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UCI asks: Why do people hate Al Gore?
ocregister.com ^ | 2/28/09 | Gary Robbins

Posted on 03/01/2009 9:29:06 PM PST by melt

I’ve been asked to moderate a private seminar at UC Irvine next month that has a very provocative title: The Climate Change Dilemma — and Why People Hate Al Gore.” The seminar is being sponsored by Prosperitas, a small new group of “wealthy peers” which is partnering with with UCI’s Merage School of Business to explore hot topics.

Hot, indeed.

Virtually every time I write about the weather — and every time I write about climate change or global warming — I get lots of comments from readers, many which express a disgust or hatred of Gore, who shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to publicize the potential impact of Earth’s changing climate.

Mary Patrick, Prosperitas’ associate director and organizer of the seminar, originally considered calling the discussion, simply, “Why does everyone hate Al Gore?” But the title was tweaked because Gore actually won the popular vote in the 2000 presidential election and he is admired by many for his Oscar-winning documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.”

But Patrick is right in saying politics has had a polarizing effect on climate change debate, distracting people from focusing on what scientists are actually saying. The lecture panel (read line-up) will take up that issue, and we’d like to hear your thoughts about this. I’m going to use reader comments to craft some of the questions.

Specifically, I want you to tell me what impact you think Gore has had on the climate change debate. (Use the Comment feature below). I encourage you to be candid, but don’t simply offer up insults like, “Gore is an idiot.”

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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Please do not insult rocks.


21 posted on 03/01/2009 9:43:12 PM PST by getarope (I will give Obama as much respect as the MSM gave W.)
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To: melt

Some may ask “why?”. I ask, why not?

SnakeDoc


22 posted on 03/01/2009 9:43:19 PM PST by SnakeDoctor (Proud Charter Member of the Republican Resistance.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

yeah, that about sums it up.


23 posted on 03/01/2009 9:44:14 PM PST by television is just wrong
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To: melt

Because he is just an older version of the maggot infested,dope smokin,American hatin hippy POS he was in the 1960s?


24 posted on 03/01/2009 9:44:29 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life is tough.It's even tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: melt

If I was HONEST about it, I’d get ZOTTED for SURE!!!


25 posted on 03/01/2009 9:44:48 PM PST by gwilhelm56 (WE THE PEOPLE Demand TALK RADIO to be our 1st Amendment MEDIA WATCHDOG!!!)
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To: SnakeDoctor

Some may ask “why?”. I ask, why not?

SnakeDoc


Very well put :)


26 posted on 03/01/2009 9:44:56 PM PST by Freedom56v2
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To: xcamel; steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Let me guess--- it's "Global Warming's" fault. Our brains are fried...

27 posted on 03/01/2009 9:53:04 PM PST by melt (Someday they'll wish their Jihad... Jihadn't.)
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To: SnakeDoctor
Some may ask “why?”. I ask, why not?

Good one!

28 posted on 03/01/2009 9:56:37 PM PST by GOPJ (People who can't use the new WH phone system are trying to redesign half the US economy - Brooks)
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To: Kitanis
"I do not hate Al Gore. I pity him for his constant attempt to convince people about Global Warming.."

Well I absolutely would like to slap him down to my size, for his condescending method of speaking to the American people like we're all a bunch of ignorant Democrat voters; who are just waiting to receive marching orders from him!

There are still a great majority of Americans who have some common sense, and we refuse to buy into his global hysteria about green house gases, with the need to give our money to him or anyone else who says they'll fix a problem that we know doesn't even exist.

Al Gore a "charlatan"? I think that if you look the word up in "Wikipedia", you'll find his picture, along with Bill Clinton's!

29 posted on 03/01/2009 10:00:47 PM PST by Hillarys nightmare (So Proud to be living in "Jesus Land" ! Don't you wish everyone did?)
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To: melt

Because we can.


30 posted on 03/01/2009 10:07:51 PM PST by bigbob (-)
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To: melt

Maybe people hate Al because his timing is off, like scheduling appearances at conferences on “global warming” in the middle of winter. Maybe it’s because with the arrival of the new incarnation of the Messiah, the planet isn’t big enough for two false Prophets of Doom. I don’t hate him, though, I think he’s been a blessing to conservatives and Republicans alike.


31 posted on 03/01/2009 10:08:53 PM PST by pawdoggie
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To: melt

Interesting question this is about perhaps the least likeable politician of the last 50 years.


32 posted on 03/01/2009 10:11:51 PM PST by jimfree (Freep and ye shall find!)
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To: melt
... a very provocative title: The Climate Change Dilemma — and Why People Hate Al Gore.”

Because he is so ... hateable. Is that a word??

Never mind, it is now.

33 posted on 03/01/2009 10:13:17 PM PST by RobinOfKingston (Democrats, the party of evil. Republicans, the party of stupid.)
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To: melt

Just a guess, Gary, but maybe it's because Algore is a lying hyporcite!

34 posted on 03/01/2009 10:18:08 PM PST by kcvl
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To: melt
I hate BOTH Algores.

The real one and the hologram.

35 posted on 03/01/2009 10:19:09 PM PST by SIDENET (I am just a monkey man, I'm glad you are a monkey woman, too.)
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To: melt

A baby-murderer. A liar. A crook. A pompous, hypocritical, unctuous ass. A swindler. A sociopath. Fat. Fatter. Fatter. Fatter. Fatter. A bully. “Didn’t know how to evaluate” juAnita Broaddrick’s story of being raped by Bill Clinton.


36 posted on 03/01/2009 10:22:47 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: melt

37 posted on 03/01/2009 10:23:07 PM PST by caveat emptor
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To: melt

Firstly, because he is a liar.

Secondly, through his lies and carbon credits scams, he will make billions.

Wrong.

Thirdly, he and his father are far Lefties who obtained a large amount of political funding via Occidental Oil from Tennessee...hypocrites.


38 posted on 03/01/2009 10:27:02 PM PST by wac3rd (In the end, we all are Conservative, some just need their lives jolted to realize that fact.)
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To: melt
I hate Al Gore because like most Democrat politicians he is absolutely an egocentric sociopath. He doesn't care who he scares. He doesn't care who he hurts. And he definitely doesn't care about the TRUTH.
39 posted on 03/01/2009 10:31:58 PM PST by TheThinker (Shame and guilt mongering is the Left's favorite tool of control.)
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To: Arthur McGowan

Looks like the government is run by egocentric sociopaths now. That’s not hyperbole on my part. I believe it. But it does make sense that egocentric sociopaths like Al Gore would covet governmental control and power over normal people. They are in every country and in every era. We just have to figure out how to defeat them.


40 posted on 03/01/2009 10:37:43 PM PST by TheThinker (Shame and guilt mongering is the Left's favorite tool of control.)
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