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Originally Posted by Dvae
Al Gore is a piece of shit too. Fortunately though its fairly easy to see that his disinformation skill set sucks too, and might probably only fool the worst of the poorly educated.
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Al Gore got some things wrong, but also got a lot of things right. There is a great article about this at
Is Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth accurate?
The vilification of Al Gore is best understood in the context of personalisation. When opponents attack something abstract - like science - the public may not associate with the argument. By giving a name and a face and a set of behavioural characteristics - being a rich politician, for example - it is easy to create a fictional enemy through inference and association. Al Gore is a successful politician who presented a film, his training and experience suitable to the task. To invoke Gore is a way to obfuscate about climate science, for which Gore has neither responsibility, claim nor blame.