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Global warming's biggest winners: There are big profits in climate hysteria
The Washington Times ^ | March 4, 2010 | Editorial

Posted on 03/03/2010 10:10:31 PM PST by Abakumov

The greatest scandal connected to global warming is not exaggeration, fraud or destruction of data to conceal the weakness of the argument. It is those who are personally profiting from promoting this fantasy at the expense of the rest of us. ...

Mr. Gore was laying his own foundations. As he was whipping up hysteria over climate change, he cannily invested in "green" firms that stood to profit in the hundreds of millions of dollars (if not more) from increased government regulations and sweetheart deals from connected politicians and bureaucrats. The multimillionaire climate dilettante was given a free pass by reporters, who refused to ask him hard questions about the degree to which he was profiting from the panic he was causing.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: algore; climatefraud; climategate; duplicate; globalwarming

1 posted on 03/03/2010 10:10:32 PM PST by Abakumov
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To: Abakumov

Follow the money as they say...


2 posted on 03/03/2010 10:18:11 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Waste and fraud are synonymous with gov't spending)
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To: Abakumov
I heard that Trump wants Algore SUED. I want him in JAIL!!!

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An embittered former Senator and Vice President Al Gore is seen here en-route back to prison after a federal appeals court refused to review his 20 year sentence for his lead role as spokesman in the “Climategate” fraud conspiracy.

The same court recently rejected the appeals of the lengthy sentences of the 137 alleged UN “scientists” – Gore’s co-conspirators – for falsifying data supporting so-called Cap and Trade legislation that trial testimony disclosed would have virtually destroyed what remained of the U.S. economy while unjustly enriching Gore and a cabal of insiders.

During his trial, Gore was notified by the Nobel Committee that he would have to return the large monetary prize and the gold metal awarded him in 2009. He told reporters that the last of his prize money had gone to the lawyers and Tipper pawned his medal when she left him for an achondroplastic dwarf NBA center and filed for divorce after his conviction.

3 posted on 03/03/2010 10:21:33 PM PST by Dick Bachert
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To: Abakumov; tubebender; marvlus; IrishCatholic; Carlucci; Desdemona; meyer; Para-Ord.45; Normandy; ...
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

4 posted on 03/03/2010 10:26:33 PM PST by steelyourfaith (Warmists as "traffic light" apocalyptics: "Greens too yellow to admit they're really Reds."-Monckton)
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To: Dick Bachert

Wow, Neat dream.


5 posted on 03/03/2010 10:27:03 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Waste and fraud are synonymous with gov't spending)
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To: Dick Bachert; Lurkina.n.Learnin; All

6 posted on 03/03/2010 10:34:23 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Dick Bachert

You wish... the political set will always find a way to protect its own.


7 posted on 03/03/2010 10:41:41 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: Abakumov

Sounds like market manipulation and maybe an insider trade or two to me, but what do I know?


8 posted on 03/03/2010 10:44:06 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: musicman
Gore also had a lot of help.
Scientists who seemed serious, impartial and reasonable, who argued restraint, while couching their reasoned line on the assumption that , while not "settled," global warming was certainly going to destroy the world.

And then there's Ellen Goodman, the Science Retard, who not only coined the phrase "deniers," but to make sure her moron readers 'got' the connection, actually said that warming skeptics were right up there alongside holocaust deniers... That monumental gaffe should hound her until the day she dies.
I'll certainly keep reminding her!

More about that later...

9 posted on 03/03/2010 10:47:08 PM PST by Publius6961 (You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do)
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To: Publius6961; pookie18; All
The cartoon below is one of my favorites in the "global warming" catagory, and IMHO illustrates what could be the real "crime" in Al Gore's "master plan" :


10 posted on 03/03/2010 11:05:16 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Smokin' Joe

Who needs that when you can clear a cool billion on the global warming biz itself? Maybe some shadowy side figures will take a fall for that, however.


11 posted on 03/03/2010 11:45:28 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Yep.


12 posted on 03/04/2010 12:24:28 AM PST by kittykat77
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; SunkenCiv
"Caa-CHING" ping!
13 posted on 03/04/2010 1:58:35 AM PST by ApplegateRanch (If God didn't want a One Worlder hanging from every tree, He wouldn't have created rope)
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To: Abakumov

Follow the money ...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/6491195/Al-Gore-could-become-worlds-first-carbon-billionaire.html

Al Gore could become world’s first carbon billionaire

Last year Mr Gore’s venture capital firm loaned a small California firm $75m to develop energy-saving technology.

The company, Silver Spring Networks, produces hardware and software to make the electricity grid more efficient.

The deal appeared to pay off in a big way last week, when the Energy Department announced $3.4 billion in smart grid grants, the New York Times reports. Of the total, more than $560 million went to utilities with which Silver Spring has contracts.

The move means that venture capital company Kleiner Perkins and its partners, including Mr Gore, could recoup their investment many times over in coming years.

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http://resources.bnet.com/topic/kleiner+perkins+caufield+&+byers.html

Former Secretary Colin Powell Named Strategic Limited Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers KPCB — an innovator in providing venture and relationship capitalSM services to entrepreneurs — announced former Secretary of State Colin Powell has become a KPCB strategic limited partner.


14 posted on 03/04/2010 2:30:36 AM PST by maggief
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To: Abakumov

When do these cons get sentenced for fraud??


15 posted on 03/04/2010 2:31:11 AM PST by WKUHilltopper (Fix bayonets!)
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To: Abakumov; All
Although I started it as documentation of the ClimateGate Swindle, I have plenty about The Coming Ice Age, err, Global Warming, err, Climate Change, err, what we used to call

"having weather," too--

--click the picture, goto the last "page," and scroll back:

"Hadley CRU has apparently been hacked –[epic fraud?]"

Click the picture:


And yes, it is a swindle- a fraud and a cheat and a scam-- a deliberately designed construct intended to con you out of things you hold dear-- money, and prosperity, and freedom... and a few other things, as well.

16 posted on 03/04/2010 3:49:47 AM PST by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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To: ApplegateRanch; hennie pennie; Ernest_at_the_Beach; AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; ...

Thanks ApplegateRanch.


17 posted on 03/04/2010 5:01:43 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Freedom is Priceless.)
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