Lawyer-Wearing-Yarmulka
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Do As I Say, Not As I Do, Part II
Memo to Al Gore: If we are really facing a "true planetary emergency", then do your part and move to a smaller house.
And please, nobody start talking about carbon credits. It's just feel-good hype, as Business Week calls it. Though I prefer the term ecological indulgences", coined by Charles Krauthammer.
And please, nobody start talking about carbon credits. It's just feel-good hype, as Business Week calls it. Though I prefer the term ecological indulgences", coined by Charles Krauthammer.
posted by LWY, 12:26 AM
6 Comments:
Wow it must hurt to be shut down by your own boys
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,259938,00.html
and I'll reiterate the other points Gore has made to his critics
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/26/gore-responds-to-drudge/
and here
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/18/hannity-pathetic/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,259938,00.html
and I'll reiterate the other points Gore has made to his critics
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/26/gore-responds-to-drudge/
and here
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/18/hannity-pathetic/
Do As I Say, Not As I Do
Pay no attention to my argument, only to my personal life.
Pay no attention to my argument, only to my personal life.
Wow it must hurt to be shut down by your own boys
I don't generally read or watch Fox News, so I really don't consider them my children.
Also, what does this story have anything to with what I said?
Pay no attention to my argument, only to my personal life.
How is Gore any different from the evangelical preacher who preaches chastity but gets caught with a prostitute?
I don't generally read or watch Fox News, so I really don't consider them my children.
Also, what does this story have anything to with what I said?
Pay no attention to my argument, only to my personal life.
How is Gore any different from the evangelical preacher who preaches chastity but gets caught with a prostitute?
J - So because Al can't have solar panels he's free to destroy our planet? I don't see how the Foxnews article "shuts down" CWY's argument.
Jewish Atheist - The argument is crap too if it helps any. I think Al's personal habits are actually more relevant than they would otherwise be because they (potentially) inform us as to his real views of the actual seriousness of Global Warming (and the significance of human activity in contributing to it). If Human activity is really so terrible, why is chief alarmist Al acting in such a fashion? Doesn't he know that he is helping to destroy the entire world! Its hard to believe that things are quite so dire, when the chief spokesman for a movement doesn't act as if what he's saying is really serious.
Jewish Atheist - The argument is crap too if it helps any. I think Al's personal habits are actually more relevant than they would otherwise be because they (potentially) inform us as to his real views of the actual seriousness of Global Warming (and the significance of human activity in contributing to it). If Human activity is really so terrible, why is chief alarmist Al acting in such a fashion? Doesn't he know that he is helping to destroy the entire world! Its hard to believe that things are quite so dire, when the chief spokesman for a movement doesn't act as if what he's saying is really serious.
How is Gore any different from the evangelical preacher who preaches chastity but gets caught with a prostitute?
He's like a preacher who preaches chastity as well as federal programs to limit the spread of HIV/AIDS. Both, through personal failings, demonstrate that the personal side of their advice may be unrealistic, but that doesn't say anything about their national proposals.
The argument is crap too if it helps any.
I'm sure the overwhelming majority of scientists will be amazed to hear it. You might get a nobel!
If Human activity is really so terrible, why is chief alarmist Al acting in such a fashion?
1) He believes in carbon neutrality, although he may be wrong.
2) His role as messenger is far more significant than his role as a man, although he has seriously damaged his role as a role model.
He's like a preacher who preaches chastity as well as federal programs to limit the spread of HIV/AIDS. Both, through personal failings, demonstrate that the personal side of their advice may be unrealistic, but that doesn't say anything about their national proposals.
The argument is crap too if it helps any.
I'm sure the overwhelming majority of scientists will be amazed to hear it. You might get a nobel!
If Human activity is really so terrible, why is chief alarmist Al acting in such a fashion?
1) He believes in carbon neutrality, although he may be wrong.
2) His role as messenger is far more significant than his role as a man, although he has seriously damaged his role as a role model.
JA - There is not, despite Al and pals claims on the subject, an "overwhelming majority" of scientists who believe that anthropogenic global warming is occurring in such a way that it will have the tremendous negative impacts that Al's been pushing. I'll grant you that a significant number of scientists do feel that way, but there exists a significant minority who say otherwise (see the recent NYT article on Al's "puffery").
The world has been significantly warmer (and significantly cooler) in the past, long before the internal combustion engine came into being, so I don't see how a rise of a degree Fahrenheit over a century's time is something to be destroying our economy over to try and reverse (assuming that we even can).
Separately, Al's actions "at home" are part of his role as messenger, and the message he sends by his actions is that this Global Warming thing isn't actually serious enough to warrant a significant change in his luxurious lifestyle. If he doesn't think so, why should anyone else?
The world has been significantly warmer (and significantly cooler) in the past, long before the internal combustion engine came into being, so I don't see how a rise of a degree Fahrenheit over a century's time is something to be destroying our economy over to try and reverse (assuming that we even can).
Separately, Al's actions "at home" are part of his role as messenger, and the message he sends by his actions is that this Global Warming thing isn't actually serious enough to warrant a significant change in his luxurious lifestyle. If he doesn't think so, why should anyone else?
