Al Gore may appear to be what you would call a democrat or a liberal but you're just reading the label. Don't judge a book by it's cover, he's a conman not a liberal. He own a site that takes money on that carbon credit scam right? Nuff said...
Global warming probably is bullshit, we can barely make a dent in what is naturally put out, agreed.
If we weren't here there might be even more co2 put out from all the forest fires we weren't around to put out.
But, that doesn't mean we don't have to change. Toxic thick smog hanging over cities making people sick, plastic etc in the ocean, 3rd world countries doing nasty nasty stuff still like we did back in the day dumping awful shit everywhere and living in filth.
Is the movement a fraud? No. Just a good chunk of it, just like there's a good percentage of assholes and liars everywhere and in everything else.
Maybe he should go "invent" another internet.
I am not inclined to believe that making a profit from green industry is a bad thing. And Gore would be a leader in this field. Historically, technology advancements have been a result of capitalism. If Gore has explored the causes and cures of global warming, he's in an excellent position to profit from the cure. It's the Amercian profile.
Gore never stated that he invented the internet. The origin of this claim was a Wolf Blitzer interview in which he stated:
"During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection ....".
FROM WIKIPEDIA:
Indeed, Gore co-chaired the Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future, along with Newt Gringrich. In addition, he has been described as having been a "genuine nerd, with a geek reputation running back to his days as a futurist
Atari Democrat in the House. Before computers were comprehensible, let alone sexy, the poker-faced Gore struggled to explain artificial intelligence and fiber-optic networks to sleepy colleagues. Internet pioneers Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn have also noted that, "as far back as the 1970s, Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the improvement of our educational system. He was the first elected official to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship [...] the Internet, as we know it today, was not deployed until 1983. When the Internet was still in the early stages of its deployment, Congressman Gore provided intellectual leadership by helping create the vision of the potential benefits of high speed computing and communication. As an example, he sponsored hearings on how advanced technologies might be put to use in areas like coordinating the response of government agencies to natural disasters and other crises."As a Senator, Gore began to craft the
High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 (commonly referred to as "The
Gore Bill") after hearing the 1988 report
Toward a National Research Network submitted to Congress by a group chaired by
UCLA professor of computer science,
Leonard Kleinrock, one of the central creators of the
ARPANET (the ARPANET, first deployed by Kleinrock and others in 1969, is the predecessor of the Internet).The bill was passed on December 9, 1991 and led to the
National Information Infrastructure (NII) which Gore referred to as the "
information superhighway."
So, he is ridiculed for an unfortunate choice of words, but the essence of what he said is accurate.
Just say'n.
