Why is Al Gore pushing this global warming thing so hard? Do you think someone is paying him?

Question

We could spend billions and have little or no affect on the climate. From the global warming swindle videos I've seen, it looks like there is no reason to panic like Gore seems to be doing.

Answer 1

If you have watched South Park before you should remember the episode with Al Gore and "manbearpig". If you didn't see this episode then let me just give you the gist of it: Al Gore just says and does stuff to get attention.

Answer 2

My apologies EnragedParrot, but you're simply not being hard enough on that movie. It's nonsense.

The director made a similarly silly movie in 1997, which compared environmentalists to Nazis. Channel 4 had to issue a public apology for that one.

"Against Nature argues that greens in First World countries are responsible for the deprivation and death of millions of children in the Third World. In their callous disregard for human welfare and their fetishism of nature, greens, it maintains, are not merely conservative, but fascist, drawing their inspiration from precisely the same ideologies as the Nazis. It would be laughable, had it not been given three hours of prime time TV."

http://www.videonetwork.org/stuff/againstnature.html

This one is similar in quality.

" A Channel 4 documentary claimed that climate change was a conspiratorial lie. But an analysis of the evidence it used shows the film was riddled with distortions and errors."

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2355956.ece

Even Channel 4 doesn't believe that nonsense is correct. If you go to their website, on the page for the film are links to factual global warming sites. You can "Ask an Expert" and your question goes to a respected mainstream scientist who says man is mostly responsible for global warming.

Gore my be a bit over dramatic, but even the scientists who recently criticized him think he has the basics right. Global warming is real, it's mostly due to us, and it's a serious problem.

Answer 3

I bet you've seen the Global Warming Swindle videos. It seems pretty much everyone has seen that piece of anti-science propaganda.

But have no fear, every single argument presented in the video has been so thoroughly refuted it isn't even funny anymore. Anyone who still references that piece of garbage should feel ashamed. They obviously haven't done their homework.

Whether you agree with the theory or not, junk science is still junk science and that 'documentary' is simply chock full of it. In fact, one of the scientists involved (Carl Wunsch) is now demanding that he be removed from the program entirely. Saying that the show's producers misled him into thinking the show would actually have scientific merit. You can read his letter here:

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/03/swindled-carl-wunsch-responds/

From the piece: "...What we now have is an out-and-out propaganda piece, in which there is not even a gesture toward balance or explanation of why many of the extended inferences drawn in the film are not widely accepted by the scientific community. There are so many examples, it's hard to know where to begin... A director not intending to produce pure propaganda would have tried to eliminate that piece of disinformation..."

You can also read a full rebuttal of the entire show here:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/03/swindled/

This site (realclimate, a Blog run by fifteen highly qualified climate scientists) and many others have a great many more articles refuting all of the film's arguments if you're not satisfied with this. Happy hunting!

Answer 4

As of 2000 I've had the only Hurricane and Typhoon antidotes on the planet. All Al Gore is doing is trying to make people aware of global warming, but as far as exhaust no way. There's no way exhaust is riseing up 100 miles to harm anything especially when rockets can leave the planet and return without incident.

Answer 5

have you not noticed the glaciers disappearing? it's not magic. we're the ones doing it. he's pushing the issue because he knows if we all work together on this maybe we could do something and save a lot of land area. if we keep this up eventually Florida will be underwater and most likely so will 1/20the of the united states. this does not seem like much but we are just making it harder for ourselves. we will never actually work together to stop global warming until we see some very devastating things happen to the planet and us. we already have seen some hellacious storms that destroyed several cities and killed millions of people. he is obviously being payed by somebody, but he has respect and some people will actually listen to him . if some random person did it nobody would give a rats ***. this is a serious deal and we are taking it lightly. the process of global warming has already gone so far that we cant stop it. seas will eventually rise up to 10 feet flooding most of coastal land. we can minimize the effects by working together to minimize the levels of carbon dioxide put into the air, but we wont we are too dull and retarted. some people might say "o who gives a **** i wont be alive in 50 years", ya not you, maybe your children. if you were to give your father a gun and hold i to your head and tell him "you can shoot me if you want its your decision" he wouldn't shoot you he would think your crazy. we are doing the same to our children everyday, but slowly we are pulling that trigger to kill them for no reason at all .....we are selfish dumbasses.

Answer 6

Yes someone's paying him, every idiot in the general public that buys his films, books and pays to see his speeches.

I've now heard he's involved in a carbon credit company too!

The idea that there is an imminent impending global disaster resulting from human actions is a complete and utter lie, plain and simple. Either Al Gore is an unbelievably stupid man or he’s laughing all the way to the bank at the stupidity of the general public that’s willing to pay money to see his movie. “An Inconvenient Truth” would be more appropriately titled “A Convenient Lie” – convenient for Al Gore anyway who has now produced the third highest grossing documentary of all time – over $24,000,000 to date ($47 million world-wide). That doesn’t include the additional unjust profits earned from book sales and speaking engagements.

His film would lead you to believe that every single scientist even remotely qualified to study global climate change agrees that disaster is imminent and that humankind is the direct cause. The reality of the situation is quite the opposite – most qualified scientists vehemently disagree with this assertion.

It is unbelievable how many people believe and treat this complete and utter fallacy as fact. Read blogs, newspaper articles, Internet forums – a startling number of people have bought this lie hook line and sinker.

I’m sure most would argue that even if the science is flawed, certainly it’s a good idea for us all to take it a little bit easier on the planet and with that I would most certainly agree. However, not only is Al Gore and company all wrong on the cause of global climate change (or perhaps even the very existence of global climate change) but their proposed solution could potentially be harmful to the environment.

The problem is that Al Gore and others have somehow, absent virtually any credible scientific evidence whatsoever, latched onto the idea that man-made CO2 (carbon dioxide) is the single biggest threat to environment. Credible research actually shows quite the opposite, it may in fact be true that additional carbon dioxide in the environment is beneficial to the Earth’s entire ecosystem stimulating the growth of additional plant and animal life. Carbon dioxide is not a noxious chemical but rather a relatively benign compound that is either used or released through virtually any organic process. Humans and animals breathe in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide, plants ingest carbon dioxide and expel oxygen and yes carbon dioxide is a bi-product of burning fossil fuels.

Regardless of the facts stated above, man-made carbon dioxide is actually not even a significant percentage of the carbon dioxide found within the Earth’s atmosphere.

I don’t want to reinvent the wheel and I will link to all the material that supports what I’m saying, as if it’s not bad enough that Al Gore is propagating a complete and total lie, his proposed solution to a non-existent problem is potentially harmful to the environment.

Please don’t misunderstand, I don’t dispute that there aren’t many things humans do that are very detrimental to the Earth’s environment, however there is NO credible scientific data to suggest that excessive release of CO2 into the environment is one of them.

If you want to help the environment focus on doing something that actually helps the environment rather attempting to solve a problem that may or may not exist by doing something that will not help (and might hurt) the situation.

Don’t take my word for it, here’s 17,200+ scientists (and counting) that agree there is no element of truth to Gore's film:
http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p357.htm...

Here is the letter sent on behalf of the petition signers requesting that our government not sign the Kyoto treaty to reduce C02 emissions because it will not help anything and in fact may be detrimental to the environment and to developing nations:
http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p41.htm...

Here is supporting peer-reviewed­ research:
http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p36.htm...

Here are a few articles from the Canada Free Press shooting down all the Global Warming hype:
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/harr...
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/harr...
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/harr...

Don’t be another jackass out there campaigning for a pointless solution to a problem that has little to no hard scientific evidence suggesting it even exists. If you want to be an activist step one is finding a problem that actually exists and step two is finding a solution that is not only realistic but will actually resolve the problem. Al Gore and friends probably failed at step one and certainly failed at step 2.

Even if reducing CO2 emissions is not detrimental to the environment it is unlikely to do anything beneficial either. Mandating reduction of CO2 emissions will most certainly be harmful economically, especially to developing nations that cannot afford or do not otherwise have access to alternative technologies. How Ironic, Al Gore, liberals and all the other Hollywood idiots riding the global warming bandwagon are usually the same bleeding hearts lecturing us on how we need to help developing nations. Not only that but other dishonest frauds are taking advantage of the general public's belief in this carbon dioxide disaster myth to get rich by selling “carbon-credits.” Check it out. http://www.terrapass.com/.

Don’t be a sucker – next time some jerkoff celebrity, former politician or other talking head tries to sell you something demand some hard scientific evidence.

Answer 7

I heard in a news report that Al Gore has a "Carbon footprint" that is 25 times that of the average US family. That's family, not person.

What with the private jet, limos and mansions.....what the hell would this rich spoiled brat have to say to Congress that would be worthwhile?

Answer 8

He is a politician. He has learned to fake sincerity. He is making a very good living off of global warming, One that he would not be making if he didn't push it.

Answer 9

He has businesses that rely on people buying his story. I think his ego is also causing global warming. When asked in at his testimony before congress whether he would lower his house's energy consumption to that of the average home, he simply side stepped the issue.

Answer 10

He is probably just a demagogic politician and is seeking power and prestige. I don't think anybody is paying him, but he know that power and fame will bring payment. I don't think for a second that he believes half of what he says.

Quote from link below.
"Demagogy (from Greek demos, "people", and agogos, "leading") refers to a political strategy for obtaining and gaining political power by appealing to the popular prejudices, fears, and expectations of the public — typically via impassioned rhetoric and propaganda, and often using nationalistic or populist themes. "