re: #229 freetoken

Let me re-state: hating-on-Al-Gore is about avoiding discussing AGW and it’s aspects directly.

In other words, the obsessive need to express disdain for a single individual (of tangential relevance to a phenomenon) is a substitute for tackling the intricate and often compromising work of coming to grasp with some social reality around us.

We saw this quite a bit with GWB and his response to 9/11, where BDS became the pathology of those who wanted to ignore the truth, ,which is that the world is often an ugly place because of the extreme hatred some have for others to the point of causing mass deaths.

People who want to hate-on-Al-Gore are too often trying to find a way of ignoring how to confront the changes humans are indeed making to the natural world around them (not just the climate, but in this case particularly the climate.)

OK I have given that some thought, & I am willing to listen to the science, are you willing to provided a teacher that doess not have a billion dollar conflict of interest? it is all good.