Does Al Gore have an honest bone in his body?

Question

At the Oscars, fearmonger and scientific scholar Al Gore said that global warming is "not a political issue, it's a moral issue."
Oh yeah? Then why has he used it as a political weapon to bash the Bush Administration and the previous Republican led Congress for the last several years?
Isn't telling a lie on national television slightly immoral?

Answer 1

Agreed, good point. Painting a political issue(or scientific theory) as a moral issue is just his tool to try to add legitimacy. Besides if he terms this issue "moral", he makes himself and all those who agree with him feel so virtuous! Those of us skeptics, of course, are immoral since we don't swallow his premise hook, line, and sinker.

Answer 2

Al "the blob" Gore wouldn't tell a lie would he? After all the man who invented the Internet and grew up on a farm in Tennessee would not use the global warming myth to pad his pockets, would he?

Answer 3

Point well made.
Nothing was done in the Clinton/Gore Administration...or any previous Republican or Democratic White House.

In my opinion, ALL elected officals are to blame.

But it is fasionable to slam whomever is in the White House and Bush happens to hold that slot (for now).

Answer 4

Yes and look how well it's worked for him. He keeps harping about this trivial issue: the survival of our species. The media keeps us duly informed on the important issues (like "Who is the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby?"). Al Gore keeps getting pushed to the side. If Al Gore is using climate change as a political issue, he's not crooked. He's stupid. You know the people with the money and the power will be up to their necks in Arctic ice melt water before they admit that somebody (not them, of course) might have made a mistake.

Answer 5

Please go to sources l listed below for what Al Gore has done to live up to his concerns about the environment. You people need to learn to research and not rely so much on television.
How is making sure our planet survives so we survive NOT a moral issue? I mean, come on. This administration has the worst record on the books for anti-conservation, anti-alternative based fuels, anti-peace, anti-anything unless it is for the oil industry making more money. He has created the biggest subsidy on record for the oil industry and that is on top of the huge profits they have been making since Bush has taken office. The Republican party is all the same on this issue. They are the ones that don't want to change because they are for the big corporations and their big profits over the welfare of everyone else. Wake up. Gore was right, is right and your GWB is wrong. He didn't tell a lie. It is you that is so uninformed that you cannot see the truth.

And, Gore does do something to live up to what he preaches:
Gore is a vocal proponent of carbon neutrality, buying a carbon offset each time he travels by aircraft.[51] Gore and his family drive hybrid vehicles.[52]

Beginning in the fall of 2006, Al Gore and a team of renowned climate change scientists and educators will train more than 1,000 individual volunteers to give a version of his presentation on the effects of – and solutions for - global warming, to community groups throughout the U.S. The presentation and training program are based on the message Gore has been giving for more than two decades, which inspired the documentary film and book, An Inconvenient Truth.[

As far as Gore and the Internet goes, you need to read this:
As a result of the publication of three articles in Wired News[76], Gore's 1999-03-09 interview on CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer became the subject of heavy satire. [77] During this interview, Gore stated:
During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system. [78]
Media reports surrounding this statement sometimes re-wrote it, stating that Gore claimed he "invented the internet".[79] Gore received support from members of the computer industry, however, notably Internet pioneers Vint Cerf and Robert E. Kahn. Cerf and Kahn issued the following statement on 2000-09-28 in response to the controversy:
[A]s the two people who designed the basic architecture and the core protocols that make the Internet work, we would like to acknowledge VP Gore's contributions as a Congressman, Senator and as Vice President. No other elected official, to our knowledge, has made a greater contribution over a longer period of time.
Last year the Vice President made a straightforward statement on his role. He said: "During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet." We don't think, as some people have argued, that Gore intended to claim he "invented" the Internet. Moreover, there is no question in our minds that while serving as Senator, Gore's initiatives had a significant and beneficial effect on the still-evolving Internet. The fact of the matter is that Gore was talking about and promoting the Internet long before most people were listening. We feel it is timely to offer our perspective.[80]
Gore, himself, poked fun at the controversy. In September 2000, as a guest on the The Late Show with David Letterman, he read a list of the "Top Ten Rejected Gore - Lieberman Campaign Slogans." Number nine on the list was: "Remember, America, I gave you the Internet, and I can take it away!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore
Gore began to craft the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 (commonly referred to as The Gore Bill [62] ) after hearing the 1988 report Toward a National Research Network [63] submitted to Congress by a group chaired by UCLA professor of computer science, Leonard Kleinrock, one of the central creators of the ARPANET [64]. He discussed the basics of this bill in an article for the highly regarded September 1991 issue of Scientific American entitled Scientific American presents the September 1991 Single Copy Issue: Communications, Computers, and Networks. His essay, Infrastructure for the Global Village, commented upon the lack of network access described above and argues: "Rather than holding back, the U.S. should lead by building the information infrastructure, essential if all Americans are to gain access to this transforming technology" (150) [...] "high speed networks must be built that tie together millions of computers, providing capabilities that we cannot even imagine" (152).
The bill was passed on Dec. 9, 1991 and led to the NII or National Information Infrastructure [65] which Gore referred to as the Information superhighway.

Answer 6

Um, last I heard most of the scientific community says that global warming is happening... and aslo that it is human caused.
So how did Al Gore lie?
show me his lies.....and then prove to me that they are lies, and lastly, what about Dubya's lies?
Isn't a right to dissent allowed in the US? or does everyone gotta follow bush and his buddies in lockstep?
btw how are bones honest? or more like how does a bone lie?
btw, I also want to know since the republicans love the word moral.. how is global warming NOT a moral issue?

Answer 7

Al Gore is a lying hypocrite. During his 2000 presidential campaign he ran around telling people his sister died of lung cancer from smoking and the tobacco companies were evil and responsible for this health crisis. The "inconvenient truth" he left out his that he and his family were tobacco farmers.

Answer 8

Bones do not have personality traits, therefore your question is silly. I don't remember Gore bashing the Bush administration about it. If anything, he has been the one getting bashed by every Republican under the sun. No pun intended.

Answer 9

It's widely estimated that Al Gore has made 100 Million dollars on speaking engagements . That means he has NO EXCUSE for not converting his entire home to 'green' products !! Another case of the pot calling the kettle black !!!

Answer 10

Oh come on now. You must listen to conservative hate radio. When it comes to honest bones he has all of them where your buddy GWB has none. In fact Bush wouldn't know the truth if it jumped up and bit him in the tush. Fear monger? What in the He** do you think the Administration has been doing? Wake up. Smell the coffee. Read this you might learn something:

"Hermann Goering, Hitler’s Propaganda Minister said; “Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger”. Kind of what the Bushies are up to.