AGU: Al Gore is coming
The big buzz for today is Al Gore's scheduled 12:30 talk on climate science and policy-making. Unfortunately, he won't be taking any questions, either from the audience or from reporters. But it should be interesting to hear what he has to say.
His movie An Inconvenient Truth is of course now out on DVD - and he's challenging the public to host a wave of viewing parties, with the first this Saturday. What do you think - is he gearing up for another presidential run in 2008? Is climate an issue that American voters care about? If not, should they?
Comments
Al Gore is a politician. We have a few of those in the field of science, too.
The heat source for planet Earth is not a ball of hydrogen with a steady H-fusion reactor at its core, as politician/scientists claim.
Our Sun is the violent and erratic remains of a star that exploded five billion years ago, ejecting the material than now orbits the Sun as planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and rubble.
Hydrogen pouring from the surface of the Sun is "smoke" from, not "fuel" for, the solar nuclear furnace that heats planet Earth.
Global warming and cooling are parts of the natural cycle of this system that cannot be deciphered if scientists cling to the model of a hydrogen-filled Sun.
Five years ago at the 199th annual AAS meeting it was explained, "Why the model of a hydrogen-filled Sun is obsolete." That is available from arXiv, http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0410569 or http://tinyurl.com/32qcov
With kind regards,
Oliver K. Manuel
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Posted by: Oliver K. Manuel | May 22, 2007 11:53 PM