The Al Gore Climate Curse There are many titles oft bestowed upon Al Gore; Filmmaker, climate activist, Nobel Peace Laureate, Vice President, Presidential Nominee – all true and well deserved. Mr. Gore has dedicated much of his political career and beyond to solving climate change and its numerous geographical, political, economic and humanitarian consequences. As the first international figure to loudly, profoundly educate the public on the dangers of Global Warming in the widely acclaimed film, An Inconvenient Truth, he brought climate change into the homes of Americans and into the mailboxes of they’re politicians. An honorable and necessary message, yes, but not one that has proven to be beneficial to the environmental cause through
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Gore’s message of the importance of understanding and combating climate change has always been based in scientific fact. If anything, the message of exigency he delivered in his famous PowerPoint presentation in 2006 has proven to be modest. Gore and his team of scientists predicted the number of Hurricanes weighing in as Category 4 and 5 would rise proportionately with the rising sea temperature at the Equator. A recent study at MIT published in “Nature Magazine” has produced evidence that this relationship is more likely exponential. Furthermore, a popular statistic often linked to Gore’s presentation is that the ten hottest years on record had all occurred within the fourteen years prior to that year – 2006. In 2011, ten of the hottest years on record had all occurred within the previous …show more content…
Gore knows as well as anyone the power of hate in the U.S.A. Having spent the 53rd year of his life weathering the category 5 shitstorm of the 2000 Presidential Election, he also knows as well as anyone the power of politics to divide. In light of this knowledge, it was blindingly irresponsible to bring Global Warming to the public forum from a mouth that has espoused such divisiveness in the political sphere. Like most issues, Global Warming is much too fragile to be left to politicians to solve. Global climate change is not at it’s core a political issue. It is a human issue. The storms, droughts, rising ocean levels, heat waves, cold snaps, and famines tied to climate change are not red and they are not blue. And yet in 2011, only 48% of self-identified Republicans reported believing climate change exists while 85% of self-identified Democrats did. Global climate change was mentioned exactly 0 times in the course of all three presidential debates between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, the first time for the issue to be absent since
Gore’s message of the importance of understanding and combating climate change has always been based in scientific fact. If anything, the message of exigency he delivered in his famous PowerPoint presentation in 2006 has proven to be modest. Gore and his team of scientists predicted the number of Hurricanes weighing in as Category 4 and 5 would rise proportionately with the rising sea temperature at the Equator. A recent study at MIT published in “Nature Magazine” has produced evidence that this relationship is more likely exponential. Furthermore, a popular statistic often linked to Gore’s presentation is that the ten hottest years on record had all occurred within the fourteen years prior to that year – 2006. In 2011, ten of the hottest years on record had all occurred within the previous …show more content…
Gore knows as well as anyone the power of hate in the U.S.A. Having spent the 53rd year of his life weathering the category 5 shitstorm of the 2000 Presidential Election, he also knows as well as anyone the power of politics to divide. In light of this knowledge, it was blindingly irresponsible to bring Global Warming to the public forum from a mouth that has espoused such divisiveness in the political sphere. Like most issues, Global Warming is much too fragile to be left to politicians to solve. Global climate change is not at it’s core a political issue. It is a human issue. The storms, droughts, rising ocean levels, heat waves, cold snaps, and famines tied to climate change are not red and they are not blue. And yet in 2011, only 48% of self-identified Republicans reported believing climate change exists while 85% of self-identified Democrats did. Global climate change was mentioned exactly 0 times in the course of all three presidential debates between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, the first time for the issue to be absent since