AL GORE AT SENATE: DEMANDS SPECIAL TREATMENT (AGAIN)

[janereinheimer]

AL GORE AT SENATE: DEMANDS SPECIAL TREATMENT (AGAIN)

Well, he isn't actually there yet. Word is that he will be about two hours late. He will not be present to hear the Republican opening remarks about his global warming theory.

So the deal is this: Owlgore's office sent word yesterday that the Senate should not expect to receive any statements of what material Gore plans to cover until Wednesday.

But wait. This is the day of the hearing.

Yeah? And so? This is none other than Owlgore. He can do whatever he wants to do. This is the same guy who gets to by-pass airport security detectors just because some little cutie says, "Aw, ya'll don't have to. Come over here. I'll swipe my security card through this little machine and ya'll can just go on through." So there went the entire Al Gore entourage. Good thing they weren't al-Quaeda types who had gone through a Hollywood type makeover to look like Gore & Company.

So it appears that the Majority -- that would be the Democrats -- got their copy of Gore's statement late last night. Like very late. Maybe about midnightish.

And the Minority -- the other guys -- got Gored at about sun-up this morning.

So Gore had demanded that the 48-hour rule be waived. He's not going to supply any stinkin' statement ahead of time. Are you nuts? And have those mean old Republicans picking the statement apart and coming up with stupid stuff like scientific evidence that would be inconvenient to my fast-eroding truth?

If your name is Owlgore, of course you expect the rules to be sliced and diced and waived if need be. What good are rules if you can't wave a little political muscle to show everybody that I've still got it.

And so it goes. Owlgore starring at the Senate Kabuki Theater.

read more: http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=71E7E4C1-802A-23AD-4C16-02E25ED1BFD3 (Marc Morano's article entitled Al Gore Continues to Demand Special Treatment)

In a blog posted on the Senate Committee's Environment & Public Works web site, only last week, March 16, 2007, there was a big two hour debate over in New York City. Very high profile. Finally somebody came up with the idea to get a whole bunch of scientists in the same room to talk about global warming.

Marc Morano, the author of the article, says that a pre-debate poll showed that 57.2% to 29.9% of the audience believed that global warming was a sure enough, big deal crisis.

After the debate, those numbers changed to 46.2% to 42.2% in favor of a more skeptical view.

Wow! The fear mongers lost their majority.

Morano even quoted author Michael Crichton who suggested that the environmentalists and Hollywood liberals stop their hypocritical concerns about global warming and enact a ban on private jet travel.

Might that also be applied to politicians, Mr. Crichton?

In another debate presented by Scientific American (www.scientificamerican.com) David Biello wrote, "The proponents of a climate crisis seemed underarmed for the debate..."

In addition to a ban on private jet flights, Crighton also called for the NRDC (National Resources Defense Council), the Sierra Club and Greenpeace to make a rule that all of their members get their un-green houses in order and live the way they're telling the rest of us that we have to.

MIT's Professor of Atmospheric Science Richard Lindzen said, "Now, much of the current alarm, I would suggest, is based on ignorance of what is normal for weather and climate."

read more at: http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=5AC1C0D6-802A-23AD-4A8C-EE5A888DFE7E (article entitled Scientific Smackdown: Skeptics Voted The Clear Winners Against Global Warming Believes in Heated NYC Debate)

Kenneth E. F. Watt had this to say on air pollution and global cooling, Earth Day 1970: If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000 ... This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age.

Yikes! Another alarmist said (thirty years ago) that we were all about to freeze to death.

Lowell Ponte said in The Cooling (1976) that this cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000.

Now that it's 2007, shouldn't we all just be thrilled that we have frozen to death?

Maybe, just maybe, all this global warming has something to do, at least in part, with all the hot air flowing through senate chamber meeting rooms about global warming.

Don't those senators have real job work to do? Do they think we really elected them so that they could put on their best attempted face of being serious scientists and try to convince us that they know what they are talking about?

Get back to work and make Owlgore go back to his zinc farm in Tennessee.

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[sportscaster]

How Gore buys his "carbon offsets," as revealed by The Tennessean raises serious questions. According to the newspaper's report http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070227/NEWS01/702270382

, Gore's spokesperson said 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, she said...
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.

And it is not clear at all that Gore's stock purchases - excuse me, "carbon offsets" purchases - actually help reduce the use of carbon-based energy at all, while the gas lanterns and other carbon-based energy burners at his house continue to burn carbon-based fuels and pump carbon emissions - a/k/a/ "greenhouse gases" - into the atmosphere.

Meanwhile, Gore runs around the country and the world trumpeting "climate crisis" and blaming man's use of carbon-based energy - burning thousands of gallons of jet fuel as he goes. His efforts have served to put climate change at the top of the national and even global agenda, driving up the value of the stocks and companies viewed as "green" or environmentally friendly. Companies like those his investment management firm invest his own and other peoples' money in.

As one commenter posting on the blogs has noted:

Hmmm. The Goracle is chairman and a founding partner of Generation Investment Management LLP, a boutique international investment firm that invests other peoples' money, for a fee, into the stocks of 'green' companies. ... So when Al beats the drum for possible future global warming, he's also drumming up business.And profiting from hyping the "global warming" crisis.

In a nutshell, Gore consumes large amounts of carbon-based electricity while he trumpets a growing "global warming" crisis that drives up the value of "green" companies like the ones in which he buys carbon offsets invests in their stocks.

A primary rule of good investigative journalism is, "Follow the money." The media - and perhaps the SEC - ought to take a deeper look at Gore, Generation Investment Management and his carbon offset stock purchases.


Securities and Exchange Comission shows G.I.M. holdings software,medical,food services .etc NO ALTERNATIVE ENERGY STOCKS.
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1375534/000117266107000053/gen4q06.txt

[henkster]

algore is a lying arrogant hyprocital powerhungy socialist c*******ing a*****.

And those are his good points.

[wastedyears]

That looks like it was written professionally. Nice job

[ElkGroveDan]

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They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa.
To the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be happy
to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're coming
to take me away, ha-haaa!!!
To the happy home, with trees and flowers and chirping birds and basket
weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes and they're
coming to take me away, ha-haa!!!
To the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time... (fade out)

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

I hear that al Gore sold oil at cutrate prices back in the 90's to another country? What was that about?

[wastedyears]

I wouldn't have a single clue about that. I was only 13 in 1999.

[GSWarrior]

Why the media lets Al and his carbon offset scam off scott-free is amazing.

There are no rules in journalism these days...no accountability. Just make it up as you go along.

[henkster]

My older brother had the 45 rpm record of this song; listened to it often growing up.

Question; what was the flip side of the 45?

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

Al is anointed, and he has an Oscar to prove it. Leonard DiCaprio told him "He's King of the World!"

[ElkGroveDan]

Question; what was the flip side of the 45?

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[meowmeow]

Was it that one that goes, "oo-ee-oo-ah-ah, ting, tang, walla walla bing bang...

Seems to me I had both those songs on a record when I was a kid.

[xcamel]

FReepmail me to get on or off

Click on POGW graphic for full GW rundown

Ping me if you find one I've missed.

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Watta Maroon...

[henkster]

Question; what was the flip side of the 45?

!Aaah-aH yawA eM ekaT oT gnimoC er'yehT

LOL!!!! Outstanding!!! And absolutely correct.

[Dilbert San Diego]

If....If global warming is the most important issue of our time, then why didn't Clinton and Gore push for ratifying the Kyoto treaty? Kyoto was negotiated when Clinton and Gore were in charge. I'm just saying, if this is the most important issue of our times, why didn't Gore push for this when he was Veep? I've heard Clinton recently talk in apocolyptic terms about global warming. Well, then why the heck didn't they push for Kyoto when they had a chance to do so???

[henkster]

"If....If global warming is the most important issue of our time, then why didn't Clinton and Gore push for ratifying the Kyoto treaty? Kyoto was negotiated when Clinton and Gore were in charge. I'm just saying, if this is the most important issue of our times, why didn't Gore push for this when he was Veep? I've heard Clinton recently talk in apocolyptic terms about global warming. Well, then why the heck didn't they push for Kyoto when they had a chance to do so???"

I'm assuming these are rhetorical questions. The obvious answers are:
1. Because "global warming/CO2 emissions" are not serious threats to the entire universe;
2. Gore knows it perfectly well
3. It's a convenient ticket to publicity, and
4. The libs need something new to frighten the masses into surrendering their liberty (toxic mold, ozone depletion, sick building syndrome, radon gas and the toilet monster are all no longer as scary as they once were).

[Continental Soldier]

Algore, the biggest comic stooge in recent history! If we looked carefully at his past, we might find some of the reasons for his desperate-cause behavior. The ineffectual son of a long time politician, desperate to earn respect in the public arena, a man who actually thought he could be president, and a man who never had the smarts to be anything at all.

[janereinheimer]

I have just finished reading "Losing Osama bin Laden" -- if you haven't read it, do yourself a favor and pick it up. But then, it might infuriate you. Sure the Kyoto Accord was supposed to be the save-the-planet big deal, but boy, it sure would have been nice if somebody in the Clinton administration somewhere would have taken this guy seriously. Guess the wrong thing got hot and I don't mean global warming either.