Posted on 04/02/2008 10:17:45 PM PDT by kathsua
Al Gore bought carbon credits to cover his "global footprint." Sounds impressive, but in reality, if I thought the Earth was in such peril, paying to help maintain the Redwood Forest is a strange payoff.
When any claim is repeated over and over, the mantra seems to become fact. One's rational thought and reason are "tweaked," and we just believe.
"Yes we are in a warming, but CO2 has not been proven as the cause," says John R. Christy, who is a partial recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and a climatologist.
"Mother Nature simply operates at a level of complexity that is, at this point, beyond the mastery of mere mortals," says Christy, who believes Earth's climate cycles every 1,500 years.
In the 1960s, England was given a 50-50 chance of surviving into the 21st century. Manhattan was predicted to become so polluted that gas masks would have to be worn. Club of Rome predicted the Earth was failing from the weight of overpopulation. Dire predictions of global cooling came in the '70s.
Economist Julian Simon said all the predictions of the '60s and '70s were "globaloney." Catastrophe global warming hype could fall in that category also, I say.
One-hundred scientists wrote the U.N. secretary general on Dec. 13 that CO2 is a new pollutant essential to plant growth and that glacial retreat and sea rise are all within the bounds of natural variability. Warming has leveled and since 1998 has not increased. The Earth climate cycles, and everything has happened before.
The Kyoto Protocol was to be the beginning of the great fix. Ten years later, with a cap and trade system costing trillions, the European Union emissions have actually increased. The great fix, making a select few wealthy, failed.
Economist Bjorn Lomborg said that the trillions spent on cap and trade could have bought enough nets to wipe out malaria, help curb HIV or even provide clean drinking water and sanitation, to improve life for many. Clear thinking is required.
Kansas is in the spotlight because of the proposed Holcomb coal-fired power plant being denied air permits. An environmentalist came to Hutchinson to do a presentation on global warming. During the question-and-answer period, I asked what had caused Greenland to be free of ice in 1126 so the Vikings could settle there. The answer was priceless: That was then, and it has nothing to do with the present. My thought is that just maybe what caused it in the 10th and 13th centuries is the same now.
Scientists use climate data model sets to compile information used for their theories. The results are only as accurate as the information fed into them. Lomborg does not agree with the catastrophe hype that is so freely spouted.
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and her secretary of health and environment decided to clean Kansas' air. Holcomb was the first, even though it was going to include a bioenergy center and renewable energy.
Kansas has 90 feed lots with 6.4 million cattle. Now that results in a lot of methane gas being expelled and urine soaking into the ground. Methane is one of the components in the atmosphere that supposedly is causing global warming. This makes one wonder just exactly how much concern there is for global warming, or just maybe the governor was trying to impress the environmentalists, the left, and just maybe put a star by her name for the next administration.
The poor polar bear has become the symbol for global warming. Environmentalists want them put on the endangered list, even though their numbers have grown. Just maybe the environmentalists want the clout of the endangered list to stop the exploration of energy in the Chucki Sea.
Gore has made millions on his mantra, but he has not changed his lifestyle. I guess he figures there are others who will bite the bullet to curb their global footprints.
The U.N., environmentalists and even some in Congress want to use the failed EU cap and trade. We all need to learn about this enemy, global warming: Is it real, can we stop it, or should we even try to stop it? Yes, we should clean our environment, take care of this planet God gave us. More money needs to go into R&D so we can become energy-independent, not because of global warming, but because it is what is best for the United States.
After reading, studying, talking to geologists, power companies and a professor, I have come to the conclusion we need to write our politicians and let them know it is OK to stand up and say that the "finished science" Gore preaches is in reality just a moneymaking scheme.
Yvonne Wittig lives in Larned.
Gore a fraud? I’m shocked.
Gore is the Modern Day Snake Oil salesman.
I agree with her completely.
I cannot think of one spineless Republican who would even try.
I'm beginning to believe that Liberals have so infiltrated the
Republican party, that only a major war could change the current
fall into the pits of socialist hell.
Who will be man enough to fire the first shot into Congress!
“...they will investigate Algore and his fellow crooks?”
Maybe not, but it sounds like a GREAT tag line to raise cash and votes with!
If you got Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson agreeing on GW you know “Thar’s gold in them thar hills.”
Investigate! Please. This bunch of republicans we got will get their spouses and kids named as Global warming experts par excellence. FR could cut the fundraising if we got smart and raised our hands to swear the truth of GW.
Thars gold in them thar hills.
No.
John McCain is right beside Al Gore in the thick of this scam. McCain gave a speech about a week ago talking about how serious he is about global warming and what he’ll do about it when he gets elected. McCain is just one more liberal whack job.
Click on POGW graphic for full GW rundown
New!!: Dr. John Ray's
GREENIE WATCH
The Great Global Warming Swindle Video - back on the net!! (click here)
Ping me if you find one I've missed.
When they say “It’s not about the money.”
It means that “It’s all about the money.”
I learned that the hard way.
Fraternities/Sororities/Charities/Civic Organizations like MADD may be “non-profit”, but that does not mean “no profit”.
The directors and executives still draw huge salaries.
BINGO!
Your stupid neighbors didn’t care about trees and the polar bears.
This should make them care....either care or you will die.
You are far more diplomatic than I am. I just tell people it is total BS brought on by socialists and globalists desire for control of the world’s population.
I, too, was in college in the 70s. At least twice a month, I attended after-hours seminars given by visiting scientists who were warning of the Earth’s cooling, and proposing various solutions: including such things as orbiting mirrors and spreading carbon black on icecaps and glaciers and deserts. The alarmists now try to claim “mainstream scientists” never bought into the claims of “coming Ice Age” it was just Newsweak, etc. ... WRONG: I was there.
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