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Al Gore strikes back in Rolling Stone article

Former vice president Al Gore isn't known for his great political timing, so perhaps it's no surprise that he's published an environmental broadside in Rolling Stone during a week in which there's almost no political oxygen left. The Beltway is clogged with dreary economic news, debt ceiling worries and President Obama's Afghanistan speech. Even given Gore's prodigious talent for generating heat, he's fighting a losing battle.
That's a shame. Because it's worth a read.

Gore goes on to lament that widespread denial of these facts makes meaningful political action on climate change nigh on impossible.

What is it that makes some of us so reticent to take climate scientists seriously? Gore spends a lot of time blasting corporate-funded climate denial. But what makes some Americans willing to listen to it? Climate scientists aren't completely drowned out of the public square, but their message seems to fall on deaf ears.

From the steam engine to the space shuttle, from stock tickers to smart phones, from silos to skyscrapers, we Americans owe much of our prosperity to the fruits of scientific research. It's not just great for technological inventions — we owe public health improvements to good science. Scientists discovered that leaded gasoline causes myriad public health challenges . They also developed alternative fuel additives so that we could address the problem. There are countless stories like this.

Without science, you wouldn't be reading this right now. There'd be no LCD screen or fiber-optic cables or communications satellites or computer software, or…you get the idea. We love science — as long as it makes our lives more comfortable.

So, somebody tell me: How is it that we trust scientists on nearly everything, except when they're studying the global climate? Is it that the truth is just too inconvenient to bear ?

NOT JUST YOUR AVERAGE BIKINI ROBOT ARMY | Skope Entertainment Inc

  I just had to ask, where did the name Bikini Robot Army come from?

There are three reasons behind the name Bikini Robot Army: First I,’m pretty sure we’re all some kind of biological robot; our brains the CPU, all identical with a few aberrations here and there that give us the illusion of individuality, a shared perception of the world around us. Since our brains are more or less wired identically, we could probably, in the future, actually predict, given the right kind of computing power (mimicing our own brain power), predict exacty what another would do or say at any given moment.  Kinda like SkyNet from “terminator”, a robot aware of itself, but not completely. it seems we’re wired to only understand finality and logic, unable to comprehend infinity, our brains our wired to understand 1=1+2 and beginngs and ending, probably based on life and death (being born and dying)  if you look at a human being from say the POV of a higher intellegence, i’m, pretty sure our similarities tremendously outweigh our differences. So, the comedy of it all is, if you can imagine,  a robot dressed up in a suit unaware of its nature, what its purpose is, and blindly losing its face in the crowd basing its identity on the other unaware neighbors in the group – its like the creator died and its robot creations are running rampant trying to understand what its built to NOT understand. Even funnier wearing a Bikini.

“Sugarcane” Feat The Burnside Bums:

Tell me about the band – a little history, who your band members are and share some experiences?

Right now I’m kind of a hermit musician who finds band members by chance. I write and record everything myself in my homemade studio. My old band The Good Time Charlies, formed in college with Brandon Geiger and Matt Goldsborough, two amaziing musicians that I was lucky to play with, disbanded due to geography, girlfriends, drugs and it all came to a head when our neighbor that shot and killed his family.  (i moved out of the house we shared immediatly, and moved to New York City.)

In New York I formed the “The New Charlies” with Patrick Gorman, and who ever we could find to play with us; Pat, my childhood friend who, along with Daniel Ritts,  would compete all through middle school and high school to see who could be the best guitar player. That competition made me focus on guitar, I worked hard everyday to play better and faster, I had to compete with Daniel who was born with perfect pitch and was playing Chopin at age 9. I was’nt born with that gift and had to work hard to play as well as I do now.  I play everyday to keep up with everyone else.

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