Who has turned the topic of global warming into a politcal issue?

Question

Is it Al Gore or those who hate Al Gore? Is his motive more political than real concern for the environment in order to gain political momentum again or is it just the name-calling of those think that anyone who doesn't worship Dubya is a traitor?

One of the respondants to this question has made me realize that I have tainted this question with my own political bias, and I want to aplologize everyone for that. The closing of the explanation should not have read " or is it just the name-calling of those think that anyone who doesn't worship Dubya is a traitor?" but rather "or is there not actually a global warming problem?"
My apologies to all.

Answer 1

The Republicans. They turn everything political. Gay marriage, women's reproductive rights, burning of the American Flag, the War in Iraq, the stolen elections (I better stop).

Scientists have been studying global warming since the late 1800's early 1900's. It's not a new phenomenon. In "An Inconvienant truth" and with the last 100 years of scientists studying global warming, we are 400 years ahead of schedule. The Republicans say the storms and things are normal changes in the Earth. Somewhat true, but they claim global warming is a farce when somebody gets a snowfall. None of it is from anything "man" has done. Well, we do know there is a hole in the ozone, they know that as well. Ignorance only makes them appear less intelligent then they already are.

If you have a conscience, if you have a soul, if you believe the B*** Administration sent our young soldiers into harm's way because of their agenda and PNAC's agenda in 2002, and not because Iraq was a threat, then vote the SOB's out of office. We've got to do something. B*** or more like Che*** and Rumsfield have already had intelligence sources planning an air attack on Iran, possibly nuclear. Why? Because Dumbya doesn't think any future administration will ever have the "courage" to do it. COURAGE. What would that sawed off piece of . . . . know about courage. He just sat on his a** for more then 8 minutes not knowing what to do when Andrew Card told him we were under attack. This

Answer 2

The topic of global warming can't be a political issue - and Al Gore certainly isn't using it for political gain. Global warming is a REAL threat to the world. If the polar ice caps melt, coastal cities on both sides of both oceans will be washed away. Too bad most of us don't take the environmental and ecological threats more seriously, because young people today will have to deal with everything we've failed to deal with.

If McDonald's continues to chop down the rainforests so it can graze more cattle and sell you more cheap BigMacs, there will eventually no longer be a rainforest, which will affect the health of millions of people, and will affect the climate.

If the Bush administration succeeds in allowing oil drilling in the ocean and along caribou migration paths, it will affect the food chains of millions of people - not just some remote Eskimo tribes that none of us give a damn about.

If the Earth's temperature is raised by as little a 1 degree F, human beings may not be able to adjust to the change.

If we destroy all the coral reef (yes, it's a marine animal, not just some pretty stuff floating around in the oceans), it will affect the ability for some other ocean life to reproduce. That means you may not be able to order a tuna melt anymore, or enjoy a shrimp cocktail.

If we keep asphalting over rich farmland to build shopping malls so that we can buy new CD's and Barbie Dolls, there will be no agricultural industry left in America (for those of you who may not realize it, food comes from the ground, NOT from the supermarket). That means we won't EAT.

So, if all those environmental issues sound like so much 'fluff' to you, go ahead and keep on wasting our natural resources. Go ahead and let 'em haul your garbage off to a landfill so that it can leak and poison the air your grandchildren will breathe or the pollute the streams your great-grandchildren will drink from.
Not only won't future generations EAT, they won't BREATHE, and they won't DRINK WATER, without which they DIE.

These issues are too important to be resolved by incompetent, corrupt, evil politicians. -RKO- 07/03/06

Answer 3

Global warming and Al Gore's support for it have little to do with Dubya. Other than W was smart enough to not be suckered into to foolishness of the Keyoto Protocol. Al Gore attended the Keyoto Conference and represented the United States. He then presented the garbarge to the US Senate where he had NO other votes in favor of the proposal other than his own. That should tell even the biggest fools among us something.

Answer 4

Well, the organizations producing the pollutants building up the global warming made and control this political issue, so that they are always acting without opponents!
Al Gore and that level politicians are tools of the conglomerates!
It seems to me that all sides are hold by the same lobbies!

Answer 5

maximum politicians are conditioned to respond partisan-variety to any concern. a number of that's basically habit, some inclination, some political philosophy; a brilliant number of that's basically exploiting a important concern to play to the 'swing' voters. even though, that's real that their respective financial participants (and the countless foyer experts such powerhouses hire) will attempt to dilute and divert any measures taken to handle international warming or relieve environmental rigidity or take care of the ecology which might adversely result their commercial operations. regrettably, to extremely handle green subjects with important action WILL harm the pastimes of massive agency and huge industries. apart from, the buyer financial equipment the West has been reared on is unsustainable - so there is an inevitable rigidity, and which would be expressed politically. 'Realpolitik' will proceed to dictate the time table for it slow to come again - a brilliant number of denial, equivocation and 'greenspin' - yet, finally, certainty bites. it continually does (as in Iraq). The clever ones (Sarkozy, as an occasion) will stay previous to the sport, yet i could propose many conservatives (international, no longer in basic terms interior the U. S.) run a severe possibility of being marooned on the political equivalent of a sparkling Orleans rooftop.

Answer 6

Global Warming is an issue because it is a reality.
If we do not drastically alter behavior patterns in the next decade, the planet will turn on us, and then God help us all.

Florida will have 1/3 fewer electoral votes because 1/3 of the state will be under ten feet of water. Not that I'm a fan of Miami (very long story), but I don't want it to disappear into the ocean.

Answer 7

The Liberals, and no I don't deem one a traitor for not liking the President.

However I do deem one a Traitor when such a person is favoring the Enemy over top of America such as Cindy Sheehan referring to Insurgents as Freedom Fighters and the U.S. Troops as the Terrorists.

That my friend is even worse than saying the mere words of "I Hate Bush."

Ya know what I think The Dixie Chicks and Jessica Lange should have said their Anti-Bush remarks here in the U.S. rather than Overseas but I bet they were afraid to at the time cause they knew they would get booed like Michael Moore and Linda Ronstadt did.

Answer 8

A lot of the people who are urging attention to this problm are from low lying shore areas where they already see the effects of global warming from rising sea levels. Also when your one of the few governments in the industrialised world who don't believe global warming, and the leader of that government happens to be Dubya, I gues you have to expect the Republicans to behave like they always do when it comes to real and important issues in the world, ignore it, turn your head elsewhere and make believe like everything is just fine.

Answer 9

Actually, it was Bush who made it a political topic by deciding that he and the Religious Fundamentalist in the United States knew more the the scientific community which has studied this since the 1970s (if not before then).

Answer 10

Neither. As is inferred by its name, "global" warming affects the entire planet, not just the USA. Read up on the Kyoto protocol and financial impacts inherent in implementing said protocol if you want to know the real reason that the issue has become political.