Al Gore - Argument by Authority and Semantic Argument

As a former vice president of the United States, and someone who has a passion for the environment and his research on the environment won him an academy award, then people should pay close attention to the scientific facts he is sharing with people in his award winning documentary, an Inconvenient Truth (2006). Allegations that bad science and special interests are at the heart of this documentary are mean spirited and come from conservatives still stinging from the fact that Al Gore was the real elected president in the 2000 presidential race. Now, as Gore reminds us, he is the man who once was "the next president of the United States," and he, like the rest of America, by virtue of the fact that they robbed of the presidency in 2000, share a bond in their love for America. We know, because this is the man who cared about America and Americans, that when Al Gore says the facts show that global warming is because of mankind's neglect of the environment and CO2 emissions resulting from mankind's overuse of fossil fuels; that he is not attempting to mislead us, and we can have confidence in what he says.

The scientists in the documentary the Great Global Warming Swindle (2007) are conservatives and are letting their politics rule their science. Even though they allege that the bad science in an Inconvenient Truth is unsupported by scientific fact, and just because they present scientific facts disputing the science presented in an Inconvenient Truth, just goes to show that the truth is not always convenient! Science has been wrong many times in the past, and everyday in the news there is information to show that what many of us grew up believing, like that Uranus is a planet; has been proven wrong.

Just because Al Gore did not use mathematical formulas in his an Inconvenient Truth, does not mean that the scientists who used mathematical formulas to show that Al

Gore's assertions were wrong are right.

Al Gore wasn't just vice president; he was also a United States senator and very expert at gathering facts with which to make laws in the best interest of the people of the United States. Al Gore would not mislead the people of the United States with whom he shares a very special bond.