Posted on 03/02/2007 4:51:52 PM PST by lowbridge
Posted by Noel Sheppard on March 2, 2007 - 09:58.
As NewsBusters reported here, here, and here, there are huge dollars to be made from global warming alarmism. However, conceivably no one is better positioned to financially benefit from this scam than Dr. Global Warming himself, former Vice President Al Gore, a fact that the media will surely not share with Americans any time soon.
Yet, if America’s press would take some time out of their busy schedules covering the earth-shattering details surrounding Anna Nicole Smith’s demise, they might find a deliciously inconvenient truth about the soon-to-be-Dr. Gore that is significantly more fascinating and diabolical than anything likely to emerge from that courtroom in Broward County, Florida.
As reported by Dan Riehl (emphasis mine throughout):
Former Vice President Al Gore has built a Green money-making machine capable of eventually generating billions of dollars for investors, including himself, but he set it up so that the average Joe can't afford to play on Gore's terms. And the US portion is headed up by a former Gore staffer and fund raiser who previously ran afoul of both the FEC and the DOJ, before Janet Reno jumped in and shut down an investigation during the Clinton years.
Think Katie, Charlie, or Brian will be all over this tonight? Regardless, that was just the tip of the questionably melting iceberg as reported by Bill Hobbs in Nashville, Tennessee:
[H]ow Gore buys his "carbon offsets," as revealed by The Tennessean raises serious questions. According to the newspaper's report, Gore buys his carbon offsets through Generation Investment Management:
Gore helped found Generation Investment Management, through which he and others pay for offsets. The firm invests the money in solar, wind and other projects that reduce energy consumption around the globe...
Gore is chairman of the firm and, presumably, draws an income or will make money as its investments prosper. In other words, he "buys" his "carbon offsets" from himself, through a transaction designed to boost his own investments and return a profit to himself. To be blunt, Gore doesn't buy "carbon offsets" through Generation Investment Management - he buys stocks.
Fascinating. So, as Dr. Global Warming travels the world in his private jet while spending 20 times the average American on energy for his home, all the time telling us its okay because he’s buying carbon offsets, he’s actually purchasing these investments from himself.
Furthermore, and maybe more important, Gore stands to benefit financially in a potentially huge way if more and more people buy into this junk science.
Isn’t that special?
Yet, it is not clear that Gore’s money is going to purchase carbon offsets at all. Riehl reported:
Here's a list indicating what it takes to make money along with Al. Funds associated with these companies have placed millions of dollars under Al Gore's control. And, as you'll see below, Gore's selection for the US President of GIM might raise a few eyebrows as well.
AFLAC INC - AQUANTIVE INC - AUTODESK INC - BECTON DICKINSON & CO BLACKBAUD INC - GENERAL ELECTRIC CO - GREENHILL & CO INC - JOHNSON CTLS INC - LABORATORY CORP AMER HLDGS - METABOLIX INC - NORTHERN TR CORP - NUVEEN INVTS INC -STAPLES INC - SYSCO CORP - TECHNE CORP - UBS AG - VCA ANTECH INC - WATERS CORP - WHOLE FOODS MKT INC
According to their own documents, GIM intends to invest in, or buy companies poised to cash in on Global Warming concerns.
Putting this in perspective, for years the left and their media minions have posited that George W. Bush started war with Iraq to benefit the company Vice President Dick Cheney used to run, Halliburton, as well as Bush’s oil tycoon friends. In fact, there have been times when you couldn’t swing a dead cat in any pressroom in this nation without hitting a reporter working on such a story.
Yet, as the former Vice President continues to plug global warming as a coming crisis in need of immediate attention, the same media completely ignore his obvious financial conflicts of interest.
No liberal media bias there.
However, as Riehl pointed out, this story is even juicier:
To add insult to injury, Gore chose Peter S. Knight, an old friend and colleague some are sure to recall, as the US President of GIM.
Peter S. Knight, formerly Managing Director Met West Financial, lawyer, Chief of Staff for Senator Al Gore (D-TN) from 1977-1989, and Campaign Manager for President Clinton's successful re-election in 1996, is President of Generation U.S.
This would be him: Reno Rejects Inquiry Into a Clinton Aide
Atty Gen Janet Reno decides against any further investigation of Peter Knight, Pres Clinton's 1996 campaign manager in connection with office building development in nation's capital; such an investigation could have led to naming independent counsel to look further into activities of Knight, who is also former top assistant to Vice Pres Al Gore.
Yes, thanks to Janet Reno, no one ever found out how $20,000 in stock turned up in an account for Knight's then 13 year old child.
Dispute over Democratic Party campaign-financing shifts to Zachary Knight, 13-year-old son of Peter S Knight, Clinton-Gore campaign chairman in 1996, who was given $20,000 in stock by William Haney 3d, chairman of Molten Metal Technology Inc; Republicans believe gift, which came after father was named chairman of campaign, was really payment to Knight, who had worked as $7,000-per-month lobbyist for company; Knight denies involvement in any impropriety; photo
Riehl accurately asked:
If Gore's motivation in pushing Global Warming is so altruistic, was it really necessarily for the already wealthy Gore to establish a multi-million dollar corporation in England to cash in? And given the history of Gore and Knight, are these people we should trust to drive a re-vamping of the world economy at the same time they're lining their pockets because of our much smaller carbon footprints?
Riehl marvelously concluded:
If Al Gore is successful with this latest scheme, Gore and his cronies are going to be much more $green$ than most of the earth. And the only green in this for you and me is the kind that accompanies envy as Gore trucks around on private jets putting dollars to offset his extravagance into a cash machine generating profits on the backs of the middle class with misrepresented science that doesn't deserve to be called science at all.
Meanwhile, a complacent media, rather than hounding Gore over his financial conflicts of interest, continue to shill for this conman’s junk science.
When you add it all up, this is a flimflam of epic proportions:
America -- what a country!
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2007/03/al_gores_inconv.html
Click pn POGW graphic for full GW rundown
Ping me if you find one I've missed.
bump
Will read later when it's not so hot.
ty.....and who says this isn't tied to economics....lol
later ping
It has been really obvious from a scientific point of view that he knows nothing about the Earth, and he obviously has a plan.
Of course, the alternative media will be all over this ASAP, so that doesn't really matter. Ah, now we see what's really behind the lib pitch for the "Fairness Doctire." As Rush always says, follow the money...
Of course, the alternative media will be all over this ASAP, so that doesn't really matter. Ah, now we see what's really behind the lib pitch for the "Fairness Doctire." As Rush always says, follow the money...
Gore is a total deceitful loser...like his mentors, Bonnie and Clyde. This whole scam is a farse, a faux reality, all with the purpose of bilking the taxpayer even more. That is the end game of this hoax -- and his blatant trail of lying hypocrisy and fraud.
And the odds the MSM will cover any of this? Let's put it this way -- you'd be better off buying a SuperLotto ticket than putting any cash on that wager.
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The MSM is shoveling dirt as fast as they can over this one!!! It is big, and it is all about LIBERAL HOAX AND CRIME and they will not touch it....good little lap dogs.
Guess we can't live without Green Widgets.Reminds me also of pet rocks.
I guess this is why it is so important for them to have the Dems in charge- so there is no chance of them being investigated. But then, the wimpy Republicans wouldn't do anything anyway, that's why they lost.
I imagine Gore paying off a proxy to serve his time in Army!
Oh wait! They did that during the Civil War. Not Vietnam!
Al Gore! Blowing smoke up the wazoo and the lemmings breathe it up!
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Established in April 2004; Independent, private, owner-managed partnership; Offices in London, and Washington, D.C.; Plans for Melbourne in 2008
Comprised of a global, integrated team of 23 people, including 12 investment professionals
Dedicated to thought leadership on sustainability and capital markets ~5% of our profitability is allocated to the Generation Foundation
Generation's Advisory Board consists of global thinkers who help us anticipate the changing context for business
The Generation team of 23 people represents 9 countries, speaks 8 languages, and integrates traditional equity analysts with experts from the sustainability research field. Within the team, Generation has 12 investment professionals with over 80 years of combined investment experience.
Full biographies of members of our firm [PDF].
The firm was created in 2004 by six founding Partners:
Hon. Al Gore is Chairman;
David Blood, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, is Managing Partner;
Mark Ferguson, previously co-Head of Pan-European Research at Goldman Sachs Asset Management and a Global Equities Portfolio Manager, is Chief Investment Officer;
Peter Harris, previously head of International Operations for Goldman Sachs Asset Management, is Chief Operating Officer;
Peter S. Knight, formerly Managing Director Met West Financial, lawyer, Chief of Staff for Senator Al Gore (D-TN) from 1977-1989, and Campaign Manager for President Clinton's successful re-election in 1996, is President of Generation U.S.; and
Colin le Duc, previously Director of Research for SAM Sustainable Asset Management in Zurich and strategy consultant for Arthur D. Little in London, is Head of Research.
Our Chairman, former Vice President Al Gore, has assembled Generation's Advisory Board which consists of global leaders and thinkers from capital markets, industry, sustainability, economics, and geopolitical fields. The Advisory Board plays an important part in establishing our long term thematic research agenda into global sustainability issues, such as poverty, climate change, ecosystem services, biodiversity, pandemics, demographics, migration, public policy and responsible lobbying.
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Oh come on. If he says the earth is flat, then it has to be. :-)
This sort of reminds me of Jesse Jackson's con on corporations when he would blackmail them into donating to him by threatening black boycotts. Gore's scam is just more sophisticated and on a much larger scale.
Has to be flat
Algore is such a joke.
So is it safe to say that algore's movie is an informercial??
Pray for W and Our Troops
*BUMP* ! Michael Savage was all over this today.
If Algore could contrive and pull off a scam like this, Just think of what the Clintons are capable of!
Gore Defends High Energy Consumption
Former Vice-President and global warming guru, Al Gore, rebuffed critics who see his high usage of energy at home and in his travels as “hypocritical.” “My monthly electric bills aren’t out of line when you consider the fact that I live in a large mansion and have many friends over for parties and dinners,” Gore said. “People who have no friends and live in smaller houses can get by with using less energy. I have to maintain a standard of living more compatible with my importance as a human being compared to the average person.”
Gore said his transportation needs were similarly justified. “I’m in high demand,” Gore boasted. “I’m getting paid $175,000 a speech. I can’t afford to waste time waiting in line for public transportation. Under such circumstances I think private limos and private jets are fully justified.”
The average household in America consumes about 11,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) a year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, the Gore household consumed over 220,000 kWh--more than 20 times as much.
Gore likewise rejected the charge of hypocrisy. “Look, my message is that people shouldn’t be allowed to consume more energy than they need,” Gore contended. “There’s no hypocrisy. I and my family need more than the average person or household. Under my climate control plan, the government would sort all this out and determine allocations based on need. I have no doubt that my greater need would be recognized and allowed by my plan.”
“I’m not asking people to bear the burden of trying to decide how to conserve,” Gore said. “This places too much pressure on each individual. I’m saying that the government needs to make these decisions and enforce them with appropriate sanctions against those who refuse to conform to the government’s directives. I will also abide by these directives, just like everyone else.”
read more...
http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm
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Beautiful!
Idea for the show on Saturday!
ROFLLLL!!!!
I hope you call before the last 10 minutes of the show!!!
BTW-- when are we going to meet for coffee?
Enron was behind the global warming enthusiasm during the Clinton years. They wanted to run the emissions trading markets.
Looks like Al liked their ideas.
Before proceeding, however, one should ask whether Algore -- not the sharpest knife in the drawer -- conceived this scheme. Or was it conceived by others, using Algore in a role that he perfected during the Clinton administration: Dupe.
It would not surprise if this was not some diabolical scheme by Algore, but rather one designed to market him and his fixation on "man-made catastrophe and we're all doomed" to gin up the money machine.
Me? I vote for Algore as Useful Idiot. Again.
bump - we need to keep this story alive because few others will
“People who have no friends and live in smaller houses can get by with using less energy. I have to maintain a standard of living more compatible with my importance as a human being compared to the average person.”
I call spoof.
So conveniently busted
Great article
ANY day now, global warming will change from the world's biggest scare to the world's biggest joke.
In fact, that moment could have come already. Last Monday, to be exact.
That's when we saw a beaming Al Gore waddle on stage to the roar of Hollywood's dream-makers to get his Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth.
It should have been for the former US vice president -- now the world's most famous global warming alarmist -- his finest hour.
Here he was, receiving film's highest honour for his smash documentary, in which he warns that within a century the seas will rise up to 6m while monster hurricanes tear through what's left of our cities.
Never mind that scientists reject such wild claims. Gore was getting the endorsement that counts -- an ovation from the diamond elite of showbiz and the media -- for preaching that only one thing could save us from the apocalypse he imagines.
Use. Less. Dirty. Power.
And how wildly this Use Less preacher was cheered on Monday as he stood there in his hair-shirt tuxedo. Cheered by actors who'd actually flown in by private jet. By actresses who'd driven up in stretch limos. By agents with solarium tans glowing under the brightest lights.
Ahem. Speaking of lights, Al, a small problem. But one so very typical.
At almost the very instant Gore was handed his Oscar for best documentary, The Tennessean, his home state paper, reported he'd in fact won an Oscar for hypocrisy.
Billing records of the Nashville Electric Service revealed that the local Gore mansion -- a 20-room, eight-bathroom behemoth with a well-lit heated pool -- used more electricity each month than the average American household used in an entire year.
Use Less Gore had so many lights burning, heaters running, computers humming and gadgets whirring that he burned up 221,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity last year, or more than 20 times the national household average.
Worse, he was using more electricity now than he did before he made An Inconvenient Truth to hector us into making do with less.
And this isn't even counting all the power he uses for his other two homes, and his endless flights around the world, in private jets and civil, to flog his film.
Gore's staff, sensing a PR disaster the size of the Exxon Valdez, rushed to explain away this great oil spill.
Unfair, wheedled spokesman Kalee Kreider. See, Gore and his wife tried to offset their "carbon footprint" by buying their power through the local Green Power Switch program.
"They also use compact fluorescent bulbs and other energy efficiency measures and then they purchase offsets for their carbon emissions to bring their carbon footprint down to zero.".
But time is also up for this kind of easy virtue. Let's work through those three common excuses.
So Gore has low-energy light bulbs.
And he still uses all this power? My god.
So Gore uses the local green power program.
But isn't that green power just an add-on to the Nashville Energy Service's main source of base-load power -- gassy coal-fired power plants?
And doesn't the NES's green methane-burning plant still need to burn some dirty coal to work properly? Don't its emissions still contribute to global warming?
And so we get to Gore's final excuse -- the get-out-of-jail card of so many of our warming prophets of doom, from Alarmist of the Year Tim Flannery to that Jeremiah of the airport lounge, David Suzuki: Gore buys carbon offsets.
That actually means he pays other folk to use less dirty power themselves, or take out the carbon dioxide he pumps out. It's a bit like paying someone to starve so you can gorge.
But there are at least four problems with such offsets, the first of which is very particular to Gore. And that is Gore buys his offsets through Generation Investment Management, whose chairman is . . . Al Gore.
What's more, GIM's business is not to itself remove carbon from the air, but, it says, to "buy high quality companies at attractive prices that will deliver superior long-term investment returns".
Oh, and by the way, those companies have to be green. Some are even wind farms, although even they -- don't kid yourself -- produce some greenhouse gasses.
So Gore isn't so much buying offsets as investing in fashionable companies for profit. Lucky him. Rich him.
The second problem with his offsets is that if global warming really is going to fry us to Hell, shouldn't Gore cut emissions, rather just be carbon neutral?
Third problem is that even green groups now doubt many carbon offsets actually work.
For instance, the most common offset scheme -- especially here -- is to simply plant trees, often in places where people would probably plant them anyway.
But trees die and rot, and when they do they release much of the carbon they've trapped back into the air.
As Prof. Oliver Rackham, the Cambridge botanist and author, says: "Telling people to plant trees is like telling them to drink more water to keep down rising sea levels." What goes in will come out.
Besides, who checks these schemes to see they do what they claim? The band Coldplay, for instance, last year found that most of the trees of the mango plantation it planted in India to offset its world tour had actually died.
And, lastly, there's a moral problem. Offsets are really best suited for people rich enough -- like Gore -- to afford them.
They let the rich pay someone else to use less so they can use more. And so the aristocrat can party on under the chandeliers, while the power-rationed peasants sit out in his dark.
Of course, one hypocrite like Gore shouldn't discredit an entire cause. Yet it can't be an accident that global warming attracts more hypocrites than most faiths.
There's Tim Flannery, criss-crossing the world by jet to tell us to use less oil.
There's British PM Tony Blair lecturing Britons to cut their emissions, but declaring it "unreasonable" to expect him therefore to stop flying off on his overseas holidays.
And there's Prince Charles booking out all of a jet's first and second class to fly to New York to accept a green award from Gore.
Ah, Gore again. Which reminds me of Laurie David, one of the producers of Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.
David, too, demands we save the world by cutting our gasses, yet turns out to be as addicted to private jets as her friend Al.
Asked recently to explain such inconvenient hypocrisy, David spluttered: "Yes, I take a private plane on holiday a couple of times a year."
But -- and here's where she shows she's nobler than you -- "I feel horribly guilty about it."
See? The global warming faith is more about how you feel than what you actually do. Even the makers of An Inconvenient Truth demonstrate that. What a circus.
So what is the moral in this carnival of hypocrisy?
It's that global warming is an apocalyptic faith whose preachers demand sacrifices of others that they find far too painful for themselves.
It's a faith whose prophets can demand we close coal mines but who won't even turn off their own pool lights. Who demand the masses lose their cars, while they themselves keep their planes.
It's the ultimate faith of the feckless rich, where a ticket to heaven can be bought with a cheque made out to Al Gore. No further sacrifice required.
Except, of course, from the poor. While Gore's lights burn brightly, for you the darkness is coming.
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Oh, would you believe that it was on the front page of the New York Times.
No?
Would you believe.....
I love this offsets idea.
Just think if Bill Clinton had, say, infidelity offsets, he would have had no problem with Lewinski scandal. Ted Kennedy, likewise, could have used some personal responsibility offsets at Chappaquidick. Heck, if the Dems would allow a Republican to use them, I think Rep. Foley would have built up enough molestation offsets through his work to protect children from abuse that even if he had actually molested someone, it would have been a wash.
This could free up everyone from any personal responsibility. Only a Lib could create such a ridiculous system. And of course, in reality, only a lib could benefit from it
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