The two videos we watched seemed to be quite different. The Doomsday Called Off videos do not think that global warming is caused by humans, unlike Al Gore. They say that cities are getting warmer, but not because of greenhouse gases. The cities are getting warmer because of the surroundings. The more buildings around, the more heat kept in the cities. Also, the scientists in the Doomsday videos believe that sea level has gone down, and they present this by showing a tree on the beach that could not possibly still be standing if the sea level was rising. Gore believes that sea levels are rising and one day Manhattan, Florida, and other states and countries will be under water. Gore is not a scientist, how could he possibly know that sea levels are going up? He probably is working with scientists, but the scientists in the Doomsday videos seemed a lot more credible than Gore. The scientists in the Doomsday video also say that Antarctica cannot possibly be melting, unlike Gore who says it is. The scientists say the air is way too cold; if the climate got warmer it would make Antarctica grow because it would just melt and immediately freeze due to the air being so cold.
In my opinion, Al Gore does not seem too credible when he was speaking with Charlie Rose. Gore said that there is no debate from scientists about global warming because it is happening, but that's not the case considering the scientists in the Doomsday video say it's not happening as fast as people think. Gore talked about all of these people he talked to, but they were all "off the record." That seems a little fishy to me. In my opinion, Gore's interview did not impress me too much, and I thought the Doomsday video was very impressive.
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