Albert Gores push for environmental discipline has its merits, but he is kind of pushing his own addenda. All the "real data" would say that what is happening would have happened anyway with or without our help, we only speeded things up a tiny bit. Great warming periods have always been followed by great cooling periods. Less than a thousand years ago Vikings lived and prospered on Greenland, they did really well for about 100 years during a very warm period, then boom the whole thing froze over almost overnight and they all died within the year.
Same thing happened a few hundred years ago killing millions via starvation, it was called the year without a summer, this was volcano related, which is really the whole point, 1 volcano can alter the environment in one year when it takes us decades to mess it up with our gas guzzlers. You gotta whatch a program called "Global dimming"
So you have to think what happened to the earth when there were hundreds of active volcanos? Volcanos dump a lot of the same crap into the air that we do only there is alot more particles there to block out the sunlight
I think the bigger concern is the toxic crap we pour into the ocean. Sea creatures will survive temperature changes, but they wont survive toxic chemicals, if they die we die