There is no doubt, Gore warns

World Environment Day

Photo(s) by Luke Thomas

By Pat Murphy

Sunday, June 5, 2005

When it begins, temperatures will plummet from normal to ice age desolation within a two-year period. It will come as the result of global warming breaking apart the arctic poles, flooding ocean levels which affect earth's relation to the sun.

Antartic ice shelf collapse

There is zero doubt, Al Gore reiterated his warning in San Francisco yesterday, at least not among scientists, despite 50% media coverage of doubt global warming threat exists.

Speaking before mayors gathered worldwide on the fourth day of World Environment Day events, Gore pointed to a leaked memo from commercial interests strategizing 'doubt' to counter financial loss if green solutions to global warming were put in place.

The former Vice President likened it to early tobacco strategy creating popular confusion over cigarette health hazard.

Carbon dioxide emissions, accompanying technological advances, skyrocketed in the period from 1970 to present, stated Gore, high enough to cause world maps redrawn in scant decades if political will isn't summoned to reverse emission rise.

Areas in blue project land mass flooded by ocean rise

"With what we know how to do we can bring our emissions down below the 1970s now," Gore assured, if political will is strong enough.

Movement toward necessary political will increasingly is found in the corporate world and local governmental level.

Famous five-thousand-year-old man revealed as artic ice shelf
melts after frozen that amount of time

Despite the United States being largest contributor to carbon dioxide emissions, her federal government stands in the minority opposing effective solution, continued Gore.

"Is it only terrorism we are interested in organizing against? Political will is a renewable resource."

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