Why does it seem like the prominent supporters of CO2 induced gw are the ones who are the least eco-friendly?

Question

For example Al Gore, Pat Robertson, many politicians of both parties, and all the oil companies like Shell and BP.

Answer 1

Because it is nothing but political hype.

Answer 2

WRONG

The most prominent supporters of AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming) are the scientists.

They might not be the ones you hear the most about.

Answer 3

Who cares what celebrities/politicians say and do?  That has NOTHING to do with the truth of global warming.

This is science and what counts is the data, not people's intuition.

"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...

Answer 4

Because they KNOW that it is a MYTH that man causes global warming.

Hmmm.  I wonder who funds the science?  Possibly this EXAMPLE explains it:

Yahoo News "Harvard gets record $100 million gift from Rockefeller"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080425/lf_n...

And could it be GLOBAL media giants that control which "science" were are told about?

http://www.thenation.com/special/1999112...

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/...

Of course the primary beneficiaries of the "man-causes-global-warming" myth include the proponents of the new world order and the multinational corporations involved in food and energy production.

And it seems that AL GORE is also a profiteer:

Gore Financially Invested in Climate Cause

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Pa...