An Inconvenient Truth=propaganda?

Question

Discuss your opinons on this do you think Al gores movie is propaganda?

No it could have come from anyone it would still be propaganda.

It is not common sense global warming is just the earth natural cycle. we have nothing to do with it.

Answer 1

Al gore uses two time more electricity than the average house hold. he has an enormous house, and the last time I checked a gas guzzling car. also he claims he invented the Internet. your right it is common sense not to believe it. There is such a thing as global warming, but it has been happening naturally!


A volcano that exploded over 100 years ago put out more carbon dioxide than all of the automobiles for the past 90 years.

it's not propaganda so much...it's an attempt to make our country look bad. America spends over a billion dollars trying to reach the clean air acts set standards.
China and Japan have been exempt from meeting these standards ever since they were made.

Answer 2

Yes it IS propaganda, he takes a few observable ideas and spins them into the idea that the earth "has a fever".

He uses a debunked hockey stick graph.

He uses a video about polar bears that is entirely untrue. Polar bears are actually thriving and 16 of the 18 populations of polar bears are growing.

He makes predictions about the sea level rise that are entirely untrue. Even the most extreme predictions indicate the sea level will rise about 23 inches by 2100.

He doesn't differentiate between scientific observations and fortune telling about the future with horribly flawed computer models

So let's see, he appeals to emotion with the polar bears, he has created an artificle problem to get everyone united against a problem, and he now wants to lead a crusade against our enemy.

If that isn't propaganda I don't know what is.

You can see all the people above me who believe in anthropogenic global warming making excuses and saying "oh its ok because the means justify the ends" well I highly disagree with that.

Answer 3

Not to start any rumours,but somebody looking alot like Al was last seen in the Antarctica trying to threaten the penquins into unnatural sweating for the sequel of his movie.Reportedly the birds held their ground however and the frustrated V.P. headed for a Bic lighter factory in China where he planned to hold talks with officials there trying to reduce the gas emissions from their product. The trip was cut short however when a delegate from the Flat Earth Society successfully warned Al the trip would be unsafe. Word has it he's now kayaking to Hudson Bay,Canada,where he will attempt to begin shaving the polar bears to protect them from the eminent heat wave.

Answer 4

The definition of propaganda from Dictionary.com:

"information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc."

The film is full of information and ideas, and it spreads them to a large audience for the purpose of helping a movement (reduce human contribution to global warming). So in that sense yes, it's propaganda.

In the sense that the term is usually intended (i.e. biased information to promote an agenda) it doesn't fit that definition. Gore is simply presenting the scientific data behind global warming, and he does a pretty good job of it considering that he's not a scientist.

So it just depends on your definition of "propaganda".

Answer 5

I read the book and saw the movie. It could be very true and he has a very good theory and evidence to back it up because he has studied this idea for years. But im not sure there is a whole lot to compare it to. No I dont think it is propaganda, I think it is a cry to make our planet a better place to live before things really get out of hand. Maybe you would like to pay more attention to the things happening around you.

Answer 6

The wattsupwiththat article asks which concept is in project because of the fact of flat temperatures? the respond is the only that announces that climate is stimulated by means of in basic terms one ingredient. Realists do not make this sort of declare approximately carbon dioxide, nevertheless denialists declare that appropriate to the sunlight. OM That sounds like the emails the East Angia hackers released.

Answer 7

I do think it is propaganda and overkill. While I agree that we should take care of the world we live in, I think there are so many other topics that are more important and need to be addressed. I wish the Hollywood bandwagon would take up a cause for our country that would really make a difference to the majority of people. I realize that other countries are in need but there are many people homeless and in need right here in our own backyards. Yes, there will be a drastic change in weather patterns and temperature on earth in the future, but I think we have many thousands of years to worry about it.

Answer 8

The movie may be a trifle overdramatic, but it has the main things right. Global warming is real and mostly caused by us.

I can't convince you with words, you actually have to look at the scientific data, which takes time and effort.

The first link is an excellent start, which disposes of sun, volcanoes, etc.

The data, with references:

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png

http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf

Definitive proof, 150 authors, 600 reviewers, over 1000 references to the peer reviewed literature.

http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report.html

Bottom line:

"There's a better scientific consensus on this [climate change] than on any issue I know - except maybe Newton's second law of dynamics. Global warming is almost a no-brainer at this point,You really can't find intelligent, quantitative arguments to make it go away."

Dr. Jerry Mahlman, NOAA

The skeptics may be noisy, but they're relatively just a few.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686

Their arguments are dispsoed of here:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/myths/index.html

http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics

Good websites:

http://profend.com/global-warming/

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/

Answer 9

His presentation can be verified with independent sources. The movie is intended to wake up the sleeping public who are collectively responsible for the undisputed increasing CO2 in the atmosphere.

Answer 10

I haven't seen it, but I would like to see a positive result from it. (ie no more wars for oil.)

It will probably do more good than harm. Even if it is overblown.

My opinion is that all power in the USA should be electric. That electricity should be created by solar and wind power. Yes, we have enough wind power to power the entire country. If your car is electric, then there will be no use for oil. No emissions.

Bird argument: There are far more birds dying or unborn due to the current pollution than will die from flying into the windmills. Plus, technology can be invented (if it already doesn't exist) to make migratory birds avoid windfarms.

Cheap renewable energy and it should all be publicly owned like the old utilities to keep costs down.