Are Al Gore and Pat Robertson the Same?

Question

"Repent and live the way I want you to live, or else the world will come to an end." That's the essence of BOTH men's messages.

I know, I know, "but one of them claims to have science behind him." Except that he doesn't. A bunch of UN scientists huddled together and then declared victory, they keep making the language in their manifesto tougher, scarier, but they have no more evidence of human causation of warming than they had when it all started in the early 1980s, and they base their claims on a complete re-writing of the climate history which had been universally accepted from the time prior warming periods happened until the late 1990s when the climate had become a political issue.

If you just watch 700 Club without a critical attitude, I can see where a person of average intelligence could get hooked. Same for Al Gore.

I will live my life the way I WANT TO LIVE IT thank you.

Answer 1

Yes they both preach fear on subject that they know nothing about

Answer 2

In the early 80's there was no real evidence the warming was taking place, now the evidence or warming is overwhelming. I am not certain the warming is caused by human activities be it seem reasonable to take the threat seriously. If you read the science you would realize that we are living with warming that was due to factors that happen 20 years ago. What we do now is of more important to our children than to us. Maybe don't have children but I do.

Answer 3

Actually the U.N. report is being criticized by scientists for being too optimistic.

Global warming is a natural phenomenon. But it is being accelerated tremendously by pumping emissions into the atmosphere.

Is it reasonable (when a correlation between CO2 and a warming in temperature [as evidenced by the volcano everyone loves to talk about, and by the difference in CO2 and temperature before and after the Clean Air Act]) to believe that the billions of people pumping pollution with wild abandon into the atmosphere is not causing harm? Sure, the Earth has always regulated itself. But the Earth hasn't always had to deal with cars, coal, and umpteen other things.

They do have one thing in common, they both spread messages that certain people chose to ignore or deny outright, without regard for informed examination.

Answer 4

Well, here's the difference.

By "living green" (or living self sufficiently...both use many of the same tactics), you could actually save some money. (Fuel efficient cars, light bulbs that use 1/4 the energy, etc). You just have to weed out the cranks who jack up their prices with the "green" label.

When you get in with Pat Robertson, the first thing you get is, "Give me your wallet!".

Costs more to get sucked in by a televangelist, and you get nothing out of it.

Answer 5

First of all, anyone who watches pat "9/11 was caused by witches, homosexuals, atheists, and abortionists" (Robber)tson definitely needs to be taken to a room and deprogrammed and thoroughly cleansed from the filth this scumbag spews forth everyday. Any person with an IQ of -15 would vomit and not get hooked.
Secondly, if you read the following article, how can anyone dispute this unless they are pat robberson.
And thirdly, to even compare the two is like comparing the Dalai Lama to Hitler with robberson being Hitler, Caligula, Satan and the Anti-Christ rolled into one loathesome nonentity.
Al Gore has just been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global warming and will soon win the Oscar for his movie, "An Inconvenient Truth"

By Gerard Wynn and Alister Doyle
Fri Feb 2, 4:13 PM ET

(Reuters) - Mankind is to blame for global warming, the world's top climate scientists said on Friday, sending governments a "crystal clear" warning they must take urgent action to avert damage that could last centuries.

The United Nations panel, which groups 2,500 scientists from more than 130 nations, predicted more droughts, heatwaves and a slow gain in sea levels that could continue for more than 1,000 years even if greenhouse gas emissions were capped.

The panel's report predicts a "best estimate" that temperatures would rise by between 1.8 and 4.0 Celsius (3.2 and 7.8 Fahrenheit) in the 21st century.

"Faced with this emergency, now is not the time for half measures. It is the time for a revolution, in the true sense of the term," French President Jacques Chirac said. "We are in truth on the historical doorstep of the irreversible."

The scientists said it was "very likely" -- or more than 90 percent probable -- that human activities led by burning fossil fuels explained most of the warming in the past 50 years.

That is a toughening of the position taken by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) last report in 2001, which judged a link as "likely," or 66 percent probable.

Many governments, U.N. agencies and environmental groups urged a widening of the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol, which binds 35 industrial nations to cut emissions by 2012 but excludes top emitters led by the United States, China and India.

"The signal we've received from the scientists today is crystal clear and it's important that the political response is also crystal clear," said Yvo de Boer, head of the U.N. Climate Secretariat.

He wants an emergency environment summit of world leaders this year to push for wider action. Kyoto has been weakened since the United States pulled out in 2001 and emissions by many backers of Kyoto are far above target.

The Bush administration played down the U.S. contribution to climate change although the country is the biggest single source of greenhouse gases, with a quarter of the world total.

"We are a small contributor when you look at the rest of the world," U.S. Energy Secretary Sam Bodman said of greenhouse gas emissions after the IPCC report. "It's really got to be a global discussion."

A 21-page summary of IPCC findings for policy makers outlines wrenching change such as a possible melting of Arctic sea ice in summers by 2100 and says it is "more likely than not" that greenhouse gases have made tropical cyclones more intense.

The report projects a rise in sea levels of between 18 and 59 centimeters (7 and 23 inches) in the 21st century -- and said bigger gains cannot be ruled out if ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland thaw.

Rising seas threaten low-lying islands, coasts of countries such as Bangladesh and cities from Shanghai to Buenos Aires.

Temperatures rose 0.7 degrees in the 20th century and the 10 hottest years since records began in the 1850s have been since 1994. Greenhouse gases are released mainly by burning fossil fuels in power plants, factories and cars.

President Bush says Kyoto-style caps would harm the economy and that Kyoto should include developing nations. His policies will brake the growth of emissions but stop short of caps favored by most of his industrial allies.

Democrats who control both houses of Congress want tougher action.

The president of Kiribati, a group of 33 Pacific coral atolls threatened by rising seas, said time was running out.

"The question is, what can we do now? There's very little we can do about arresting the process," President Anote Tong said.

"There is no single solution," the International Energy Agency said. It wants more energy savings, more renewable energy, nuclear power and efforts to make fossil fuels cleaner.

Speaking to a meeting of scientists, environmental campaigners, foreign officials and business leaders, Chirac said the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) had insufficient power and should be overhauled and upgraded.

"Our aim must be to transform (the UNEP) into a fully fledged United Nations organization. This United Nations Environment Organization will carry the global ecological conscience," he said, suggesting the new body's name.

Answer 6

Au contraire, Pat Robertson's message is, repent, give me your wallet, and I promise you God will 'rapture' you before the world is destroyed.

Answer 7

Al Gore is trying to ride this thing to the White House. Being defeated in 2000 unhinged him a bit. Remember, he grew a beard and climbed down a woodchuck hole.

Answer 8

They are both human.