Would you believe in global warming if Al Gore and Leonardo Decaprio stopped flying around in private jets?

Question

Would you believe in global warming if Al Gore and Leonardo Decaprio stopped flying around in private jets?

Answer 1

Global warming is a matter of evidence, not belief.

The evidence that it is happening and caused by us is just too overwhelming to ignore (as are the logical fallacies made by denialists, such as the one you just made).

Answer 2

i might give it more than a passing thought, yes.

Answer 3

I believe in global warming now - my professors in natural resources grad school were talking about it in the 1960s, based on the CO2 observations that Charles Keeling had made at Mauna Loa observatory starting in the 1950s.  

And everything I've read as a journalist since then has persuaded me that yep, my natural resources professors were right -- although not in all the details.

As for Al Gore and Leonard DiCaprio, I haven't seen any movies made by either one of them, and I don't pay much attention to their lifestyles.  I do think they both probably fly in airplanes too much -- more than I think I should, anyway, given the bad effect fossil fuel consumption has on the climate.

Answer 4

id belive it a little more

AL Gore saying how bad we are for poluting

ya and he goes all over the world in that private jet that burns jet fuel just like all the other planes and his house that uses the same amount of electricity in one days as a avarage family uses in a year  

Answer 5

No - Even though those two hypocrites are easy targets, I don't really find them relavant to the topic. Even the greens are starting to move away from them.  The wild claims that the two of them make are way more extreme than even the alarmist IPCC.  They make the movement even less credible than it already is.

Answer 6

NO   It is not how they do or say that means anything now. He  lied in his movie and it makes everything he says or does a lie and He can not change that.  

Answer 7

what a silly question

nothing is related

these guys did not invent global warming

Answer 8

I'm not American, so I'm not influenced by the hype in the media there.

Whether you believe in global warming or not makes no difference.

Have you ever seen oxygen? No - no microscope can show elements/atoms!

Yet you do knowthat you can breathe it in and you will keep living.

Radiation? You can't see it (yes you can test for it), but no matter how much you believe it's not there, you will still be affected if you were exposed to it (visit Pripyat the town near Chernobyl and see what happens).

Answer 9

I don't believe that global warming is caused by man, period!

But if you want to make a case to the contrary, like AG and LD pretend to do, it's hypocrisy to indulge in conspicuous consumption and cause as much pollution as they do.

Answer 10

It is not so much as to what they do, but the fact that global warming supporters treat them like heroes that a lot of credibility is lost.

Answer 11

Yes

Truth has nothing to do with how some people travel.

Judging by the sarcasm in this question i suspect that you wouldn't believe in global warming if the polar ice caps melted and flooded your house.

Answer 12

of course yes. i think just a little in the whole world.  

Answer 13

flitting about in private jets and showing up at functions in stretch tanks is not a good way to set the tone. i don't care how many credits or offsets you buy.

not to mention al's utility consumption at home.

fly commercial. show up in a NEV. turn off the dam lights.

if you still feel bad, buy some credits.

if you want to be taken seriously, walk the walk.

Answer 14

I had studied global warming theory At University well before many of us had heard of Al Gore or Leonardo DiCaprio. So those people would not likely influence my views.

Answer 15

Yeah, i mean what they some jet engine that runs off sunshine and turds or something, they are polluting just as bad cause its a plane

Answer 16

I would hope everyone says 'no'; to base ones opinion about one of the more serious issues in our lives around the activities of two public personalities is the shallowest manifestation of the current celebrity culture. Far better to make up one's own mind from the facts and information that abound.

Of course, this does not excuse the excesses and the hyprocrisy of some who say they find AGW a matter of concern but don't do anything about it.

On the other hand, "doing something" about AGW does not that everyone must stop all harmful activity. Human nature is recognised and that any desired action must not be too onerous for people otherwise they won't do it. For example, we ask people to turn off their lights when not using them. We are not asking people to live without electric lights at all!

We also recognise that there are, and will always be, people at different levels of affluence. Hence Misters Gore and Decaprio are not expected to live like people in municipal housing nor do we expect people living in municipal housing (in the US, UK, Australia, etc) to live like the masses in India. To a farmer in Chhattisgarh, the lifestyles of even the poorest American is as extravagant and wasteful as Gore and Decaprios lifestyles look to us.

Despite much mud-slinging in this forum, AGW proponents are not about control over the world nor about dragging everyone down to some non-technological life nor about an "everyone-is-equal" socialist state.

No, all we ask is that you look at your own lifestyle and ignore other people - whether they be better off than us (Gore et al) or worse off (most of the developing world). It starts with ourselves and if everyone on this planet did one or two small things - insulating the house, taking the train, thniking twice before flying, etc - then we would be well on our way to making the future a nicer place for our children.