The only thing Al Gore could ever convince me of is that he is completely insane. Long ago, the alleged "science" and "data" that "flipped" Shermer and many other simpleminded leftist was shown to be distortion and deception. No matter. Just keep repeating it, over and over, and add a bit more urgency as time goes on.
Like a "Wizard taking away the sun" during a solar eclipse, the vast unwashed mob of the easily-led are made to believe that what the Wizard says MUST be true! They saw it with their own eyes, just as we see proof of receding glaciers and "data" that "confirms" what Al Gore screams in his feverish delusion. "Man is doing this! And we must stop it now!" CO2 is the culprit. End of debate. Yet...
Yet, no mention of the fact that CO2 is but a tiny percentage of what is considered "Greenhouse gases" in our atmosphere. And of the CO2 that is there, only a tiny percentage of that is the result of human activity. So much more data and scientific fact MUST be left out and ignored to even begin to build a case for "man made global warming" that any standard of scientific research ethics would dismiss the entire tortured concept of "MMGW" for lack of credible evidence, much less its totally faulty logic.
No, my friends, science has little to do with it at this stage, rational scientific debate, even less. To finish my argument, I ask you all to ask of a "Global Warmer", "Just what do we do then, to avert this impending doom for all of Mankind?" There is no answer, short of the virtual shutdown of the world's industrial economies. Drastic reduction in all combustion, not just fossil fuel, will be necessary, to even affect the CO2 levels by a tiny amount, and that would be difficult to measure even then. They have no "solution", short of human extinction, really, since no nation would simply sit by and die an economic death and collapse for the sake of the insane policies of leftist environmentalists. And I guarantee there are loonies out there in leftist Academe that are building a case for that too!
Excellent response.
These leftists and their deceived followers are of the same persuasion that latched onto the theoretical illusions of Marx and Engels at the end of an earlier century, with about the same results as humankind will get if the political establishment continues to swallow the Global Warming hoax.
It is extremely important not to attribute intellectual integrity to the purveyors of this scientific mysticism. They are merely frontmen for the worst kind of totalitarian impulses, and their fear mongering and technical gobbledegook needs to be seen for what it really is.