Is Al Gore a diabolical propagandist, or just a harmless eccentric?

Question

The only 2 explanations for his laughable "global warming" theory I can think of.

Answer 1

Al Gore is a political hack and environmental nut case. He will make whatever wild claims are necessary to keep his fame. I am sure he is an intelligent man, but he has allowed an extreme agenda to so distort his views that nothing he says anymore can be considered in a serious light. The scary part is that there are people who hang on this man's every word as though it were gospel. Fortunately, the vast majority of Americans now see him for the extremist that he is. I shudder to think what this country would be like if he had been elected in 2000.

ktd_73: Yes and then again we might have had more policies like the Clinton administration which sought to make it almost impossible for law enforcement and intelligence agencies to share information properly. He might have chosen the position that this was a law enforcement matter and not have taken any direct government action whatsoever against terrorism. You see this is the problem with speculation in general. We will just never know. I base my opinions of Al Gore on his statements and actions. I did not care for him as Vice President. I did not care for what he had to say when running for President and I am relatively certain I wouldn't have liked him as President. I will agree that he did win the popular vote, but he did not win the Electoral College and therefore was not elected President. I am however a fan of abolishing the Electoral College to end these discrepancies. What I can tell you is that if he had been elected I would have supported his office just as I have supported all Presidents who have come before whether I agreed with him or not.

Answer 2

Good question. What is causing him to ignore facts?

Mr. Al Gore's movie left out these facts:
1) 6,000 years ago, the earth was hotter than it is today. 6,000 years is less than a second when compared with the age of the earth.

2) Temperatures dropped in the 1950's and 1990's when CO2 levels were increasing.

3) 140,000 years ago the earth had record CO2 levels and there were no gasoline powered cars.

4) 20,000 years ago, Canada was one big ice cube and half of the U.S. was covered with Ice. The grand canyon was formed by melting ice ages over 20 million years.

5) The temperature of the Earth has only increased by 0.65 of a degree in the last 110 years. There were faster increases in temperatures around 10,000 years ago and there were no gasoline powered cars during that time

6) It has not been scientifically proven. Scientists who disagreed with the theory were not invited to contribute to Al Gore's movie nor were they invited to the conference about global warming.

7) NASA has said that great temperature changes are normal. Just 10,000 years ago, the earth warmed up extremely in less than 20 years. There were not many people around at that time.

NASA:
"Rapid changes between ice ages and warm periods (called interglacials) are recorded in the Greenland ice sheet. Occurring over ONE OR TWO DECADES, the warming of the Earth at the end of the last ice age "
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/Paleoclimatology_Evidence/Images/gisp2_temperature.gif

Answer 3

Al Gore IS diabolical. His finished marketing campaign is approximately greater skill and greater earnings for Al Gore and much less of each thing for each individual else. Why else would he p.c. you to do without so he can use your sources for himself? Why else would he start up a company that stands to make huge earnings if his schedule is going forward?

Answer 4

He isn't the only one that believes in global warming most scientists do and Richard Branson has just offered 25 million dollars to find a way to slow it down .Well it was 52% Celsius in a small country town recently the hottest ever recorded in history so hot the birds fell out of the sky and died and that isn't propaganda its the truth.There is no proof that God exists either but that doesn't stop people thinking he is real and if he is he wont be happy we ruined his earth.

Answer 5

I don't know why I bother jumping in on a non-debate about a non-question. If you just want to bash Gore, have at it. But no one is going to take any of you as seriously as they do him until you state at least one fact in your rants. Calling someone names is simply not serious debate. And since this is what passes for conservative thought these days, the U.S. public is beginning to turn to other options for leadership.

For instance, if you disagree with what he has to say about global warming, cite a specific claim that he makes and then refute it with facts/studies of your own.

Instead, we have the likes of grandamack1 alluding to an old urban legend that was thoroughly refuted years ago, partially by North himself. (Please check the reference below which includes a link to the actual testimony.) Have YOU read the transcripts? Do you know what North actually said? Do you know what terrorist he actually referred to? Do you know or remember that at that point in time Osama bin Laden was one of our ALLIES in the war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan? But then, lot of people don't remember that Saddam Hussein used to be an ally either . . .

But I digress. There can be no facts about complete speculations, so I will speculate in another direction. One person "shudders" to think what would have happened if Gore had been elected in 2000. (I'll leave aside the possibility that he WAS elected in 2000.) There are a number of possibilities. It is possible that Gore would have taken his terrorist experts seriously and checked out the reports he was receiving about a group know as al-Qaida. It's possible that his attorney general would have given the OK to check out the hard drive of a computer belonging to a suspicious character picked up by the FBI in Minnesota who want to learn how to fly planes, but not land or take off. It's possible that as the "chatter" being monitored by the intelligence agencies indicated something important was coming, President Gore might not have gone off for a month long vacation in August of 2001. If the 9-11 tragedy occurred anyway, he might have focused more completely on dealing with the terrorists in Afghanistan once and for all instead of getting sidetracked into a war with a country that had nothing to do with 9-11. And if he DID get into such a war, and things started to go bad with a growing insurgency, maybe he wouldn't have said something provocative like "Bringem' on." But we can speculate to our heart's content, can't we?

Answer 6

Diabolical propagandist=Murdock
Eccentric=Ted Nugent
Extremely intelligent Man who can't communicate well=Gore
Idiot Egomaniac=George W. Bush
You =Bushtard

Sorry Michael I couldn't help myself. This is a great answer!!!

Answer 7

It's not HIS theory you f uckwit - it's a theory shared by practically every independent climate scientist. It's a theory that the UN has just published a major report on - written by dozens of scientists who's years of research has appeared in peer reviewed journals. The only people disputing this theory are the huge industries that stand to to lose millions if we try to control this and some really brain dead people who just seem incapable of processing the evidence. Which category do you fall in - I've a feeling you're not a millionaire

Answer 8

I wouldn't go as far as to call him diabolical, but he is definitely a propagandist. I'd say he's pretty harmless. No one really takes him too seriously, except for Hollywood celebs of course.

Answer 9

Diabolical? No. Propagandist? Yes. Very angry, and phony too.

Answer 10

Hes a screwball nutcase...seriously.....read the transcripts of the Oliver North hearings he chaired as a senator...Ollie told him a man named Osama Bin Laden was the most dangerous man on the planet..this in 1985...algore laughed at him and made fun of the pronunciation of the name....hes a real winner....the people of his own home stae,the one he was a senator from,wouldnt back him in the 2000 election,,that should tell you something