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Originally Posted by dyna mo
in other words: both sides are responsible for politicizing curbing pollution. In fact, al gore was the impetus and motivator behind politicizing curbing pollution(making it a democratic keystone) and consequently impeding the progress by polarizing the effort.
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Actually Al Gore wrote his book and made his movie "after" he was out of public office. At that point it was a non partisan issue and you can even find videos of George Bush from that time agreeing that global warming was a serious threat.
Then Gore's movie became popular and the right wing went ape shit crazy and tried to used his movie against the Democrats in the next election by attempting to claim there was doubt about GW, even though the only doubt came at the hands of their big oil lobbyists. Up until that point the GOP had the position that global warming was a threat.
It was the right that first made it a partisan issue and they continue to do it today and you just buy into it.