Simrat Kang
Feb.7th 2013
Essay
My thoughts were already mixed and I was kind of already dancing between the lines of believing Al Gore after watching only his movie, but after watching both sides I am more heavily sided towards the video we watched with the multiple scientists.
My reasoning behind this is because Al Gore is from a political background so he has a more political mindset rather than a scientific mind set so the way his brain thinks of this is much different.
A scientist would use facts to prove a theory; Al Gore on the other hand used partial facts to persuade the listener, so even if he wasn’t 100% right he made it sound like it was. And after watching the second video we know that even though some of his facts were correct a large number were not and a large number were blown up in size to make them seem much worst and severe when in reality they were not.
Also in Al Gore’s video, he was mainly focused on Co2 levels and the temperature coinciding with each other, and he showed graphs which proved this. But what a view wouldn't be able to see is that the graphs are distorted to look as is the graphs from both things matched, when in reality they really didn’t.
Al Gore was also very focused on the issue of the ice melting and flooding lower land regions, and just about anywhere with coastal area. He said this was because of Global Warming, but what he did not point out was that the earth has its warming periods, and its colder ones.
It was also pointed out that apparently a layer of greenhouse gases including CO2 were holding in UV rays, causing the world to become warmer. But in the other video they point out that a large percentage of the greenhouse gases is actually water vapor, and of the other gases found CO2 is a very small portion.
So in all this video didn’t really change my views, it just pushed me over to one side more and gave me confirmation on something’s that I was already thinking. So yes I do believe the other video over Al Gore’s
