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Al Gore - Argument by Term Paper
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…
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