Why do people pick on Al Gore concerning Global Warming climate change, as if that will make it go away?

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Al Gore didn't invent it. JS is right, the AGW skeptics are just running out of excuses and since they can't defeat Global Warming as truth, they instead try to equate Global Warming entirely to Al Gore and than try to defeat Al Gore for being human.

I still haven't seen any damning evidence showing that Al Gore "LIED" about anything.

In Science, and science related documentaries in general, it's easy for new information to replace earlier information, that's how science works. But even so... I think his film still stands up, even almost two years later.

But if you want to learn about Global Warming... just pick up an actual well respected peer-reviewed Science journal and stop being so naive to believe everything you hear (whether that be a politician like Al Gore, or James Inhoffe, or some junk science website/blog garbage)

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aceking... the demonstration he used was not about how CO2 drives or lags anything... it was simply to show you the correlation of CO2 and temperature levels over the past 650,000 years as evidenced by the ice core data. What he was pointing out is that for the first time in this historic time line... CO2 and Temperature split apart, and quite drastically. CO2 is off the charts basically. His question therefore was... "What does this mean for temperature"? something to that effect. He's trying to get you to come to your own conclusions how this sudden spike in CO2 could be a bad sign, when considering Temps and CO2 levels in the past have shown to go up and down together (lag or not). And besides, it is a fact, CO2 can drive temperature when it is substantial enough... the event is known as 'Global Warming'. Get it!
We know this to be fact because it has happenened before (i.e. PEMT - Paleo-Eocene Thermal Maximum 55 mil year ago caused by extreme and extensive vocanic activities).


Here's an unlikely source... (and if this isn't disturbing enough for you to show you that this isn't just some Al Gore tree-hugger show, nothing is)

Below... even the oil companies know of the PETM and likewise acknowlege Global Warming, now and then, and yet press on to drill anyway, how uncanny)...

Petroleum News Vol. 10, No. 44
"Finding the thermal maximum. Towards the bottom of the well the team found what is called the Paleo-Eocene thermal maximum, or PETM, a known high point in temperature trends about 55 million years ago. That’s the point at which the surface of Arctic Ocean appears to have attained temperatures of about 68 F, showing that the whole of the Earth including the North Pole became warm at that time." ... "Many scientists believe that the rapid rise in temperatures in the PETM is directly analogous to modern global warming trends. So, understanding the response of the planet to that PETM warming may shed light on the potential impact of global warming" pp 15
Note - here's the news letter in it's entirety so bear in mind that it is in pdf format http://www.petroleumnews.com/pdfarch/314288478.pdf...Show more

I think you already know, based on your very gutsy post, but obviously this is scapegoating. Al didn't cause this, didn't invent it, is in no way responsible. That makes him a perfect target for the angst of people who want a target, and care about little else. I can't help suspecting the real imbeciles heard about Global Warming for the first time from Al Gore, but that's really their problem not mine. The amount of time they spend talking about him amazes me, because I'm a Conservative. I wonder what they would do if they ever got wind of all the other stuff that's going on in the world? How many Al Gores would they need to deal with that? I guess the neocons would rather bash away at a stationary target than eat lunch or have sex. I say, Go For It!...Show more

Regardless of Al Gore with his disputed actions and motives man definitely influences climate change. Strangely enough GW many indeed usher in the next ice age if the ocean currents are halted do to a saline imbalance.

Whatever the details the fact is man is a meddlesome creature when it comes to technology. Couple this with certain rampant capitalistic incentives one can easily see how things have gotten out of control.

The truth of the matter is people pick on Al Gore for multiple reasons, including party affiliation, religious ideology, believing his character to be disreputable, or are just being like ostriches hoping that by sticking their heads far enough into the proverbial sands of ignorance that all will work out on its own.

But my most prominent theory as that this whole "debate" and attack on Gore has more do to with Fossil Fuel interests and there attack dogs.

Call me a conspiracy theorist but I believe some of them are working this section and influencing vulnerable minds. IMO YA has more than its share of the mob mentality.

But you are right no matter what their motives may be for attacking Gore Climate Change is not going to be easily stopped. And it certainly won't be done via denial.

Thanks for the question it was much needed....Show more

Al will not comment on why he used footage in his movie that is not even real. In fact, you can see much of the same footage in the movie "The day After Tomorrow". Al Gore found a way to make money by using scare tactics. These environmental scare tactics have been used for years. In fact. We should all be dead right now because of the giant hole in the Ozone layer. Come on people. There was global warming and cooling a long time before we had industry. I'm not saying that we cannot accelerate it. But I am saying someone is making money off of this scare tactic and it isn't you or I....Show more

It shows that political skills and marketing are more important than scientific validity. Different points of view were popular in different countries. While some European scientists were interested in global warming in the 1970's, it would be a bad career move for a US scientist to investigate global warming while his/her colleagues were selling the benefits to humanity of predicting the coming ice age. It's hard to get people excited about global warming and coming ice ages at the same time - they seem kind of contradictory....Show more