Is Al Gore preforming a publicity stunt?

Question

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It will take you to the featured question today, which is asked by Al Gore. Dont you think that what he is doing is nothing but a pure publicity stunt for his future political career as US president?

How can Yahoo! allow active polititions to market themselves at the cost of loyal and dedicated user?

What do you feel?

What did Al Gore do about world climate during his tenure as Bill Clintons deputy?

Why didnt he ask such a question at that time?

Why dosent US sign Kyoto agreement, which is supposed to make measures for saving ozone and in turn reduce world warming?

Will Mr Gore sign that agreement if at all he becomes the next president after Dubya Bush?

Answer 1

One should not judge a question (or answer) on anything but it's own merits. I don't care whether Al Gore or Al Bundy asked the question above; I answered because I care about the problem therein.

Although Gore is a public personality, he has as much right as any of us to use this website to ask a relevant question. Note that he never asked "Would you vote for me if I promised everyone a pony?" or "Is Bush a douché or what?" Other morons ask such stupid questions here anyway. Gore's question related to environmental problems and you wouldn't even think to criticize it if it came from anyone but him.

If you're going to link everything to an ulterior motive of your own imaginative construction, you will quickly be driven to the dark side of paranoia and conspiracy nut-hood. Save yourself before it's too late!

Answer 2

I think he's a nut case. Yes he has been working on his case that we are destroying the earth for a long time. And there is no scientific evidence that we are. Should we try to clean the air? Of course. I'm no expert but I've read enough on the subject to know that the earth goes in cycles. No matter what we do. If the Kyoto treaty is so important then why is China and others exempt? Yes the earth is getting a bit warmer I think as near as they can figure it's warmed up 1 degree. One thing I don't understand is if all the ice burgs melt how is that going to raise the oceans? He says that even if the oceans rise 2 or 3 inches it will be big trouble that may be true but if you have a glass fill it with water and ice, as the ice melts does the water spill over the rim of the glass? Nope. Ted Danson who is a great admirer of Al Gore said in 1994 that the oceans would be dead by the year 2000. And a lot of the gloom and doom so called experts who are raving about global warming now were raving about how we were causing global cooling just 40 years ago. The earth is a marvelous creation it is constantly cleaning up after us and natural things like volcano's, and I don't think we can destroy it. I read where they can measure the heat on the surface of mars now and it is heating up a bit also and as far as I know they don't have any suv's there.. However I think we can destroy ourselves with bombs and hate. The earth will be here long after we are gone.

Answer 3

When times were good in the nineties Gore said nothing. That was a time when people started driving SUV's. He also profited heavily when the Feds sold the Oil Reserve to Occidental Oil, a company in which the Gore's had a financial interest. From Wikipedia:
In 1998, the US Government sold the Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve to Occidental Petroleum for USD 3.65 billion. The advertised purpose of this sale was to reduce the national debt, and reduce the size of government, as the Reserve was no longer strategically necessary. Critics of government cited Vice President Al Gore's involvement with the company as proof of graft

Gore's a phoney, I'd bet the farm on that.

Answer 4

Al Gore has said that he isn't planning to run for President again. But really, if the support is there, why shouldn't he?

Another thing ... he has said that this has been a pet project of his since his days at university. How can that make it a publicity stunt? He's been giving this same lecture for YEARS, and now he can be many places at once on the movie screen and really get the word out. It's a word we need to hear.

Answer 5

The nations that signed the Kyoto treaty aren't abiding by it. The Kyoto treaty was ameans to crippling us.

AL Gore is preforming something, sure enough, but I wouldn't call it a publicity stunt. I will, however, refrain from being crude.

Political motivation is behind this and everything else Al does. (Which is not to say that any other politician in any other party is any better or worse. Well...maybe John Kerry is worse.)

Answer 6

Gore is hoping people will pay to hear his lecture. He didn't advance the environment while he was VP. Renewable Energy will not be the norm until the economics change. Price of fossil fuels doesn't change the economics, because at least for solar cells the main cost is the energy to both purify & crystalize silicon. The only way to change the economics of Renewable Energy is to have installing the infrastructure & running the utility create sellable spin-off benefits.

I doubt Gore even understands the concept.

Answer 7

Gores a joke. The more he's around, the more pathetic he looks. Yahoo should let anyone on here that has a legitimate question. So yes, even Gore can ask questions. Obviously Gore has climbed on the bandwagon of an issue and is looking to all of us for the answers that he will of course take credit for.

Answer 8

well--I'm not sure about what this "cost of loyal and dedicated user" thing is that you're talking about--this thing doesn't cost you a dime--and I doubt seriously that Yahoo is going to loose more than probably 50 people over Al Gore being aboard---they kick at least 500 people a day off this thing for abuses--- no big deal---and as far as Al Gore and any kind of publicity stunt is concerned--he certainly doesn't need publicity--and really doesn't have much in the way of political designs anymore--fairly content in being Joe Citizen--and you know--that's what he is--an American citizen with as much right to his say as you or I--and every bit as much right to be anywhere ar anytime and into whatever whenever as anybody else ---so put your teeth back in your mouth--look the other way if it upsets you and go on with your life

Answer 9

Al Gore invented the publicity stunt

Answer 10

Yep. He sure is.
Peoples angst over Al Gore is why Bush got elected.
I never voted FOR Bush..... I voted AGAINST Gore.
And as bad a President as Bush has been - Im grateful, every day, Gore was not in that seat on September 11, 2001.