Do you agree with Al Gore about climate change?

Question

Just purchased the dvd of An Inconvenient Truth i believe it puts a strong case . Im a conservative but believe our political affiliations should be put aside on this issue.

Duck i am open minded im a conservative and british and have recently read The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History so am willing to read both sides of the argument. Im tired of hearing childish defensive remarks from some quarters this subject should be treated better than that.

Clive his power is supplied by a green provider that use wind and solar energy.

Answer 1

I agree with Al Gore.

And a note to others, that report on his house and power usage was created by a republican founded think-tank. Now why would they want to discredit Al Gore?

Answer 2

You've got to remember that there are three facets to the issue.

The first is whether or not there actually is warming happening. Most anyone will say yes, although the degree of actual warming is up for discussion.

The second is what is causing it. This is the first point where there are significant differences between the pros and cons. I believe that the main causes are the natural forces that have always been present. There may be some contribution from man-made causes, but whether those have any real impact on the global trends is only theoretical. There is no proof of a causal relationship between man-made pollutants and the warming trend. What is factual is man's influence on a local level. One of the shining examples put forth by the Gore set is the ongoing disappearance of the glacier on Mt. Kilimanjaro. What they consistently omit from their discussions is the fact that the surrounding area has been largely stripped of the natural vegetation and that the whole area has been going through a desertification process for hundreds of years. The lower humidity in the area leads to a lower level of precipitation, leading to a lower annual recovery rate for the glacier. This is not global warming, this is a natural, local phenomenon.

The third issue is what can man do about it. This is where the two sides completely diverge. I tend to go with the side that there is little that man can do, other than screw up more than we already have. There are quite a few environmental messes out there that were caused by those hoping to "fix" something that just needed to be left alone, albeit with good intentions. While I fully agree that it is a good idea to cut down on emissions and pollutants, do so because it is the right thing to do. To mandate such in the name of Global Warming just doesn't make sense.

So I guess my answer is that no, I don't really agree with Al on the entire issue.

Answer 3

Even maximum conservatives might agree that mankind has an impact on the temperature. The rivalry is how a lot of an impact. because of the fact the alarmists have been caught changing or maybe making up information, that rivalry with the theory could be known. Even between the real alarmists has presently admitted he replace into incorrect concerning to the severity of the region (see link under). So, agreeing that we impact the climate is worlds removed from agreeing we would desire to break the financial gadget and make Al Gore a billionaire by screwing around with the insanity of carbon credit and each thing else featuring procuring the worldwide is dying schtick.

Answer 4

"And a note to others, that report on his house and power usage was created by a republican founded think-tank. Now why would they want to discredit Al Gore?"

Does it matter WHO reports his obnoxiously high energy consumption?

Whether I'm from one political party or the other shouldn't matter. The public uses "watch dogs" from many walks of life and political affiliations. The fact is Gore's power consumption is so high! This should be disturbing and unacceptable to everyone!Those in his position should be setting a better example to the public!

Oh wait...he's got the money...why should he care?

Kalee Kreider, a spokesperson for the Gores, did not dispute the Center's figures, taken as they were from public records. But she pointed out that both Al and Tipper Gore work out of their home and she argued that "the bottom line is that every family has a different carbon footprint. And what Vice President Gore has asked is for families to calculate that footprint and take steps to reduce and offset it."

Now that's a quote from the article that is SO typical of political tap dancing from Gore and many OTHER politicians!

"Carbon footprint"...???...Gimme a break!! Do the Gores TRUELY believe the people of this country are THAT stupid??

I would question what is being done to improve the problem!

Answer 5

I do not believe anyone, Scientists or politicians when they continually harp on about global warming and its conciquences and we are all to blame. Al Gore has committed himself to the 'naughty humans causing global warming' camp. He has harped on about things in the past which have been a pile of guff.

I believe, as many others have said that global warming or cooling is part of a natural cycle that has been happening over millions upon millions of years. Man has nothing to do with our climate. It is natural and while people will look for things to blame we will allbe shafted by 'green' programmes and taxes to 'save the enviroment' which is, by the way, a fantastic way to claw billions upon billions of taxpayers dollars into the treasury for bugger all effort.
Also, as many have said, there is overwhelming evidence that global change is nothing to do with man but because it is not in the governments interest they keep a lid on it. If the truth was to be outed we would have an uprising on our hands because everyone would see that the government has screwed us out of billions with their lies and scaremongering. They would have to give us it back or reverse the tax burden on us, and it will be a cold day in h e l l before that happens.
It is also a shame that so many good intentioned people are sucked into this debate and base a lot of their lives around it. I agree that cleaner methods of fuel need to be found and recycling should be encouraged but that is common sense rather than a 'global warming' issue.
How many times in the past have we heard experts whittering on about something that will happen in the near future if we don't do as they say and how many others jump on the bandwagon with minimal one-sided proof. Weather forcasters can't even predict what will occur from one week to the next so all this 'GW' tripe should be treated with a very cautious eye.

BTW, the DVD "An inconvenient Truth" is a one-sided political view rather than a completely objective look on the issue. It has to be otherwise the political motive and objectives would not be met and the DVD a waste of time. Also, do you think that an issue of 'World Importance' and the fact DVD's can me bass produced for pennies this DVD should be free? Course not. They only want to do things when theres money in it for them....

Answer 6

Al Gore is a hack, he is not a scientist. Your going to believe his PowerPoint presentation? I mean this is the man who said he invented the Internet. Why are all the scientists who disagree with global warming never heard from or black balled?

I don't know how old you are but in the 70's the earth day people said we were going to another ice age. In the middle ages there was a mini ice age. Now all that ice receded and they did not have cars, power plants or industrialization. Explain how the ice receded.
I will agree that we are going through a warm cycle, but that we are not the cause of it.
Another thing is as a kid when they were banning all the R12 and other so called ozone damaging chemicals, we were told the hole in the ozone layer was growing rapidly! We will have no protection against harmful UV rays, we have damaged it forever. Now years later the hole magically starts to close again, you never hear about it because its bunk.

Answer 7

No, I don't agree with Al Gore. I have looked at the science of climate change and have found it lacking. The primary thing to me is that climate change has been occurring for millennia. The climate is not a fixed system. It changes. It has changed in the past and will change in the future.

In the past 100 million years, the Earth has been both much hotter and much colder than it is now. Most research I see uses "data shopping" to prove it's point. One can not pick and chose what data one wants to use.

One also can not look at the last 200 or even 2000 years and say "This is normal for the Earth" because the Earth has been around for 4 Billion years. 2000 years is nothing compared to the age of the Earth.

I believe that climate change is a part of the Earth's natural systems and rhythms. The Earth does not need to adapt to us, we need to adapt to the Earth.

Answer 8

Lets see, the environazis said in the 70s that we were going to die because of "A new iceage". Later they said that Acid rain was killing the planet. They claimed that Y2K was going to destroy the planet when computers all shut down. Now they are saying that Global warming is going to set the planet on fire and we will all die. Each time people like Al Gore reach out their hands and ask for money/grants to study the "Global catastrophe".
Judging from Al Gore's dubious history on telling the truth ala "I invented the internet" and "Tipper and I were the basis for the movie Love Story" I would not put too much weight in the words of Al.
Just notice that the Gorites all seem intent on destroying the economy of the US but never attack the world's biggest polluter, China. Why? Because the Chinese won't pay them.

Answer 9

Jack stop believing propaganda like that DVD. Of course there's Global Warming. It's been happening since the end of the Ice Age and it's a natural thing. Do your own research and don't believe what someone else threw together. That documentary wrongly won those Academy awards, because it was political propaganda to make Al Gore happy.

Edit: I'm tired of spouting the same thing when it comes to this issue. The main fact is (Of course we are in a stage of Global Warming and we have been since the end of the Ice Age, if not sometime a touch sooner. That's why I tell you all if you want to learn things about the world around you then do your own research on the subject and stop believing people just because they are in the public spotlight.)

Answer 10

Al Gore just made some money of you buying that DVD, you should consider that. Basically Global Warming is a farce, think tanks make millions of dollars a year off it in grants and government funding. They take that money and filter it out for all kinds of things, not to mention the fact that it keeps people employed. Basically temperatures and weather patterns weren't recorded until 1890s, therefore how can you really know what an average temperature is. You don't you just know what the average on a small percentage of the bell curve is, you don't know where the on the actual bell curve you are.