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The 'things above' being two insignificant newspaper articles over the last 13 years? Get real Another piece of advice - stop verbally attacking people that ar
by 300bps 13y ago
The 'things above' being two insignificant newspaper articles over the last 13 years? Get real
Another piece of advice - stop verbally attacking people that are sympathetic to your cause.
- sigzero 13y agoThey must squash any dissent!
- gnaritas 13y agoHe didn't attack you, he simply dismissed nonsense you stated as he should have.
- anon1385 13y agoIrrelevant political rabble rousing about Al Gore's personal finances is not a productive debate from somebody 'sympathetic'. It's just text book concern trolling.
- 300bps 13y agoIrrelevant political rabble rousing about Al Gore's personal finances is not a productive debate from somebody 'sympathetic'. It's just text book concern trolling. For full disclosure, I voted for Al Gore in 2000. Tell me again how I'm politically rabble rousing against him. Is it at all possible I'm just calling out hypocrisy when I see it?
- anon1385 13y agoBecause it has no bearing on the science of climate change, and it's very emotive -- a lot of people get the red mist if you mention the name Al Gore. (Note that I'm not American so this is just my impression from afar, but in a UK context you could substitute Thatcher or Blair as politicians that are so polarising that reasoned debate becomes very difficult and inevitably gets bogged down in very angry arguments about coal miners or Iraq). It might be relevant if we were talking about carbon credits or some specific policy that Al Gore is involved in, but the rest of the time it's just going to take the discussion in a bad direction. It may seem like I'm saying 'ignore the problem and it will go away' (the problem being Al Gore's hypocrisy). But there will always be people involved with or supportive of a cause that one can find negative things about. Expecting purity from everybody who just happens to agree with you, especially if they are politicians, means you will be waiting forever before you get anything done.
- sally888 13y agoWell, you claimed oil companies and the like have a financial interests in disproving global warming. Why is it not fair game to say the likes of Al Gore and others who push green energy might have the same financial motivations? Because they agree with your views? Where do you draw the line?
- JackFr 13y agoWhy are Al Gore's finances any less relevant than the finances of those producing reports which are skeptical? It seems to me completely reasonable to consider one if considering the other.
- gnaritas 13y ago> Why are Al Gore's finances any less relevant Because Al Gore is not a part of the scientific community and has no relevance to whether anything is happening or not. Any invocation of his name in this debate is simply a sign of severe bias and an attempt to manipulate the argument with emotions instead of facts.