sk8hang (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

AL GORE u are great \../

sk8hang (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

AL GORE u are great \../

MRMILO57 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

AL Gore One of the worlds biggest known charlatans.

mineralpinksalt (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

the Al Gore twisty straw light bulb that's supposed to be saving the world? Ya, it's got a dangerous amount of mercury in it... and peoples been throwing them in the garbage for years now. DEADLY LANDFILLS! WOO-WHOO, them light bulbs are saving this world! HEE HAW! Let's throw up our hats and celebrate! KEEPIN IT GREEN!

Kulade10 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Now CO2 makes up how much of the atmosphere??? like less then 1%... o yeah that's right. Hey global cooling in the 60's or 70's didn't happen, noooooooooo. THIS GUY IS A BIG ASS FUCKIN LIAR MISLEADING SO MANY PEOPLE HE SHOULD BE FUCKIN SHOT OR PUT IN JAIL. Al gore says CO2 determines temperature. Wrong... in his own fucking graph it shows a 200 year lag between temperature and CO2. The CO2 fallows the Temperature. TEMP DETERMINES THE AMOUNT OF CO2. The greenies are fuckin idiots

0oxtineo0 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

his wifes names tip her jk it just sounded like it

mallardhead (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

siim, like you and I are gonna see the results? I doubt it but would like to live a 1000 years. The time factor only stresses the need. Synthetic trees are cool. I bet we could manufacture enough CO2 scrubbers to throw us into a deep ice age. But nature is always going to do its thing. We are in a geological warm trend. People don't admit that but we are. The other side is a few thousand years of cold. Cold isn't good for populations. Talk to China about clean air and good luck there.

siim258 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

So waiting 300 years to see the results makes the project kinda ... well low priority. This is not to say nothing is done to remove the CO2. Just google "Synthetic trees". Though that particular research is only on paper. Still if the US keeps the air clean and the EU keeps the trees pumping, then I have no doubt's that we CAN solve it.

siim258 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I agree that doing both at the same time is the best option. However the project of restoring the rainforest would be very-very long term endeavor. First, the planting itself would take longer than 10 years because you aren't doing it your own back yard. Second, the trees take up to 100 years to become of age. Third, it would take another 100 years to cycle through all the junk we've created. Fourth, the effects of CO2 in our atmosphere can be seen with a 100 years delay.

mallardhead (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

siim, its a neat analogy, but your boat has lots of holes from lots of places and some are far larger than the rest. The answer is get that boat out of the water. I agree the best answer is to stop the CO2 but between China & the US that's not going to happen fast. So doing both at the same time is probably the most efficient way. And plants are still the best processors of surface CO2. So lots of plants now, in the right places, and stop producing excess CO2 now or soonest possible chance..