documentary on global warming in my oceanography class. Its unfortunate that I have waited so long to watch it. Now that I have, can you please update the information and do a sequal. I think that it would be so benefical and respark the desire of many people to help. Since there is a new administration in office, one that does believe in global warming, we can really rally together and make some changes that can at least counter act the damages that have already been done. We can call our congressional members and demand that something more be done NOW. And since we have the house and senate, we have a greater chance than ever to pass laws that will make your/our dream a reality.

     Thank you,
     Erika Hein

486. Richie Abel said,

     August 1, 2009 @ 1:48 pm

     Dear, mr.Gore,
     Have you ever heard the saying “if nature persents a problem it will also present a soluition ” well the earth will naturally produce co2 and other green house gases so there must be a way to dispose of them. Alge takes more c02 out of the atmosphere and it thrives under co2 rich hot conditions so if like you are saying that we are puting too much co2 in the atmoshere and the global tempatures are rising then that would make the alge population go ballistic and would take in more co2. If you have questions or comments email me at richieabel451@gmail.com
     thank you Richie Abel

487. constancio nguja said,

     August 2, 2009 @ 4:44 am

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     Firstly I want to crangratulate you for the Nobel Prize. You deserved it at all!

     I read “EARTH IN BALANCE”. I live in Mozambique and feel directly the consequences of Global Warming. Your book changed my thoughts at all. Now I am concerned about environmental issues in my country. Do you have a foundation? I wanted to implement a program by which I wanted to educate poor people in rural areas about environmental issues. But I have no funds for it. I would like if you helped me to carry on my project. It is called “projecto janela ambiental” which means “environmental window project”. The project has 3 contents:
     First, I want to use media to influence people to change their minds on environmental issues;
     Secondly, I want to organize workshops in rural areas of my country to interact directly with people (it means that there will be costs with trips, accomodations, staff, etc);
     and finally to conduct researches about socio-environmental issues and make publish it in my blog. www.nguja.blogspot.com
     cspnguja@hotmail.com

488. corey said,

     August 2, 2009 @ 12:08 pm

     I want to see a Debate between Al Gore & Climatologist, on Global Warming! Why hasn’t there been a debate over this issue. If AL Gore seems to be right on this issue then why hasn’t he want to debate other scientist that want to debate him that he is wrong. Lets see a DEBATE!!!

489. Sunil M said,

     August 3, 2009 @ 9:45 am

     Dear Sir,
     I am really interested in the global warming issue that has caught the world. I have tried to enter the Virgin Earth Challenge, but I dont seem to even get the entry form opened up. Is it still on.
     I have a suggestion and hopefully turns to a step towards correcting our mistakes that have lead to the global warming senario. Would you care to listen to my suggestion.

     Yours Sincerly

     Sunil

490. Adrian CV said,

     August 3, 2009 @ 11:56 am

     Dear Mr Gore

     Why won’t you accept to present yourself as candidate for UNESCO’s Director General?

     This could save this wonderful institution that is falling slowly apart.

     Many thanks

     Adrian CV

491. Jan Holwegner said,

     August 5, 2009 @ 10:01 am

     Dear Vice President Gore,

     I just wanted to thank you for your efforts in returning our imprisoned journalists from North Korea. You are a soldier in the battle against ill will, and I just can’t thank you enough for working tirelessly to return your staff back to us.

     What a personal triumph for you! You’ve always had my deepest respect (not to mention my vote!) and I support your work in every way.

     For this reason, and so many others, you are a ROCK STAR and my personal hero! Thanks so much for making freedom a reality for Lisa and Una. Wow! Impressive work, kind sir.

     God Bless You (and the heroic work that you do)… and
     God Bless America!!!!

     Fondly,
     Jan Holwegner

492. Sheldon J Baer said,

     August 7, 2009 @ 8:24 pm

     During the oil shortage in the 1970’s I began to think about the future for my three daughters. Global warming was not a consideration but dependency on foreign oil was. My conclusion then was that if the U.S. began to convert to solar power through a combination of roof top applications coupled with vast solar farms covering a combined 800 sq. mi. would make us energy independent.
     Naturally the farms would have to feed a new national electric grid but both the farms and the grid could be phased in over a 30 year period. In my mind solar electricity would serve two purposes. Half would go into the grid for general use while the other half would be used to hydrolize water for the production of hydrogen. The hydrogen, once we solved the problems inherent in handling it, would supply fuel cells, could be burned directly in newly designed gas turbines, or could be recombined with oxygen to produce pure water.
     I wrote up my proposal and sent a copy to the man I was sure was going to be the next Democratic candidate for President, then NY Governor Coumo. After a few months he returned my papaer, told me he wasn’t going to run, and suggested that I send my thoughts to Al Gore who was interested in such things. I thought that I might have an in with Mr. Gore because my cousin, Evan Wallach, (now Federal Judge) was working with his organization. Evan read the paper and suggested that I submit it to Harry Reid which I did. I never heard back from Mr. Reid.
     Now, more than 30 years have passed and our country has barely scratched the surface of the need for clean, renewable, energy. My crude idea from the 70’s is more valid and more urgent than ever but at 84 I don’t have the umph needed to launch a campaign.
     Let me take one more moment to address the global warming nay-sayers. Their misbegotten beliefs don’t matter. Our country has to free itself from hydrocarbon dependency and has to launch an entirely new manufacturing base if we are ever to prosper again. If in the process we happen to clean up the polution that’s saturating the world, so much the better.

493. Zordana said,

     August 8, 2009 @ 12:26 pm

     Al Gore is a fraud and the people are finally waking up to it. He refused to answer any questions when he came to Britan, - i think not Mr Gore, you have been rumbled. A debate means allowing two sides to ask and answer questions - you told Richard Madeley the debate was over, why?
     We in the UK and EU have been doing our own homework and your theories are being debunked all over the place.

     It’s a massive con to extort money out of the masses and you know it. Why don’t you own up?

     ‘Consensus’ Takes Another Hit! More than 60 German Scientists Dissent Over Global Warming Claims!

     Call Climate Fears ‘Pseudo ‘Religion’; Urge Chancellor to ‘reconsider’ views
     ‘Growing body of evidence shows anthropogenic CO2 plays no measurable role’

     More than 60 prominent German scientists have publicly declared their dissent from man-made global warming fears in an Open Letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The more than 60 signers of the letter include several United Nations IPCC scientists.

     The scientists declared that global warming has become a “pseudo religion” and they noted that rising CO2 has “had no measurable effect” on temperatures. The German scientists, also wrote that the “UN IPCC has lost its scientific credibility.”

     This latest development comes on the heels of a series of inconvenient developments for the promoters of man-made global warming fears, including new peer-reviewed studies, real world data, a growing chorus of scientists dissenting (including more UN IPCC scientists), open revolts in scientific societies and the Earth’s failure to warm. In addition, public opinion continues to turn against climate fear promotion. (See “Related Links” at bottom of this article for more inconvenient scientific developments.)

     The July 26, 2009 German scientist letter urged Chancellor Merkel to “strongly reconsider” her position on global warming and requested a “convening of an impartial panel” that is “free of ideology” to counter the UN IPCC and review the latest climate science developments.

     The scientists, from many disciplines, including physicists, meteorology, chemistry, and geology, explain that “humans have had no measurable effect on global warming through CO2 emissions. Instead the temperature fluctuations have been within normal ranges and are due to natural cycles.”

     “More importantly, there’s a growing body of evidence showing anthropogenic CO2 plays no measurable role,” the scientists wrote. “Indeed CO2’s capability to absorb radiation is already exhausted by today’s atmospheric concentrations. If CO2 did indeed have an effect and all fossil fuels were burned, then additional warming over the long term would in fact remain limited to only a few tenths of a degree,” they added.

     “The IPCC had to have been aware of this fact, but completely ignored it during its studies of 160 years of temperature measurements and 150 years of determined CO2 levels. As a result the IPCC has lost its scientific credibility,” the scientists wrote.

     “Indeed the atmosphere has not warmed since 1998 – more than 10 years, and the global temperature has even dropped significantly since 2003. Not one of the many extremely expensive climate models predicted this. According to the IPCC, it was supposed to have gotten steadily warmer, but just the opposite has occurred,” the scientists wrote.

     “The belief of climate change, and that it is manmade, has become a pseudo-religion,” the scientists wrote. “The German media has sadly taken a leading position in refusing to publicize views that are critical of anthropogenic global warming,” they added.

     “Do you not believe, Madam Chancellor, that science entails more than just confirming a hypothesis, but also involves testing to see if the opposite better explains reality? We strongly urge you to reconsider your position on this subject and to convene an impartial panel for the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, one that is free of ideology, and where controversial arguments can be openly debated. We the undersigned would very much like to offer support in this regard.

     Full Text of Translated Letter By 61 German Scientists: (emphasis added)

     Open Letter – Climate Change

     Bundeskanzleramt
     Frau Bundeskanzerlin Dr. Angela Merkel
     Willy-Brandt-Strabe 1
     10557 Berlin
     #
     Vizerprasident
     > Dipl. Ing. Michael Limburg
     > 14476 Grob Glienicke
     > Richard-Wagner-Str. 5a
     E-mail: limburg@grafik-system.de
     Grob Glienicke 26.07.09

     To the attention of the Honorable Madam Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany

     When one studies history, one learns that the development of societies is often determined by a zeitgeist, which at times had detrimental or even horrific results for humanity. History tells us time and again that political leaders often have made poor decisions because they followed the advice of advisors who were incompetent or ideologues and failed to recognize it in time. Moreover evolution also shows that natural development took a wide variety of paths with most of them leading to dead ends. No era is immune from repeating the mistakes of the past.
     Politicians often launch their careers using a topic that allows them to stand out. Earlier as Minister of the Environment you legitimately did this as well by assigning a high priority to climate change. But in doing so you committed an error that has since led to much damage, something that should have never happened, especially given the fact you are a physicist. You confirmed that climate change is caused by human activity and have made it a primary objective to implement expensive strategies to reduce the so-called greenhouse gas CO2. You have done so without first having a real discussion to check whether early temperature measurements and a host of other climate related facts even justify it.

     A real comprehensive study, whose value would have been absolutely essential, would have shown, even before the IPCC was founded, that humans have had no measurable effect on global warming through CO2 emissions. Instead the temperature fluctuations have been within normal ranges and are due to natural cycles. Indeed the atmosphere has not warmed since 1998 – more than 10 years, and the global temperature has even dropped significantly since 2003.

     Not one of the many extremely expensive climate models predicted this. According to the IPCC, it was supposed to have gotten steadily warmer, but just the opposite has occurred.

     More importantly, there’s a growing body of evidence showing anthropogenic CO2 plays no measurable role. Indeed CO2’s capability to absorb radiation is already exhausted by today’s atmospheric concentrations. If CO2 did indeed have an effect and all fossil fuels were burned, then additional warming over the long term would in fact remain limited to only a few tenths of a degree.

     The IPCC had to have been aware of this fact, but completely ignored it during its studies of 160 years of temperature measurements and 150 years of determined CO2 levels. As a result the IPCC has lost its scientific credibility. The main points on this subject are included in the accompanying addendum.

     In the meantime, the belief of climate change, and that it is manmade, has become a pseudo-religion.Its proponents, without thought, pillory independent and fact-based analysts and experts, many of whom are the best and brightest of the international scientific community.

     Fortunately in the internet it is possible to find numerous scientific works that show in detail there is no anthropogenic CO2 caused climate change. If it was not for the internet, climate realists would hardly be able to make their voices heard. Rarely do their critical views get published.

     The German media has sadly taken a leading position in refusing to publicize views that are critical of anthropogenic global warming. For example, at the second International Climate Realist Conference on Climate in New York last March, approximately 800 leading scientists attended, some of whom are among the world’s best climatologists or specialists in related fields. While the US media and only the Wiener Zeitung (Vienna daily) covered the event, here in Germany the press, public television and radio shut it out. It is indeed unfortunate how our media have developed - under earlier dictatorships the media were told what was not worth reporting. But today they know it without getting instructions.

     Do you not believe, Madam Chancellor, that science entails more than just confirming a hypothesis, but also involves testing to see if the opposite better explains reality? We strongly urge you to reconsider your position on this subject and to convene an impartial panel for the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, one that is free of ideology, and where controversial arguments can be openly debated. We the undersigned would very much like to offer support in this regard.
     Respectfully yours,

     Prof. Dr.rer.nat. Friedrich-Karl Ewert EIKE
     Diplom-Geologe
     Universität. - GH - Paderborn, Abt. Höxter (ret.)
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     Dr. Holger Thuß
     EIKE President
     European Institute for Climate and Energy
     http://www.eike-klima-energie.eu/

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     Marc Morano
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     John Howard criticises the media for failing to challenge received wisdom on climate change

     The former Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, gave a lecture to the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Advanced Journalism this week about politics and the media.

     He covered a variety of themes, some of which will be of interest to a British audience:
     • How the Daily Telegraph’s coverage of MPs’ expenses suggests that newspapers have not been entirely supplanted by the electronic media;
     • Why he believes most journalists are of a centre-left disposition;
     • The importance of talk radio for opposition parties;
     • His belief that Australia voted against becoming a republic in 1999 because most of the media were pushing for it.
     He also went on to attack the media - in particular the Australian state broadcaster, ABC - for failing to challenge received wisdom on climate change:

     “I do think that there is a complete unwillingness to accept that there is really any room for any suggestion that there could be some doubt or some scepticism about climate change. I still remember that extraordinary moment on the Lateline program in the middle of 2007 when that British program, I forget the exact title of it – the Great Climate Change Swindle (sic)* was shown. And the presenter of the program actually said that the views expressed in the program were not the views of the ABC, which I thought was quite an extraordinary thing to do, because, I mean, of course, they’re not, nobody suggests that, but there are plenty of other programs of equal prejudice on other issues that do not carry with them the dignity of that kind of disclaimer.”
     ————————————————-
     To download a transcript of the entire lecture as a PDF go to:-
     http://conservativehome.blogs.com/files/john-howard-lecture.pdf

494. ALLAN BIRNBAUM said,

     August 9, 2009 @ 3:49 pm

     Allan Birnbaum August 09,2009

     Having Just read an in depth article about global warming in the Sunday New York Times I have come to a realization as follow. Our Plant Earth has been around for millions of years and man has been here for a relatively short part of that time. Man has very little knowledge of the planets history more then a few hundred years and weather records haven’t been kept for more then the last 100 years. Scientists have been researching the planets changes using many methods including cores that can be interpreted. It is very likely that “Global Warming” as we have named it has occurred hundreds of times before recorded history and with the advent of Carbon Dioxide is not a new phenomenon. The amount of Carbon Dioxide in atmosphere has varied over time and we are now experiencing a rise in its volume. As recently as the early 1900’sthe Carbon Dioxide levels were higher then present and caused no changes in the weather or the ocean levels. Man has little or no control over changes on this planet. Weather cycles probably have been cyclical throughout history. It is very possible the current cycle may case much hardship and disaster to man but we have no control over nature. If the pole ice melts and the oceans rise it will have disastrous results but man will have to adjust and learn to accept natures forces. The powers that be and particular Al Gore have taken these changes as their personal mission to raise very large amounts of money for their causes by convincing the public that we can change the future. As I see it saving our natural resources is a different matter entirely and must be advanced with all possible speed but not to change the course of weather on this planet but to avoid our using up these precious resources. Here again the Government knows man has no influence over Nature and to pacify the public has taken this direction to allow a peaceful acceptance of the inevitable changes to occur. In a similar vain the government has known that we have been visited by aliens since the beginning of history but the government has taken on the attitude that they really are a fixation of our imagination in order to again keep the public from panicking since we have absolutely no control over their comings and goings.

     Allan Birnbaum
     albirn@consultant.com

495. John Padden Racine said,

     August 15, 2009 @ 8:42 pm

     I’ve read that methane gas is also a powerful global warming gas and that it actually is 15 times more powerful than CO2 in trapping heat. Of course, there is much less of it than CO2, but, since methane is a large part of natural gas, it stands to reason that we should discourage natural gas usage and not treat it as a possible help in solving the global warming problem. I say this even though natural gas is burned, because use of it leaves much unburned that would otherwise never be released from the ground. Clearly, CO2 is the main culprit but we don’t need to aggravate things by using a lot of natural gas, I think.

496. John Padden Racine said,

     August 15, 2009 @ 9:46 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     I think you should take your arguments to oil companies rather than just alienating them. You should talk to me about it. It is actually in their self-interest to diversify, in the face of diminishing oil resources. My father and I convinced British Petroleum to diversify. They supported the Kyoto agreement, have the BP Solar division, and brought to reality my vision of using 10% ethanol as a gasoline additive. If you could convince coal and oil producers to diversify rather than to just try to stop everything all at one time, you might have a bigger impact. Granted, we may have to start compressing CO2 into gas canisters using solar power, then burying it underground, but let’s not give up yet. When energy companies see the profits associated with clean energy such as biofuels and wind and solar power, they will concentrate on that also. It is a gradual process, but it also causes them to do the research themselves, which can educate them as humans and cause them to change in the interest of their families and all that they love.

     You should write me sometime. You are really missing something by not talking to me. I am “beyond petroleum” and I hope you think of that everytime you see BP (no longer “British Petroleum”) advertise on TV. You should write me. We should work together or you are more a fool than a savior.

     Best Regards,

     John Racine

497. Umi Arshi said,

     August 24, 2009 @ 11:25 am

     Dear Mr. Al Gore

     I can honestly say that I have been concerned about the Climate change since I was 11-years-old.
     I was very worried about littering when I was a child, I couldn’t sleep at nights, because I was wondering
     what is going to happen to this Earth of ours. Are we going to make it?

     It seemed hopeless… And I was hoping then that people would wake up..
     And well.. people have..They start to notice what is happening, but there is lot of ignorance in the air.

     I am not a hopeless person - actually everything else. I am really upbright and hopefull.
     But I do believe no human being can get us out of this mess.. But only the One who put us here at the first place.
     God Almighty.

     And like you said in your movie The Inconvenient Truth
     we are like the frog in the boiling water right now, but fortunately God will save us from this mess.
     The mess that has always been predicted in the book of Revalations. And you said yourself, that all the things that
     are happening right now are just like from the Bible..
     Well yes they are! And that excactly is the point God is trying to make us to see.
     And the Truth of God is actually very inconvenient to those who dont want to follow His way, but their own.
     The ways of this World.. Those people who only want to gain more money, dont really have a heart to care
     about anything else..

     Sin (greed, sloth etc.) are actually cause of these issues.. They cause the reasons why people are
     not willing to change their habbits even they could. And that is how the human heart has always been.
     So I do claim (maybe childishly some might say) that only Jesus Christ who died on the cross for our sins
     2009 years ago, is actually the Saviour you should be leaning now!

     In many books of the Bible, as I am sure you know, God warned and sent prophets to warn people and the
     nations to turn away from their sins and follow God, but people wouldn’t want to do that.

     But the fact is that God will drown those people who refuse to turn away from their sins.
     And I truly believe that God loves you very much Al.. You have done so much for the people of this Earth
     all your life, and I believe you have still succeed keeping a humble heart! And that kind of people are the ones
     that God Jesus Christ truly loves.

     His coming isn’t far away anymore. It is more near that ever. The book of Revelations tell all about it.
     In the Bible God promises that after the gospel has been preached to all nations,
     Jesus will come back to get his bride. And it is going to take about 15-17-years to translate
     the gospel to the languages that has not yet been translated..

     Revelation 22
     The River of Life
     1Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. 3No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him. 4They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. 5There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever. 6The angel said to me, “These words are trustworthy and true. The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angel to show his servants the things that must soon take place.”

     As you predicted in your movie it is going to take less than 50 years to this Earth to become like a huge boiling pot.
     It is going to be like Hell on Earth! You have all the evidence on your hands to see what this World is
     going to be. But the mistake you are making, is for you to hope that all the people you are talking about this
     issue can help you to save this World. When actually you should be trying to convince them to
     turn to God and pray for Him to save their souls, so that He will save as many as possible when He comes.

     So that is why I truly hope that God will bless you and all the people working with you and with this matter..
     Since what does it matter to a person to win over this World if it causes him to lose his soul?
     And the only way for a man to save his soul is to truly accept Jesus Christ as your saviour.

     I would really hope you could read the book The Exodus Case which is about the New Discoveries of
     the historical Exodus written by Dr. Lennart Möller (www.theexoduscase.org)
     And I truly recommend for you the watch the movie The Exodus Conspiracy, it will be an eye opening
     experience to anyone who watches it. The events of the Bible can actually be proven as facts.
     And that information draws together the past and the future.. People can actually see the red line again.
     The Big Story, and where we are headed as human beings.

     I dont believe that God and science are actually that far away from each other, but I do believe
     that God is way above science and the understanding of human beings.
     And only God knows what is actually happening on this planet right now,
     so I believe now more than never people would truly need to gain the understanding
     of who to pray to. If you want to know something, why not bother asking from someone
     who has all the answers?

     God will create new Earth and this planet as we know it will be destroyed (in one way or another).
     And it is a very very very serious subject.

     Revelation 21
     The New Jerusalem
     1Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

     This revelation will happen just as everything God has ever planned will happen. Our future will be bright..
     but only to those who dare to believe.
     I am very sure that the work you have been doing is something God has put into your heart before
     you were even born. And I believe that you have a lot of influence to people - never underestimate it.
     But even if you would have all the power in this World, but you wouldn’t understand the love of God
     and the ways He is working out this World, nothing you do, is worth anything.
     For He is superior to anything we know and He holds this Universe together. I believe that with Him
     as your Boss, you would have a lot more influence on this planet.

     1 Corinthians 13
     Love
     If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
     Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

     Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

     And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

     So as naive as the rest of the World might see it.. The Power of Love can and should not ever be underestimated.
     Important men in their expensive suits just sometimes seem to think that love is something less worthy than their money and their important time..
     And Oh, how wrong they are!

     But I really hope that you are different Mr. Al Gore.
     I really hope that God will bless you, and give you lot of understanding and wisdom, so you will have much impact to people around you.

     I wish you all the best for the years yet to come!

498. Scott said,

     August 31, 2009 @ 8:09 am

     Global Cooling

     It is 48 degrees in Cleveland in August right now.
     Tell Al Gore that I want my global warming back!!!!

     This whole global warming thing is such a joke!!!

499. George Bush said,

     September 1, 2009 @ 12:58 pm

     MANBEAR PIG LOLLLLLZZZ

500. ARNOLD said,

     September 1, 2009 @ 1:35 pm

     GET TO THE CHOPPA

501. Michael V. Moses said,

     September 14, 2009 @ 12:06 am

     To the Honorable Al Gore,

     First and foremost, thank you for devoteing most of your and your wifes lives to the betterment of the United States of America.

     Second, thank you for your time in reading this message to you and yours.

     I own a research and development company in Princeton, WV.. My company owns patents on ways to use end of use tires and how to make a product that helps in the prevention of flooding with useing end of use tires. I am working with Homeland Security/Emergency Management in West Virginia and according to the director, there may be at least five differant ways to use the product in flood prevention.

     My question to you sir, is, can you take the time to contact me, let me send you the informantion I have on how we will use these patents and give your personal opinion of these patents?

     With kindest regards,
     Michael V. Moses
     MVM Research and Development

502. billy jack said,

     September 16, 2009 @ 5:07 pm

     hey all what happened to all the devastating hurricanes you predicted

503. leaf green said,

     September 21, 2009 @ 5:27 pm

     Hey Al, If you are so much into the global warming thing, why are you not putting a stop to all the printing of unnecessary money that King Hussein is doing? He is killing so many trees and those printer machines are just running 24/7, they have to be. What about charging the white house a LARGE amount of taxes for their carbon footprint. Why leave it all in our hands to flip the bill and pay for it all, why doesn`t Washington step up to the plate and pay for their share. We want a better earth WE ALL HAVE TO PITCH IN AND CARE,and it seemed to be the average tree hugger that loves the earth and even some of the non-tree huggers are doing their best to a point. Most of my neighbors conserve and changed their light bulbs and all and they said after doing that, that the electric companies are charging them more for what they are trying to do saying that they are out millions of dollars;so what do you want the non-tree huggers or earth friendly’s (as I call them) to do, HUH ????

504. Sreeman Mishu Barua said,

     September 24, 2009 @ 7:00 am

     A Plan on tackling global CO2 rise and World’s Carbon Trade:

     During my M.Sc. in Environmental Technology, I was given a class-assignment to tackle a global environmental problem in an innovative way. I chose “Rise of CO2 in the Air” because I had something to say on this.

     I wrote a plan which was low tech, can easily put into practice and where the whole world can come to play. The plan opens a new dimension to carbon trade for businesses, also the World. The outline was as this-

     Fast-growing trees assimilate CO2 out of air fast (4 times faster than natural forests). We need to harvest these trees for their fast growing period in selected areas around the world. The harvest (dry hard wood is >50% carbon and very slow degrading?) will be put away into caves, empty mines and natural faults- thus putting away atmospheric CO2 safely and cheaply for a very long time. After all, thousands of years old similar fossilized trees we use (oil, coal and gas) cause air CO2 to rise. Why not put back some?

     A Chinese saying is “Catastrophe = Opportunity”. Could we not witness the CO2 rise as an opportunity to store some energized Carbon (similar to currency?) for foreseeable future use? Businesses may choose to grow & bury calculated numbers of trees each year to compensate for their extra carbon emission need. This plan will help developing countries come to terms with the world’s Carbon Trade agreement where they can even keep the harvest for themselves. The plan allows a proportionate trade between businesses and the earth, which is only apt.

     This act means no offense to tree-lovers, forest-lovers or nature lovers. Only newly grown, purposefully, commercially harvested trees will be used, leaving natural forests alone. Scientists will calculate the numbers of trees required each year and decide types of trees to harvest for total sustainability (go bananas! ..may start experimenting with water hyacinth!).

     Desperate time calls for desperate measures. I know this is not ‘The’ solution, but as an Environmental Technologist I believe it has the signature of being a substantial part of it.

     Sreeman Mishu Barua, MSc(UK), REHS(USA)
     BaruaEnviro Consultancy,
     Plot: X-50, Block: A,
     Chandgaon R/A,
     4212 CTG,
     Bangladesh.
     +88 (0)31 672678
     +88 (0)183 0183 777
     sanitarian@inbox.com

     N.B.: Unique Advantages of the Plan:
     • Fast growing trees assimilate Carbon out of air 3 to 4 times more than regular grown up forest trees. Wood is >50% carbon by dry weight & >2 tons of carbon can be assimilated per acre per year with such trees.

     • Commercially harvesting of fast growing tree means new business throughout the world and support from Nature activists (no antagonism socially).

     • Industries/ businesses may choose to grow & bury required No.s of trees (a carbon mass) as direct carbon trade (for the excess carbon emission they may do each year; can be seen as secondary allowance?). Governments throughout the world can grow & bury against their primary allowances to businesses/ industries for their ‘right to emit a specific amount’. Direct, proportionate carbon trade between businesses and the earth is seen as the best here. The plan will keep a cap on totally undesirable secondary, tertiary profit-selling of carbon credits in the trade market.

     • Energy cost (financial burden) to execute the plan is minimal.

     • Bigger, fast developing countries who are unwilling to sign an International Carbon Trade Agreement may find this plan most suitable.

     • Same land can be used over and over again to harvest fast growing trees on 5 to 10 year basis (since our cultivable land is limited and we cannot create unlimited forest). The cost to keep the land fertile comes into account.

     • Caves, empty mines, natural faults are there to store huge quantities of logs & chips- without interfering into any other natural & human activity.

     • With Safest & longest storable way and an energy source, the opportunity to use logs when in desperate need is always there (or when sustainable environmental friendly ways of energy extraction from wood will be invented in future).

     • No shortages of micro & macro nutrients needed to harvest such vast quantities of wood.

     • Biotechnology may invent trees of even higher CO2 assimilation capacity (harvest can be grown in isolation, no interference with natural progeny).

     Why Policy makers and decision-making, implementation centrally?
     Do you not find the idea of carbon sequestration through burial of wood is a simple enough & good enough idea to propose to the topmost level (UN & World leaders)? Maths are all there and simple! Only a unified action from a country (or From the World) can make it a success. You will never get it done (forget doing it in time!) disseminating the idea at grass-root level. It is the vision, willingness and understanding of the policymakers we need to pursue. Our present vision has ended at growing more trees but cannot dread to think what are we going to do with those trees, especially when we need long time carbon-sequestration and our arable land is limited?

     We need to change world’s vision on our idea & research. Each Log/ Wood/ Chip is a cell of stored carbon & Energy. And ‘Grow & Bury’ wood in every sense is ‘the single best way’ to put away enough carbon to save our planet. Some would say (those who see burying wood is a waste), let’s use the wood as energy and bury the char it produces. There could be a debate on it and if it is totally sustainable, and does not backstab our primary goal (Long term carbon sequestration) - then by all means let’s do it!

     Let me tell you of a Bangladeshi Multi-million dollar MLM (multi-level marketing) company, the only product of which is tree plantation. About 2.5 million Bangladeshi national invested into it. The company is a lease-holder of thousands of acres of land (giving no heed to social antagonism or often misusing legal & poor governmental administrative systems; because the more it grows, further it needs to grow). It plans to grow & sell trees on a 12 year cycle & profit the investors 4 times more then national banks.
     We know what will happen to those trees within a quarter of a century. All are acting as temporary sequesters (without however any accountability that it will at all!) but ultimately thrown to the nature as CO2. We do not use 10-15 year old wooden furniture/ materials, do we?

     Related Issue:
     Now, so far we taxed the players at the outskirts of the carbon problem (those who are using carbon minerals). What about those who are at the centre; who are producing them? I believe countries unearthing carbon minerals must be ‘environment-taxed’ for the amount they take out yearly. Since the ill-effects of carbon mineral’s use are global and the producers benefit financially at the cost of those ill effects, however necessary the commodity may be, they cannot deny environmental responsibility.

     Since buyer’s demand cause producers to unearth in vast amount; hypothetically, producers could share the proposed environment tax with primary buyers in proportion to their demand. Never the less, there has to be adequate taxation, the amount needed to reverse the incurring ill-effects in the environment.

505. Skeptic said,

     September 25, 2009 @ 5:11 pm

     To those of you who believed everything in Al Gore’s movie, I urge you to read the research of Dr. Roy Spencer on pacific Decadal Oscillation (natural changes to our atmosphere) and read his interpretation of the data and further research on it.

     This movie simply distorted facts toward Mr. Gore’s agenda and does not depict the truth. Yes, data shows more CO2 and it shows warming temperatures, but its IMPOSSIBLE to actually prove there is ANYTHING humans can do about it. Even if we all die and stop using our cars, it would not have an impact on the warming. How do you thing there was an ice age before us?

     I hope you look up DrRoySpencer.com and read his research to understand we don’t all need to spend our life savings on GREEN Energy … conservation is a good thing, but we don’t need to start killin our young!

506. Nina said,

     September 27, 2009 @ 7:16 am

     I am shocked that any of you people are ignorant enough to believe anything this man thinks or says:

     Do you remember 1987…….There was Ollie in front of God and country getting the third degree, but what he said was stunning! He was being drilled by a senator;

     ‘Did you not recently spend close to $60,000 for a home security system?’

     Ollie replied, ‘Yes, I did, Sir.’

     The senator continued, trying to get a laugh out of the audience, ‘Isn’t that just a little excessive?’

     ‘No, sir,’ continued Ollie.

     ‘No? And why not?’ the senator asked.

     ‘Because the lives of my family and I were threatened, sir.’ Ollie replied.

     ‘Threatened? By whom?’ the senator questioned.

     ‘By a terrorist, sir’ Ollie answered.

     ‘Terrorist? What terrorist could possibly scare you that much?’
     stated the Senator

     ‘His name is Osama bin Laden, sir’ Ollie replied.

     At this point the senator tried to repeat the name, but couldn’t pronounce it, which most people back then probably couldn’t. A couple of senators laughed at the attempt.

     The senator continued…’Why are you so afraid of this man?’

     ‘Because, sir, he is the most evil person alive that I know of’, Ollie answered

     ‘And what do you recommend we do about him?’ asked the senator.

     ‘Well, sir, if it was up to me, I would recommend that an assassin team be formed to eliminate him and his men from the face of the earth.’ Responded Ollie

     that senator…. was Al Gore!

     And you trust ANYTHING he has to say?

     You people really ARE sheep! Here’s more info to make your head explode from thinking!

     Terrorist pilot Mohammad Atta blew up a bus in Israel in 1986. The Israelis captured, tried and imprisoned him. As part of the Oslo agreement with the Palestinians in 1993, Israel had to agree to release so-called ‘political prisoners.’

     However, the Israelis would not release any with blood on their hands, The American President at the time, Bill Clinton,
     and his Secretary of State Warren Christopher, ‘insisted’ that all prisoners be released.

     Thus, Mohammad Atta was freed and later eventually thanked us by flying an airplane into Tower One of the World Trade Center …

     This was reported by many of the American TV networks the day OF the attacks when the terrorists were first identified. It was censored in the US from all later reports.

     Message for Al and all you other goofballs:

     I do not believe any of your b.s. about global warming either.
     There are JUST as many if not MORE accredited scientist that can DISPROVE you and all your PAID FOR or LIBERAL GREEN FREAK scientists you have that say it exists.

     (Funny - there is no way of emailing this man - must be he TOO has a $60,000 security system for HIS safety)

     Now Al, why don’t you take all your clout and make the only REAL hole that exists at the WTC site and make THAT go away?

     8 + years later and counting - no monument to honor or remember this day, let’s not offend anyone by using the word FREEDOM in the name, which ignited this hate Their (government) stupidity continues as if this never happened

507. Nina said,

     September 27, 2009 @ 7:20 am

     Oh, yeah the globe IS changing but it is natural - like ALL THINGS THAT EXIST, they are forever evolving. Well, except idiots like you people. So it is not that I disagree that the globe is going through changes both warming and cooling - depending on where you live, but that WE ARE NOT MAKING IT HAPPEN! Even in we lived like the settlers in the 1800’s, this WOULD STILL BE HAPPENING!

508. Disgruntled said,

     September 28, 2009 @ 6:50 pm

     What the heck? Why is a company, backed by you, being given more than half a billion dollars by the federal government?
     According to The Wall Street Journal, Fisker Automotive Inc. has received $529 million in taxpayer money, to be used to produce a hybrid sports car to be sold in Finland??
     Again, what a misuse of our tax dollars. This definitely isn’t your average American car. What gives away? Those dollars could have gone a long way in helping some people get healthcare, for instance! How about that for a novel idea!!
     A sports car for Finland?? How about a good affordable, RELIABLE car that we can drive right here in America??

509. sam tufui said,

     October 4, 2009 @ 7:47 am

     dear mr al gore

     i am leaving a comment in response to your dvd the inncovient truth.i have theory of my own thinking that came up when i was watching your dvd i beleive that the earth may explode with the increasing co2 emissions you see i think that the earth has its on air condition system which is used when a volcanoe erupts i think that with the increasing climate may cause this explosion for everytime the gets hot a volcano erupt to cool down the eart through blocking uv rays coming thriugh the atmosphere so i think that if it is to hot on the outside imagine how hot it will be inside the earth’s core so in writing ithis i believe that all the volcanoes in the world will erupt in time if we do not cut co2 emissions and what will happens the earth will be plunged in a ice age and the earth will then heals itself and begin a new cycle of life all over again i believe that we are not the only people who would experienced this i think its a cycle of the earth

     your sincerely mr samuel james tufui

     p.s may you beable to respond to this for i have only touch the surface of my theory and would help in proving or investigating this you can reach on my landline phone 02 67922645 i live narrabri nsw australia please respond

510. Keith Franklin said,

     October 6, 2009 @ 3:26 pm

     New Technology for Air Conditioning and Heating

     Advanced Energy Initiative

     This technology can create hundreds of high-tech jobs, help the environment, save the consumer in cooling and heating costs and reduce the need for foreign oil.

     New World standards set for Cooling and Heating by U.N. and Montreal Protocol

     “No Freon and No Compressor”

     Cool Sound Industries, Inc. (CSI) is engaged in a high-tech development effort to commercialize a new line of environmentally safe Air-conditioning and Heating equipment that is not dependent upon any ozone destroying or planet-warming fluids used by most vapor-compression systems today. This technology can provide hundreds of jobs, protect the environment and save energy without using dangerous CFCs or HCFCs more commonly known as Freons, by using “sound waves” in a mixture of harmless gases to pump heat. CSI has an Exclusive License Agreement with the US Government for this patented technology. Green technology for cooling and heating.

     Cool Sound Industries, Inc. owns the rights to this technology and is based in Florida. The technology was developed in conjunction with the Department of Energy, NASA,
     Los Alamos National Lab and their related Universities. Thermoacoustics was further developed by CSI and private research. We would like to move our facilities and make the World Headquarters here in Palm Beach County, Florida.

     This new technology known as THERMOACOUSTICS, has already been proven suitable for use in Air-conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration in homes, industry, cars and other applications. The technology also conforms to the new standards set by the United Nations and Montreal Protocol for cooling and heating. Our web site is www.coolsound.us

     Our plan is to first establish a fully equipped and staffed THERMOACOUSTIC Laboratory with pilot production facility and room to expand into full commercial production, starting with a 3 Ton Air-conditioning unit (36,000 BTUs) that can operate on solar power during daylight hours and save 100% of the electric bill A/C usage, when cooling demands are always the highest. The technology can also save up to 80% on electric bills when using electricity from the power grid. THERMOACOUSTIC uses sound waves and low voltage (12 to 24 volts) that can operate a 3 Ton Air-conditioning unit. CSI is currently seeking funding at this time to commercialize this new technology.

     I should emphasize, this revolutionary form of Air-conditioning and Heating can produce unparalleled savings in energy usage due to the absence of a compressor, the elimination of freon and has only one moving part. These units can also be expected to enjoy much longer life spans, as no lubrication is needed. I refer you to the following link for more information and detail www.coolsound.us

     Financial assistance through private placements, government loan guarantees or bonds is needed to complete the final development stage and start commercial production, which can provide many hundreds of well-paying jobs to American workers after our commercial designs and testing is completed.

     We believe this technology can produce tremendous savings while helping our environment. We hope these attributes merit your serious consideration. 15 universities have started programs in THERMOACOUSTICS. Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream is using a prototype with this technology to freeze ice-cream. Individuals willing to “think outside the box” are needed now to push the envelope of this new technology and broaden its scope.

     The company web site contains information about our proposed product line, business plan, financial needs, projections and other links to various universities which are also involved in teaching this promising new technology.

     I would greatly appreciate an opportunity to learn your thoughts on this new technology in Air-conditioning and Heating. I can be reached at my cell 561-707-1633. Also my
     e-mail is WKF561@yahoo.com

     Sincerely,
     Keith Franklin
     Vice President

511. Francisco Peña said,

     October 8, 2009 @ 3:11 pm

     Hi people, as a student of the Autonomus University of Tamaulipas on the career of Environmental Engineering, I invite You to leave a comment at http://clusterambiental.org/… The information is in spanish, it will be available on english soon.

     It’s very important for our group of students and for DECA (responsible of the construction) to get the comment of Al Gore about it. I think that Al Gore must be available for contact on a more direct form.

512. Bob Mooe said,

     October 9, 2009 @ 6:21 am

     Mr. Gore,

     I have discovered loopholes in the 1990 Clean Air Act, Sections 608 and 609, that legally allows and causes all refrigerants properly regulated under the manufacturing and service regulations to become atmospherically vented during end of life recycling; and I have proof, which EPA acknowledges, but cannot or will not act to correct.

     I have discovered our EPA sits on its butt and quotes it’s own outdated and innefective reguations, but will not pick up a finger to help.

     I have discovered the EPA has assigned an ubnreasonable burden of refrigerant recovery upon unknowing, untrained, and often destitute scrap metals peddlers who have no viable methods at all of insuring recovery.

     I have discovered these practices were indicated as, and delegated to the rank of unauthorized legal practices in the New Testament of Jesus Christ, the Lord.

     I have discovered the methods used in the real world to avoid the responsibility of Freon capture.

     I have discovered this practice of avoiding Freon recovery has been handed to those of delegated responsibility on a red white and blue paper plate.

     I have discovered that in just two years, a brand new HP flatbed printer can be worn slap out writting to officials and demanding they do their jobs; which gets no good results.

     I have discovered within myself the belief that getting help to stop this environmentally lethal adversity from those who have been lawfully entrusted with this responsibility would be more readily acheived with a sincere and heartfelt letter to Dear Abby.

     I have discovered that in the period from 1990 untill the 1992 activation of the Act, the Administrator of the EPA failed to effectively promulugate regulations that assures the prevention of atmospheric hazzards which are internationally recognized as factors having a direct and positive effect on the creation of acid rain, global ozone depetion, and the creation of a global death chamber which has been called a global greenhouse; as well as all Administrators thereafter, unto this very day.

     I have discovered that plants will thrive in a real greenhouse, but perish forever in the one of politically correct definition.

     I have discovered after writing to every politician and agency of charge, that no one is in charge.

     I have discovered that if this is allowed to continue, honeybees who have no eyelids will become blind, and the Earth, which was supplied with an unfailing table and inexhaustable pasture, will conclude.

     I have discovered I can preach environmentalism from The Word; and can also be the pure Devil about the matter, with the key word there being ‘pure’.

     I have discovered that untill Christ return with His ‘Coming Home To Roost’ tour, people were delegated the responsibility to both keep the garden, and to dress it.

     I have discovered the unprecedented opportunity to create a national and global refrigerant recovery, reclamation, reuse, recycling industry in a quite virgin territory of the United States which fully honors our nation agreement with the updated refrigerant phase out schedule outlined under the Montreal Protocol.

     I have discovered the wealth of the Earth is in the waste of the world.

     I have discovered that from our own waste, both commercial and fecal, there is the obvious opportunity to create methane which replaces easily non renewable resources; and creates fertilizer which reasonably should be used on unused suitable land for agricultural and floral endeavors which benefit both men, and our ladies, and our subsequent little ones, and theirs.

     I have discovered we today have the technology to purify waste generated gasses, and perfect combustion methods, and create the flame of pure Co2 content after final hydrogen ionization; and with pressure reduction technologies obvious through refrigeration principals, capture all Co2 produced, and use that Co2 in a real honest to God greenhouse, wherein plants are propagated in a near pure Co2 environment, which removes the control rods from the photosysnthis process of combining the hydrogen and oxygen of water with the gas of carbon dioxide to produce a molecule of something sweet we like to call glucose, which is a primary building block of life down here, and which then eliminates three molecules of oxygen, as a waste product.

     I have discovered that I need help, and that it should and must come if asked. Mr. Gore, can you please help me?

     Bob Moore

     Thank You!

513. Dr Eugene Preston said,

     October 9, 2009 @ 10:33 am

     Dear Mr Gore,
     I am a firm believer in your cause. However it is headed for a dead end without more nuclear power. Why this is so, is described in this book: http://www.thenucleareconomy.com/
     Furthermore you should see these videos:
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ELyjkGSk0s
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uJ4NaSVLn0&feature=related and continue with the 2nd and 3rd video.

514. Jimmie said,

     October 10, 2009 @ 11:23 pm

     Mr. Al Gore,

     Don’t you think you burned more energy to cause Global Warming then most people in the US. Private Planes Boats, Lots of cars that needed energy to build. I guess you felt like you needed to be a God over someone and you found your fools

515. shawn said,

     October 11, 2009 @ 10:08 am

     Al Gore is nothing but a fraud and he knows it! HE will not debate his movie “facts” with those who have alternate theories, and those people with alternate theories he blows them off as if they were stupid. maybe Al Gore should tell all of you how many jobs will be shipped out of this country when Climate Change legislation is enacted. Maybe he should let you know how much more in taxes and fees you will be paying to heat your home and fill up your gas tank to take your kids to soccer practice. Maybe he should tell you that this all leads to a worldwide climate tax on the biggest industrial nations, including the United States, which will again be passed on to the American taxpayer. And maybe he should tell you the truth about the climate…that it is on a progression of COOLING, not warming! This does not come fro me, this comes from leading environmentalists who think Al Gore has lost his collective mind! He knows nothing about the environment, it is all a money making ploy!

     Al Gore, if you want to debate someone, I will surely have no problem in asking a few tough questions. Do not push your “theories” onto others as if they are fact, because you have no proof that they are. I am near Chicago this weekend, which has called for a possibility of snow, the earliest that Chicago would see snow on the record.

     And one more thing…I know the new theory is that it is getting colder because of global warming…you have to be brain dead to believe something that stupid…you really do! Because, in theory, global warming could cause a cooling period leading to another ice age, which makes no sense if the oceans are warming and shrinking the ice caps. So, in the end, it is NOT global warming, it could be global cooling (not caused by man) and your movie was made to make money and screw the American taxpayer.

     Good job!

516. Ben Neres said,

     October 12, 2009 @ 3:38 am

     Dear Mr Gore,
     I am a 17 year old student and saw your movie recently.
     I gained so much from it and it just made me want to do something for the environment. I believe that planting many trees native to the area even just at each persons home will make a huge difference. If only people would make an effort or put in the time… it absorbs 1 tonne of CO2 in its lifetime (your site ) and improves air quality, a win-win.

517. Søren Lange said,

     October 12, 2009 @ 7:35 am

     Dear Mr Gore

     I used to teach refrigeration technicians, and when we came to the classes and subjects of safety and environmental safety, your film were shown.
     Today I am still in refrigeration business, but were just now looking for some information as an idea just came to me.
     Your movie is to be bought - why not tell the whole world to copy it lots and hand it to all friends, and tell them to pass it on?

     Just a lil bossy idea from “over there” in Europe

     Kind Regards
     Keep up the good work
     Søren Lange, Denmark, Europe

518. Tom said,

     October 12, 2009 @ 7:44 am

     Dear Mr Gore,

     I watched you movie on a cable network outside of my own home because I did not want tp pay for it. I think some of it was infomative but most of it is hog wash that is not backed up by any scientific proof. Gore you are a pompous idiot that needs to go back to the farm and stay there.

519. todd said,

     October 12, 2009 @ 4:03 pm

     Be a man Al…..Dont cut the mike off……….Are you scared to answer some questions

520. George said,

     October 12, 2009 @ 6:55 pm

     Ignorant People of Earth!

     If the Sun cut its production by 50% how would we heat the earth? But I digress, Earth’s climate control as follows:
     The Sun, Sun Storms, and anything else it wants to do.
     Earths orbit around the Sun and water vapor.

     End of class! Test to follow!!

521. Richard Linville said,

     October 12, 2009 @ 9:34 pm

     Al, you are a big blow hole, you can dish it out but you cant take it. I dont really know why I am even taking the time to emil you.

     When you cut the mike off of the british guys, you really made and ass of yourself.

522. jérémie said,

     October 13, 2009 @ 11:45 am

     Hello, we are French students in grade 11, we make a subject on sustainable developement and we need your help for our project.Thanks for your help

     Thomas,Axel,Andréa and jérémie

523. S.L. Ray said,

     October 13, 2009 @ 6:47 pm

     There recently was a death of a 98 year-old lady named Irena. During WWII Irena got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an ‘ulterior motive’. She KNEW what the Nazi’s plans were for the Jews, (being German). Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack, (for larger kids). She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises. During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants.. She was caught, and the Nazi’s broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it and reunite the family. Most had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.

     Last year Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected. Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming.

524. Bryan said,

     October 16, 2009 @ 1:05 pm

     Hey, Al,

     To answer your recent question, yes, we all got the word that we’re no longer endangered. Guess you missed the memo.

     Pole R. Bear

525. Avi Ariav said,

     October 19, 2009 @ 6:25 am

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     The main issue for the global warming problem is that there is no single “manager” to the world:
     The rich guys ask the poor guy to stop putting woods on fire, and the poor guys ask the rich ones to stop using their cars.

     The only real solution is alternative energy.

     The only way to get there, is to spend billions on many research labs around the globe on new energy sources: sun, wind, sea, water— whatever.

     This should have been done 30 years ago. by now, we’d have a solution in hand.

     This is the most important role of our generation.
     This is the most important role of the US in our days.
     Only the US can do it. No other country can, unfortunately.

     Sincerely,

     Avi Ariav
     Israel

526. Cameron Bird said,

     October 21, 2009 @ 12:29 am

     Real world events are causing man-made global warming to be questioned. Many parts of Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth” have been discredited, and yet for four years since its release Mr. Gore has not participated in ONE debate or answered any questions from the scientific community. Even those of you who are believers at some point must ask the question WHY?:

     Have over 31,000 scientists in North America signed a petition refuting man-made global warming and requesting a debate?

     Has the Earth’s temperature not increased, and actually decreased over the past 11 years? Did CO2 decrease?

     Did Chicago not reach 90 degrees in the month of July (2009) for the first time in recorded history?

     Are the sea levels not increasing at an accelerated rate? The rate of sea level change has been constant since the “Little Ice Age”, see studies on Venice.

     Were cold temperature records over the last two weeks ( Oct. 2009) “shattered” in the Mid-West and Northeast US?

     Has the temperature on Mars risen during the same period as it has on Earth?

     Is Earth’s average temperature presently at 13.2 C in the middle of the historic temperature range of the planet?

     Are we going to destroy our economy, and the economy of developing countries for inconclusive science?

     Don’t we have an OPEN scientific debate?

     Are the Global Warming Religious followers affraid of the truth?

527. Arturo Demirdjian said,

     October 23, 2009 @ 2:47 pm

     Dear Mr. Al Gore,

     First of all, please accept our congratulations for the achievement of your campaign for the good of human kind.

     Secondly, we are very glad to address you and we hope you are fine. Based on the your experience and that of the staff that collaborates with you, we would very much appreciate your comments on the project we have in order to know the possibilities of achieving our goals in a short term basis.

     We are two partners legally constituted as of January 2009 as a company. During 2008 we invested our capital in developing an ecological product, biodegradable and environmentally friendly to wash vehicles without water. Our main concern is to take care of the water, our natural resources, the lack of consciousness of most of the population and the waste of the vital liquid in our country and other Latin American countries where we want to focus being Mexico so close to Center and South America.

     Every day we waste millions of gallons of water when washing cars, aside from the fact of the pollution we create in the aquifers from which the water is extracted due to the leaking and disposal of chemical products that very difficultly can be subtracted from the water and which take many, many years in biodegrade in their path through rivers, etc.

     We are presently commercializing our project and our product in a low scale with an artisan manufacture due to the fact that we do not have the resources to install a laboratory and a packaging line for mass production. We are searching for financing to launch as of immediately this project with the required advertising and promotional activities so as to be able to safe tons of gallons of water when washing vehicles.

     We have reached some of the federal government departments in México and we have done paper work that takes a lot of time in order to obtain the resources that we need. Nevertheless, I am still very interested in communicating with you as we have very closely followed some of your lectures and have come to realize that you are in the same line of interest as us, worried about our planet. This is the reason for my sending you this letter; to request your help and advice in obtaining the name of the person or group we can talk to who can help achieve our goal.

     We are presently funding our project through low scale sales as we have researched and our product can be patented world wide and we do not want to loose the opportunity of exploiting it in as many countries as possible in order to contribute in the saving of water and helping with the economy of each one of those countries.

     In order to properly install the production lines and do the corresponding promotion and advertising of our products as of immediately, we need investment funds to cover the following:
     • Rent
     • Laboratory equipment
     • Packaging equipment
     • Formula raw material
     • Personnel and staff
     • Advertising and promotion

     I thank you in advance for your attention and your time. If you need any further information concerning all the above, please do not hesitate to contact us. I will be very much looking forward to your answer.

     And again, congratulations for the achievement with your campaign for the good of human kind.

     Very truly,

     Arturo Demirdjian V.

528. Julie said,

     October 25, 2009 @ 2:29 am

     Dear Mr. Gore,
     I am 13 years old and am currently doing a geography assignment in school, and have chosen to do it on global warming. I watched ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ and it was excellent. I was truly inspired by your persistence and determination to get the message across to the world.
     I would just like to congratulate you on your fantastic achievements!

     kind regards
     julie

529. gary manning said,

     October 28, 2009 @ 11:29 am

     you people are all idiots…except for the guy who had a vasectomy. he did us a favor.

     Stop ruining America, you jackasses!

530. Ralph Sprovier said,

     October 30, 2009 @ 7:17 pm

     Mr. Gore:

     I have had it with your lying and disguised hidden agenda using Global warming….oh!! I forgot IT’S NOW Global Climate Change. Why do you refuse to debate an issue that’s so dangerous to our VERY existence with people that have dedicated their entire life to its study? Could it be that you a complete farce and your only concern is for personal wealth gain? Or is simply the fact that you’re a puppet (a fat-assed one at that, haven’t you been told by the radicals in the White House that meat consumption is BAD FOR THE PLANET???) for a New World Order? That your progressive global friends are in pursuit of global control and the United States of America and our Beautiful Constitution stands in their way?

     I am appalled at your selfish interests and sell out to foreign concerns.

     As you place your mooncalf head on your pillow tonight – ask yourself this………………………………………….HOW CAN I SLEEP AFTER BETRAYING MY COUNTRY?

     One pissed off EX- Democrat
     Ralph Sprovier

531. Nancy Imm said,

     October 30, 2009 @ 8:32 pm

     Dear Al,
     I was devastated when the election was stolen from you in 2000. You have become our best champion for informing the people of the world about the impending global warming crisis. I am proud to be a Democrat, and I hope your message reaches more people who are willing to act for this cause.
     I have to say, though, Joe Lieberman is a turncoat. As sorry as I was about the outcome of that election, I don’t think (now) that J L was worthy to be on the same ticket with you.
     Thanks.
     Nanimm in MI

532. klm said,

     November 2, 2009 @ 8:14 pm

     I am very happy that Al Gore is speaking out about these climate issues. I really hope that he can attend the Copenhagen conference.

533. Me said,

     November 3, 2009 @ 6:49 pm

     YOU ARE AND ALWAYS WILL BE ONE SCHMUCK

534. joe smith said,

     November 4, 2009 @ 1:33 am

     asshole

535. Colin Nairn said,

     November 4, 2009 @ 5:01 am

     Al,
     If we stopped putting carbon into the atmosphere today, ie- parked every car in the world, grounded all aircraft, shut down all coal plants etc. would the planet still recover or is it too late?
     The ice is melting and would probably continue even if this scenario took place, it obviously wouldn’t refreeze any time soon. It may be impossible for you to answer this question if there is no hope because we can’t give up. Please comment on it anyway. Thank you
     Colin, Canada

536. Drew Scott said,

     November 5, 2009 @ 2:37 pm

     I Too Have A Dream

     I have a dream that one day the fate of this world will NOT be determined by money, power, greed nor politics.

     But………. I have a dream that one day the world’s future will be driven by peace, wisdom, common sense and clean energy.
     I too have a dream…….

     Now let’s get it on!
     Drew Scott

537. Steve + Cynthia said,

     November 5, 2009 @ 4:10 pm

     We need a moratorium till we figure it out!

     Duck lake algae blooms and the massive sea bird kill, please read

     Could there be a connection? They sprayed our freash water lake for noxious weeds and Duck lake had unprecedented algae blooms! -COULD MANMADE CHEMICALS BE A FACTOR? in sea bird kill? or as an acidic accelerant? Are our oceans in better health now or 44 yrs ago? Thank you , your answers will be appreciated.(bova.cindy@yahoo.com)

     Please Help! Please answer. In the mean time….
     The oceans declining
     health is everybodys business. Public tax dollars are
     used for spartina eradicating chemicals. We are not tree hugger’s, not
     even close, but rather two ordinary everyday worried
     grandparents trying to open some eyes about the grave acidic condition of our Ocean.

     To our Elected Leaders and certain scientists:
     WAKE UP!

     We wonder if the use of chemicals that intentionally
     kills shrimp, crab, brazilian elodea and spartina could be causing the deadly
     foam that’s killing seabirds by the thousands(11/5/09)? Perhaps the
     Audubon Society and The Nature Conservancy will look into it. But even more important,
     are the above mentioned chemicals causing or adding to the
     oceans acidic condition in the Pacific Northwest?
     Perhaps this very probable correlation will come to light
     and wake-up certain elected leaders, corporate oyster farmers and a few scientists!
     In the mean time, we passionately demand for an immediate
     moratorium. Then an updated unbiased independent
     investigation/study of 44 years of spraying thousands or quite possibly
     millions of gallons of chemicals into our sea water off Washington state alone! (search oyster bed pesticide and spartina eradication
     for more unbelievable facts). We should add that spartina is a
     C-4 sequester of carbon.(major producer of oxygen) That fact alone makes it related to
     our oceans acidic health! Another fact is decaying spartina plant matter
     causes carbon, hence acidic. In other words, by letting it live,
     it would help slow acidic content, and in contrast, by killing it
     would inevitably increase it. Please WAKE-UP and look at the bigger picture!
     Please use the power of the pen and help us convey
     these and other concerns about this 44 year old aberration
     which will drastically effect future generations. We pray it isn’t
     to late for our beautiful granddaughter. Also call and write
     your Elected Leaders and tell them to WAKE-UP and smell the
     chemicals. After 44 years it’s time to give the ocean a break!
     Thank you,
     Steve and Cynthia Bova ( bova.cindy@yahoo.com)
     229 Toleak st
     Ocean Shores, WA 98569
     (360 580 5534)

     11/5/09 Subject: four important answers we can’t seem to get, can you HELP?

     Please? To whom it may concern; (1)- Does decaying plant or shrimp in our ocean cause carbon? (2)-Does carbon cause and/or add to the grave acidic situation ocurring in our ocean? (3)- Is spartina a C-4 sequestor of carbon?

     If the answer is YES to any or all of the above questions, then (4)-
     Shouldn’t we rethink the policy of spraying chemicals in the ocean to
     kill spartina and ghost shrimp? (25 million tax dollars)

     ——

538. Bill Burke said,

     November 6, 2009 @ 12:11 am

     I’m very curious why a self-professed environmentalist refuses to make available an electronic version of his new book “Our Choice”. Seriously, I’m a Kindle owner, a believer in Global Warming, someone who voted twice for the Clinton/Gore ticket, and I can’t understand why I should be forced to kill another tree just to read you book when I could be reading it in a much more environmental format! Please tell me this isn’t about dollars and cents.

539. Carm Raney said,

     November 7, 2009 @ 2:34 pm

     When you have the courage to debate “real scientists” in regard to global warming…..the truth will come out that you don’t know what you are talking about. You should be ashamed of yourself for trying to convince people of inconvenient lies.

     Shame on you!!!

540. R. Sholten said,

     November 8, 2009 @ 9:37 am

     Hey, Mr. Gore. How’s it goin’ up there? Down here it’s lookin’ pretty rough. A lot of us are, in fact, engaging in the acts of civil disobedience that you’ve suggested, myself among them.

     I’d like to propose two things to you.

     1) You, a privileged, upper class statesman, should chain your *own* body to a bulldozer. Walk your talk.

     2) This will accomplish two things: A) it will make far more people engage in similar (or different) acts of the civil disobedience you’ve been espousing, and B) it’ll make you look like less of just another rich white politico (which is a popular impression) that’s just cashing in on climate-change issues for the purpose of making mucho-bucks in press appearances, book deals, and political weight.

     Keep talkin’ but start walkin’. I give my oath to you here and now: you give your word to engage in an act of civil disobedience that is more than symbolic (merely symbolic acts include “crossing the line” to be voluntarily arrested), an act that actually hinders the activities of the targets you claim to be causing these environmental problems, and I will skip work, hop on a bus, and take part in whatever you decide to do. I will not be alone in this.

     Because right now, you give the impression of fakery. Suggesting that others risk arrest and police retaliation while you stand on a stage or talk to some media official in a nice suit and an expensive haircut.

     Walk the walk, mate, and you could be the next f’ing MLK Jr. Think that over.

     Disclaimer: While this was a curt message, it was not meant to disparage the valuable information that you *have* disseminated to the public at large, and for that I respect you. But get out from behind the podium, get in front of the barricades and bulldozers, and you could ignite a revolution.

     Thank you, sir.

541. benat said,

     November 14, 2009 @ 1:41 am

     I know someone who has a process that removes 30-38 percent of sulfur from coal into a liquid. He has made a model that worked. Mr Gore if you have any intrest in this please send me a way for my friend to contact you.

542. Daniel Rutter said,

     November 17, 2009 @ 5:13 pm

     Aloha Mr. Gore
     My name is Dan. I am a student at UHH (University of Hawaii in Hilo) and I’m doing a research paper about solar energy. I saw you on TV promoting your new book and it would appear that you are more in favor of wind turbines.
     I believe they would work well along with solar energy, but would like to know your thoughts on this subject.
     How do you feel about solar energy?
     I know that initial installation cost are high and solar panels are effected by weather and air pollution, but new technologies seem to be on the verge of overcoming these challenges. Other than “cradle to grave” recycling and safe chemical use during the manufacturing process; are you aware of any other adversities to the use of solar energy?
     I am supposed to find some opposing viewpoints on solar energy use for my report, but there don’t seem to be many out there. Do you know where I can find any?
     Mahalo for any assistance you can give me.

543. Pat Hopper said,

     November 17, 2009 @ 6:46 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore. I am pleased to let you know I have pledged $1.00 to Dr. Monckton’s challenge to debate you on the global warming issue. I hope you agree to discuss this huge issue with a scientist. If you are truly interested in furthering your argument, it is time to help us understand. Thanks

544. Bryan Stevenson said,

     November 17, 2009 @ 11:42 pm

     Hello

     I guess you are feeling more comfortable with the efforts re global waming considering your recent $4m+ apartment acquisition on the San Francisco waterfront?…….

545. judyinwash said,

     November 20, 2009 @ 4:25 pm

     For those of you who actually believe what Al Gore is saying, you really need to do your research. Check out the DVD, “Global Warming, Emerging Science & Understanding”. There are many other documentaries out there for you to watch and learn.

     Al Gore is NOT a scientist, he’s a businessman. And he knows how to make money off people like you that want to believe.

     The people on earth only affect the environment by 3%!!! ONLY 3%!!! Do your homework, stop believing everything you hear from people in government.

546. julie said,

     November 21, 2009 @ 6:45 pm

     what inspired you to tell people about global warming?

     I am doing an essay in you

547. jnormanii said,

     November 23, 2009 @ 5:38 am

     Gee, Al. Why is it you keep avoiding to debate scientists that want challenge you? You debated Ross Perot on Larry King on the importance of NAFTA. He was proven right even though all he said was jobs would be lost. He may have had a comical performance and you won the debate, he was proven right. Isn’t manmade global warming a more important issue? I mean, we’re talking about the end of all life on Earth! You told a scientist you can’t debate the science of manmade global warming….oops I mean climate change. It was nice of you to call those that don’t believe you “flat-Earthers”. It was very endearing for you to complain to media outlets saying that people with opposing views shouldn’t be given equal airtime. Damn democracy, eh? It was especially sweet of you to tell children to not to listen to their parents when it comes to manmade climate change. Funny how you dems keep harping about free speech, but yet you’re the ones trying to silence the voice of the opposition. Obama sending his minions out to other media networks saying “don’t you be like Fox and ask questions we don’t want to answer”. David Plouffe and Anita Dunn admitting that they told the media what to print and what not to print during the campaign. Wonder why they listened, by the way. Obama’s former auto czar threatening investors in Chrysler that if they didn’t take the 19 cents on the dollar the gov. was offering that they’d unleash the full power of the White House press corps. How does he know the press corps would do his bidding? Oh wait, Palin, Joe “the Plumber”, and anyone or anything that dares make Obama look bad. Then there was government investigations being done on healthcare providers to seniors for daring to send their customers information that was also found in CBO reports. Not to mention you “don’t give them equal airtime… there’s money to be made and people to enslave”. Of course, I’m just quoting what you thought and not what you actually said.

     Back to this global warming thing. How is it that I keep being proven right about these temperatures? I don’t mean the adjusted ones by the government-backed scientific community. I mean actual “damn it’s cold” temperatures. For anyone that wishes to look, you can look up at my comments predicting cold winters and summers. Chicago had maybe it’s coldest summer on record. New York had its sixth coldest. Then there’s this weird story all over the internet. Some internet hacker hacked into the email account of Britain’s head of their top Climate Research Unit, Phil Jones where Jones and the CRU admitted the emails were authentic. In these emails there was collusion with other top global warming proponent scientists to trick and hide data to make it seem like the Earth is still getting warmer. Gee, why would they do that Al? Governments routinely funding scientists that go along with the “manmade climate change” scam while defunding scientists that don’t. Why Obama’s cap and trade plan “would necessarily cause energy prices to skyrocket… and those costs would be passed onto the consumer”. His words, not mine. Why would he want everyday people to pay more for energy in an economy like this over an unproven and contentious issue at best? Why? Don’t tell me it’s not to have more government power over the people. Don’t tell me it’s not to bring about a one-world government. The scam is global, afterall. Say it isn’t so, Al. Well, that’s really the only answer. My flat-Earthing a** against you, the government-funded scientific community, pop culture bafoons, a willing media handing a helping hand, and your side has to cook the books? Gee, looks like this flat-Earther just won.

548. jnormanii said,

     November 23, 2009 @ 6:43 am

     “Funny how you dems keep harping about free speech, but yet you’re the ones trying to silence the voice of the opposition…” Oops, forgot the oxymoronic titled Employee Free Choice Act where union members would lose the right to a private ballot. Gotta make sure no members actually make use of the Constitution and their right to free speech. Imagine how one would be ostricized (at best) if they voted against union hierarchy in an open forum. I guess that’s freedom of speech in the world of the liberals/grown up hippies. Free speech as long as you like it. If not, then you’ll ostricize, humiliate (loved Obama’s guide, Saul Alinsky’s book “Rules For Radicals”), shout down, shut down those that dare speak their own mind. Man you guys are scum.

549. Gar Swaffar said,

     November 23, 2009 @ 11:35 am

     Not much on here since January it seems, when the figid temperatures were noticed. Global Warming, then Global Climate Change, and the next descriptor will be what to match the reality your movie lied about?

     Honestly, I don’tfault anyone for making a living. But the misery you’ve already foisted off on the poorest people on the planet with the hype is sad. The hype is now poised to bring the rest of us down to the level of a Third World Economy. Thanks.
     How do you sleep at night?

550. Elaine Mcdermott said,

     November 24, 2009 @ 5:58 pm

     I have known for some time now that “global warming” is a bunch of garbage. I have heard on many of the History Channel shows that there is no such thing as “global warming”. Today it was confirmed that this is all a hoax, no surprise to me. You are no better than Obama and the rest of his radical communists and you should be made to pay for all the lies and money that you have stolen for your “global warming s@#*”. I’d like to see you, Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid hung by your thumbs in the hot sun and torn to pieces by the American people. How can you even come on TV and face the public after everything you have done. You should be sent to prision and made to pay back all the money you have stolen for your “GLOBAL WARMING”. I’m glad you got caught. So much for cap and trade.

551. Laurie Borkowski said,

     November 24, 2009 @ 6:10 pm

     I heard today about the hoax of global warming. Fox news is bringing out all the corruption in Washington, which includes you. You are a liar and a cheat and I hope you pay for all you have done and all the money you have made on your stupid “global warming”. How long did you think you could get away with it?

552. Toni said,

     November 25, 2009 @ 5:54 am

     Whoa, are you busted, Mr. Gore! The audacity of liars. You’re going to have your Nobel taken from you, criminal charges against you, and a long, long time to think about what you have done. Shame on you. You and all your elitist cronies are a disgrace to America. Moreover, you are a traitor. You’re all going down so start singing (cya) because it’s the ONLY way you’ll ever hope to redeem yourself in the slightest.

553. John Russo said,

     November 25, 2009 @ 7:57 pm

     Al your a fraud and the hacked emails prove it. LOL For the love of god you need to go to the big house not the white house. LOL

554. B. Woods said,

     November 26, 2009 @ 10:22 am

     The following is based on a range of scientific findings, including from scientists referred to below (with a little poetic license added).

     OUR PREDICAMENT:

     At the emergency meeting on Climate Change in Copenhagen in March, 2009, attended by over 2,500 leading scientists from 80 countries, a desperate plea was issued to world leaders to act on global warming or face the “devastating consequences”. They warned that new research is suggesting that sea levels are set to rise twice as fast as predicted in 2007, with global temperature rises of between 4C and 7C by the end of the century - rather than 2-3C rises predicted two years ago.

     If global leaders meeting in Copenhagen in December, 2009 fail to commit their countries to very serious new action on (i) the underlying cause of our current predicament - population growth; (ii) future food and water supply, and (iii) emissions controls, together with the funding needed for that action, this will increase significantly the likelihood of the future coming about as outlined here.

     FOLLY

     Not very many years ago, economies were strong,
     Production, trade and incomes grew worldwide.
     Some even claimed an end to poverty to be in sight.
     But those who travelled widely in their work
     Saw, around the world, forests being destroyed,
     Soils eroding and ever more people everywhere;
     They saw the writing on the wall.
     Some spoke out - but were not heard.
     Then scientists found hard evidence of looming danger
     But the truths which they revealed were inconvenient.
     Leaders too ignorant or weak, or intent on feathering their nests,
     Failed to lead where brave leadership was due.
     Parents too sought present pleasures and neglected children’s future needs.
     Most put their heads in sand for there they saw no need for care.
     Blind materialism drove the world with resources plundered far and wide;
     Our injured planet begged for help for it had no place to hide
     But the wealthy, with averted eye, passed by - on the other side.
     Not many years ago.

     Ever faster, ice and snow began to melt
     ‘til soon the Arctic and great glaciers were gone;
     Mighty oceans warmed and swelled and water levels rose;
     Millions fled the rising tides with no homes to which to go.
     Then people saw and recognised their fate;
     Governments took stern action - but too little and too late.
     For nature’s tender balance was upset
     Which time alone is able to restore;
     By then no human power on earth
     Could set that balance back to where it was before.
     Yet, still, populations kept on rising.

     While people increased, good farm lands deceased.
     Winds and rains began to change from an unfamiliar sky
     Crops began to fail on which the peoples of the world rely.
     Arid areas grew drier forcing inhabitants elsewhere;
     Water scarcity struck population centres almost everywhere.
     Trade, and businesses, then banks, then currencies faltered and collapsed.
     Employment plummeted; poverty spread like plague;
     Traffic vanished from the roads and skies as great oil fields grew old;
     Grand tourist complexes and ocean liners stood derelict and cold,
     Stark, empty monuments to indulgence and to greed
     And to the warnings of disaster which those people would not heed.
     All this within a human lifespan!

     Quite suddenly the North Atlantic Gulf Stream changed its course,
     As it had done many times to help bring about the ice ages of old.
     Northern living peoples were driven southward by the cold,
     They joined the swelling masses in towns and cities further south,
     Mostly unemployed and living hand-to-mouth.

     Now, around the world,
     The destitute and starving are far too many to be fed;
     Fights for food and water have become a constant dread;
     New deserts march towards the oceans and cover up the dead.
     Offspring curse their forebears for the folly of the wanton lives they led
     And the chances which they squandered to avert the fate which lay ahead.
     Law and order are but memories and bestiality now reigns,
     Desperate people have joined dogs and vultures to devour human remains.

     Each morn greets us with a raging, fiery dawn;
     Electric storms and terror wind now lash the earth
     As though our Earth herself had sinned.
     In dust-filled air we are condemned to live in constant gloom
     And any venturing on the oceans do so in mortal peril of a violent doom.
     But social breakdown has filled more graves than all the elements combined;
     There also lie the final harvests of the arms trade - despicably entwined.

     The time for prayer is passed for heaven’s gates are now shut fast.
     No place remains for prettiness or mirth
     For man has created hell on earth.
     We still left alive were damned before our birth.

     Man has made himself this bed
     And on this bed all life must lie.
     The die is cast
     And on this bed mankind will die.

     We’ve not many years to go.

     LATEST NEWS:

     Latest climate change projections put world population at nine billion by 2050.  This will require an increase of world food production of 100% on current levels to meet the needs of this population and to take account of losses of prime agricultural land through sea level rises, erosion, soil alkalinity and new construction.  The Copenhagen Conference preparations have concentrated on emissions controls without corresponding attention to control of population growth or the need for drastic increases in food production and water needs. Now governments have announced that no agreement on emissions controls will be reached in Copenhagen. THIS IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH!

     PUBLIC PRESSURE:

     A great surge in public pressure on governments and those representing us in Copenhagen is called for so that this critical gathering, and the opportunity it offers, are not wasted - nor our future and that of our children jeopardised further.

     ACTION:

     This message was sent to initial 100 people on 19th Nov. If every recipient sends it to ten others within 24 hours, asking them to do the same, this would reach 100 million people in a week (if every recipient is a different person and passes it on). Many of you could send it to more than ten people.

     ALSO, if every recipient e-mails a brief message (along the lines suggested below) to their Member of Parliament, Congressman or equivalent government representative, we could achieve the surge of public pressure now needed

     Climate change threatens all of us.  We are in it together! If every recipient takes the two small actions - sends on the message and e-mails their government representative- the collective sum of these actions could influence those about to take decisions in Copenhagen that will affect the future of all of us.  It is worth a try!  If you can, send this on to people in other countries so they can initiate similar action there. Include young voters - young parents, university students and school leavers - for it will be on them and their generation that the burden of coping with climate change in the coming years will fall most heavily.

     Those individuals who don’t act now will have no grounds for complaint if our delegates at Copenhagen take no action either. Some people still prefer to doubt the severity of climate change, or its human causes, and want more scientific proof. Sadly, full scientific proof is only possible AFTER the event. We can’t wait that long! We must act now.

     Go for it! Influence your future!

     Best wishes,

     B. W.

     Example of message:

     To (your political/government representative),

     As a citizen of (country), I expect and demand that our representatives at the forthcoming Climate Change Summit Conference return from Copenhagen having reached agreement on action to address emissions controls, population growth and food security, and means for funding those objectives.  Nothing less will do.

     Please bring this request to the highest levels of government and to all our representatives at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference.

     (E-mail addresses for many countries’ parliamentary representatives can be found on the web, (e.g. for e-mail addresses for UK MPs see: www.parliament.uk/directories).

555. Billy Clinton said,

     November 28, 2009 @ 10:38 pm

     algore = analdouche

     this guy is riding dirty on the backside of all americans with his global warming disneyland…..getting rich off a scam called carbon credits all the while he is burning untold amounts of energy in his private jets and mansions……

556. Dan Marks said,

     November 29, 2009 @ 12:40 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     You are really missing a big opportunity. If you would merely check the US dollar price of gold over the last decade or so, you would see the effect of CO2 on gold’s value - it even has the hockey stick!

     No need to abridge the data. although we would be hard-pressed to explain the dip that occurred just a few months ago - but hey… the 1940-1970’s temperature dipped too, but no one needed to explain that.

     To heck with the global warming junk. Look what CO2 is doing to the value of the dollar. Taking it down down down, so that gold measures up up up. Time to control the CO2 all right — while we still have any real dollars left.
     .

557. Ali said,

     November 30, 2009 @ 1:06 pm

     more research into the effects of anthropogenic greenhouse gases needs to be done before such geo-engineering projects as the virgin earth prize that could potentially destroy the planet! sulphate particles spayed onto the troposphere, for example.

     http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckton/goreerrors.html

     thanks,

     ali

558. Brandon Taylor said,

     December 1, 2009 @ 11:05 am

     Climate gate can not be stopped your hoax is being exposed, and the real truth will get out.

     I dont want a carbon tax we are allready taed enough.

559. Fran Freyman said,

     December 3, 2009 @ 10:54 pm

     Hello Vice-President Gore,

     If your theories on global-warming are so true, why will you not lay them open to debate, with a “bring-it-on” attitude. The reason is because you can’t. Global-warming is a sham and your science is weak.

     Toodles,
     Fran

560. Nikki Sandman said,

     December 3, 2009 @ 10:59 pm

     Mr. Gore,

     I think you are wonderful. Keep up the great work and thank you so much for inventing the internet, I don’t know what I would do without it!

     Nikki

561. Avram Grossman said,

     December 5, 2009 @ 5:17 pm

     2012 – The movie. Is it a significant date in history? It is the telling of a global cataclysmic event that might actually happen? Is it possible? Is there a connecting link between science-fiction and science-reality? Think about this postulation:
     1. It has demonstrated over the history of man that we, as rational, thinking beings on this planet, can predict or create the future as evidenced through the writings of science-fiction. Examples include the works authored on such topics as underwater breathing apparatus; man’s ability to take to the skies in flight; space travel; breakthroughs in health treatment, and the list goes on. “If man can think it, man can accomplish it” (a quote by Avram Grossman.)
     2. Unexplained events or phenomenon in nature can eventually be explained once we develop the science and mathematics to help us understand it.
     3. The mystery of how and why Mother Nature transmutes dead life into black gold is still unknown. We do know that the oil we pump today was formed during the Carboniferous Period during the Paleozoic Era, 300 millions ago. We’ll have to wait a long time for the supply to replenish itself.
     4. We do know that the oil deep under our earths crust lubricates the tectonic plates that separate the upper crusts and planet surface, from the hot molten core of our planet. Just as motor oil lubricates the moving parts of our engines and distributes heat from the combustion cylinders, so too does the oil in our earth lubricate and disperse heat.
     5. If you siphon off the oil from a running motor, what will happen?
     6. If we siphon off the oil from a running planet can we postulate what the possible outcomes could be?
     7. First, I postulate that contributions to global warming might be in part the effect the earths core overheating – an effect of mankind having disrupted the heat dispersing capabilities of Mother Nature. As the earths core (the engine) looses its ability to disperse heat evenly, the passenger compartment (the planets inhabited space) is getting warmer.
     8. Then, I postulate that; earthquakes are caused when underground tectonic plates move and shift around rubbing again each other, building up pressure until they break apart and move suddenly. The oil that lubricates our planet enables this movement to occur with a cushioned transfer of the abrupt energy to the surface – more frequent but smaller earthquake and less resulting damage. When the normal movement is impeded by having removed the lubrication, it’s only a matter of time until the “big one” occurs.
     9. The movie “2012” may not be just a script concocted by Hollywood screenwriters to entertain audiences. In keeping with how science-fiction writers correctly foresee science-truth unfold, so too should we seriously consider “2012” the movie not a pure entertainment, but a science-fiction writers’ way of telling us about an truth of great inconvenience.
     10. If we as a global nation do not heed to the truths of Mother Nature, Mother Nature will reclaim what was rightfully hers. Can we change how we all live on this planet? How long can you tread water if we don’t change?

562. scott mcgowan said,

     December 6, 2009 @ 1:47 am

     dear mr gore

     i just want to begin by saying i dont believe in your so-called
     global warming. im a firm believer in the fact that our great planet changes in time just as everything else does. according to our school books, we are taught the planet has gone through an ice age and a time when it was parched. i believe the planet has a life cycle and these changes are a part of its life cycle. to say that man has done all this damage in just the past 200 yrs or so are really ridiculous. further more, you and your cause and every one else whom had taken part in this since the the mid 80,s are no different than the common crook, you have found a way to exploit the truth and turn a buck on pure lies. i just hope when the smoke clears, that there some people to be brought up on criminal charges and you not to be excluded from the price of crime.

563. Climategate Greenaway said,

     December 6, 2009 @ 4:13 am

     LIAR LIAR pants on fire
     go to hell Al Gore

564. Roger Racy said,

     December 8, 2009 @ 10:18 pm

     Mr. Vice President,

     There is seeming sufficient momentum from political and economic directions to see that global warming will dominate thinking and enterprise, for years.

     Please address why no one has considered the effects of where the solar system resides, as a alternate cause (or not) to global temperature migration. Is it too risky to think outside of this “inconvenient box”, to consider that cosmic phenomena sporadically impair solar energy from impinging upon the Earth’s surface and are surely a larger “drivers” toward or away from warming than Mankind’s transient influences. None of these are controllable by Human intervention or any degree of carbon curtailment.

     I do not disagree that carbon emissions and other GHGs are artificially elevated by industry. Yet, lack of fossil fuel gases (exhausted to the atmosphere) could hardly have caused any previous Ice Age, because some other effects did. The reversal of those effects have viable merit to be responsible for global temperature changes.

     I welcome your response (to the world), on this premise.

     Best Regards,

     Roger Racy
     Registered Mechanical Engineer
     Certified Energy Manager
     (nowhere near Nobel caliber…..)
     Long Beach, CA
     562 212-4792

565. Ralph Pierro said,

     December 9, 2009 @ 1:02 am

     polar ice solutions. What if we put pumps in the ocean that shoots water back onto the ice to freeze again also maintaining water levels…. Ralph Pierro florida i want to help i have many more ideas i hope the correct party can see this

566. Ralph Pierro said,

     December 9, 2009 @ 1:04 am

     polar ice solutions. What if we put pumps in the ocean that shoots water back onto the ice to freeze again also maintaining water levels…. Ralph Pierro florida i want to help i have many more ideas i hope the correct party can see this

567. Interglacial John said,

     December 9, 2009 @ 10:01 am

     Hey Al, what’s the temperature of the earth’s core? (hint, it is less than a million degrees) “two kilometers or so down in most places there are these incredibly hot rocks, ’cause the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees, and the crust of the earth is hot …” Ooooh, sorry. Let’s try again. What year is it Al? (hint, you claim to have just read climate-gate emails dated from this past year) ” I haven’t read all the e-mails, but the most recent one is more than 10 years old.” Two for two! It is not 2019 and the Earth does not have a fever you pot smoking flunkie!

568. e.a.greenhalgh said,

     December 9, 2009 @ 5:10 pm

     Dear Al gore, regarding Global Warming I believe this is misleading , and causing people not to really care.I am preparing very serious material for President Obama to ask his help: like any truthful scientist finding an inconvenient truth I have been suppressed and badly blacklisted . see www.cancerfraudbadiotech.com for details. The site will change once the material is sent to Obama for the public’s help, but you should read the Red Section and from the Green Menu ;SARS/Mass Extinction, which is not about SARS but emerging new diseases. Critics of you argue that climate change has always occurred and now is no different, but what everyone is missing, maybe even you , is the fact of Environment change, and species go extinct and man is a species.People don’t care about polar bears or warmer climes, but what you have to realize is that unless we act now, man will be EXTINCT in fifty years. On my website you will see the former US Surgeon General, Dr.J. Elders (your term S.G.) has regretted my treatment. Noam Chomsky has said my theories could be of phenomenal importance to mankind. Dr. J.Lovelock of the GAIA theory (earth has a temperature )has read my theory; plus others.The danger ,VTT states is man is an unfit species and the environment will cause new diseases for which there are no immunity to develop and man will go extinct.I will explain this in detail to Pres. Obama, but would appreciate any help available now. People think blacklisting and suppression are just words without any results; the results have been devastating for my life. So please review the material and ask people to see the website updates in the near future with the Obama material. Thank you. E.A.Greenhalgh

569. phil giordano said,

     December 9, 2009 @ 6:44 pm

     dear sir i just cant believe that you are such an A.H. and just think you were the VP of this country. do the world a favor and leave.

570. Robert junka said,

     December 9, 2009 @ 8:57 pm

     Dear Mr Gore,
     The USGA (May of 2009) just did a measurement of the three west cost mountains, Mt Rainier in Washington, Mt Shasta in California, and Mt Hood in Oregon and they revieled the glaciers are not melting, but growing faster then normal. Were do you get off telling the lies you do and pulling off, “The fraud of Man made global warming???”

571. mark said,

     December 9, 2009 @ 11:48 pm

     Dear Al
     You are a liar and a fraud.
     History will condemn you.
     all the best.
     mark

572. Crystal Blubaugh said,

     December 10, 2009 @ 1:55 am

     Mr. Al Gore,
     As an honest and true believer that God is the God of all things then I read the Bible as God’s unchanged Word. Adam and Eve were created not only as fruitarian but also with no clothes to deal with cold temperatures. They were NAKED. The earth was tropical before and did not implode or explode or do anything else destructive immediately. The fact is that this world os sin filled and corrupt and in a state of constant decay due to man: namely Adam and Eve and you aren’t powerful enough to overthrow God or Satan. Sorry to bust your bubble but you are following Satan in your Pride and Greed. I pray for the speedy return of Christ as He is the only One who can save us not you and your cronies.

573. Lars Thor said,

     December 10, 2009 @ 11:05 am

     Mr. Gore:
     Do not tax, regulate or legislate what I exhale!
     Regards,
     Lars

     P.S. Oh by the way, I might take you seriously if you divested yourself of all your homes, planes & SUV’s and took up residence in a tent or a shelter with others to conserve resources. Until you change your own habits, I must assume you are in the mold of a “Madoff”.

574. glen bradford said,

     December 10, 2009 @ 11:38 am

     Dear Al Gore,

     It is an undeniable and inconvenient truth that you are a crook, liar, fool, and con man. What you are doing is nothing short of criminal.

     Have an OPEN debate so your premise and all your lies can be debunked.

     I AM SPREADING THE WORD!

     I pray for the day honest people rise up and put you in your place, the cesspool of history.

     Post this you coward

575. SteveB said,

     December 12, 2009 @ 11:38 am

     http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/6491195/Al-Gore-could-become-worlds-first-carbon-billionaire.html

     Follw this link. And follow the money. Mr Gore is indeed “profiteering from government policies he supports that would direct billions of dollars to the business ventures he has invested in.” It is always about money and power, and Mr Gore’s blaming mankind for Global Warming - now
     called ‘Climate Change’ - is his way to accumulate both. Therefore, to the folks at AlGore04, he is not wise, and he is not honorable.

576. Allen said,

     December 12, 2009 @ 8:55 pm

     You should have listened to Ollie. He knew the truth and you tried to embarress him. Look in the mirror( if you can get the theif Bill and Hillary out of the way) and decide who is the fool now. Your a joke on the word MANHOOD! Let go! Try to recover some simlance of dignity, honor. By all means, grow a penis. May Bin Laden or alabama or v.p. bitchen, grow (literally) on you. Good luck in your, got nowhere else to go, campaign.

577. TjW said,

     December 13, 2009 @ 7:50 pm

     I Chose America!

     Consider this please,
     What is worse?
     Getting rich on the technology that will bring the world to war and arguably ruin the planets climate or making money on the technology that could save it, bring peace and prosperity in the form of manufacturing jobs back to the US? Is Gore more evil than the people sending “the largest transfer of wealth in the history of the planet to the Middle East” ?(Quote T Boone Pickens 2009) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2bOug1d20c
     Do you consider this YEARLY transfer of wealth from America to the Middle East a good thing,, or is Gore Evil for proposing that we keep our money here and invest it on technology that could well save the planet and keep us out of war or more tangibly put Americans back to work????

     “Let’s see,, on the one hand we have Multinational conglomerates making people rich that hate us and contributing to our demise on multiple levels that don’t give one tinkers damn about Americans r:
     We can start protecting a finite resource that we need for just about every aspect of modern life that we are currently burning most of and that we will end up having to go to war soon enough over any way over and over again if we don’t break our course,,, Making new technology, bringing manufacturing jobs back to America and making us independent from those that would seek to harm us is choosing America.
     Hmmm?
     What’s your answer?????
     Personally (I choose America!)
     What about you?
     Tell the Arabs to go straight to hell!
     Let’s get Poison Palin and Gore on the same stage and let’s tear her a new one!
     Let’s stop stumbling and start running again.
     I Choose America!

578. Trevor Lloyd said,

     December 14, 2009 @ 5:50 pm

     BASSHUNTER
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvaPpl4qbPk

579. Timothy Leeny said,

     December 14, 2009 @ 5:54 pm

     Irena Sendler

     There recently was a death of a 98 year-old lady named Irena. During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an ‘ulterior motive’ … She KNEW what the Nazi’s plans were for the Jews, (being German.) Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack, (for larger kids.) She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises. During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants. She was caught, and the Nazi’s broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it and reunited the family. Most had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.

     Last year Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize … She was not selected.

     Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming.

580. sylvie touranne said,

     December 14, 2009 @ 6:14 pm

     GLOBAL WARMING COMPLEMENT FACTS TO USE
     Best greetings to everyone in Copenhagen!

     The scientific concensus on global warming is not a good new!
     I have the proof every day in my research practice (independent).
     I get no financial support from anyone and consider it as the best way to true results.

     Let me bring those comments on the GOBAL WARMING
     1) Yes, global warming is changing the climate.
     2) No, global warming is not only due to human activity, for many aspects are not yet considered by specialists (??) as interdependent:
     - all measures taken by governments speak about money and money and money, this is the key to disagreeements and separativity, and has nothing to do with Environment GLOBALITY!
     - No one takes into account in the calculations, that the Earth is a warming living organism (internal fever = increase of the lithosphere warming + more magmatic activity), and the natural increase of temperature at the earth surface through the increasing human demography, which 37,2°C of every human body creates exponential warming,
     - No one takes into account the warming of planetary entities within the solar system
     - No one takes into account the increasing of the solar magnetic field, the increasing activities of the solar winds, the increasing solar spots that will be more active in a close future,
     - No one takes into account the electromagnetic pollutions within the atmosphere due to proliferation of high, very high and hyper high frequencies
     - No one takes into account the atmospheric pollution due to the satellite litter (about 700′000 pieces in orbit!!)
     - No one takes into account in human activities, the pollution of mental thought forms that cristallize into huge clouds, resulting for a major part in the ozone layer hole
     - And no one takes into account the universal modification of conscience observed in the wheel of Life within the greatest Environment of our galaxy, as no calculation model has been given out yet….
     HOW FAR FROM GLOBALITY WE ARE, STILL!

     When it is spoken about globality, please do consider the real whole situation. The GLOBAL SITUATION about WARMING IS NOT WHAT IS DESCRIBED BY EXPERTS OR PASSIONATE PARTICIPANTS.

     And: while great images and movies show Groenland’s fresh water and icebergs melting, NO ONE HAS THE IDEA TO BUILD UP CONTAINERS TO COLLECT FRESH WATERS instead of letting them mixing with salted waters of the seas…..
     What a waste!
     Are we really short of fresh water???

     Thank you for your global reflexion.

     Cordially yours,

     Sylvie Touranne
     consultant and head of programmes health+environment, researcher

     YAMANDA RA
     CH-1110 MORGES
     http://www.radiyam.eu/

581. Ben said,

     December 14, 2009 @ 11:24 pm

     I would like to invite one of these so called Enviroment Specialists to come to Northern Alberta and see if they can draw a crowd on Global Warming. These past several years have been some of the coldest on record. Your climate crisis is about as legit as Y2K. You would find this for yourselves, if you viewed and reviewed all the evidence, but the only thing you promote is your small findings and expect the world to follow. Of course if you were to do this, you may just have to find a real job.
     Really, you are just a bunch of hypocrites! You fly in a private jet to Coppenhagen, ride your SUV’s or Limos with your entourage of vehicles to discuss the worlds bad practices of greenhouse gases!

     Sincerely;
     Ben

582. Ed McGrath said,

     December 15, 2009 @ 11:37 am

     Dear Mr. Gore, Why do you keep putting your foot in your mouth? Please start using true facts and not the ones you make up. The people who have taken a cup of your kool-aid believe everything you say. However, thaere are some of us who use our head for other than placing a hat and indeed check your facts.
     This is the problem with the leadership of this country, you (they) keep feeding us with BS and some people take it as truth.
     You sir are a dishonest man and you know that.
     I think the environment would be in far better shape if people such as you held your hot air in check
     It’s sad to see a man in your position to be such a lair.

583. Jonathan said,

     December 16, 2009 @ 2:17 pm

     I’m not for waste of course, but I noticed that someone here decided not to have children claiming that would somehow save the planet. Then it came out that they didn’t even like children. love the planet and I love my son. Is that bad?

     The US holds only 300 million (175 million adults) out of 6 billion people on the planet. Most of the other industrial/civilized world thinks global warming is a hoax and is simply being used to make money for already extremely rich people. Everyone sas this. I’m surprised to see so many followers of this imaginary panic to save something that’s going through its own cycles. The sun is responsible for the lighting and heating of the planet. Volcanic activity is more of a factor in any “earth-made” global warming problems. A lot of you sound so mad. It’s very sad that something that’s so outlandish, fictitious and preposterous can work people up into such frenzy. Go find your own life instead of forcing your way into mine.

     If you want to talk conservation and recycling, that’s a different thing. I recycle and conserve as much as anyone I guess, but I don’t go out of my way. There’s wasteful, and then there’s dumb. I don’t speed on the freeway (gas prs arntcheap). I clean my plate when eating to not be wasteful. I run a full dishwasher. I have a spray nozzle on my hose when I wash my cars. I wipe and fold my paper napkin at least 3 times before throwing it away. I try not to do laundry unless I have a full load. I bought Sham-Wows for big spills. I drive a small car (not by choice) and I don’t drive very much. I work from home. That’s really all I can think of that most people do that may impact the entire human population on a planetary level.

     http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/146138

584. Harvey Watson, Jr. said,

     December 16, 2009 @ 6:55 pm

     Mr. Gore,

     Who made earth? Is man bigger than that Creator. If so, it this planet worth saving? Is man worth saving? If man is the destoryer of the earth, isn’t he greater than the creator? If he is indeed greater than the Creator, isn’t he just slim of which YOU are the chief? Why is the slim worth saving? Therefore isn’t the whole environmental tirad of yours a waste of oxygen? Aren’t you a polluter since you exhale CO2? Aren’t you a human?

     I know the true Creator, The father of Jesus Christ.. He is Bigger than mere man. We cannot destory His planet! You are an arrogant man. You are a mere man. You are a sinner. You set yourself up as God. You are a sinner. The only hope you have is to quit controling your life, and follow Jesus Christ. Enviromentalism is a religion: a false religion. You, Mr. Gore, are a fool and most dishonorable.

585. Eric Boyer said,

     December 17, 2009 @ 9:25 am

     Hi Al,

     We got now on the intenet people showing figures about the sun activity on earth is having an effect cooling down the temperatures as to justify the fact that we can keep our activities as they are today.
     see:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOLkze-9GcI&feature=fvw
     From my side I do not believe anyone because being told about anything related to some “like” scientific facts.
     It’s terrible to say such a thing, I just believe in my ability to mesure on my own!
     What I do see is that so far ice is melting on polar cap and top of montains all over the world is also melting.
     As far as this is changing what we till now know I’m not to believe anything else than what you argued on the subject.
     I’m taking care not to use energie more than needed, and taking care on a daily basis of what I can do not to use any.
     While some keep on getting activities where it is cheaper to do so, they destroy local activities and put more pressure on our possible future.
     I ain’t got children even if i’d like,I’m worried about my brother’s children and their future.
     My position is more to say: ok I got the message and I don’t care about the economy but more about making a livable place, now green jobs seems to take a time to become evident.
     It looks like it takes too much time to change, and i’d like to believe that humans can hold that issue in a time scale that is possible.
     I think it is dead for my generation but I believe it is possible for the next generation (probably the last one).
     I aint got no job for the moment but i’d like to do something on the subject, what job to search from now to solve the problem?
     Eric

586. Carnel Renner said,

     December 17, 2009 @ 12:51 pm

     Dear Al Gore,

     First of all I want to say hello, and congradulation on your success of The Nobel Peace Prize Award, of Global Climate Behavior.

     Al Gore, can you create a foundation for America’s peace prize award, for poor citizens. I have a lot of sucess but nobody to help me expose my work. I would love to share my work to you, because my community of Stockton, California, does not have anything to apply to to share my work, if I do they just still it, and walk all over me. So if you could create a peace prize of communities, I would patent it if I was you, and sell you, how to do it to be a winner.

     Thank you Al Gore,

     from Carnel Renner, Scientist, Economist

587. Joe Sims said,

     December 17, 2009 @ 9:55 pm

     Mr. Gore:

     I really loved the poem you read on CBS. What a crock! Get a life buddy. How long are you going to ride this joke? Joe

588. Joe Sims said,

     December 17, 2009 @ 10:06 pm

     Mr. Gore:

     I made have been a little forward on my previous message. Why don’t you guy’s give us ALL the data before you pick and choose what you’re attempting to distribute? There is much disparity on this issue. What makes your side right? Do us all a favor listen to ALL the facts. Not just what you want to distribute.

     Regards, Joe

589. Guenther E. LUDWIG said,

     December 18, 2009 @ 2:13 am

     Dear Mister Gore

     just if You need an idea (because You do not see that anymore):

     to save a huge amount of energy (CO²), make a law that forbites the use of airconditiones under a outside temperature of 65°

     Every little shop, restaurant … what ever, is a icebox in Your country. airconditiones for nothing, just blowing energy in the air.

     G.Ludwig (after 5 weeks holiday [10.000 mls] in USA)

590. Randy said,

     December 18, 2009 @ 2:42 am

     Mr Gore; please come to Wisconsin in January and stand outside of our State Capital when it is 30 below zero and tell us all about global warming. We sure could use a nice winter in Wisconsin so please tell me that nwxt year it will not get beloe freezing here.

591. Dan Marks said,

     December 20, 2009 @ 1:54 am

     What I am looking for is the scientifically accepted article, or study, that shows the cause of “climate change” or “global warming” to be nothing other than human-caused. Given the scientific method, wherein one tries to disprove a hypothesis and being unable to disprove it, the hypotheses is accepted as valid, there must be such a study. I haven’t found it listed in the IPCC reports. Would you please reference the study for me so that I can quote that source document to my skeptical friends?

592. wayne said,

     December 23, 2009 @ 1:22 pm

     How come Al Gore is not in the Phillippines selling carbon credits to the villigers living at the base of the volcano that’s going to blow up?

     This is an enviro disater waiting to happen, all that Sulpher Dixoide in the air is really hurting us here on planet Earth.

     Get GreenPeace and some banners together and climb that Mountain to show that this is wrong, this volcano did not pay and taxes last year and is really a dirty place to live and breath.

593. Kevin said,

     December 26, 2009 @ 3:09 pm

     I agree there is climate change - it’s called summer, fall, winter & spring. In a hundred years, you will be considered the great snake oil salesman of the century. You are a fraud, you know it, I know it, and more and more people in the country are realizing it.

594. Michael Anthony Putignano said,

     December 27, 2009 @ 9:11 am

     You’re a liar, plain and simple. The sixth coolest summer in Chicago, record snowfall in Oklahoma this past week, and record cold and snow in Dallas. If the regulations you propose become reality, along with the Cap and tax lie, you stand to make an awful lot of money. There’s your motivation to keep perpetuating the lie. Every time I see you being challenged on this global warming lie, somehow the mic gets disconnected or the challenger gets pounced upon by security and you never answer or repute any question thrown your way. You’re a liar and a coward. Just what I expect from a liberal Democrat. You should feel proud of your party. Destroying America from the inside. You guys have Cloward and Piven’s strategy down to a T. Well, hope you fail at everything you do. That way I’ll know America will still be standing strong, even with an apologist ass-kisser as president.

     Michael Putignano
     throneofserpents@sbcglobal.net

595. Ken Bontempo said,

     December 28, 2009 @ 6:25 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,
     Flooding is a major problem in some areas and drought in others. I’m sure you know the areas that need help. Is it possible to create tens of thousands of jobs, help the economy get back on track, and help prepare our country for the future by creating a nationwide reservoir system?

     Just as the WPA put the country back to work in the mid 1930s, and just as the US federal highway linking the country in the mid 1950s, why not build a massive water system that would control floods, generate power occasionally (when waters are high), and divert overflow to farming areas and strategic reservoirs.

     The need for water will become desperate in the very near future. I’m not and engineer, just a retired advertising man, but I’m sure you would know how to do it.

596. Michael said,

     December 31, 2009 @ 11:18 pm

     Hey, you fat, fatuous, know-nothing idiot, Reagan said it best- “facts are stubborn things.” Neither you, nor your nigger-supporters, nor your faggot-supporters, nor your Hollywood-High-School Drop-Out Supporters, nor any of the other social outcasts that constitute the modern Democrat party, can change the FACT that man-made global-warming is a load of horseshit. Happy new year, you fucking fossil!

597. Marna said,

     January 1, 2010 @ 7:07 pm

     Please address and make public the chem trails that our country as well as others are destroying us and our planet with. All the green activities in the world won’t make any difference if we are being systematically bombarded and drowning in deliberate chemical spraying of us, our plants, animals, soil and atmosphere. Why is this being hushed up and ignored? If more of the people were aware of what was going on we would have a better chance of fighting it and having healthier people and just plain surviving. Where I live in AZ we rarely see beautiful clear blue skies. Instead we see jets spraying chem trails and blanketing the sky with heaven knows what now. Those aren’t clouds over Phoenix, those are chemicals. When I got this morning, the first day of the new year, I was full of hope and excitement of a fresh new beginning. But when I went outside and looked up at what should have been a crystal clear beautiful blue sky I found instead that once again it was streaked with chem trails. The jets have been spraying for hours now. Please, if you are truly concerned about our children and our planet please help bring this atrocious activity out to the public and take a major step in healing ourselves and our planet. Curiously, the majority of chem trails cover populated areas. Areas where people, children live and where crops are grown and live stock raised. They spray day and night. How is it that this is not a major concern of all save the earth advocates? I never hear anyone talk in the media about the nearly daily bombardment of chemicals on an unsuspecting nor consenting population below. People go on TV and talk about recycling, global warming, insecticides, pesticides, etc but they never speak about the high altitude aerial spraying of all of us. I want my sky back. I want to not be afraid to be outdoors or to breath the air or worry what chemicals are on my skin and is it making me sick. It seems that all the other things we do to heal ourselves and our planet are small in comparison to what is happening above us. Please help earth by helping to stop the chem trails. Thank you.

598. branko mirt said,

     January 1, 2010 @ 11:10 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     Global warming and the Earth polution are only two of the more visible problems among others which indicates that our Earth is becomming ill. We should stop this but no one knows how. In fact you humans could not deal with the problem because you have NO TECHNOLOGY yet, with which you could provide the same amount of jobs by a zero polution. (radio signals,geneticaly changed organizms,farmaceutical drugs,artificial objects…are ALL DIFERENT KINDS OF POLUTION)

     So the answer is very simple: HUMAN KIND needs a NEW(unreveald by now) CLEAN technology !!!

     I COULD REVEAL YOU THIS NEW CLEAN TECHNOLOGY with a zero polution.This is the knowledge how to mumified the wood. All products made by wood (by this method) will last not only centuries but milieniums. Imagine that your wooden houses will be after a thousand years as new, whith no restoration.

     What I am offering to you is a complete new technology which
     could save the Earth. If you want to go to another galaxy you should take the UFO and not the NASA space shuttle, do you agree? What I want to say is: if you want to save the Earth the human kind must start to use the new tecnology and not the primitive technology offered by NASA and those patetic scientists around the world.

     I am offering facts and not the patetic hypotesies !!!

     My knowledge is far beyond your humans

     Kind Regards
     Branko Mirt

599. Perry said,

     January 4, 2010 @ 2:42 pm

     What ever happened to global warming?

     COLD, COLD, COLDER
     Temps Plunge to Record as Cold Snap Freezes North, East States…
     CHILL MAP…
     Vermont sets ‘all-time record for one snowstorm’…
     Iowa temps ‘a solid 30 degrees below normal’…
     Power goes out at Reagan National outside DC…
     Peru’s mountain people ‘face extinction because of cold conditions’…
     Beijing — coldest in 40 years…
     World copes with Arctic weather…

600. George said,

     January 4, 2010 @ 4:03 pm

     U.S. shivers as temps head lowerBy Craig Johnson, Special to CNN
     January 4, 2010 12:41 p.m. EST

     Much of the nation awoke to frigid weather Monday as below-freezing temperatures threatened to shatter records across the South.

     “We’re seeing freeze warnings not just into Central Florida, but down into the Everglades,” CNN meteorologist Rob Marciano said.

     http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/weather/01/04/cold.weather/index.html

     Maybe move the polar bears to the Everglades?

601. alice olson said,

     January 5, 2010 @ 9:46 am

     Hey Al , where is all that Global Warming?
     You buffoon!

602. Scott Harris said,

     January 5, 2010 @ 11:08 am

     Greetings from Birmingham, Alabama where the temperature is currently 13 degrees. I understand that global warming is supposed to increase world temperatures, yes? Then why has the temps here in the deep South been going down year after year? This is the coldest winter on record and has only just begun. Even Florida is below freezing. Do any of Mr. Gores “scientists” have a timetable for when the planet will actually begin to experience this warming? Or is it limited to only a small area in the artic near a polar bear?

603. Irvin Evans said,

     January 5, 2010 @ 7:46 pm

     I have a globl warming question. I have never seen snow like we are currently having and I am 46 years old. I would like an explanation of how man made global warming causes so much snow. Also, I recently flew over the north pole and it appeas that the ice there is increasing in size, you said it would be gone in 5 - 7 years. Could it be that all of this talk about man made global warming would not be occuring if all of the progressive owened the oil & gas companies? Do you think all of the American public are stupid? It is you Mr. Gore and your socialist buddies whom are the idots! The moderates will always rule, you may have your seasons, but only enough to piss you off!

604. Joanne Rupar said,

     January 6, 2010 @ 11:51 am

     I was hoping to send an e-mail to Al Gore, but I will submit my comments here. I would like to know where the global warming is. After just visiting South Carolina and Virginia over the holidays, it definitely is not there. The temperatures there were in the 20’s and 30’s most of the days we were there. Also, Florida has been getting record cold temperatures too and I understand it is that way for most of the United States and parts of other areas. So, I would like to know, where the global warming is so I can make sure I visit there to get out of the cold weather we have been experiencing lately.

605. Annette Gillman said,

     January 6, 2010 @ 11:53 am

     Mr. Gore,

     The coldest weather on record in 25 years is proof enough for me that the “snake oil” you’ve been peddeling is a great big hoax!! The hoax has made you a very rich man at the expense of misleading millions, scaring little children, putting restrictions on the American people that we don’t need and surely don’t want!!

     You talk about carbon footprints and yet you travel around in your jet, own a home that uses more electricity than the average home - what a farce!! How can you look at yourself in the mirror with a clear conscience when you know you’ve misled millions?? Even your dumb movie is inaccurate!!!!!

     Now we have even more proof the whole Global Warming thing is a myth, revealed by the emails that were recently discovered. They revealed it is NOT man made and it is NOT about GLOBAL WARMING at all??!!! It is about CONTROL!! Dictating to us what kind of light bulb we can buy, what kind of car we can drive, what our thermostat can be set to, what kind of toilet we can buy and how aften and when we can flush it!!! THIS IS AMERICA, THE LAND OF THE FREE!!!!

     The earth has been cooling, warming, cooling, warming since the beginning of time. This was happening long before we had automobiles, factories, airplanes, oil wells, electricity and all the wonderful inventions we enjoy today as the LEADING NATION IN THE WORLD!! We are the nation that is the first to help any disaster area because we can!!! We’re the nation that helps other nations when they’re attacked by ruthless dictators, because we’re powerful enough to help!!

     You and your “Mother Earth” followers may not like America but “We the People” do!! We don’t want this beautiful country to be turned into a Marxist/Socialist nation, run by government, controlled by governmental inviormentalists, taking away our freedoms in the form of Global Warming or “saving the planet”!!!!! God created the earth and placed people upon it to enjoy it’s resources! If you believe we can stop the earth from it’s cyclical warming and cooling, then you have to believe if all humans all over the world would jump up in the air at the same time, it would have an effect on the earth’s balance!!! If you believe that we, who are like ants on this vast earth that GOD, the FATHER of JESUS our Savior created can change global warming and cooling by driving a battery operated car, changing our light bulbs, using windmills instead of coal, and the list goes on and on and on and on thanks to you and your inviornmentalist friends, then you have to be as dumb as they were in Columbus’s day beliving the earth was flat!!

     You, sir have cried “wolf” too long!! “We the people” are no longer listening!! The sleeping giant has finally awakened!!!

606. Joe Sims said,

     January 6, 2010 @ 10:37 pm

     Greetings Mr. Gore:

     Now that the planet has been cooling for the last eight years, how’s the “warming effect” working for you and those who support “your theory”?

     This planet will continue to change as nature dictates. Mankind has minimum effect on the theories you support.

     Remember in 1975 there was a rush for the “ice age” therory. Guess what, we’re below those numbers in early January 2010. Most of the supporter’s of global warming to date, were the frontrunner’s of the ice age theory of that time. What’s the deal?

     You and your supporter’s are dead wrong on this issue. That’s o.k. with me. But, don’t cram it down our throats and expect us to buy into it.

     Just another opinion my friend.

     Regards,

     Joe Sims
     Pinson, Alabama

607. John Baker said,

     January 7, 2010 @ 1:18 pm

     Dear Alf,

     You have to be the dumbest, most ignorant person on the planet. When you remove all the fake photos and research, the only rational conclusion is that there is no man made global warming. Just stick your head outside the door. Amoron could tell it’s not warming.

     Jeesh, what a jerk!!!!!!!!!!!!!

608. John Baker said,

     January 7, 2010 @ 1:19 pm

     You are Crazy

609. kelly polly said,

     January 7, 2010 @ 1:44 pm

     It is difficult to get people to buy into global warming when the whole country is in a deep freeze. good luck with that.

610. Kathy said,

     January 7, 2010 @ 3:52 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,
     I have just finished reading Jonathan’s Foer’s book “Eating Animals”. Pg. 58: “More recent and authoritative studies by the UN and Pew Commission show conclusively that globally, farmed animals contribute more to climate change than transport”..(about 40% more)…. and that animal agriculture “should be a major policy focus when dealing with problems of land degradation, climate change and air pollution, water shortage and water pollution and loss of biodiversity.” And this is not to mention the health issues with sick animal production, etc.
     Please look into this and consider adding it to your wonderful challenge to the people of the world to preserve this planet. Its importance can not be overstated.
     Kathy
     PS: I plan to also send a letter regarding this and some excerpts from the book to your TN address.

611. Mark Alan Peter, MA, MA said,

     January 7, 2010 @ 7:29 pm

     Dear Mr. Gore,
     I’m writing re: the issue of climate change. I’ve researched your web site and found it lacked sufficient evidence to support your claims that we should aggressively pursue a massive investment in reducing CO2 emissions at the expense of the taxpayer. In the late Dr. Michael Crichton’s NY Times bestseller, “State of Fear,” he makes the case that man made climate change is unpersuasive. He presents extensive research in his appendix and annotated biliography spanning 37 pgs. The recent scandal at E. Anglia University’s Climate Research Unit casts serious light upon the surpression of opposing views and possible falsification of data. The Fox Network along with CNN did documentaries that provided a fair and balanced presentation of both sides of the issue. I also understand that your prize winning ‘documentary’ “An Inconvenient Truth” contains at least 10 major factual errors. I believe that if a person is passionate about an issue they should be willing to debate and respond to questioning. John Stossel invited you to appear on his program, which you declined due to being too busy. But you had the time to appear on CNN, MSNBC and even SNL. Also at the Kobenhavn Conference you avoided questioning by a reporter. The proposed cap-and-trade legislation is misguided at best for the following reasons: 1. the cost is hugh 2. jobs would be shifted overseas. 3. the bill’s impact is minimal at a very high price. 4. It’s not properly focused. What’s the solution? I was able to take a course at the University of Copenhagen called, Energy Planning and Management from a bureaucrat at the Danish Energy Ministry.
     I wrote original research on new and renewable resources and nuclear power. Solar, wind and geothermal energy should be pursued. But we should also pursue an aggressive energy policy that includes nuclear power like the French.
     Sincerely,
     Mark A. Peter, MA, MA
     Solana Beach, CA

612. Ryan said,

     January 8, 2010 @ 8:10 am

     Dear Mr. Gore,

     Had you planned on the global temperatures of the earth to begin to decline when you began to make your movie? Can you explain why in the past 200 or so years, we’ve only seen a 1/2 degree F increase in temperatures while burning fossil fuels, but it’s not off course since the beginning of creation? Will you explain to us why during the industrial revolution the earth’s temperatures decreased? Can you remember one of the key reasons the United States purchased Alaska? Can you explain why the arctic caps are beginning to increase in size and that the past couple years we’ve had very little hurricane activity? What is your stand on solar flares? Are you planning to regulate them and/or put a tax on them to make money off of them when they don’t flare up and give you a crutch to stand on when trying to manipulate the people?

     Respectfully yours,
     Ryan Parsell

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