Al Goreleone Continues to lie like a psychopath/sociopath, should he be institutionalized?

Question

"Only an insignificant fraction of scientists deny the global warming crisis. The time for debate is over. The science is settled."

S o said Al Gore ... in 1992. Amazingly, he made his claims despite much evidence of their falsity. A Gallup poll at the time reported that 53% of scientists actively involved in global climate research did not believe global warming had occurred; 30% weren't sure; and only 17% believed global warming had begun. Even a Greenpeace poll showed 47% of climatologists didn't think a runaway greenhouse effect was imminent; only 36% thought it possible and a mere 13% thought it probable.

Today, Al Gore is making the same claims of a scientific consensus, as do the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and hundreds of government agencies and environmental groups around the world.

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=c47c1209-233b-412c-b6d1-5c755457a8af

But the claims of a scientific consensus remain unsubstantiated. They have only become louder and more frequent.
More than six months ago, I began writing this series, The Deniers. When I began, I accepted the prevailing view that scientists overwhelmingly believe that climate change threatens the planet. I doubted only claims that the dissenters were either kooks on the margins of science or sell-outs in the pockets of the oil companies. My series set out to profile the dissenters -- those who deny that the science is settled on climate change -- and to have their views heard. To demonstrate that dissent is credible, I chose high-ranking scientists at the world's premier scientific establishments. I considered stopping after writing six profiles, thinking I had made my point, but continued the series due to feedback from readers. I next planned to stop writing after 10 profiles, then 12, but the feedback increased.

Now, after profiling more than 20 deniers, I do not know when I will stop -- the list of distinguished scientists who question the IPCC grows daily, as does the number of emails I receive, many from scientists who express gratitude for my series.
Somewhere along the way, I stopped believing that a scientific consensus exists on climate change. Certainly there is no consensus at the very top echelons of scientists -- the ranks from which I have been drawing my subjects -- and certainly there is no consensus among astrophysicists and other solar scientists, several of whom I have profiled. If anything, the majority view among these subsets of the scientific community may run in the opposite direction. Not only do most of my interviewees either discount or disparage the conventional wisdom as represented by the IPCC,one case, a top scientist told me that, to his knowledge, no respected scientist in his field accepted the IPCC view.

Answer 1

Gore will never be the same after the whole recounting the votes.He thinks he was cheated. It has been all down hill from there. He is just a has been.

Answer 2

It's nice that someone has the courage to study this viewpoint, and the flexibility to do so with an unbiased outlook.

I knew there was serious debate on the issue, when my older brother (a serious scientist, whose Phd. thesis lost me at the first paragraph), who is a FLA-MING liberal, laughed at some of the claims made by global alarmists. He fully supports lots of liberal policies that go against America's interests, but when it comes to most of the climate change statements, he says the evidence simply isn't there to interpret it the way they do. He may be liberal, but he's a stickler for the scientific process...

Most of the people involved in this discussion are so adamant and dogmatic about it, it's like talking with religious zealots, (and about as productive).

Will most people look beyond the "easy out" of saying they want to "help the environment", without looking at what that really means? I have no idea. I see my fellow Americans frequently hoodwinked by slogan-chanting shysters.

News is a product. People are selling it. You have to "buy with care", or you're going to get taken.

p.s. Nicely documented and written article...

Answer 3

Prominant politicians including George W. Bush admit global warming exists. Someone's obcession with Al Gore on an issue that is not really being batted about on the airwaves etc. seems crazy to me.

I read between the lines and see you saying "I hate Gore and the only thing I can pin on him is global warming and you have to believe it because I said it now shut up because I don't want argument". You must be one of the people who sees the world only in black and white, right or wrong, my way or the highway. Pathetic, alas, pathetic indeed.

If you hate Gore come up with something else to hate him for. Or are you only a one trick pony?

Answer 4

No, but that wacko Michael Savage should be put in a padded room for his own protection, he's a danger to himself and others.

Answer 5

...and there are plenty of people who will STILL tell you smoking isn't harmful.