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Al Gore Couldn't Get Through to New Yorkers (it seems)

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  • starmanjones, on 12/23/2007, -161/+9lame and photoshoped
    • roebeet, on 12/23/2007, -7/+24lame? To each his own. Shopped? No way. I guess you've never been to NYC, or else you'd think otherwise.
    • Hefelumpman, on 12/23/2007, -3/+39Shopped? How is it easier to photoshop in a tick instead of just taking a marker pen and doing it yourself?
      o_O
      • Brad324, on 12/23/2007, -2/+9and then photoshopping the guy into the picture, who would otherwise be displaying a regular ad. Good photoshopping skillz d00d!
        • hiikeeba, on 12/23/2007, -2/+12Maybe New York was photoshopped. . .
    • Mongo61, on 12/23/2007, -0/+13Lame, maybe. Photoshopped, hah! Your lucky the check mark wasn't smeared on with feces.
      Actually, the guy in the picture is lucky he didn't get smeared with feces.
    • Ilyanep, on 12/24/2007, -0/+10I think your comment was photoshopped. I can tell by the reflections and the JPEG artifacts.
    • Jacksc, on 12/24/2007, -1/+4no ya tit
  • ExGhost, on 12/23/2007, -56/+32Aw! Poor guy. Doesn't he know they're lying to him?
  • persecuted, on 12/23/2007, -8/+370Dugg for the guy's incredible lack of enthusiasm
    • lava, on 12/23/2007, -22/+5Dug for the fact that the guy is wearing the same exact jacket I'm wearing right now. I guess we won't be needing those jackets soon.
      • AlexFinn, on 12/23/2007, -2/+20Damn .. two people bought that jacket ?
    • i208khonsu, on 12/23/2007, -5/+109[x] Do Nothing
      [ ] Digg it
    • gn0stik, on 12/23/2007, -7/+12[ ]Do Nothing
      [ ]Fightglobalwarming.com
      [x]Climateaudit.org
      • OneLess, on 12/24/2007, -7/+9[ ] climateaudit.org
        [x] Think for your ***** self
        • wrongonce, on 12/24/2007, -0/+21[ ] Think for your ***** self
          [x] Take a nap
        • Asianwaste, on 12/24/2007, -0/+6I second that nap
        • ikillpeoplexx, on 12/24/2007, -0/+7That nap has been thirded
        • Exbzurg, on 12/24/2007, -1/+12[ ] Take a nap
          [x] COMBOBREAKER!!!!!!
          • wrongonce, on 12/24/2007, -1/+1Dude, now I have to start over on another thread.
            */shakes head, performs search and extends prehensile love tusk.
    • Osjpr, on 12/24/2007, -15/+4This apathy is what led to 9/11. "Who cares if we bomb random countries overseas"
      I'm having a quiet chuckle at New York's expense. Looks like the dumb shumcks learned nothing.
      • Asianwaste, on 12/24/2007, -3/+7HAHAH, did you just bring 9/11 into a discussion about a ***** advertisement?
        • mmazing, on 12/24/2007, -1/+5I think he is referring to the mentality of apathy.
          • Asianwaste, on 12/24/2007, -1/+5Yea but just look at the can of beans he's opening.
        • adminmatt, on 12/27/2007, -0/+1... and they said it couldn't be done...
      • tech42er, on 12/24/2007, -1/+4I'm having a quiet chuckle at your expense, as that is the stupidest comment I have seen on Digg this week.
      • ubergeek09, on 12/24/2007, -1/+2That was one of the most ignorant comments I have ever seen on Digg, and that is really saying something.
    • mmazing, on 12/24/2007, -4/+2[ ] Start a fire.
      [ ] Fightglobalwarming.com
  • KoolKhemist, on 12/23/2007, -64/+6He's cute
  • hoju7887, on 12/23/2007, -7/+526Thank god that dude was showing me where to look. I wouldn't have known wtf was going on if he wasnt there.
  • zomfg, on 12/23/2007, -59/+49NERD ALERT!
    • darkphenox, on 12/23/2007, -2/+88This is digg, alert need not apply.
  • fiftyeggs, on 12/23/2007, -50/+161I just realized a terrifying fact.

    Al Gore isn't up against the political right in this Climate Crisis debate. His number one opponent in his cause is unfortunately, Laziness and Carelessness.

    It all sounds good, but an average people would rather sit on their asses and not do a thing. Sad, but true.
    • petrodollar, on 12/23/2007, -38/+17Lazy southerners are the GOP's core constituency. These are people who get riled up about a "sport" (NASCAR) that involves sitting on your ass and driving a gas guzzling American car.
      • joepaterno, on 12/23/2007, -4/+22Just how far south is New York?
        • petrodollar, on 12/23/2007, -14/+3New Yokers generate less CO2 per capita than residents of any other city in the USA. HTFH.
          • Nitesmoke, on 12/23/2007, -3/+15Now, I've heard it all, southerners are responsible for global warming. I've lived all over the USA and the only places that have smog are filled with mostly liberals, in the south, the air, water, and people are nice. Stop blaming global problems on your own prejudices. You don't like someone because of where they were born? That's just incredibly stupid.
          • tupperbacharach, on 12/23/2007, -0/+4However, New Yorkers generate more CH4 per capita than residents of any other city in the USA.
          • Mongo61, on 12/23/2007, -4/+1A NASCAR stadium was slated for Staten Island...
            (http://www.silive.com/news/advance/index.ssf?/base ...
            We dodged a bullet on that one!
      • masterm1nd, on 12/23/2007, -7/+11You ***** idiot. Are you really going to pawn externalities of living on the ***** GOP and southerners???
      • krnldmp, on 12/23/2007, -5/+4Get out of here with that "sad but true" corn meal.
      • tupperbacharach, on 12/23/2007, -0/+14Your stereotypical view is a gross oversimplification and is inane. Politics and conservative and progressive views are usually not one-sided in any region.

        I live in Los Angeles, and car racing is big in California, yet California is considered to be mostly to be a Democrat state, and it has a republican governor (and the previous governor was also a republican).

        Texas has the biggest wind farm in the US. In addition, when I lived in Houston, in office was a female governor, a female mayor and a female police chief -- all at the same time (and I think all three were democrats)! If non-southern cities are so progressive, please tell me how many female Mayors have been in office in New York and LA? How many female police chiefs? How many female governors? Zilch is the answer to all three questions! By the way, the current governor of Louisiana is a female.

        And let us not forget that Al Gore and Bill Clinton are both from the South!
      • mike818, on 12/24/2007, -0/+3I agree with most of what you say. I don't see how having a woman in power makes things any better though.. women can be just as corrupt as men. Just because it's different doesn't make it better. Would you vote for Hillary just because she is a woman?
      • Asianwaste, on 12/24/2007, -0/+3Because the south is responsible for GLOBAL climate change.
      • Yokohamalion, on 12/24/2007, -0/+3Hell, I'm Canadian and I'm a republican.
    • VictoryTrash, on 12/23/2007, -37/+50Until he stops flying in private jets and living in huge homes, I refuse to pay any attention to him.
      Lead by example Mr. Gore, don't tell me how to live if you won't join me.
      • digitalhair, on 12/23/2007, -33/+7you're a moron. no explanation necessary...
        • VictoryTrash, on 12/23/2007, -7/+24Wow, I can see you are far more intelligent. I bow to you.
        • Easyoffbam, on 12/24/2007, -0/+2+1 for correct use of "you're" but -1 because you're a ***** dick wad, although if there was a "Triple Bury" button I would use that.
      • TheSwashbuckler, on 12/23/2007, -17/+12"The power coming into their residence is green, renewable power," she said, explaining that the Gores participate in a program called Green Power Switch, which is run through the public Tennessee Valley Authority. Green Power Switch supplies energy from renewable sources to its members.

        http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic ...

        So many right wingers, so much ignorance...
        • bilbus, on 12/23/2007, -5/+17So its ok to use tons of energy as long as its green energy? Why not just use less then more people can share the limited green energy
        • InfiniteNothing, on 12/23/2007, -2/+3Don't let perfect be the enemy of good enough.

          Basically, because the green energy comes at a premium. Most people wouldn't use it if he stopped using it.
        • VictoryTrash, on 12/23/2007, -2/+13Does his jet use renewable energy too?
        • masterm1nd, on 12/23/2007, -2/+4Bilbus, because it's about politics, not energy
        • athrasher, on 12/24/2007, -1/+3There's no such thing as a free lunch.
        • wrongonce, on 12/24/2007, -1/+5The "GREEN" energy facilities use non-green energy to be built and maintained -- that's one of the reasons it is more expensive than non-green. Oh, and the people they employ use cars to drive to work.
          Gore gets a fail on doing. A plus on preaching.
        • tb0n3r, on 12/24/2007, -1/+1Unless he's completely disconnected from the power grid, there's absolutely no way of knowing where an electron came from. He just pays a little extra money, which the power company is supposed to use to build/maintain renewable generation capacity. To say that his house runs on "Green Power" is misleading.

          Also, it doesn't say he fully participates, just that he participates. He could only be buying a single block of 150 kwH for 4 bucks a month.
      • deflective, on 12/24/2007, -2/+7if you can't address your opponent's argument, make it personal
        • cranium, on 12/24/2007, -5/+1Yeah, because *nothing* about Bush has been personal.
        • solid12345, on 12/24/2007, -1/+7And you are an idiot for inserting Bush into this conversation.
      • nick111, on 12/24/2007, -3/+3You do realise that he's not the only person in the world who wants to do something about Climate Change don't you?

        What you're doing is finding an excuse to chicken out of the responsibility you face. You're like a scab crossing a picket line - benefiting from other people's sacrafices while you carry on ***** in your own (and everyone else's) nest.
        • adminmatt, on 12/27/2007, -1/+1can you tell us down here what you're doing to solve the problem from your pedestal?
      • phike, on 12/24/2007, -0/+7Al Gore lives a carbon neutral lifestyle -- any energy he and his house consumes he matches by investing in wind farms, which ultimately generate at least equivalent power/energy in the future. Although this wouldn't work if everyone does it all at once, he is doing his part.
        • Yokohamalion, on 12/24/2007, -4/+1A carbon neutral lifestyle. That is truly the gayest thing I have ever heard.
    • benbenbenben, on 12/23/2007, -5/+35And what are you doing to help fight climate change? Going to a website and voicing you're opinion about how everyone in the country is lazy? I can feel the earth cooling down already (seriously, it's like 12 degrees here right now).
      • BOFH2, on 12/23/2007, -1/+6apparently a lot of us are sitting in front of heat producing computers to read and respond to this.
        • Ramble, on 12/23/2007, -0/+2To be fair, the IT industry is one of the best for green technologies. Less power consumption and less heat are far more profitable and so computers are getting less hungry and cooler.
          • thomashauk, on 12/24/2007, -0/+3They are sill nothing more than an 80 to 500 watt fan/heater with a pretty light
      • ftx437, on 12/27/2007, -0/+0Imma keep on doing what im doing because there is nothing we cna do about it since it's a natural occurance.
    • dood, on 12/23/2007, -5/+11Right. Apathy is the enemy in almost every situation. So what do we do about it? Talk to our family, neighbors, friends, co-congregants, and try to get them actively interested in the world around them -- even if it means they'll disagree with you, we'll be better off overall.
    • krnldmp, on 12/23/2007, -8/+8Get out of here with that "Sad, but true" corn meal.
      • masterm1nd, on 12/23/2007, -4/+7Get out of here with that "reposting of your comments."
        • krnldmp, on 12/23/2007, -6/+3Ease up master. The first post was a mistake and digg doesn't allow deletions. Now, let's get back to selling ourselves a little pity along with the apathy by telling ourselves that the average person is garbage. Don't forget to seal it in by appending "sad but true", in case someone is bound of themselves to believe the masses not so apathetic.
          • masterm1nd, on 12/24/2007, -0/+2Dugg for calling me master. Yes master. "shut up"... yes master.
    • directedition, on 12/24/2007, -0/+4Right, because the ONLY reason people could possibly not support carbon reform is because they're lazy. Try this:
      [] Do Nothing
      [] Fight Terrorism
    • univerio, on 12/24/2007, -0/+1an average "person"
    • aMammoth, on 12/24/2007, -7/+3I could go onto explain how man made global warming is a rediculous theory, but I'm not in the mood, so.

      ***** you.
      • adminmatt, on 12/27/2007, -0/+1were you on the debate team? really, cause I'm in awe.

        /sarcasm
    • weizilla, on 12/24/2007, -0/+4his number one opponent is actually manbearpig
  • accountstube, on 12/23/2007, -71/+59HUMANS. CAN'T. STOP. GLOBAL. CLIMATE. CHANGE.

    its been going on for millions of years. i wish amerca would pull its collective head out of its collective ass. al gore is a joke
    • blake_mooney, on 12/23/2007, -21/+37Yes, but we CAN stop polluting the environment and killing off thousands of different species and nature itself, *****.
      • jetboyterp, on 12/23/2007, -19/+24Man is killing off "thousands" of species...and even "nature itself"? Wow...news to me. And again, some peace-loving liberals just has to use gutter-mouth language to get a point across. Really intelligent.

        I agree with accountstube...the Earth has been warming and cooling and back and forth since it began spinning. But Algore, and other hypocrites, make a lot of money making movies and telling the rest of us low-lifes how to live. Carbon offsets? Hilarious.

        More like Algore couldnt brainwash another NY'er
        • BOFH2, on 12/23/2007, -2/+20guess who owns a carbon offset company? Ding ding ding Al Gore!
        • masterm1nd, on 12/23/2007, -2/+18The irony being they want to fight nature.

          /Correction, they want you to fight nature

          /Correction, they want your money to fight nature.

          /Correction, they want your money.
        • Yokohamalion, on 12/24/2007, -1/+2I prefer the term hippycrits. lol
      • masterm1nd, on 12/23/2007, -6/+6Do it under the guise of that and not the apocalypse then, k?
      • directedition, on 12/24/2007, -1/+4I don't think pollution was his point.... Pollution and global warming are not synonymous. Sure, we can stop dumping toxic waste on kiddy play centers and make the world a better place. But we still have no solid anything on carbon emissions.
    • BlueSkyfish, on 12/23/2007, -26/+17And Iran still has WMDs and they're gonna blow us up! and the Bush administration is the greatest thing to happen to this country since NASCAR!
    • ngnboone, on 12/23/2007, -14/+47PUTTING. PERIODS. IN. BETWEEN. WORDS. DOESN'T. MAKE. WHAT. YOU. SAY. MORE. TRUE.
      • christopheles, on 12/23/2007, -1/+7IT"S THE CAPITAL LETTERS.
        • juicebag, on 12/23/2007, -4/+1AND FORGETTING TO RELEASE THE SHIFT KEY TO CREATE PROPER PUNCTIONATION MARKS< RIGHT?
        • adminmatt, on 12/27/2007, -0/+1CRUISE CONTROL ENGAGED
    • Tyrghast, on 12/23/2007, -13/+6STOP BLAMING STUFF ON AMERICA! THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE ISN'T AMERICAN CONTROLLED, GO TALK TO THEM ABOUT IT
    • jsd8cc, on 12/23/2007, -5/+11Isn't it in our best interests to have clean air? Doesn't it benefit us to preserve the ecosystem and have renewable resources? I'm not an environmental nut by any means, and you don't have to be. It's just common sense.
      • jerichobp, on 12/23/2007, -6/+4not really. The Theory of Evolution says we should only care about ourselves and not give a ***** about any other species. If they can't adapt to changing environments, too bad for them. Also more greenhouse gases will lead to better crop production for us, so it is in our interest to put these gases in the air. The more you know!
        • ozydingo, on 12/24/2007, -2/+4I was about to go off on how stupid your post was, then I realized you must be joking.

          Right?? (It's just so hard to tell these days)
      • Corrosionx, on 12/24/2007, -1/+3Yes, but it's the lack of respect for property rights that have brought us down this path.
        • BabyWookie, on 12/24/2007, -0/+1Property rights? Nature shouldn't be any one's property.
      • Yokohamalion, on 12/24/2007, -0/+1No. As a species we should use up this hunk of rock and get off it as quick as possible before some asteroid or solar flare kills us all. I have no particular attachment to this planet.
  • trisquithere, on 12/23/2007, -19/+21global warming or world war 3? which will be the apocalypse?
  • Joshuarr, on 12/23/2007, -15/+2nm
    -1
    • deadlift, on 12/23/2007, -5/+1You say what?
      • IllBeBack, on 12/23/2007, -0/+7Translation:

        nm = Never mind.
        -1 suggests to give his comment a thumbs down.
  • Kyosuke86, on 12/23/2007, -6/+36More New Yorkers watch south park
  • OwlBoy, on 12/23/2007, -4/+46Nice Hair.
  • PocketWatch, on 12/23/2007, -22/+6Mmmmmm.....America at its best.
  • spoodigity, on 12/23/2007, -14/+202Or some guy with a sharpie just decided to be a douche.
    • Xander6, on 12/23/2007, -3/+10nah that reason would be way too simple
    • scubasteve377, on 12/23/2007, -9/+16Or some guy with a sharpie just decided to be HILARIOUS.
    • rarson, on 12/24/2007, -2/+15I think it's pretty ***** pretentious to tell me that I'm doing nothing about the environment if I don't go to fightglobalwarming.com (those are the only two options).
  • SemiSarcastic, on 12/23/2007, -1/+233Honestly though. With a sign like that he was asking for it.
    • posneg, on 12/23/2007, -20/+28Exactly. Al Gore is a pompous, self-righteous *****. Whoever put up that ad shouldn't expect anything less than someone telling them to go pound sand.
      • carpespasm, on 12/23/2007, -3/+12whoa whoa whoah. I think he meant that putting up a sign people could reach with two options that anyone passing by could indicate one choice to comedic and snarky effect, someone was bound to check the smart-ass response. The checker may or may not beleive in global warming, but even if they didn't that poster had it coming.
    • geekanarchy, on 12/24/2007, -0/+3Indeed he was. Here's one from Lansing, MI on a much larger scale.
      http://geekanarchy.ath.cx/vote.jpg
    • wrongonce, on 12/24/2007, -2/+3Someone screwed up. There was a *choice* on that sign. I thought debate was over and it was a time for action.
      • ConceptJunkie, on 12/24/2007, -4/+10Global Warming: Fundamentalist Religion for Atheists
    • rarson, on 12/24/2007, -0/+3Yes. You have two choices: visit fightglobalwarming.com, or "do nothing."

      Funny thing is, I replaced all the incandescent bulbs in my house without visiting that site. But according to that sign, I chose to do nothing.
      • Yokohamalion, on 12/24/2007, -1/+1can i have your old bulbs? I'm stockpiling for when the environazis ban their sale
    • tas08, on 12/24/2007, -1/+2I can't tell you how many times I've wished I could do that to the billboard I used to drive past every day. If only I had a really long pole.
      • darnit, on 12/24/2007, -0/+1"If only I had a really long pole."

        don't we all..... :(
  • krusader3z, on 12/23/2007, -12/+92Judging by the lack of females in that picture I suspect that man frequents digg.
    • TheLoneHoot, on 12/23/2007, -6/+5Since you're posting here I'm guessing you're neither female, nor familiar with the gender too then, right?
      • krusader3z, on 12/24/2007, -1/+7i have a kitten I found dehydrated on the road. A female kitten.
        • tyywebb, on 12/24/2007, -1/+5There's nothing worse than a dry pussy. : (
      • trevdawg5, on 12/24/2007, -0/+3Yes, but will it blend?
        • Saladas, on 12/24/2007, -1/+2mmmm it´s getting kinda boring that comment...
  • minimalist147, on 12/23/2007, -9/+28Damn, I should ask that guy how to pick up the ladies...
    • dteresh, on 12/23/2007, -2/+8It's the glasses, dude. And the K-Mart jacket.
  • cmuwriter, on 12/23/2007, -5/+85I wonder if they used recycled paper to make those posters, which are plastered in every ***** corner of the city?
    • geoboy, on 12/23/2007, -3/+6Ironically, recycling paper consumes more energy from fossil fuels than simply farming and harvesting more trees does. That's according to Penn & Teller's ***** show, anyway.
    • mdoerr, on 12/24/2007, -2/+2When Fox news makes points like this talking about how ridiculous it is that Al gore's jet uses jet fuel and stuff, they completely disregard the principle that sometimes to make an omelette you have to break a few eggs...If the paper isn't recycled and takes a few trees to make its point, but prevents a great deal of pollution....we have a net gain.
      • mmazing, on 12/24/2007, -1/+3The road to hell was paved with good intentions.
  • shauncullen, on 12/23/2007, -13/+10Apathy. It's my anti-(environment)drug. What's yours?
    • atmenterprises, on 12/23/2007, -8/+3www.globalwarminghoax.com
      www.skepticsglobalwarming.com
      www.theglobalwarminghoax.com
  • felchdonkey, on 12/23/2007, -3/+47Apparently hair stylists and fashion designers couldn't get through to the New Yorker in the photo.
    • Brad324, on 12/23/2007, -9/+7Who are you - Queer eye for the straight guy?
      • AlexFinn, on 12/23/2007, -8/+1you dont have to be gay to realise that he will never see a girl naked in the flesh ..
        • xerexes1, on 12/24/2007, -0/+2You don't think he has enough cash to go to a strip club?
  • jsd8cc, on 12/23/2007, -6/+47For a second, I thought the check mark was actually part of the ad. They should send them out like that, with a dead polar bear in the background or something.
    • wrongonce, on 12/24/2007, -0/+8Or a real, live, ANGRY polar bear right behind the sign. With, like, a knife or something. And he's thinking "These New York nerds, they just don't get it. Well I'm going to show them. POLAR BEAR STYLE!"
      • WatchDogX, on 12/24/2007, -2/+5WITH FREAKIN LASER BEAMS ON THEIR HEADS!!!!!
        • wrongonce, on 12/24/2007, -0/+1I graciously accept your content-appropriate edit.
      • tyywebb, on 12/24/2007, -0/+3Digg comments rarely get more than a chuckle out of me, but I swear I was giggling for at least a minute from that.
    • knightblade2oo4, on 12/24/2007, -1/+5[ ] Do Nothing
      [ ] Lost Season 4 January 31

      with a dead polar bear in the background.
  • mhender, on 12/23/2007, -1/+31The guys hair style is simply phenomenal.
    • Trollmaster, on 12/23/2007, -1/+1hahahahaha my mother combed my hair like that when I was 5-7 years old
    • ubergeek09, on 12/24/2007, -0/+1Looks like Linus Torvalds or Bill Gates hair.
  • FadieZ, on 12/23/2007, -2/+34Joking aside, that was is crappiest advertisement I have ever seen.
    • SilverStandard, on 12/23/2007, -2/+2I know, they shouldn't put douche bags in the ads.
    • aquadoctorbob, on 12/24/2007, -0/+2Yeah, that was is the are am were.
  • petrodollar, on 12/23/2007, -14/+43Global warming is a myth because it's cold outside today and Al Gore flies in airplanes.
    • masterm1nd, on 12/23/2007, -7/+3If you think that is the opposing argument, you really don't know enough to take a side yet...
    • SilverStandard, on 12/23/2007, -2/+2And carbon dioxide follows heat by 500 years.
      • thomashauk, on 12/24/2007, -1/+2And it was quite hot 500 years ago, we had vineyards this far notrth, something which is struggling to come back.
    • aMammoth, on 12/24/2007, -0/+1***** you,

      If you're confused, see my first comment in this story.
  • masterm1nd, on 12/23/2007, -11/+81|_| - do nothing

    |_| - fight gravity
    • boogface, on 12/23/2007, -2/+7beautiful
    • SilverStandard, on 12/23/2007, -2/+7|X| - do nothing

      |_| - fight gravity
      • Ilyanep, on 12/24/2007, -0/+3That pretty much means lying around in bed all day. I'm game.
    • thomashauk, on 12/24/2007, -0/+59x

      |_| - do nothing
      |_| - fight gravity
      Crap my cross floated away.
    • FadieZ, on 12/24/2007, -5/+1deleted
  • hehdot, on 12/23/2007, -2/+10If that 'do can't get you laid I don't know what will.
  • dksupremacy, on 12/23/2007, -4/+24what is bill gates doing there
    • mocomedic, on 12/24/2007, -0/+1dude i thought the same exact thing
  • dhVyse, on 12/23/2007, -9/+2Pretty sad. I know we really don't know for sure if we impact the enviornment in such a big way, but we shouldn't take it off the table.
    • YEEK, on 12/24/2007, -1/+0Your logical comment being dugg down is a sad comment on the close minded attitude of the diggers tonite.
      • ubergeek09, on 12/24/2007, -0/+1You know your comment would have a lot more impact if you actually could spell.
    • BabyWookie, on 12/24/2007, -0/+1Actually, we do know for sure. The only people who are still questioning it are the "chervon scientists" and useful idiots on the right.
  • soot, on 12/23/2007, -7/+58I'll bet that guy gets pussy every night
    • deadlift, on 12/23/2007, -12/+6From your mother!
      • mhender, on 12/23/2007, -1/+6Deadlift, you have a lot of damage control to do. Putting your picture on Digg was probably the worst thing you could have done. May I recommend you create a new login? Alivelift? Deadlower?
        • deadlift, on 12/23/2007, -5/+2It's not me, idiot. I took the picture

          Thumbs up for using deductive reasoning though :)
      • FadieZ, on 12/24/2007, -0/+3I love the fact he actually changed it (after claiming it wasn't him, mind you). Bullying has officially made its way into geekdom.
    • Trollmaster, on 12/23/2007, -1/+22after a careful 2 hour review of your comment... I've come to the conclusion you were being sarcastic
  • mhender, on 12/23/2007, -5/+37"A shocking visual indication of New York's environmentalist apathy, as seen by a digger."
    Yes, vandalism of one advertisement is a strong indication of the majority of New Yorkers stance on global warming. Deadlift, you're an idiot.
  • minimalist147, on 12/23/2007, -1/+35The person holding the camera is the second biggest nerd in New York.
  • wiihuck, on 12/23/2007, -2/+3so....if up to this point i've done nothing, and i've yet to visit fightglobalwarming.com, what would my checklist look like?
    • SilverStandard, on 12/23/2007, -2/+3|X| Help fightglobalwarming.com get higher Alexa ratings.
  • eviscero, on 12/23/2007, -36/+30New Yorkers don't give a ***** about hippie causes..except maybe for down by the village.

    No, what we care about is reality and things we can change.

    You diggidiots can bitch all you want...save the whales...save the manatee...save ferris....you morons take up useless causes (see saving the TiTu Bug from Southern Tibet.).

    No ladies & gents...the real problem sits upon the necks of diggidiots (read moonbat, mud ***** liberals), worldwide.

    Yes, Man-Made global warming is a myth. So is Digg having one useful braincell between the lot of you, working at 24% efficiency.

    • soot, on 12/23/2007, -14/+10Your superiority complex is showing
      • eviscero, on 12/23/2007, -5/+8Your slip is showing.
        • masterm1nd, on 12/23/2007, -5/+1I don't want to do it but... zing!
      • rarson, on 12/24/2007, -1/+2I don't agree with his post, but that's real ***** rich with the elitism demonstrated by some of the more alarmist global warming activists.
    • cleffyowns, on 12/23/2007, -13/+6Amen.
    • hehdot, on 12/23/2007, -2/+28 My cat's breath smells like catfood.
    • demonsnake69, on 12/23/2007, -5/+11New Yorkers care about "real issues" like thinking they're better than everyone else...go ***** yourself.
    • ZenMojo, on 12/23/2007, -2/+14New Yorkers care about....
      Yeah, the rest of us are drawing a blank.
    • ozydingo, on 12/24/2007, -2/+6Ok I don't give a ***** about the rest of what you said, but will people who don't actually have enough evidence (i.e. everyone) stop saying man-made global warming is a myth (or confirmed as well, but that message is for someone else). You don't know that. You don't know enough to know that. You don't know enough to say that confidently. There is reason and evidence that supports it, and reason and evidence that doesn't support it. I'm willing to bet you don't know a whole lot about either pools of evidence. Yet you talk as if what you has to say should damn well just be accepted by everyone else already. So you are a retard. That is all.
      • eviscero, on 12/24/2007, -3/+3Hey *****, you hippies are bitching about this *****. The onus is on your to prove that man made global warming is NOT a myth.
        We've already seen your anecdotal evidence and pandering by a non-scientific political figure.
        So suck it up and start studying - you have your work cut out for you.

        You morons can believe whatever you want to believe. I'm not trying to convince anyone. I'll just continue to point and laugh.

        30 years from now most people will point and laugh at Al Gore's grave marker.
        • ozydingo, on 12/24/2007, -1/+4I'm not talking about proving or disproving, I'm talking about stating more than you know as if you knew it for a fact. You know ***** about global warming or why it's a myth or not a myth as the truth may be, yet you so confidently assert "es, Man-Made global warming is a myth." That is why you're a douche.

          '30 years from now most people will point and laugh at Al Gore's grave marker.v"
          Uh huh.
        • mmazing, on 12/24/2007, -0/+2You're a ***** moron eviscero, you need to read up on the scientific method.
      • wrongonce, on 12/24/2007, -0/+2Hey HEY! I know PLENTY about pools. OK?
    • akamurph, on 12/24/2007, -3/+4The global warming brainwashing of the public is comparable to al queda brainwashing their suicide bombers.
      • YEEK, on 12/24/2007, -4/+2Hmmm. Environmentalist want to save lives by cutting CO2 and pollution.
        Al Qaeda wants to kill people to further their goals.
        Yeah. They're absolutely identical.
      • BabyWookie, on 12/24/2007, -0/+1Is this a joke?
    • desqjockey, on 12/24/2007, -0/+3Living in New York is actually really environmentally friendly. Sorry. Go set something/someone on fire to compensate.
    • Haiz, on 12/24/2007, -1/+2I live in New York myself. And no, you are totally incorrect. Do not generalize like that ever again. Ever.
  • cobrapeed, on 12/23/2007, -4/+31That check mark is quite possibly the best check mark I've seen in my life. Dugg for excellent check mark.
  • soapsuds, on 12/23/2007, -4/+20Am I the only one thats bothered by the fact that they used square boxes, which usually denote check-boxes, instead of round ones, which denote radio buttons, at least in the majority of GUI OS's? Having the choices presented as checkboxes implies that you could check both boxes (fight global warming and do nothing at the same time).

    Okay, that was completely geeky and pedantic, but I'm trying to postpone venturing out into the snow and general insanity to finish my gift shopping..
    • mmazing, on 12/24/2007, -0/+3Holy ***** you're right, according to this I can simultaneously Do Nothing, and visit a website. This will tear the fabric of space and time.
  • crazywarthog, on 12/23/2007, -12/+60Global Warming is the greatest scam in history. It's about control, power and money. After all who doesn't want to save the planet !

    Fools you are !!!
    • krnldmp, on 12/23/2007, -13/+4Right, except the best ways to combat it take neither control, power, or money.
    • FXPooky, on 12/24/2007, -4/+1Well it won't be a real problem for another 100 years at the least, so it could be true that we're rushing this a bit, but it's still a problem we'll have to tackle eventually.
      • mmazing, on 12/24/2007, -1/+21. Us : Meh, our kids will figure it out.
        2. Kids : Meh, our kids will figure it out.
        3. Crickets : Chirp
        4. SILENCE
        5. (sound of Sun exploding)
        WTF have you done
    • StevenJV, on 12/24/2007, -0/+1Who wouldn't want to save the planet?

      People who want control, power and money.
    • YEEK, on 12/24/2007, -2/+1Yeah. But what if you're wrong?
      • mmazing, on 12/24/2007, -1/+3What if Jesus attacks tomorrow? No way? What if you're wrong?
    • BabyWookie, on 12/24/2007, -2/+2No, the evolution is the greatest scam in history. Only because it still produces right-wing morons like you.
  • spargo, on 12/23/2007, -0/+22Gore-tex, nice.
  • uttles, on 12/23/2007, -10/+39Al Gore is a complete hypocrite. He owns a share of the company where he bought his carbon credits from. Look it up.
    • p0s3r, on 12/23/2007, -4/+13He doesn't even pay for them. He gets them as fringe benefits.
    • rarson, on 12/24/2007, -4/+4Carbon credits are *****. The rich get to tell the poor what to do while using their money to ensure that they don't actually have to be burdened with reducing their pollution. And yet, since all we care about are credits and not pollution, they don't have to take the blame for it either, because they paid for their credits. So someone, somewhere, is not polluting for them.
  • jn1167, on 12/23/2007, -11/+3Proactive or clearasil.
    And don't blame NY. I live here and I'm pretty sure he doesn't!!!
  • jonnyboy1544, on 12/23/2007, -7/+2Hahaha!
  • Ghoztt, on 12/23/2007, -15/+52You know, I'm not really sold on this whole global warming thing. When archaeologists tell me the desert they are digging up dinosaur bones in used to be a wetland with forests and rivers... well... what? Yeah, Fred Flinstone was driving his combustion engine vehicle too much, right? That's how it changed?
    NOW, BEFORE YOU DIGG ME DOWN: As I believe in natural climate change, but not sole man made 'global warming' - I do believe that POLLUTION needs to stop. Oil spills, toxic chemicals in our water, human health risks from breathing chemicals... these are very real immediate dangers. So yes, I would like to stop pollution!
    But I'm afraid this whole global warming thing is a hoax to TAX people without solving the problem, (carbon credits? Give me a ***** break) and promote global socialism.
    • p0s3r, on 12/23/2007, -8/+18Your going to get labeled a denier. The earth's climate remained perfectly normal, unchanged, for millions of years. 80 years of industrialism, however, has doomed the planet!
      • jonnyboy1544, on 12/23/2007, -9/+0Really? Then explain that the temp has remained constant for the past few years. No spikes, no change. Explain that and I'll listen to your doomsday scenario.
        • p0s3r, on 12/23/2007, -1/+12Did you not recognize the sarcasm?
          • jonnyboy1544, on 12/24/2007, -0/+0Nope... my bad. That's tough on here.
      • Akaricloud, on 12/24/2007, -2/+3didn't you feel that .01 degree rise last summer? I was baking in my own juices.
        • desqjockey, on 12/24/2007, -1/+1Thats completely not the point. Idiot.
      • Nurjle, on 12/24/2007, -1/+1Yeah man! The Earth has always been the same! It started out just like this and it will stay just like this and it always has! Industrialisation started in 1927, and mankind cannot possibly effect a self-contained system by being part of it! A few years worth of data overrides millions of years of fossil evidence! WOOHOO! OH YEAH! I am edumacated and can make better ill-informed and illogical decisions than ANYONE!

        Woo hoo! Wibble fibble boobar wotsit!

        Also I am clever and can use SARCARSIUM. The world is safe in my hands.

        PS Is it cool to be anti- or pro- global warming yet? I NEED TO KNOW SO THAT I KNOW WHAT I NEED TO KNOW.
    • jonnyboy1544, on 12/23/2007, -3/+8You're absolutely right. If you notice, the UN IPCC is not a board of elected representatives.. they are political appointees by foreign governments. Hard to say that they don't have a motive. Global warming is turning into the new avenue to redistribute the wealth of nations.
    • MadOgre, on 12/23/2007, -5/+7NASA has observed similar climate changes in the other planets in our solar system. One NASA employee has suggest that Mars goes through cooling and warming cycles just like Earth.
      If that is true - then Man Made Global Warming is utter ***** and Al Gore is gathering money not for the earth but because he is (like all politicians) an opportunistic con man.
      • rarson, on 12/24/2007, -3/+5No, you're drawing illogical conclusions here. That Mars has a warming cycle in no way affects whether or not man is having an effect on Earth's temperature.
        • Ghoztt, on 12/24/2007, -2/+4rarson, the whole idea behind his theory is the whole solar system may be going through a warming time. (Possibly caused by the internal cycles that our Sun goes through)
          • nick111, on 12/24/2007, -3/+1Only if you're clutching at straws, desperately trying to find reasons to ignore what everyone else is facing up to.

            Climate Change denial is driven my cowardice.
          • rarson, on 12/24/2007, -1/+3Right, but he said that if Mars is warming, then man-made warming of Earth is total *****. You cannot logically draw that conclusion.

            I agree, I think it's *****, but Mars warming up isn't "proof." I guess my problem with his statement is the absolute nature of it.

            nick111: You'd have to be a total moron to deny that the climate is changing. It changes every day. Nobody is arguing that the climate changes. We're not even denying that the Earth is warming up. It's man's contribution to that warming and how significant it is that we're questioning. And whether we are even capable of doing anything about it. Those things aren't known for certain.
        • desqjockey, on 12/24/2007, -0/+2No, thats a lousy argument. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_variation_theor ...
    • rarson, on 12/24/2007, -1/+3That is exactly how I feel. Like someone said above, who doesn't care about the Earth? Nobody wants China's air, or lakes filled with garbage, or oil spills. But we also don't want to throw our money down a tube based on a problem we keep being being told about, but one that doesn't make sense. If we're not even in agreement as to whether man is having a significant negative effect, then why would we throw billions of dollars at the problem expecting that we'll create a significant positive effect?
      • desqjockey, on 12/24/2007, -1/+3There is broad scientific agreement. The fact a couple idiots on Digg arent sold shouldnt really hold the rest of the planet back.
        • kindpastor, on 01/23/2008, -0/+1Actually, the IPCC report (the "broad scientific agreement") you speak about, had this to say about carbon taxes and other carbon reduction measures:

          "Limited and early analytical results from integrated analyses of the costs and benefits of mitigation indicate that they are broadly comparable in magnitude, but do not as yet permit an unambiguous determination of an emissions pathway or stabilisation level where benefits exceed costs."

          AKA, the SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS tells us that all current carbon reduction schemes would either do nothing, or cause more harm than good. So why do we need carbon taxes again?
    • scottpigeon, on 12/24/2007, -0/+2It's nice to see a "denier" who can view the bigger picture. Most people who aim to discredit the theory that men may have some influence on global warming in addition to natural influences, or are even against investigations to find out, don't usually come to the realization that pollution is still bad for plenty of other reasons, and that actions still need to take place. I'm with you on the carbon tax thing though, and am currently skeptical of it.
    • mmazing, on 12/24/2007, -1/+2Global warming is like asking 5 Americans if they have ever flown in a plane, and then extending that result to all Americans.
      My personal belief is that we need to focus on pollution like you said, and that the time periods that we are dealing with are of little use for long term climate study.
    • kindpastor, on 01/21/2008, -0/+1People should be allowed to sue companies that pollute their property or near their property for the equivalent loss in value. Unfortunately supreme court precedent passed during the industrial revolution prevents this, and the government would much rather have complex regulatory schemes that put fee money into their pockets than in the pockets of the actual victim. The irritating part is, they do this under the guise of being "environmentally friendly"...and most people buy it.
  • jn1167, on 12/23/2007, -5/+12Proactive or Clearasil?
    A face only a mother could love.
  • Juleslicious, on 12/23/2007, -3/+5that guy looks really proud of his country...
  • SwordofKahless, on 12/23/2007, -3/+4LMAO!

    Aside for urban areas of NYC and Buffalo, seems to be sentiments of the rest of the state.
    • phanfo, on 12/23/2007, -1/+3what does buffalo have at all in common with NY. And I know from experience, I grew up in NY and went to college in buffalo. Buffalo is a dump with no future, Ny leads the world. Please explain what these two places have in common.
      • SwordofKahless, on 12/23/2007, -0/+2What they have in common is, they are large population centers where left leaning Democrats are the majority. Just check out the election stats between the cities and the rest of the state. NY swings hard left and right depending upon what area of the state you are in.
  • br0wnstar, on 12/23/2007, -3/+18I'd say one guy with a permanent marker is hardly indicative of an entire city's sentiment.
  • Skates1080, on 12/23/2007, -2/+6good going dude screw global warming and nice hair
  • roguedragon, on 12/23/2007, -11/+17Yeah! Take that Mr. "I invented the internet!" :P
    • TheLoneHoot, on 12/23/2007, -9/+6Al Gore never said that - it is a complete twisting of words perpetuated by reich wingers. People who believe Al Gore said he invented the internet are idiot sheep who believe everything Rush Limbaugh tells them.
      • RushLimbaugh, on 12/24/2007, -3/+4What about the 'idiot sheep' who believe everything Al Gore tells them?
    • ZenMojo, on 12/23/2007, -4/+9Al Gore never said he invented the internet. One of several myths that's been floating around for almost a decade. What he actually said, truthfully, was that he was at the forefront of the committee responsible for the legislation that made the internet free and open to the United States. Previously it was a tool for the defense department.
      • charlie55, on 12/23/2007, -4/+6you are a tool.
      • YEEK, on 12/24/2007, -3/+1What is wrong with being a tool of the truth?
        Better then being a tool of lies and propaganda.
        • ubergeek09, on 12/24/2007, -1/+1From your other posts it's quite obvious that you are in fact a tool of lies and propaganda.
      • YEEK, on 12/24/2007, -2/+0Amazing how people would rather continue spouting the lie that Al Gore said "I invented the internet", even though it's a known fact that he never said it, and he did indeed have a role in making the internet available to the public. How hypocritical that they then use the internet he heped bring to them to spread the lie about him and ignore the truth.
      • Yokohamalion, on 12/24/2007, -2/+2If Al Gore didn't invent the internet why does his face show up on Civilization 4 when I build it?
  • Papajohn56, on 12/23/2007, -9/+2that is one ugly dude
    • livingdots, on 12/23/2007, -5/+1Are you new to the Interweb? Coz' now you need to post a picture of yourself, you fscking douchebag, or be forever here as a fscking _ugly_ douchebag...
      • Papajohn56, on 12/24/2007, -2/+2lol "fsck" and interweb? sounds like you need a good dose of suicide
  • Stevanoski, on 12/23/2007, -10/+23Algore couldn't get through to any real thinker, only the brainwashed Left believes his pablum.
    • akamurph, on 12/24/2007, -3/+2"Let's tax the US for carbon emissions and give the money to poorer nations who haven't been able to build up their nations in hundreds of years, maybe this will push them over the top".
    • nick111, on 12/24/2007, -3/+1Well actually, I think you'll find that that's actually everyone on the planet except for a handful of unfathomably ignorant former Bush voters.

      This is why the rest of the world is seeing you as an overweight suburban version of one of the hicks out of Deliverance.

      Diddle ing ting ing ting ing ting tinnggggg....
      Diddle ing ting ing ting ing ting tinnggggg....


      retard.
    • BabyWookie, on 12/24/2007, -0/+1I never even seen his ***** movie, but I have reviewed plenty of well-documented, convincing, hard scientific evidence. You'd have to be a moron in order to not be concerned. What the ***** do you know about Global Warming, other than what Rush or Hannity tell you? You callous, pompous reich wing bastards are putting the future of my kids in jeopardy and you make me sick.
  • Malig, on 12/23/2007, -1/+7I think I have found the source of global warming. It appears to be that big yellow thingy in the sky.
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