I'm convinced by Al Gore today!

What a day! A great day! This is the greatest event in the Silicon Valley every year. This is the Annual HYSTA conference.

Of course, today's event is all about Al Gore. He announced that "he will go for 2008 presidential election". Actually, John Doerr said that. John gave a speech in 2006 HYSTA conference, which is not impressive enough to convince me that global warming is really a problem now. I did some research on global warming back in school and took a few classes on global warming causes and effects, policies, sustainable development, and etc. I know there are many controversial research results on this aspect. Researchers only observe there are strong correlation between volume of CO2 emission and global warming, but there is no sound cause/effect theory. The famous butterfly effect chaos theory scare me and a lot of researchers into agnosticists. But today, Al Gore convinced me that global warming actually is true, although he conveniently didn't mention any theory from the other side. Actually earth is a self-balancing system. For any force increasing temperature, there are other forces that will try to decrease it. More CO2 will increase vegetation, which will absorb CO2. But more vegetation will cause other effects like red tide for fishes, which will cause other things. Did I tell you I'm agnosticist?
But today Al Gore convinced me. I think I should have listened to John last year and picked up my old textbook to do something, clean energy, sustainable development, going back to World Bank, call friend Jin Yi or Feng asking them if I can help them on their clean energy ventures. :)