Yep! Al Gore is/was a hypocrite ..
And yes! Climate (Not the weather!!! Mr. Trump
) IS always changing, in slow cycles that does not directly have any real bearing on the human population short term wise..
What we are seeing now IS the result of the earths climate systems being influenced by human activity.. Its really very simple, even Redneck simple.
NO naturally occuring phenomena can explain the current increase in Co2 in the atmosphere.. only the human use of fossil fuels provides a scientific explanation .. Yes .. the suns cycle has an influence, but it is orders of magnitude weaker than what is being measured, the same goes for cloud particulates and current volcanism.. Oh! yes, there HAVE been much larger changes in Earths climate in "geological time"- The last "interglacial" time (Eem Interglacial) had a warmer climate than we have now, even warmer than the "global warming pessimists" predict for our immediate future...(2050)
And before any of you lot start anything up.. I have a PhD in Geology, majoring in Glaciology and Computer modelling of glacier movement!
The mention of the "underground river melting ice" is BS, there are MANY such rivers, at least 10 in Iceland alone.. The contribution they have to "melting the icecaps" is puny compared to just one glacier calving from the Greenland Icecap (Just google "Jakobshavn glacier" Some 35 billion tonnes of icebergs calve off and pass out of the fjord every year!!)
SO YES! There IS "global warming" .. Caused by human activity ... If you disagree .. just get on with collecting the scientific EVIDENCE that this is not the case.. I dare you ..
The QUESTION is ... Does it really matter? -- and What to DO about it ... That's where I personally completely disagree with the "Scientific "leftist/green/treehugger" side .. The Train has LONG since left the station.. its a runaway train--- We will NOT be able to stop or reverse the global warming .. what we need to do is start getting our collective heads out of our butts, ant start thinkin how to DEAL with it .. Denial gets you nowhere .. The real major problem is how to deal with a world with diminishing resources, and a population that has not yet peaked (and is still in something close to exponential growth, even though it IS slowing down slightly)
Terrorism, drugs and obesity are very MINOR problems compared to handling the mix of the three above! What we are primarily struggling with here in the Rich part of the world are complacency, indifference, self-importance and ignorance. but, most of all: a lack of idealism.. pragmatism has taken over, because it is the prime tool of un-restrained, unregulated capitalism.. And currently the President of the largest economy in the world is a man strongly in favor of un-restrained, uncontrolled, unregulated capitalism.. He seems to pretend to be "the guy" to help the US lower middle classes and the "Heartland", but if it does not get his croonies in JPMorgan or Goldman-Sachs a profit, how much do you think he will actually make a difference?
What we NEED to do, is to get ready to leave this rock! .. Get our asses to Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid belt, the moons of Jupiter! Go explore! Get the pioneering idealism back! All the Treehugger geeks can stay back here, and eventually "Save the planet"
It will be much easier with the rest of us gone off to dig for Ruthenium on Titan --
Out there we will NEED the "sentient Rednecks" -- people willing to take a risk. willing to work hard, to earn a good living --