Global warming alarmists; how do you explain away the hypocrisy of Al Gore?

Question

I find this truly hilarious. Do as he says, you dirty unwashed plebes, not as he does.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESxvY1tQHTo

Answer 1

They do not respond that is how. Al Gore has never once nada ever entered a debate about his view there for how can we take him seriously.

The Al Gorish lives near me in a huge house that consumes more energy in a year than 100 homes and it went up after he did improvements to it. He rides around in a fleet of SUVs and has a private jet. He is an example of do as I say not what I do limo liberal elite.

Hey Todd. How does it feel to be a certified bafoon? I would love to have your outlook on life but I have bills to pay not the time sit around getting high on earthly substances such as your self.

The Nobel Prize? What a joke. Yassir Arafat won the peace prize and so did Jimmy Carter. they are hardly credible and are left leaning communist them selves. Bush deserved the peace prize for creating freedom for 48 million muslims not freakin Al Gorish.

Answer 2

I am not an "alarmist", I am a realist. The clip was not "hilarious" it was as smug, and annoying, as you are.

Let me know when you win your Nobel Prize.

Answer 3

*sigh*

The problem is that there's two sides in the GW debate that both seem to despise eachother and revel in winding eachother up (particularly the "non believers"). Emotions run too high on this issue and hence relevant debate seldom occurs.

Then people turn it into politics and the "you commie slav" or "you imperialist pig" insults fly. Humans are a disgrace sometimes.

I just hope scientists aren't as emo as all the groupies on both sides.

Answer 4

Why even try to explain away the hypocrisy?

Any time you get a well-known, public figure to speak out in favor of an issue, you get hypocrisy.

Al Gore - not good on making personal green living choices.

Leonardo DiCaprio - remember he made a movie about global warming/green living?  Remember he was fined for destroying an entire beach in Thailand by bulldozing the forest to film one of his movies? Then didn't pay the fine?

Brittany Spears - The squeaky clean Mouseketeer "I'm saving myself for marriage" while she was living with her boyfriend in a condo in Studio City and partying her butt off.

Martin Sheen and any number of causes he has spoken out on?

The list is endless...

The point is - it's never about the person doing the talking, it's about the message.  Unfortunately, PR people get money to promote the message and have sold  the idea that a spokesman needs to be a famous person.  

A message (Don't Do Drugs, Don't Drive Drunk, Don't Pollute, Buckle Up, Wear a Helmet, Prevent AIDS, McGruff the Crime Dog, etc...) gets broken down to the money people get paid to print flyers, make a TV ad, run a website, host a fundraiser and so on.  

Face it, even religious groups have to put on a show to really get people's attention, not to mention their money.

Most of the time, the attention CREATES the very effect that is trying to be stopped.  How many people do you think get drunk at a concert to fund M.A.D.D. and S.A.D.D.?  And then drive home?  The huge world wide concert to bring awareness to global warming - people flying all over the world, people packing stadiums, the trash that was left over, the t-shirts, posters, flyers, CDs that were printed using non-soy ink, the amount of non-renewable electricty used to put on the concerts, the amount of energy and resources used to set the whole thing up?

Whether you believe in Global Warming or not, or if your issue is whetherclimate pollution and weather change is a result of human activity or a natural occurence, there are aspects that are very real and will affect you.  You will have to deal with the economic aspect of the concerns of a growing segment of the WORLD's population.  You will have to deal with the political and social changes that the WORLD community will be making.

To focus on denying that some people have a concern over the actual physical changes that are occuring because an incompetent spokesman is a hypocrit sets you up as a Darwinistic casuality.  You'll wake up one morning in about a decade and wonder why you got left behind in your Cadillac.