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Unlike Al Gore and his fearmongering?
by greyboy 17y ago
Unlike Al Gore and his fearmongering?
- pj 17y agoThree words: Blood and Gore.
- eli 17y agoYes, that's pretty much what the author of the linked article said -- did you read it? Personally, I think Al Gore's a pretty smart guy and if he just wanted to get rich, there are easier ways... But sure, lets agree that both sides have something to gain and move on. This silliness about the "Big Green" lobby is distracting from a meaningful discussion about global warming and how seriously to take it.
- gaius 17y agoif he just wanted to get rich, there are easier ways... Al Gore married into his money. He's motivated by an urge to remain in the public eye and wield political power despite being rejected by the voters.
- eli 17y agoI think, frankly, there are easier ways to do that too. Less controversial ways.
- brc 17y agolets agree that both sides have something to gain and move on. This silliness about the "Big Green" lobby is distracting from a meaningful discussion about global warming and how seriously to take it. I disagree with this. The main thrust against any refutation of human caused global warming is always that the author is in the paid service of an oil company, lobby group. You cannot have it both ways. You can't allow people to use that argument to brand people who refute or discount human-caused global warming as paid skeptics, and then brush it aside when the argument is used in reverse.
- eli 17y agoI'm not having it both ways. I'm saying that you can make this argument about both sides. The linked article implies Al Gore's in it for the case, so there ya go. This is a silly argument. My whole point was that we should move beyond questioning motives.
- hs 17y agoat least, in 2007 gore won nobel prize in technology for inventing the internet for his theoretical model on climate change, he's on the right path to win his second nobel prize ... in mathematics, no less.