Philippine Scientist Think Al Gore is Exaggerating About Global Warming

[sasha031]

NOT everyone was pleased with the way former US Vice President Al Gore was given "celebrity" treatment when he spoke as a crusader against global warming in Manila.Two scientists from the University of the Philippines yesterday lamented how Gore's "doomsday" pronouncements apparently received more attention than the more detailed analyses and solutions offered by Filipino environmental experts.They also challenged and branded as "exaggerated" what the former US leader said about Manila Bay "overflowing" because of the greenhouse effect

In his first visit to the country, Gore delivered a lecture on global warming at a forum hosted last Thursday by Ambassador Alfonso Yuchengco.The standing-room-only affair drew ranking politicians, business leaders and members of the diplomatic corps.Warning that the world will reach the "tipping point" toward an ecological catastrophe within the next 10 years, he urged international and local leaders to focus their efforts toward halting the phenomenon of global warming.

The problem with these exaggerated and very general pronouncements about environmental doomsday scenarios is that they distract us from the real local problems which we can really do something about," Arcilla said.He conceded that global warming was "a serious threat to humanity, (but) it is certainly not in the terms that Gore presents."As to Manila Bay overflowing, he noted that his peers at UP, like Siringan and Dr. Kelvin Rodolfo, along with their students, had conducted their own studies of the water level's rise."While it is true that global warming could contribute to the rise, this is only in the millimeters, but the centimeters' rise could be attributed more to heavy groundwater extraction which results in subsidence, which makes it appear that the sea is invading land," he explained.

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[slor]

1. Subtitle: Philippine Scientist receives large check from bush...

administration.

[sasha031]

3. yes, I wondered the same thing

flat earthers, I think thats what Bobby Kennedy would call it...

[benddem]

2. and when the Philippines

are all underwater...these guys will be dead...or on the tops of the mountains.

[sasha031]

4. maybe raptured

it's pathetic there are still people who call themselves scientist that are still in denial