It is a shame that personal predjudices, in particular against Al Gore – most of which I think are unfounded, seem to be influencing people against believing cold hard facts presented numerous sources. I just don’t understand that. All I can attribute it to is either a political agenda, political sour grapes, or being financially motivated.

If you watch the movie, I find it hard to see how anyone can come to a conclusion that it is simply for publicity. And he has plenty of credibility, moreso than most with just opinions, because he has been researching and talking about this most of his life. Can any of us claim the same? And I really don’t even need to defend him, because his actions and presentations speak for themselves. He deserves some credit in being persistent with this for so long, and making a movie that will probably change a lot of people, and perhaps the next generation. Again, even if you take him out of the picture entirely, are all the other organizations and scientists just trying to keep their name in the public view? Are they Al Gore’s public relations committee?

It seems most of the propaganda has been to the opposite – trying to inject doubt into the science, same way cigarette manufacturers did – and people feed on that doubt like it was their last meal. No one landed on the moon, the world is still flat, smoking doesn’t cause cancer, etc, etc.

I am highly pessimistic for the future of mankind. To level out the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere there has to be an immediate reduction in human consumption of some 60% today. Sadly there is no political system in the world that is capable of such action. We are already too deep in the downward spiral. Only minor permanent changes in ocean and land temperature can be devastating causing catastrophes in food production from agriculture and fisheries. We are already seeing reproductive damage to many species of fish outside of Norway caused by warming seas. There is no reason in looking towards China or India. Europe + Northern America has combined almost as many people as China, and even more than India. On average us Westerners waste so much more resources per . Blaming 1 billion poor farmers in China hardly seems fair.

As for the Nuclear route, you have obviously not lived in Europe. The Chernobyl disaster had great impact even in Norway, and radiation is still highly present in wildlife and plants up here. Last year there were two major accidents in our neighboring country Sweden which showed that even plants with perfect track records can and will malfunction. Last but not least, the coast of Norway has been and is still being polluted by the Sellafield Plant in Norway which still is a diplomatic tumor between Norway and the UK. I don’t know about you, but I am not happy with radiation as part of my daily diet. Of course, modern Nuclear plants might be made extremely safe to operate, but what to do with the waste? Even hiding it in caves might eventually pollute fresh ground water (for millions of years to come). Water that by far is the most valuable and scarce resource on our planet today. We have yet to come up with a lasting safe way to store the waste.

As for Al Gore I applaud his mission of spreading factual information about global warming. I am a helluva’ lot more skeptical to the monetary and political powers in the US that has deliberately campaigned through government and unreasonably skeptical articles in the media that global warming is just a hoax created by radical environmentalists. I know nothing else of Gore except that he “lost” his Presidential campaign against Bush Jr. a few years back, and that he in a typical American conservative manner tried to jail Twisted Sister’s vocalist because his lyrics allegedly made teenagers commit suicide.

To me it is a moral issue. I want to set a good example and leave a clean world to my children. Consumption of fossil fuels and steaks does not equal the “good life”. To me good life is equals nice friends, happy family, good health and unspoiled nature.