spring has really sprung!

Don't like him.

al and pat = a match made in heaven

ditto shop!

So he gets all this money, and he reinvests it to make more money, and we call the philanthropy?

UnDave you are quickly becoming a favorite commenter of mine!

Is it because of my snappy humor, or incredible good looks?

Dave. GREAT point

OH its BOTH! Your nondescript face... the subtle blue sheen.... very sexy!

Love it Dave!

I can't stand Al.

Dave, I don't enjoy your humor, but I do find your incredibly good looks irresistible.

Oh, and it looks like Barry Goldwater is checking you out and ready to pounce, so beware.

I'm for Al!!

So people are backlashing against someone warning us that the Earth is heating up? Well, that seems reasonable, now excuse me while I kill my doctor for warning me about cholesterol.

Oh UnDave35, cabaker27 and cine_lover you three are real rich. As it relates to the importance of the issue should we really give two flies that you don't like Al Gore. Hell if the man ran over my grandmother and then backed over her again that still does not negate the issues of climate change.

Below I've copied and pasted my response from a related issue.

For those of you who feel that (alarmists) are simply too alarmed over the issue. Do not be swayed into indifference & complacency by some people’s poor judgment to exaggerate facts to prove a point. There is every need for all of us to act diligently in taking very simple measures to ensure a sustainable future. Which ever semantics you choose to prescribe to the end result must be conservation.

In my opinion anyone who suggests that the planet is not in some type of peril is foolish and needs to open their eyes. Now I will agree that the peril may or may not be in the context of current global warming theories. However, you simply can not ignore catastrophic loss in bee, amphibian and coral populations. Decades of water resource legal wars between California Nevada and Arizona. Extinction rates. Rolling black outs. Farmers being affected by annual desert growth, Annual depletion of rain forests which house half of the world’s species and are major contributors to precipitation – oxygen production – and pharmaceuticals. Catastrophic health effects of environmental pollution. The annual losses of land on the Louisiana coast do to water restriction on the Mississippi river. Wars motivated by the need to insure accessibility to natural resources. I can go on for pages but I hope my point is made. I feel that civilization needs to get out of the recurring habit of waiting till the flesh begins to blister to discuss options to remove the hand from the flame and only when some flesh has been destroyed agree on a direction to move the hand away from the fire.

We all know that conservation is beneficial to all involved. That finding cleaner renewable and sustainable ways of providing energy is no longer just an alternative but an imperative need. Our biggest challenge now is not to get stuck in a quagmire of theory’s but act upon the blue print of logic and facts that have been laid out for us thus far.

Hypno, I understand about global climate changes, doesn't mean that I have to believe that Al Gore is doing this out of the goodness of his heart. I believe he is money grubbing, and uses global warming as a tool to create more wealth for himself.

cine_lover with all due respect some one who is already rich and has more money than they need does not money grub they re invest which is what Al is doing. Money is a byproduct of the capitalism that you hold so dear now your going to shoot Al in the foot for being paid for his product and his work. Sounds like grasping at straws to me.

Further more in Al Gores case a man who has devoted his life to environmental issues does not deserve to be portrayed as devoid of sincerity in the matter and made out to look like nothing more than a greedy man. His passion is genuine and you may not agree with his theories but to attempt to strip him of his humanity when it comes to something that he has devoted his life to is an unfair analysis.

I am all for capatalism, and if people want to make the man more wealthy then he already is, then go for it. It does not mean I have to respect him for using what I deem as scare tactics. I do not believe his motives are as Nobel as other people believe them to be. I don't think he is Satan, or evil. I just don't like the guy and I do not trust his motives.

I would concede your point on nobility cine_lover if Al had all of a sudden ran out from left stage and hopped on the climate change band wagon. However, as I've said this has been his life's work. As for scare tactics that term is just a little to ambiguous for me and I think is thrown around just a little too much. If hard facts scare you than they scare you and they're facts you can't change that. Not everything he and his associates are telling us is fact which is why it falls under the realm of theory and if you don't believe his theory that's fine with me. I don't have a problem with that. If you have factual examples of serious corruption in morals or business etc. again I don't have a problem with that either. I just don't want the importance of this message or any other for that matter to be defeated a theme of indifference and personal slander which is simply someones dislike for the man and not the message.

I agree, I don't trust him or his motives... Yes, he brought attention to an issue that deserves attention. But with it he also brought a smug attitude and yet another thing that someone can be judged on without anyone actually having to get to know someone (ie. you don't use the right light bulbs? you must be ignorant!)

I agree we need to take action to conserve, but I can live without the attitude that comes with it.

I don't really like Al, does that make me a bad liberal? However, as a bona fide tree hugger, I do appreciate the attention he has brought to environmental issues. I just wish he could be a wee bit less hypocritcal in his quest, ie. lay off the private jet!!!

Hi Hyno! I've never really liked Al Gore, so I'm not gonna start now. But I think when I said I don't trust his motives with this is because someone on that thread a while back about Al getting sued over the movie by the Weather Channel people, brought up something about how Al owns a large stake in the company that sells carbon credits.

Honestly, I haven't really looked that far into it... but it sounds skeevy to me.

Plus I just think he's skeevy in general.

Hypno, I have problems with him being self righteous and then stepping into his nice private jet. I am active in conservation, and have been a tree hugger in that sense my whole life. It is great that attention is being brought to this topic, but I find his carbon credit business very fishy.

Additionally, he tries to present theories as facts, and from what I have seen, I do believe he uses scare tactics. I don't really have a better word for it, maybe it is embedded in me from liberals beating it in my brain about Bush and the war.

And honestly, if it takes someone like Gore to get people to recycle, then so be it. Again, not going to change my opinion of him or what I perceive his motives to be.

Something does not sit right with me when it come to Gore.

Yes, I remember the carbon credits issue cabaker27 and this was an investment that he inherited from his father and he then sold his shares. The reason it became such a big issue is because his opponents who despise him seek out any angle to discredit him in the process clouding the real issues with non sense like this.

I have no problem with factual criticism of Al Gore I'm certainly not saying the man is the end all when it comes to climate change. For example the whole private jet thing, if I didn't know any better I would conclude from that criticism that he flies his private jet every where to all of his events and the fact of the matter is he flies a private jet sometimes when a commercial flight is not convenient enough for him to make his appearances at lectures.

Now should his organizers plan his lectures and travel arrangements better sure they should but you have to paint the whole picture not just say he's a hippocrate because he flies his private jet everywhere.

hypnotic why do we have to like him? can't we just get a skeevy vibe and leave it at that??

Alright cine_lover I think that we can agree that all of this climate change information is theory. The scientists know it's theory. However, when a scientist, group of scientists or in this a case their spokes person Al Gore present their theory their going to discuss the facts that they believe support their theory. This does not mean that the theory it self is a fact but they are presenting facts that they believe support their theory.

It will not be for years down the road until this theory is proven or disproved.

You can hate him all you want cabaker27, just hate him justly.

I think giving me the heebie jeebies is enough to not like him...

So long as my not liking him doesn't make me not recyle right?

I'd better stop picking on you guy's before cabaker27 throws sprinkles at me. LOL!

He gives me the HJ's!

Hypno, to be honest I could pull a bunch of articles on why I don't like him, but I have done it so many times, I am just tired of it. Can we call it a truce and agree to disagree on this one? I promise to argue on anything else you want to. I am just spent on him

Sure how bout those Cubs. LOL!

I am a Yankee fan, but I do like the Cubs!

I go to my first Yankee came this Friday!!!!!!

You must be an A's or Giants fan

Go Cubbies. If the season ended in July, they'd be the best ever!! (OK, I'm a little biased here)

Nope, Dodger fan. I know Shhhhhhhh!

I wouldn't necessarily call right-wing quibbles "backlassh from the blogoshpere." I would call it "backlash from the people who don't believe that global warming exists/ is-caused-by-humans and who already hate Al Gore."

I would have a lot more respect for Al Gore on this issue if I actually saw him helping the environment. On stage at concerts and award shows just doesn't cut it with me. If he were wearing bright orange and picking up trash on the side of the road then yeah, I'd say his heart is into the environment. I mean Brad Pitt is in New Orleans building green houses for Katrina victims. Hands on, getting dirty. Why is it that Al Gore can make a movie full of questionable "facts" about the environment and he's considered the head spokesman for saving the environment? It irks me that people just slobber all over the man when there are so many more people out there that are physically making a difference. I just don't see him doing that.

Sorry I'm in the corner with cabaker and cine_lover. He irritates the hell out of me. And dang hypno I thought you were cool until you said you were a Dodgers fan. lol j/k I'm a die hard Giants fan who is still dealing with the loses that were handed to us the past two days. Oh well. lol.

This man is so clueless, he drove by a fast food restaurant in a rough part of Los Angeles, saw a "help wanted" sign and surmised "The economy must be pretty good here, people are hiring."

Wonder where he'd be supporting his family (or even just himself) on minimum wage in an area where a one bedroom apartment in a rough neighborhood goes for $1,500 not including utilities?

Well, now that we have the Al Gore love fest out of the way. Get real people. Read and learn. If Al Gore started selling lake front property in the Sahara are you going for it. Nice touch with the flowers in the picture with him. That's probably what a CT scan of his brain looks like. Or there may be a void. I have some prime beach front just outside Vegas if anyone is interested. If I can't sell it, I'm calling Al G. to line me up some chum....I mean clients.