is al gore the main reason world leaders are FINALLY taking climate change seriously?

Answer 1

Sadly, yes. Climate change is natural and has always occurred. There is nothing man can do about it and we should just let the earth do its thing. I don't understand what makes people think they are so powerful that they can change the earth.

Answer 2

The world has already been taking the climate change seriously. Remember, it is only the United States and Australia that have refused to sign the Kyoto protocols calling for carbon emission reductions. Al Gore is responsible for the United States finally taking Global Warming seriously.

Answer 3

I'm not sure about world leaders, but I do believe that the movie, "An Inconvenient Truth" is the reason that a lot of citizens are taking climate change seriously, and perhaps that has influenced their respective world leaders.

That scene where Al Gore has to get in a bucket crane in order to show how high CO2 levels have gotten based on Antarctic ice core samples from the last 600,000 - that has affected a lot of people. Even I, a liberal and environmentalist before the movie, thought that the CO2 elevation was just cyclical. That scene made me realize the reality of global warming, and how it is only reversible to a point - and we're rapidly approaching the point of irreversibility.

Answer 4

No. It's the accumulation of scientific evidence that's forced world leaders, including George Bush, to acknowledge that global warming is real and mostly caused by us. They use the advice of the best scientists, not Al Gore.

Like this guy (not a world leader, but someone with access to the best scientists):

"I wasn’t convinced by a person or any interest group—it was the data that got me. I was utterly convinced of this connection between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change. And I was convinced that if we didn’t do something about this, we would be in deep trouble.”

Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly, USN (Ret.)
Former NASA Administrator, Shuttle Astronaut and the first Commander of the Naval Space Command

Here are two summaries of the mountain of peer reviewed data that convinced Admiral Truly, the vast majority of the scientific community, and world leaders, short and long.

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png
http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report.html
summarized at:
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf

Answer 5

No it would not. they are employing made up technological information and blaming the climate substitute on CO2 gasoline, which isn't a 'greenhouse' gasoline. vegetation desire it for survival, and their via-product is oxygen which darn close to each little thing else desires to respire. the indisputable fact that he and his associates would be getting prosperous off this rip-off would not help the two. There have even been comments released that there became into greater CO2 interior the ambience for the period of the Roman Empire days than there is now. How did THAT happen, and purely the place did all of it flow? Why is it one in each of those difficulty now?

Answer 6

Most intelligent people realise that All Gore is a charlitan.

Policy makers take all threats seriously and are investigating what can be done about emissions. Governments have limited resources to tackle all the problems which are likley to occur in the future like natural disasters, famine, wars, terrorist attacks, riots revolutions & nuclear accidents.

Maybe global warming isn't their biggest concern because the effects of global warming, may or may not be significant and won't occur untill about a long time in the future.

Answer 7

I don't know if Al Gore's work is the "main cause"--but he's certainly due much of the credit.

But some thnks also go to the right-wing crackpots who have been attacking him so viciously. Their rhetoric has both given his message a lot more publicity, but also their rabid accusations have helped to legitimize Gore and his message (exactly the opposite of what they intend). :)

Answer 8

If not the main reason he is certainly a major cause for world leader to take notice. Bush denied global warning for years while the rest of world leaders pled with him to act. Gore was the sole voice of reason coming from the US politicians.

Answer 9

Nope hippies and environmentalists have known about the dangers of climate change for years with out scientific proof. The reason people are starting to do something is b/c the mind control machine (MTV) has started the green movement. If everyone remembers climate change and the green house affect 3 years ago was a political stand in America and now it is all of a sudden everywhere. It is all over MTV be GREEN BE GREEN BE GREEN BE GREEN BE GREEN BE GREEN BE GREEN get the picture the youth of today have become such mindless drones who do anything someone supported on MTV will do we (mass public) are infatuated with this mind control device (MTV)

Answer 10

I think lots of world leaders have known the case for taking action against global warming for sometime. The USA has been late in realising that action is needed. I haven't seen the film or know much about the situation in the US but from what I have heard it does seem to have been a very influential piece of polemic

Answer 11

Al Gore is one of many concerned world citizens who are trying to send a message that most people don't want to hear. If they dare agree that man's Industrial Revolution, with its smoke-belching factories and vehicle emissions, has contributed to the escalation of a natural cyclical process that usually evolves over tens of thousands of years, they might have to give up their gas-guzzling Hummers and SUVs; they might have to agree to start REusing, REducing and REcycling; they might have to stop eating cheap BigMacs to help preserve our rain forests; they might have to stop building beachfront hotel resorts and condominiums that destroy valuable mangrove forests; they might have to begin working as responsible stewards of the Earth to ensure that we maintain that delicate ecological balance between all men, plants and animals so necessary for our very survival; they might have to lower their thermostats during the winter; they might have to stop over-fishing the oceans; they might have to stop raping the land through coal mining, gas exploration and oil drilling; they might have to walk to the store, use mass transportation to go to work, or ride a bike instead of driving a 6-passenger automobile with only one person in it; they might have to assume their responsibility as having dominion over all plants and animals on Earth instead of exploiting them for their own creature comforts and greed; they might have to actually step up to the plate and preserve the environment for future generations, including their own grandchildren and great-grandchildren. -RKO- 10/22/07