2007-10-20 08:37:31 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Global Warming
I happen to like Al Gore, I'm not for EVERYTHING he stands for, but on a personal level I like him. Kind of like Bill Clinton, I like the man, he was a good president, I may not like everything he stands for, but he was a good president.
2007-10-20 08:40:23 · answer #1 · answered by mc-heather 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋
No. Al Gore in particular is full of junk.
Check out this site:
http://www.ncpa.org/ba/ba337/ba337.html
One might well say that this site has a bias. Well like it or not, everyone does. The scientist that market the idea of global warming have a bias, so does Al Gore.
The problem with science is that it changes. Many people say that global warming is a proven fact. Proven? NO. A fact? Yes.
But how can that be? Because facts change. It was a fact that the earth was flat. It was a fact the sun went around the earth. It was a fact that greenhouse gases would cause an ice age.
It's unfortunate that Al Gore would stand on the work of others and then claim a nobel prize for it. (Didn't he invent the internet, let's give him a prize for that too)
2007-10-20 12:00:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I do believe global warming is a threat to both our generations, and the generations to follow. And “ An Inconvenient Truth” was an amazing book. (Read it if you haven’t!) At the rate be are burning fuel, I’m starting to lose hope in reversing the affects global warming has already had. But more and more people do seem to be aware of what is happening.
Personally though, I think Al Gore is a hypocritical lair. He should calculate his own carbon emissions before he tries to preach to others. He may love the environment and spread the word about this important issue, but he could try a little harder to follow his own advice…
2007-10-20 10:34:58 · answer #3 · answered by PETA_ownsYourSoul 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Gore has been involved with the issue for many years now, before most people had a clue. But he is not the issue, human activities that are altering our climate is.
Since many scientists throughout the world have been able to document climate change, I believe. And I'm acting according, across the board, from trying to stay informed through reputable sources, maintaining some semblance of a green lifestyle, and watching to see what my elected officials are doing on the matter. My kids are grown now and there's a grandchild in the picture, so I prefer to take this seriously and not blow it off, as ignorance is not bliss in this case, and I want them all to have a promising future. This means getting past the shoot-the-messenger stage and acting like this planet is the only one we've got.
2007-10-20 09:07:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Al Gore is a blow hard that distorts the facts to fit his needs! Global Warming in retrospect is a natural occurrence that is being accelerated by the destruction of the rain forests in Central America. Also we should be increasing our use of Wind, Solar and Nuclear energy!
2007-10-24 07:47:39 · answer #5 · answered by maur911 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
actually the seas are rising at a rate of 1/10 inch a year now, and the real problem hasn't gained speed yet. land based glaciers melting which will greatly speed this rate up. Not only rising seas but unstable weather patterns yes the earth goes through climate cycles but the change doesn't naturally occur this fast they can tell this with ice core samples giving average temp and co2 levels for the last 600,000 years.
real or not I'm in an area not affected by rising seas or hurricanes and a little drought here is good since normally it rains 100 + days a year. Hope you skeptics don't live in drought or coastal areas cause there's no room for you here.
also the natural cycles skeptics keep pointing to show we are heading into a lower solar activity as well as lower volcanic activity providing natural co2 fluctuations both indicators say it should be cooling and yet its getting hotter only man made co2 sources acount for this.
but hey surfs up dude party on
from an AP article on rising seas in Bangkok
BANGKOK, Thailand - Cities around the world are facing the danger of rising seas and other disasters related to climate change
Of the 33 cities predicted to have at least 8 million people by 2015, at least 21 are highly vulnerable, says the Worldwatch Institute.
They include Dhaka, Bangladesh; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Shanghai and Tianjin in China; Alexandria and Cairo in Egypt; Mumbai and Kolkata in India; Jakarta, Indonesia; Tokyo and Osaka-Kobe in Japan; Lagos, Nigeria; Karachi, Pakistan; Bangkok, Thailand, and New York and Los Angeles in the United States, according to studies by the United Nations and others
More than one-tenth of the world's population, or 643 million people, live in low-lying areas at risk from climate change, say U.S. and European experts. Most imperiled, in descending order, are China, India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia, Japan, Egypt, the U.S., Thailand and the Philippines
2007-10-20 09:41:34 · answer #6 · answered by j2 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I know it is sick isn't it.
But it is quick money!
Don't listen to them, make your own business and put this advertisment on your product, "Guaranteed to prevent Global Warming!"
I do believe in Climate Change though. But who in the cockfiddle invented that phrase, why don't they call it the...
WEATHER (whether or not it rains, whether or not it is dry).
Scientists say that global warming say that global warming is true. Who are they, eh? What evidence do they have?
Were they here at the beginning at time to see the changes? NO? If so, why do are they lieing? I mean they own put the first weather satellite in space not so long ago.
And just over the past 200 years we discovered the Hurricane!
Mankind will surive.
Why do we worry about things we can't help (or just simply don't exist)? Money? Fame? Trade? Greed?
When this living planet has had enough of us, all it needs to do is wipe us out with strong winds or whatever and repair its environment for others to live and when the higher plain of existence has finished with Earth, like the Sun, will destroy the Earth.
Apocalypse won't be in our generation, nor your great great great great great grand childrens generation.
But it is going to happen, nothing ever lasts!
I agree to help the enviroment, but I don't believe in this stupid global warming belief.
Have fun!
2007-10-20 08:41:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Those who care about the planet are putting out everything they understand about the problem... we including Al Gore have some pertinent facts about what's going on... It's not all junk, but it is also not all right... When he says that we have entered a period of consequences he is right.. but the direction he's heading in as the solution is impractical at best
2007-10-20 09:18:00 · answer #8 · answered by Gyspy 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Do you beleive in Global Warming?
Cause its true, and its happening right now. So I guess I do!
Anyway, before that Al Gore movie, several teachers have told my class about it, and the Europeans already knew about it, but no one would listen until they found out for themselves!
2007-10-20 08:41:13 · answer #9 · answered by jenjira1995 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
ya but people should care more about pollution than global warming, and gas vehicles should not be on the road only all electrics because they are powerful enough and the current hybrid now are just holding back technology
2007-10-20 11:59:11 · answer #10 · answered by golf 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's not a religion, it's based on science...it has nothing to do with emotions...so stop letting your emotions get in the way of reason...think for yourself, don't debunk global warming just because you don't like Al Gore...that's completely emotional on your part...there ARE natural climate cycles but what we're experiencing is anything but natural...Im so sick of these denilists pretening to be climatologists just because they saw some Youtube video...The Milankovich cycle (iceage cycle) is real and at this point we're supposed to be preparing for another ice age as in cooling down...but the opposite is happening and it's having alarming effects on the polar regions...
2007-10-20 08:46:32 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋