Al Gore and the sceptics?

Question

Sceptics and outright deniers, are you fighting against believing the science behind global warming simply because it's primarily Al Gore that is in the spotlight urging the American public to do something about it?

Answer 1

It's interesting that so many people demonize Al Gore so much, instead of focusing on the scientific issues related to global warming.

Answer 2

I think if the skeptics and deniers were honest with themselves, they would admit that Gore's involvement in global warming is one of the reasons they refuse to accept the scientific evidence. I mean, just look at how many of them are Republicans and Libertarians. The science is apolitical, but the acceptance of the science is extremely politically segregated.

However, even without Gore, global warming would be viewed as a liberal issue. Environmental issues in general tend to be associated with tree-hugging liberal hippies. Perhaps the right-wing misinformation centers would not be fighting the issue so fiercely if not for Gore, and there wouldn't be quite so much misinformation. Somehow I think the effectivenesss of the oil company misinformation campaign is independent of Gore, however.

Answer 3

I think when people bring in Politics and Religion in any matter it seperates people and then they do not look at the issue such as Global Warming (which is a real issue). I also believe that more scientists should step into the public eye about Global Warming, I know that there are some out there because I have been to speeches and lectures in the NC area. The media needs to report more scientist arguements as well.

Answer 4

No, I don't "fight against" science because Al Gore, the Divinity School flunk-out, spouts it. I don't care where it comes from. I don't "fight against" it at all - I just read and use my head.

Of course there is warming, it's happened before without man around and it will happen again. That goes for cooling, too.

The shows at the UN and Bali have practically nothing to do with science (the UN report "summaries" are written by politicos and often contradict the information in the sections) and everything to do with power and money. Al Gore himself makes money on trading "energy credits", a scam that will later be seen to be as corrupt a process as the Oil for Food scandal.

I'll take may chances with what nature does and how individual people cope with it (as we always have) over megalomanicacs any day.

By thet way, the British government officially declared Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth, to be propaganda and said it cannot be shown in the schools as science..

Answer 5

Which science are you talking about? Many scientists think global warming is natural and unaffected by man. For instance, each volcanic eruption on earth puts more CO2 into the atmosphere than man has done since we have been here. Shouldn't we all be dead by now?

Al Gore the hypocrite has very little to do with anything. Most people see him for the conniving bozo he is. He is a greedy fat man who is profiting from the global warming hoax while living in a way that shows it is a hoax. Just another big mouth.

Answer 6

Just because you have faith in Al Gore as a prophet for your global warming religion, don't try to force this kooky religion on the rest of us. He's probably the dumbest vice president in our history and you can have faith in him, but don't expect us to as well.

I guess when he flunked out of divinity school he had to form his own religion and latched on to this "global warming" religion.

Don't get me wrong, I believe in freedom of religion, just don't try to expect others to believe the same as you do.

Answer 7

Global warming is cyclical. It does exist, but, we are not the cause. Science does support that.

Al Gore is an arrogant idiot and is in this for the recognition and the money.

Period.

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Answer 8

WHY AM I SKEPTICAL ABOUT MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING?

A 21-page report from something called the "Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change" has been released today...in Paris, no less...and as expected, it's predictions are dire. According to the report: "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global mean sea level." Yeah right...we've heard all this before.

But the biggest bombshell here is this one: no matter what we do, global warming will not be reversed. It will go on for centuries, according to this report. The sea levels will continue to rise as polar ice caps melt. So I guess if Al Gore wins his Nobel Peace Prize, we'll still experience global warming. So much for riding to work everyday in your hybrid car...it's not doing a thing. The situation is futile, according to this report.

But really, it makes sense that the global warming crowd would come to this conclusion. After all, global warming is a religion. The anti-capitalist enviro-nazis don't ever want the problem to be solved. After all, if global warming were to be solved tomorrow, what would they blame the United States for? They'd have to find some other reason.

Sorry .. I'm still a skeptic. In no particular order here are just a few of the reasons why I'm not buying this man-made global warming scare:

The United Nations is anti-American and anti-Capitalist. In short .. I don't trust them. Not a bit. The UN would eagerly engage in any enterprise that would weaken capitalist economies around the world.


Because after the fall of the Soviet Union and worldwide Communism many in the anti-capitalist movement moved to the environmental movement to continue pursuing their anti-free enterprise goals. Many of the loudest proponents of man-made global warming today are confirmed anti-capitalists.


Because the sun is warmer .. and all of these scientists don't seem to be willing to credit a warmer sun with any of the blame for global warming.


The polar ice caps on Mars are melting. How did our CO2 emissions get all the way to Mars?


It was warmer in the 1930s across the globe than it is right now.


It wasn't all that long ago that these very same scientists were warning us about "global cooling" and another approaching ice age?


How much has the earth warmed up in the last 100 years? One degree. Now that's frightening.

Because that famous "hockey stick" graph that purports to show a sudden warming of the earth in the last few decades is a fraud. It ignored previous warming periods ... left them off the graph altogether.


The infamous Kyoto accords exempt some of the world's biggest CO2 polluters, including China and India.


The Kyoto accords can easily be seen as nothing less than an attempt to hamstring the world's dominant capitalist economies.


Because many of these scientists who are sounding the global warming scare depend on grant money for their livelihood, and they know the grant money dries up when they stop preaching the global warming sermon.


Because global warming "activists" and scientists seek to punish those who have different viewpoints. If you are sure of your science you have no need to shout down or seek to punish those who disagree.


What happened to the Medieval Warm Period? In 1996 the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a chart showing climatic change over a period of 1000 years. This graph showed a Medieval warming period in which global temperatures were higher than they are today. In 2001 the IPCC issued another 1000 year graph in which the Medieval warming period was missing. Why?


Why has one scientist promoting the cause of man-made global warming been quoted as saying "we have to get rid of the medieval warming period?"


Why is the ice cap on the Antarctic getting thicker if the earth is getting warmer?


In the United State, the one country with the most accurate temperature measuring and reporting records, temperatures have risen by 0.3 degrees centigrade over the past 100 years. The UN estimate is twice that.


There are about 160,000 glaciers around the world. Most have never been visited or measured by man. The great majority of these glaciers are growing, not melting.


Side-looking radar interferometry shows that the ise mass in the West Antarctic is growing at a rate of over 26 gigatons a year. This reverses a melting trend that had persisted for the previous 6,000 years.


Rising sea levels? The sea levels have been rising since the last ice age ended. That was 12,000 years ago. Estimates are that in that time the sea level has risen by over 300 feet. The rise in our sea levels has been going on long before man started creating anything but natural CO2 emissions.


Like Antarctica, the interior of Greenland is gaining ice mass.


Over the past 3,000 years there have been five different extended periods when the earth was measurably warmer than it is today.


During the last 20 years -- a period of the highest carbon dioxide levels -- global temperatures have actually decreased. That's right ... decreased.


Why did a reporter from National Public Radio refuse to interview David Deming, an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma studying global warming, after his testimony to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee unless Deming would state that global warming was being caused by man?


Why are global warming proponents insisting that the matter is settled and that no further scientific research is needed? Why are they afraid of additional information?


On July 24, 1974 Time Magazine published an article entitled "Another Ice Age?" Here's the first paragraph:
"As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age."

Hey ... I could go on. There's much more where that came from. But I need to get ready to go on the air. Just know that many of the strongest proponents of this "man-made" global warming stuff are dedicated opponents to capitalism and don't feel all that warm and fuzzy about the United States

Answer 9

"Believing"? Is "global warming" a religion that requires faith to believe its real?

No one has to "believe" the speed of light, or gravity because these can be proved, backed up by actual science.

Yet no one can prove if it will be warmer or cooler next year.

Answer 10

uh no.
that book has no scientific proof whatsoever about the cause of global warming...
and that is one inconvenient truth for gore...

http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/NussbaumOnDesign/archives/2007/02/gores_carbon_fo.html

if you're truly interested read that...