 Originally Posted by p2501
thanks for the quote, i was looking for that.
in the short term all that's going to happen is beach errosion, increased tropical storms, and more thawing in Canada and northern russia.
You dissed me, but it made me laugh. So that's cool.
For the record I didn't vote for Gore. I wanted to smack him and his harpie wife.
All that erosion is still pretty bad. And your right about changing theories. I have heard evidence from many sources that seemed compelling to me, andI am convinced for the time being that Global Warming is occuring. How immediately dire, I don't know. And your Yale friend is obviously more qualified than me,so who knows. and looking at my post, it seems (though it wasn't my intention) to be a bit rude. So excuse me.
Her's the Gore quote
Gore never claimed that he "invented" the Internet, which implies that he engineered the technology. The invention occurred in the seventies and allowed scientists in the Defense Department to communicate with each other. In a March 1999 interview with Wolf Blitzer, Gore said, "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
(thats it's so removed from "invented the internet" I refered to it as smear propoganda. Like him or not, it's a purposeful distortion)
Some More Info...
But the real question is what, if anything, did Gore actually do to create the modern Internet? According to Vincent Cerf, a senior vice president with MCI Worldcom who's been called the Father of the Internet, "The Internet would not be where it is in the United States without the strong support given to it and related research areas by the Vice President in his current role and in his earlier role as Senator."
The inventor of the Mosaic Browser, Marc Andreesen, credits Gore with making his work possible. He received a federal grant through Gore's High Performance Computing Act. The University of Pennsylvania's Dave Ferber says that without Gore the Internet "would not be where it is today."
Joseph E. Traub, a computer science professor at Columbia University, claims that Gore "was perhaps the first political leader to grasp the importance of networking the country. Could we perhaps see an end to cheap shots from politicians and pundits about inventing the Internet?"
Here is the link with a full article and explanation
http://www.perkel.com/politics/gore/internet.htm
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