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[John Galt]

Or so says Al Gore.

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash6.htm

GORE: CIGARETTE SMOKING 'SIGNIFICANT' CONTRIBUTOR TO GLOBAL WARMING
Fri Sep 29 2006 09:04:05 ET

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore warned hundreds of U.N. diplomats and staff on Thursday evening about the perils of climate change, claiming: Cigarette smoking is a "significant contributor to global warming!"

Gore, who was introduced by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, said the world faces a "full-scale climate emergency that threatens the future of civilization on earth."

Gore showed computer-generated projections of ocean water rushing in to submerge the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, parts of China, India and other nations, should ice shelves in Antarctica or Greenland melt and slip into the sea.

"The planet itself will do nicely, thank you very much what is at risk is human civilization," Gore said. After a series of Q& A with the audience, which had little to do with global warming and more about his political future, Annan bid "adios" to Gore.

Then, Gore had his staff opened a stack of cardboard boxes to begin selling his new book, "An Inconvenient Truth, The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It," $19.95, to the U.N. diplomats.

Developing...

Significant? How? Anyone care to guess, or should I just discount the musings of a man who has clearly lost his grip on reality as just that? Karkota changed the weather for a year, and that was more pollution than man could hope to spew onto the earth... and he says that cigarettes are a "significant" contributor to "global warming"? Considering the amoun of industrial wastes that humans produce where does he get this from?

[Random Evil Guy]

again(same topic in the politics forum), exactly what did al gore say and in what context?

[Numb]

Farting is a contribution to global warming too.

[perdidochas]

John Galt wrote: Or so says Al Gore.

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash6.htm

GORE: CIGARETTE SMOKING 'SIGNIFICANT' CONTRIBUTOR TO GLOBAL WARMING
Fri Sep 29 2006 09:04:05 ET

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore warned hundreds of U.N. diplomats and staff on Thursday evening about the perils of climate change, claiming: Cigarette smoking is a "significant contributor to global warming!"

Gore, who was introduced by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, said the world faces a "full-scale climate emergency that threatens the future of civilization on earth."

Gore showed computer-generated projections of ocean water rushing in to submerge the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, parts of China, India and other nations, should ice shelves in Antarctica or Greenland melt and slip into the sea.

"The planet itself will do nicely, thank you very much what is at risk is human civilization," Gore said. After a series of Q& A with the audience, which had little to do with global warming and more about his political future, Annan bid "adios" to Gore.

Then, Gore had his staff opened a stack of cardboard boxes to begin selling his new book, "An Inconvenient Truth, The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It," $19.95, to the U.N. diplomats.

Developing...

Significant? How? Anyone care to guess, or should I just discount the musings of a man who has clearly lost his grip on reality as just that? Karkota changed the weather for a year, and that was more pollution than man could hope to spew onto the earth... and he says that cigarettes are a "significant" contributor to "global warming"? Considering the amoun of industrial wastes that humans produce where does he get this from?

Then I hope he feels guilty for all of the tobacco he farmed........

[Wolverine]

John Galt wrote: Or so says Al Gore.

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash6.htm

GORE: CIGARETTE SMOKING 'SIGNIFICANT' CONTRIBUTOR TO GLOBAL WARMING
Fri Sep 29 2006 09:04:05 ET

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore warned hundreds of U.N. diplomats and staff on Thursday evening about the perils of climate change, claiming: Cigarette smoking is a "significant contributor to global warming!"

Gore, who was introduced by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, said the world faces a "full-scale climate emergency that threatens the future of civilization on earth."

Gore showed computer-generated projections of ocean water rushing in to submerge the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, parts of China, India and other nations, should ice shelves in Antarctica or Greenland melt and slip into the sea.

"The planet itself will do nicely, thank you very much what is at risk is human civilization," Gore said. After a series of Q& A with the audience, which had little to do with global warming and more about his political future, Annan bid "adios" to Gore.

Then, Gore had his staff opened a stack of cardboard boxes to begin selling his new book, "An Inconvenient Truth, The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It," $19.95, to the U.N. diplomats.

Developing...

Significant? How? Anyone care to guess, or should I just discount the musings of a man who has clearly lost his grip on reality as just that? Karkota changed the weather for a year, and that was more pollution than man could hope to spew onto the earth... and he says that cigarettes are a "significant" contributor to "global warming"? Considering the amoun of industrial wastes that humans produce where does he get this from?
:lol:

Wait, I'll attempt to make a corrherant post.

I can't, this is ridiculous. :lol:

[Josh]

Wait, did Gore mean just smoking a cigarette?

Or, did Gore mean the entire manufacturing process and farming process to create cigarettes as well as the smoking of a cigarette? I mean, considering the size of the tobacco industry... I'd say it's significant. Toss in the residual transportation and advertising of cigarettes, operation of hospitals and clinics to treat lung cancer and fight addictions.

But, the two things I'm considering when you post:

1. You don't like Al Gore and you'll continue to take the things he says out of context. (I agree, he's really easy to take out of context.)

2. You think the human contribution to the greenhouse effect is fiction.

[Green]

Numb wrote: Farting is a contribution to global warming too.

You are actually correct cows farting gives of tons of CO2.

Al gore is serial

[ChuckBerry]

Well, only Kofi Annan's introduction to this speech is on the UN website (at least as far as I can find), and Al Gore does not have an official website where one might find recent speeches.

Absent any actual source to verify the contents of this speech, I would have to put that quote under "speculation".

[temple of vitriol]

John Galt wrote: Or so says Al Gore.

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash6.htm

GORE: CIGARETTE SMOKING 'SIGNIFICANT' CONTRIBUTOR TO GLOBAL WARMING
Fri Sep 29 2006 09:04:05 ET

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore warned hundreds of U.N. diplomats and staff on Thursday evening about the perils of climate change, claiming: Cigarette smoking is a "significant contributor to global warming!"

Gore, who was introduced by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, said the world faces a "full-scale climate emergency that threatens the future of civilization on earth."

Gore showed computer-generated projections of ocean water rushing in to submerge the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, parts of China, India and other nations, should ice shelves in Antarctica or Greenland melt and slip into the sea.

"The planet itself will do nicely, thank you very much what is at risk is human civilization," Gore said. After a series of Q& A with the audience, which had little to do with global warming and more about his political future, Annan bid "adios" to Gore.

Then, Gore had his staff opened a stack of cardboard boxes to begin selling his new book, "An Inconvenient Truth, The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It," $19.95, to the U.N. diplomats.

Developing...

Significant? How? Anyone care to guess, or should I just discount the musings of a man who has clearly lost his grip on reality as just that? Karkota changed the weather for a year, and that was more pollution than man could hope to spew onto the earth... and he says that cigarettes are a "significant" contributor to "global warming"? Considering the amoun of industrial wastes that humans produce where does he get this from?

All the hot air that comes out of that fat man's mouth is a significant contributor to global warming.