Logical or Illogical: I don't like Al Gore, there for Global Warming is a lie.?

Question

Vice versa: I like Al Gore so Global Warming must be the truth

Answer 1

How about sad. Sad because every important issue out there can't be discussed without someone trying to drag the bandwagon in on it. People frantically attach themselves to a political party so they don't have to think anymore. And whenever their party experiences some kind of success they cheer like it's a football game and whenever they screw up it's probably just a bad call by the ref. (all the while not really caring all that much about actual issues.) This isn't a football game.

Who knows whether or not global warming is real or not?

I know I don't.

And there's something seriously wrong with that. We should all know by now if global warming is really a factor or not. And we don't. Why? Because of our nation's vicious, bitter partisanism.

In reality what does it matter if we know for a fact that's it's real or not. Is that wise? "Oh we're not positive that smoking cigarettes causes cancer so we're gonna keep doing it."

Shouldn't we plan for the worst? I mean what does the average American stand to lose from driving a fuel-efficient car? Nothing. But I can tell you who does. Oil company's. So why are people so quick to rabidly defend billionaire oil tycoons?

I mean do they defend you?

Do they have your best interest in mind?

Or their own?

Do people even realize that's who they're defending when they get mad at global-warming? Or are they all too wrapped-up calling people tree-huggers and trying to drive the Democratic party into the ground.

We'll be arguing all the way to the end.

Whether it's from global warming or something else.

Answer 2

Well, of course this is illogical, for several different reasons:

1. It takes an emotional reaction as a way of determining whether an unrelated matter is factual. The truth of global warming is unrelated to your feelings about Al Gore.

2. It asserts some authority to Al Gore for determining whether global warming is true. Gore is a politician, albeit a well-read one. Global warming is a complex issue that involves a broad range of analyses of climactic data that I don't believe Mr. G is qualified to perform.

(However, there are scientists who hold those qualifications, and the broad consensus of these scientists is that global warming is a real, current process, and they are over 75% sure that human technology is contributing to it.)

3. The statement puts forward a false dichotomy: Either global warming is true or it is false. It is entirely possible that global warming is happening, but its impact is negligible. It is also possible that its impact could be severe. The discussion of its presence without a discussion of the severity of its impact makes the issue seem black-or-white, rather than asking the question, "If global warming is happening, how much can we tolerate?"

4. You may like or dislike Al Gore for stances he has taken on topics entirely different from Global Warming, so your feelings, while irrelevant to the truth of global warming, may also have no connection with Mr. G's stance on global warming.

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Answer 3

Illogical, but normal.

Al Gore has a mission to promote solutions for something he sees as a problem

The reality is that Global Warming is unaffected by Al Gore's campaign.

I believe it is real, but that has nothing to do with Mr. Gore. I have never seen or read anything but the snippets of his presentation that appear in news articles ... The glaciers continue to disappear despite this failure to attend the presentation. Many other climate changes besides just the Snows of Kilimanjaro no longer on the mountain, the glaciers of North America, South America and the Alps turning into meltwater and gurgling down to the sea. Greenland is on the way to once again being green. The Antarctic Ice pack is breaking up & floating away. The NW Passage is expected to be available for shipping in a few more years. Eskimo are falling through the ice that they once crossed with little risk. The seal pups that live on the ice pack are drowning as their nice safe ice shelf melts under them. This is having an effect on Polar Bears since they hunt seals on the sea ice ... no sea ice to hunt on as it is forming later in the fall & melting earlier in the spring ... failing to form at all in some parts of Northern Canada.

Al Gore may have done a lot of speechifying, but I don't think he has blown that much hot air :P

Answer 4

I've had problems with this. I can't stand Al Gore, but a major part of the material on global warming comes from his work: or work someone ghosted for him. I guess I take comfort in the fact that even people you hate can be useful at times.

But I see your point: it is necessary to separate feelings about a person from the information they provide. It is equally necessary to separate the information from the propaganda. It is one thing to have a lot of facts about a serious problem, and quite another to have a GOOD solution to the problem.

Answer 5

How is this for illogical. The penniless green industry has committed a fraud to invent the concept of global warming and has every credible climatologist in it's pocket, while the billionaires of the oil and coal industries are doing thier best to get the truth out via the only incorruptible medium - talk back radio and right wing blogs.

Answer 6

It doesn't make sense to assume Global Warming is real not real based on how you feel personably about Al Gore. If Global Warming is really what they are saying it is. My personal fillings about Al Gore are minuet in comparison to the issue at hand....

Answer 7

Listen what the climate is doing has nothing to do with AlGore. Whether it has anything to do with pollution or "green house" gases is questionable. I still think it has more to due with an impending polar flip which begins a weakening of the magnetic field that shields us from the bulk of the suns radiation.
I don't like AlGore because he has a problem with telling the truth with out his own embellishments of them. He has capitalized on the global warming hype to line his own pockets which I believe to be unethical.

Answer 8

Al Gore's endorsement of this issues shouldn't make any difference one way or the other. But unfortunately, it does. When any politician adopts an issue to promote, logic goes out the window.

Answer 9

Both illogical. How about this one. There is evidence that both supports and contradicts the theory of Global Warming. Therefore global warming definitely exist. Logical or illogical?

Answer 10

Just give it another couple of years, then the inconvenient truth will come out.

Why would anybody who invented the INTERNET lie to us?

It is getting better already, the goofy looking light bulbs are working already, it is lousy cold this summer (here).

Besides that, Bush canceled all the hurricanes last season and I think he is at it to turn the temperature down.

So they're all working on it, what more do we want.