Why are global warming skeptics obsessed with Al Gore?

Question

Look, I don't care what you think about "An Inconvenient Truth" (though the top climate scientists gave it 5 stars for accuracy)

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2006-06-27-gore-science-truth_x.htm

I don't care if you think Gore is a fat hypocritical idiot. Al Gore is completely irrelevant to global warming, except that he and "An Inconvenient Truth" have attracted attention to the issue.

In that film Gore simply presented some of the scientific evidence that humans are the primary cause of global warming. He did not invent GW - heck, he's never even researched it! Criticizing Gore is irrelevant to the issue.

People need to stop obsessing about Gore and examine the scientific evidence

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

Gore is right about one thing - any reasonable person who examines all the evidence with an open mind should conclude that humans are almost certainly the primary cause of GW.

Why are global warming skeptics obsessed with Al Irrelevant Gore?

Refer to g's answer as to why this is in the Politics section. I also asked it in the Environment section.

bigsey - I asked why skeptics obsess about Al Gore. I did not ask you to provide me with myths and misinformation about the cause of global warming.

Ted - refer to my comments to bigsey. They also apply to you.

Answer 1

Its the standard "Divert Attention From the Issue By Defaming the Messenger" shuffle they've been doing for 20 years.. Republicans have it down to an artform at this point.

"Oh damn , learning about this will really cause me inconvenience, so let's just ignore it. I'll leave it for my gradkids, and if I get blamed, Ill shift blame to the Democrats for not fighting me harder to raise fuel efficiency standards and find alternative fuels. Oh well, I can still afford gas, too bad for anyone who can't."

Answer 2

Al Gore perchance a sturdy guy ,even if the movie is to obtrusive a promotional movie for his politics that is unlucky ,because the reason is in basic terms . His projection is imperfect and So it is a susceptible link as we talk,so a strategies as global warming is worried Even Idiots can attack Al Gore saying he eats too a lot caviar or does no longer have compost lavatories on his plane and he leaves his electric powered candles burning all evening . very few anybody is Attacking the clinical anaylises that are printed ,very few human beings understand them . so a strategies as i'm worried any tries to help the surroundings ,are welcome ,even the no longer so wise ones What the individuals have for breackfast or what their dogs beverages does no longer pastimes me . Al Gore has been a great deal succesfull at one element ,this we ought to provide him credit for ,He has placed global Warming on the centre level a lot of human beings say ,they spoke of the action picture and NOW they are worried ,so for that 3 cheers to Al Gore, Is that no longer the point that concerns ?????? global warming should not be tormented by Al Gore and it under no circumstances became ,he in elementary words pointed and suggested -whats up what's that coming at us .And so are thousands of people through now even if the favourite public likes to seek for imperfections or some thing that would even vaguely discredit those who say issues that scare them or issues they dont trust or issues that propose that they might ought to regulate , Dont challenge about it ,at the same time as water scarcity turns into correct (at the same time as the price of beer is going up)or at the same time as the international food production starts to electrify the cities ,everyone will sit down up and take word, i ask your self in the adventure that they'll then start up giving God a difficult time after all he must be the subsequent in line lol (i suggested LOL)

Answer 3

Good question w/ some right, some wrong answers. First off, CO2 is not a deadly gas. It's what we breathe out and plants breathe in to create more oxygen for us to breathe and so forth. The ash spewing volcano's such as Mt. St. Helens spewed more CO2 than man has in the last 100yrs. The more CO2 in the air, the more plants can breathe and create food for animals and so forth. In simple terms, it creates more lucious life on this earth. Global warming isn't man-made, it's universal. The earth goes through cycles of this every 12,000yrs w/ 100yr subcycles. We did have an iceage not so long ago(relevent to earth's total time being), so enjoy, stop worrying about the propaganda spewed making it so that a global carbon tax becomes mainstream, and deal w/ real issues.

Answer 4

We are focused on Al Gore because he is the primary idiot popularizing this hoax to the MTV generation.

Look, I have lost all patience with Libs and their nutty causes. Back in 1974, Liberal scientists warned us that pollution in the air was going to block the sunlight and cause a mini ice age.

I have posted this challenge over and over and over. Watch the movie "The Great Global Warming Swindle". Google videos used to show it in nice big screen format, but it is still available on You Tube. If you watch this and report back to me, you will be the first Liberal I have ever identified who wasn't too lazy to even watch a video. What does this say about the Liberal mindset?

C'mon everyone, are you all so lazy and apathetic?

Answer 5

Why are you asking this in politics. I ask all my global warming questions in the correct category. Can't you?

Like it or not, Al Gore's video is being shown across our nation as the gospel truth on global warming and it makes me extremely angry that ignorant teachers would show such a biased and inaccurate film. All it does is scare children into buying into global warming propaganda.


And I am highly offended by this statement you made:
Gore is right about one thing - any reasonable person who examines all the evidence with an open mind should conclude that humans are almost certainly the primary cause of GW.

This is simply untrue. Any REASONABLE person would say that we don't have enough data to PROVE whether anthropogenic global warming is true or not.
http://www.climateaudit.org/

Read up about the pseudo science that is being used in global warming and you will see that very poor data collection is being used, and that they have made many mistakes in interpreting that data. Frankly they haven't proven anything as far as I am concerned.

Answer 6

Simple. Global Warming is a political issue, not a scientific one. Al Gore is a politician using this issue for his own political agenda.

Please stop blindly accepting the UN panel's findings. The United Nations is a political body, not a scientific one. One can accept this politically influenced report as reported in media, or one can actually READ it, and CRITICALLY analyize it. . . If one is actually bright enough to really understand it, one will find the report isn't worth the paper it's written on. . .

Answer 7

What is this AlGore thing your asking about? Is it like Lockness or something? Will it come to our homes and eat us in our sleep? Is it three feet tall and all gray with large black eyes and three fingers on each hand? I think you better contact the proper authorities or better still the Army of one and a half! I mean after all if this things passing that much gas out its a*s don't you think we had better plug it with something?

Answer 8

because that's the "EDGE" that they can get on the issue with other conservatives...

put Gore's face on the problem and act like it's all his idea... so then they can dismiss the whole thing...

bait and switch...

and it's in this category because Gore is clearly a political figure and it's a pretty huge political issue and conservatives are PLAYING POLITICS with it pretty clearly...

Answer 9

Because the people at Fox News tell them to obsess over it.

Answer 10

Cause when the world turn into dust the conservatives will glide away with their US $$$