Is Global Warming invented by Al Gore just like the Internet?

Question

The earth has had many changes before we got here from Ice ages to Dinosaurs and so on. Doesn't it seem like delusions of grandeur that we so insignificant and small part of the Earths history really can make a difference.

Just a verification I based this question on common knowledge that the Earth has always changed. Al Gore weather he says I invented the Internet or took the initiative to invent it is like Scott Peterson saying I took the initiative to kill lacy and my unborn child same difference, and yes he does live a hypocritical life. For those of you that wrote me a page on how great he is you seemed to forget that the President put 2 million of his own money into his Crawford ranch to make it the most eco-friendly property in Texas, everything is recycled including Cindy Sheehan's bullshit that floats down stream. Remy how much to upgrade to first class and follow that comet?

Answer 1

Yes...we had a warming period during the bronze age...just a normal occurance. Leave it to humans to think we can impact nature.

Answer 2

Who cares if it is real were all gonna die before we see major effects anyways. So what if our kids get a better tan, or don't learn what a snow shovel is due to global warming. Dinosaurs died and it gonna happen to s as well unless you join me! There is a comet coming in two months send me 2 payments of 39.95 and I'll get you a seat on the space ship that will follow the comet and bring us to the mother land! just two payment and your set! I give you the address to meet me, just make sure you bring your white Nike's and you gotta Love Kool Aid "O YEAH"

Answer 3

Worse case scenerio if we are wrong about Global warming

we have cleaner air and drinking water

DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT?

Al Gore never said he invented the internet

GORE: Well, I will be offering -- I'll be offering my vision when my campaign begins. And it will be comprehensive and sweeping. And I hope that it will be compelling enough to draw people toward it. I feel that it will be.

But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

But the real question is what, if anything, did Gore actually do to create the modern Internet? According to Vincent Cerf, a senior vice president with MCI Worldcom who's been called the Father of the Internet, "The Internet would not be where it is in the United States without the strong support given to it and related research areas by the Vice President in his current role and in his earlier role as Senator."

The inventor of the Mosaic Browser, Marc Andreesen, credits Gore with making his work possible. He received a federal grant through Gore's High Performance Computing Act. The University of Pennsylvania's Dave Ferber says that without Gore the Internet "would not be where it is today."

Answer 4

Global warming, whether man-made or not, is happening. Up here in Canada, the permafrost in the North is suddenly not so permanent any more. In some ways, I don't mind. I like milder winters. On the other hand, we're going to have a substantial problem with illegal immigration; Americans fleeing the desert-like conditions of the U.S. ("drybacks") will be crossing the border in droves to live in our lush, tropical climes.

Answer 5

Al Gore never said he invented the internet....
it's wordplay...

He said "we were practically inventing the internet as we went along"...when asked about the allocation of funding for the creation of the internet.

Also, global warming is real.... Even Bush admits that...there is no debate about whether or not the earth is warming...the debate is the cause.

Answer 6

In guess you don't read the news?

We are seeing more and more climate changes! It snowed the 1st time in New Hamshire on February 14!

Perhaps you will believe when Florida is under water!

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to link the issues!

Answer 7

I was going to use science to form an opinion, but you raise good points. So yeah, I think he did invent the Internet and Global Warming, even though there is no evidence that he did or that he has claimed to.

Answer 8

Al Gore: "I took the initiative in creating the Internet"

What a braggart!

Answer 9

The entire scientic community affirms that humans are influencing the warming of the earth's climate due to our activities.....

Kinda like evolution. Dont believe in that, either?

I mean, this is just ridiculous. There is no question on this issue. Just propaganda to allow big polluting corporations to continue their destructive actions because it is profitable. And the taxpayer cleans it up...

Hey republicans, if you are so concerned about wasting your taxpayer dollars, why dont you make chevron, etc. quit polluting the environment, a bill which you foot......

Answer 10

The internets are the reason for Global Warming

Damn tubes and wires everywhere!

Answer 11

Al Gore has spoken: The world must embrace a "carbon-neutral lifestyle." To do otherwise, he says, will result in a cataclysmic catastrophe. "Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb," warns the website for his film, An Inconvenient Truth. "We have just 10 years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tailspin."

Graciously, Gore tells consumers how to change their lives to curb their carbon-gobbling ways: Switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs, use a clothesline, drive a hybrid, use renewable energy, dramatically cut back on consumption. Better still, responsible global citizens can follow Gore's example, because, as he readily points out in his speeches, he lives a "carbon-neutral lifestyle." But if Al Gore is the world's role model for ecology, the planet is doomed.

For someone who says the sky is falling, he does very little. He says he recycles and drives a hybrid. And he claims he uses renewable energy credits to offset the pollution he produces when using a private jet to promote his film. (In reality, Paramount Classics, the film's distributor, pays this.)

Public records reveal that as Gore lectures Americans on excessive consumption, he and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.) For someone rallying the planet to pursue a path of extreme personal sacrifice, Gore requires little from himself.

Then there is the troubling matter of his energy use. In the Washington, D.C., area, utility companies offer wind energy as an alternative to traditional energy. In Nashville, similar programs exist. Utility customers must simply pay a few extra pennies per kilowatt hour, and they can continue living their carbon-neutral lifestyles knowing that they are supporting wind energy. Plenty of businesses and institutions have signed up. Even the Bush administration is using green energy for some federal office buildings, as are thousands of area residents.

But according to public records, there is no evidence that Gore has signed up to use green energy in either of his large residences. When contacted Wednesday, Gore's office confirmed as much but said the Gores were looking into making the switch at both homes. Talk about inconvenient truths.

Gore is not alone. Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has said, "Global warming is happening, and it threatens our very existence." The DNC website applauds the fact that Gore has "tried to move people to act." Yet, astoundingly, Gore's persuasive powers have failed to convince his own party: The DNC has not signed up to pay an additional two pennies a kilowatt hour to go green. For that matter, neither has the Republican National Committee.

Maybe our very existence isn't threatened.

Gore has held these apocalyptic views about the environment for some time. So why, then, didn't Gore dump his family's large stock holdings in Occidental (Oxy) Petroleum? As executor of his family's trust, over the years Gore has controlled hundreds of thousands of dollars in Oxy stock. Oxy has been mired in controversy over oil drilling in ecologically sensitive areas.

Living carbon-neutral apparently doesn't mean living oil-stock free. Nor does it necessarily mean giving up a mining royalty either.

Humanity might be "sitting on a ticking time bomb," but Gore's home in Carthage is sitting on a zinc mine. Gore received $20,000 a year in royalties from Pasminco Zinc, which operated a zinc concession on his property until 2003. Tennessee has cited the company for adding large quantities of barium, iron and zinc to the nearby Caney Fork River.

The issue here is not simply Gore's hypocrisy; it's a question of credibility. If he genuinely believes the apocalyptic vision he has put forth and calls for radical changes in the way other people live, why hasn't he made any radical change in his life? Giving up the zinc mine or one of his homes is not asking much, given that he wants the rest of us to radically change our lives.