Posted on 04/26/2009 9:04:45 PM PDT by American Dream 246
Evidently, it pays to tell people that the Arctic is melting into slush. Al Gore told a German audience in December that the North Pole will disappear in 5 years:
Chief climate change pimp Al Gore is making millions off of his fear-mongering. Pro Patria discovered that while Al Gore is scaring the daylights out of young children he is making millions from his green investments.
So what has Al Gore gained from his Big Green escapades?
According to public disclosure information, Gore was worth somewhere between $1 million and $2 million in 2000. Not quite eight years later, Gore is estimated to be worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 million. While I ordinarily would applaud such financial gains from such a short period of time, I can’t help but to question just how it happened. When you look out at what Al Gore has done, it’s evident that he figured out on a way to capitalize on the creation of Big Green while becoming the official doomsday prophet that has helped to build Big Green into the monetary powerhouse that it has become.
In any other industry this would be considered a severe conflict of interest. In essence, Al Gore has helped to create a fictitious catastrophe, then told everybody what the solutions have to be, and then put himself in a position to capitalize on the hype. It’s not only seriously dishonest, but many people and industries are going to suffer in the wake of this hype while Gore and Big Green bring in millions (and in some cases, billions) of dollars in green money. Hat Tip Bruce Kesler
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) challenged Al Gore's motives for supporting climate change legislation on Friday including his links to a firm that will make millions from cap and trade legislation.
Despite the crumbling case for global warming the Obama Administration plans on moving ahead with expensive cap and trade legislation that Obama admits will cause energy costs to skyrocket. The initiative will cost American families $700 to $1,400 dollars each year.
Guy has a better gig than Simon Cowell, but he still has to wear a tie to work.
THESE are the ‘obscene’ salaries that congress should be investigating and stopping, NOT bank CEO’s. Not Auto CEO’s.
But he’s still insufferable...
This from an ass clown that has made absolutely nothing more complicated than a dry martini in his entire life. Nice.
Algore might be profiting some from his save the world efforts, but I know most of his present wealth came from lucrative arrangements and consultations with the good folks at Google and Apple.
And he’s also involved in “green” companies he hopes to profit from further.
His daddy was paid $500,000/yr to represent Armand Hammer’s and Occidental Petroleum’s interest in Congress. Given inflation, his daddy was a bigger crook than horsepiss Al!
Not true. The Left is destroying the vehicle of wealth by supplanting the means of creating wealth with hollow idealism.
Then how do you explain Al Gore, the Clintons, Obama, et al getting so rich in such a short time? They are hoarding wealth and closing the door to the middle class and the private sector. They have no problem accumulating tens of millions of dollars. How's your bank account doing lately? Any $2 million book advances for having someone else write a book for you?
No personal insult intended. I'm just ranting...
Al Gore... The leper’s bell of the approaching looter.
No insult taken. These people are not actually getting monetarily rich except in the short term. What they have succeeded in doing is gaining control of the accumulated wealth of the nation. This is always enough for your basic looter. They don't care what misery will ensue. All they care about is their life of leisure in this lifetime. They are by nature sociopathic narcissists and have no interests beyond their current existence. Does that help?
Spot on! Normal people's minds just don't work this way. That is the sociopath's main advantage. They spend their existence without normal emotions of empathy and quickly learn as children to emulate said emotions. But in their minds, they just feel a kind of cold contempt for people who actually have normal emotions. They gravitate to positions of power because that is the only gratification left to them. I've read statistics that as many as six or seven percent of people have this affliction to one extent or another.
Algore was there dissing the AGW 'deniers', saying that the scientists from whom they got their data were paid by the 'oil industry'. So who's paying the scientists who are coming up with the AGW data? And why should we take anything Algore says seriously, when his catastrophic predictions are serving to drum up revenue for the Carbon Trading scheme from which he is personally profiting?
His money is all tied up in Green Companies - the more fear he instills on the public the more people get suckered into this hoax/scheme and the more money he makes. Dems scream about those evil fat cats and capitalists but it seems to me that they are the ones that are evil and doing the exact things that they rail against.
He was at the congressional hearing to do the same thing because the super majority creates the perfect storm for him and GE for all this green crap to be passed so people have to invest in these companies and buy these inane products. They know it’s BS that’s why Gore refuses to debate GW with anyone. A bunch of evil, corrupt, lying D*bags.
Had to get that off my chest - sorry!
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