Do you think Al Gore is off of red meat and on tofu?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080505/sc_livescience/howtofightglobalwarmingatdinner

Or would tofu make his personal greenhouse gas production even greater than it is now?

Answer 1

Who cares?  What Al Gore says or does has NOTHING to do with whether global warming is real.

This is science and what counts is the data.

"I wasn’t convinced by a person or any interest group—it was the data that got me. I was utterly convinced of this connection between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change. And I was convinced that if we didn’t do something about this, we would be in deep trouble.”

Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly, USN (Ret.)

Former NASA Administrator, Shuttle Astronaut

Here are two summaries of the mountain of peer reviewed data that convinced Admiral Truly and the vast majority of the scientific community, short and long.

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Ima...

http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report....

summarized at:

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report...

There's a lot less controversy about this is the real world than there is on Yahoo answers:

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/a...

And vastly less controversy in the scientific community than you might guess from the few skeptics talked about here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_...

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/fu...

EVERY major scientific organization has issued an official statement that this is real, and mostly caused by us.  The National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Physics, the American Chemical Society, the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Association, etc.

Good websites for more info:

http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/f101.a...

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/sci...

http://www.realclimate.org

"climate science from climate scientists"

http://environment.newscientist.com/chan...

EDIT - If people keep asking the same question, why should my answer change?  The truth is the truth.

Answer 2

you know, its not really fair that BOB keeps getting 2 points, for simply "Cuttign and pasting" his SAME answer into EVERY post!!!  i men, he changes like, the 1st line, to fit the question, and then regurgitates all of his meaningless propoganda...its really not fair.  that's no better than the trolls who go question to question and just say "Yes" or "No", for the 2 points.  actually, what Bob does is worse, because he spreads so much misinformation!  forget AGW, lets start a "Bob Awareness" campaign!!!  Bob is bad for the cyber-environment, littering it with so much garbage...(although, it IS recycled garbage, so maybe he's okay after all).

Answer 3

Have you SEEN Al Gore lately?  Nobody eating tofu is that fat... no way did he give up methane-farting-ozone-polluting cow meat.

Answer 4

I'm not sure about Al Gore, he was kind of big (last time I saw him) for me to think he is eating a vegetarian diet. However, this is the kind of thinking that irritates me,"lets all change out diet for global warming."  These are the people that killed nuclear power, try to tax our environmentalism, tell us how many kids we can have and make laws about which light bulbs can be produced. It is all about control and they are using an issue that will have no grave impacts.

Edit: Bob does have a point about the questions not changing. It is the same thing day after day.:

    Global warming?

    Is Global warming real?

    I know Global warming is fake because my city is cold?

    I Know Global warming is real because my city is hot?

    I know I am RIGHT and I speak TRUTH because I know where the Shift button is!

Trust me it wears you out. It takes a certain amount of tenacity to keep coming back to prove your point. I know if I didn't enjoy the thumbs down so much I would have been gone a long time ago.

Answer 5

No, he's become addicted to huffing methane.  He calls it "deniers breath"

Answer 6

He has not. The idea that giving up meat makes a positive environmental impact is not "news". Yahoo just needed something to fill space. People in the know have known about the negative impacts of the industrial production of meat for decades. It is just now finally starting to surface into the mainstream. That being said, Gore has not only not given up meat himself, but also doesn't mention it's positive effects in his literature and film. Thus he has been the target of numerous negative campaigns from such animal rights groups as PETA.

Proof positive that one man, one politician, is not the spokesperson for the entire green movement and that his individual actions (while part of the pie) are in no way the be all end all source of environmental knowledge for the universe.

Answer 7

Not only is he still eating red meat, but his carbon footprint is probably bigger than most Americans.  He has his own jet, a huge house (and I wonder if he has the right light bulbs even), and he drives big expensive cars.

He's a classic study in the "Do as I say, not as I do," style of teaching.

Answer 8

no way is he off of red meat. but him and all of those global warming "scientists" are off their rockers!

Answer 9

Your re-direction of the argument towards Al Gore is nothing more than an excuse not to take responsibility for your own actions. Shooting the messenger is common throughout history and is only used because the message is bullet-proof.