[RickJ]

Judge for yourselves:

Urban Legends Reference Pages: A Tale of Two Houses

To Al Gore, Richard Dreyfuss, Alec Baldwin and the rest of the likes of you: Move to another planet and quit your lying and fearmongering!

... rant over...



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[ordinaryguy]

I'm not sure what your point is. Is it that--

1. Al Gore is a hypocrite because he lives in a large energy-inefficient house even though he advocates for energy efficiency and other policies to mitigate global climate change, or

2. George Bush is a hypocrite because his vacation home is energy efficient, even though his Administration says that global climate change is not a problem, or if it is, not a problem we can do anything about, or

3. Global climate change is not a problem, or if it is, not a problem we can do anything about, or

4. All of the above?

[JoeCanada76]

Al gore is an hyprocrite.

All it is, is fear mongering.

George bush belongs in prison for war crimes committed. He is more then just a hyprocrite.

Oh, I could say a lot more but I won't.

[NeedKarma]

I watched Inconvenient Truth recently. I liked the message, the delivery and I believe there is indeed a problem just as M. Gore presented it. I refuse to "kill the messenger" as mature, logical people are inclined to do.

[Fr_Chuck]

Al needed to hire some actors for his movie, add a few car chases and was presented in a very poor manner to connect any dots in my opinioni.

But he is rich, and what the heck it is one heck of a home. Which of us would not have it, if we had all of his money

[Curlyben]

Politician = Hypocrite ;)

[RubyPitbull]

I'm not sure what your point is. Is it that--

1. Al Gore is a hypocrite because he lives in a large energy-inefficient house even though he advocates for energy efficiency and other policies to mitigate global climate change, or

2. George Bush is a hypocrite because his vacation home is energy efficient, even though his Administration says that global climate change is not a problem, or if it is, not a problem we can do anything about, or

3. Global climate change is not a problem, or if it is, not a problem we can do anything about, or

4. All of the above?

I love you

[JoeCanada76]

Politician = Hypocrite ;)

Exactly!!

[Sodium]

I watched Inconvenient Truth recently. I liked the message, the delivery and I believe there is indeed a problem just as M. Gore presented it. I refuse to "kill the messenger" as mature, logical people are inclined to do.

I watched that movie and it was really scary, and powering.
It made me really think.

[JoeCanada76]

I watched that movie and it felt like I was getting a lecture and sitting in a classroom being taught things that I would never need to know in the real world.

Hmmm, the movie was awful. I do not know why so many people say it is one of the best documentaries and you will be shocked and want to watch it from start to finish. Blah Blah Blah snore fest.

Joe

[Sodium]

I liked it acually both grade 8 classes in my school loved it annd were also very frightned

[shygrneyzs]

I did not see the movie, I would refuse to see it. Not that I am a non believer in global warming, I just refuse to view anything related to Al Gore. It would be like watching a murder movie and knowing the slant and the plot and the ending before the previews started. I believe Al Gore is in the fore front again because Hilary is running for President and Al stands a chance to get back in somehow. Like a bad penny.

I do think that there is not much substantial that can be done to reverse all the damage done. There is a little bit here and there - but centuries of "modern progress" and pollution and I won't go into the tirade, have done more damage than can be repaired. While I was not a huge Jimmy Carter fan, I did applaud his approach to sustainable living.

Curlyben is right: politician = hypocrite.

[NeedKarma]

I watched that movie and it felt like I was getting a lecture and sitting in a classroom being taught things that I would never need to know in the real world.

Perhaps you should avoid documentaries then.

[magprob]

I did not see the movie, I would refuse to see it. Not that I am a non believer in global warming, I just refuse to view anything related to Al Gore. It would be like watching a murder movie and knowing the slant and the plot and the ending before the previews started. I believe Al Gore is in the fore front again because Hilary is running for President and Al stands a chance to get back in somehow. Like a bad penny.

I do think that there is not much substantial that can be done to reverse all the damage done. There is a little bit here and there - but centuries of "modern progress" and pollution and I won't go into the tirade, have done more damage than can be repaired. While I was not a huge Jimmy Carter fan, I did applaud his approach to sustainable living.

Curlyben is right: politician = hypocrite.

First the frogs and now the honey bees. Our planet is now a dying planet and it is too late to turn it around. With the expotential rate of population growth, we have maybe 50 years left. (According to some scientist.) Without the honey bees and having to rely on genetically modified food crops, which are not proven and can mutate into GOD only knows what, I think we are in even bigger trouble than we realize. I say 20 years at the outside, which is fine with me since my gout has really been acting up.

[ScottGem]

Read Michael Crichton's State of Fear.

[ordinaryguy]

All it is, is fear mongering.

I think there's more to it than that. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is issuing another report tomorrow.

Climate Panel Confident Warming Is Underway - washingtonpost.com

Scientists from around the world contributed to the report, whose details were being finalized in Brussels this week. The authors relied on peer-reviewed scientific reports to make their findings, and the report was subjected to rounds of outside review.

The draft says "much more evidence has accumulated over the past five years" to indicate that changes such as longer growing seasons and earlier leaf-unfolding and earlier egg-laying by birds are traceable to human activities.

I suppose it's tempting to dismiss it as a cynical plot by fear-mongering hypocritical politicians, but not every problem is either bogus or insoluble. What if this one is both real and soluble, but we dismiss it as hype? A lot of the changes necessary to address it are desirable for other reasons as well, so why not make them?

[NeedKarma]

Just wondering: Gore has presented this in over 20 countries, what personal political gain does he get from that?

[Capuchin]

1. Make people care about the environment
2. show people that he cares about the environment
3.. .
4. PROFIT

[NeedKarma]

Back to \. For you! :D

[Capuchin]

I think that was first coined on b3ta, but has slowly permeated across the 'net :)